Benjamin Shirk

9.0

McCarthy & Schiering, $15

Dark ruby, fairly opaque. Nose is a total fruit bomb with a bit of astringency. My mom used to have a black plum tree in the front yard where the plums would have super sweet dark plum flesh with a very sour thick skin. If you add a touch of cherry that's exactly what this wine tastes like. Somehow both sweet and very tart, full flavor and pretty high tannins, also has a noticeable alcohol bite. Still very nice, if maybe a bit one dimensional. I'm going to have to check out more Nero D'avola — 4 years ago

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.2

Our favorite Spring day is when we get plant the yard. Especially, during Covid-19 lockdown. Never more enjoyable.

Flowers by Sofia. Garden is me.

A great weather day and worthwhile doing a cheers with of one of our favorite N/V Rosé Champagne’s.

With the lockdown, I am running dangerously low on Rosé Champange. I might have to Soda Stream some Rosé wine soon.

All my many, many notes still apply.

Cheers all and Happy Easter if you celebrate it. 🍾🥂🍷 🐣 🐰 — 6 years ago

Leigh Betancourt

10

Rose with Alyssa in the back yard. Flavorful - best rose — 6 years ago

Tom Garland

9.1

Decant and pour(decent amount of sediment). Medium red/brown color. On the nose: leather, green veggie, dried herbs, mint..love that old almost barn yard smell..yum!! Taste: black plum, cedar, pencil lead, tobacco...slightly sweet tannins with a little bite at the end. Enjoyed the 92 better, but still enjoy this direct from winery Seavey(so austere/tight young...give em 15 to 40 years) — 7 years ago

with Brenda

Lindsey

9.0

@ the front yard — 8 years ago

Guy Fiore

8.9

Blind tasted. Barn yard. Leather, hint of vanilla — 9 years ago

Pat Taylor

9.1

Length like a three hundred yard drive. — 10 years ago

Severn G

9.2

Nose has juiced ripe cherries, wet cedar, roses, dry garden soil and faint strawberry jam.

Palate has bright cherry fruit, elderberry jelly, ripe cranberry, wet leather and faint tobacco notes. Great acidity and long finish.

Decanted 5H, this is in the zone now for sure.

Paired with a local whole chicken, 24H brine, Asian style spice rub, cooked on my grill rotisserie with apple wood chips smoking away for about 75m. Potatoes, onions and root vegetables in the roasting pan beneath to catch all the drippings. Crispy skin on the bird and good smoke flavor/penetration in the meat. A great reward for laboring away in the yard and garden all weekend. — 4 years ago

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.1

It’s Friday and that always and forever calls for Champagne.

This is an amazing Blanc de Blanc Champange for $24.99. What a QPR! It’s like stealing.

Previous notes apply.

Happy Friday & weekend!!!

Photos, we are kicking in those chairs, full yard candlelight with the Baron and watching the World Series. It’s a good Friday and not in the complete religious sense but, close. Cheers!🥂 — 6 years ago

Wendy Milligan

9.1

2015 Pierce GSP - 70% Grenache, 28% Syrah, 2% Petit Sirah

Yummy light texture a mouthfeel ... clean fruity nose, but not too sweet ... perfect for a sunset happy hour in the back yard after just coming in from a long drive. — 6 years ago

Gail Camacho

9.9

Oakland Yard — 7 years ago

Craig O'Donnell

9.8

Delicious, taste of cherries, blueberries a vanilla — 8 years ago

Jonathan Wall

9.3

Savory. Like the juice from a back yard grilled steak with a little pepper sauce. Subdued fruit... But doesn't need much. 3rd night bacon and olives... All fruit lost. But who needs fruit when you have bacon. This wine was unique, and not for everyone, but I'm buying another tomorrow. — 9 years ago

Lindsay Corrigan

9.0

On swirl cherry, garnet in colour with brown edges, medium tannins & light body. In mouth raspberry, iron, tobacco & a lengthy warm finish tar menthol🍷 Upon sitting for some time the nose provides a layer of “barn yard”🤤 — 5 years ago

Brenda Terzich-Garland

9.2

Color a is murky red brown. Nose—a sweet red cherry plum and forest floor barn yard funk with green veggie. A slight menthol lingering. Taste— Sweet strawberry tea flavors hit the pallet. A slight smoky and tobacco medium finish with touches of currant, tea and spices hanging around making the wine soft and pleasant and wanting more. Tannins have sweeten but definitely still there! — 5 years ago

with Karin and Jill

Tom Garland

9.4

Double decant (lots of fine sediment). A beguiling Deep Purple [Machine Head rules]. On the nose: black fruit, earthy, floral some slight barn yard funk which I luv. Taste: silky, nice balance with black cherry, pencil lead, spice and cedar with a long finish...drink em now or over the next 8 years!! — 6 years ago

Tom Garland

9.2

2 hour decant (minimal fine sediment). The much hyped 2005 vintage!.....A dazzling dark purple/ruby red. On the nose: black fruit, forest floor, cedar, and the start of some barn yard funk. Taste: blackberry, currents, graphite, tar...tannins still there, but starting to sweeten with a long brooding finish. If you like em young and have some bottles, open one and keep the others for the next 20 years (we will pop another in 4 years). — 6 years ago

with Brenda

Maxwell Burns

Hospitality Kenwood Vineyards, Winemaker GARA

9.0

Barn yard, tart fruits, Patagonia — 8 years ago

boyd

9.1

Super refreshing. Zippy cranberry, raspberry and citrus. Exactly what you want after a day working in the yard. Even more refreshing than the Radler. — 8 years ago

John Batzer

9.0

May be the perfect compliment to a day full of yard work. — 9 years ago