Matt Trader

9.6

Wow... this has to be one of the best vintages of Ontogeny in years, if not ever. Higher concentration of Tench vineyard, used in the EE Red, than in any other vintage of this wine. Incredible nose of luxardo cherries, pencil box, leather, lavender syrup, and vanilla. The pallet is brick house! Tannins perfectly integrated, full throttle, exhibiting notes of smoked blackberry reduction, dark chocolate, red delicious apple skin, licorice, and a finish that lasts forever. I feel like there's no way this wine should score less than 97 on WA. In my top 10 wines I've had all year - I will gladly take a bottle of this for Christmas! ;) — 8 years ago

Erin Bentley

9.0

Very drinkable — 9 years ago

Celia Smith

9.0

Thin, pear, alcohol, honey. Green apple, chlorine. drank at home while watching Ellen. Lasting aftertaste. In a box. — 9 years ago

Ryan Stewart

8.9

Burnished copper color. Nose is full of fruit and spice: blackberry, dried apricots, apple tart, marmalade, and nutmeg. Palate resembles the nose, with the addition of cigar box notes, vanilla, and toasted almonds. Autumn in a bottle! Medium + finish. — 10 years ago

Ian Hulon

9.4

Love Justin Lane wines... — 10 years ago

Matt Duncan

9.6

Vibrant plum attack. Subtle cigar box behind candied apple. Blueberry sage resolution. Coco nib aromas. A certain sort of weathered appeal gives cause for reflection and contentment. — 11 years ago

Cat Matson

9.7

Mistress by alpha box & dice mclaren vale — 12 years ago

with Michael

Matté

Manager The Wine Cellars

9.3

A very different take on Nebbiolo, bags of fruit and unlike its Italian counterparts. Maybe not as long lived but very consumer friendly style that doesn't need too much bottle age or food to be enjoyable. — 8 years ago

Matt Trader

9.4

2012 wasn't the best year for left bank Bordeaux, but don't tell that to Pape Clement, because they crushed it! (All puns intended) Decanted from 11-4pm before jumping in, and it could have spent even more time breathing. The nose was divine - rose water, crushed gravel, pencil box, cloves, espresso bean, and mulled black fruits. The pallet was full of focused tannins and dark rich fruit - black plum, creme de casis, red licorice, red delicious apple skin, mineral, vanilla, green bell pepper, nutmeg, and a lingering finish of dark chocolate. Absolutely a full throttle wine, and this one will age just as long as their 100 pt 2010. Also, this vintage is average only $90, compared to about $250, so it is the best value in some of the best of Bordeaux. Buy all this up while you can, try one, and hold on to them for as long as you can! Hold, and drink from 2027-2047. — 9 years ago

with Tais

David Kline

9.1

2007 and really just a beautiful lady. Roses, but with cinnamon apple, burnt grapefruit rind bouquet. Impeccable silky tar that exhibits dried plum, Bing cherry, goji berry, tinder box and brown mushroom, salty watermelon, white pepper. A sexy sexy wine. — 10 years ago

with Courtney

Holly Bracken

9.7

Very deep red fruits, cinnamon and vanilla yoghurt on the nose, woody, nutty, spicy vanilla and cherry palate. Grippy tannins. Really different from all the other Shiraz's that we have drunk. Very savoury. Super yum. Bought at cellar door for $45. — 10 years ago

Jessica Waugh

9.0

So weird!!! So much going on! Bruised apple, overripe pear, dried peach, cheese rind, hazelnut, white flowers, perfume, citrus blossom, white tea, sherry-like, brine, saline, lanolin, wax, orange rind, vanilla, cigar box, oak, creamed corn, wow! — 11 years ago

Chrissie Manning

9.7

Excellent. — 12 years ago

Matt Trader

9.1

A nice visit back to one of my favorites! Chateaux Lilian Ladouys is just such a great value north of Pauillac in St. Estephe. Perfume out of the glass: Sandalwood, decaying violets, wet underbrush, stewed plums, cigar box, and peppers. It still has chewy tannin structure, and luscious acid - red apple skins, black plums, mocha, tobacco leaf, and vanilla to the finish. I wish I laid more '09 down to have around for a while.. drink now through 2030.

Yumm! — 9 years ago

Matt Trader

9.3

I know this wine will be great in another 10...but I feel like I was getting a glimpse of its plateau this year. 12 wasn't the best year in Pauillac, but I am thoroughly enjoying the vintage across the board of left bank Bordeaux. It was showing that world class Pauillac nose - cigar box, gravelly/loamy soil, and mulled fruit. The pallet is nice and rich but not necessarily fruit forward, exhibiting flavors of stewed black plum, red apple skin, vanilla and espresso bean, and a lovely finish. This also made a great wine for our Cigars. — 9 years ago

Erik Rupinski

9.3

Last of my stash of this delicious juice from Alpha Box & Dice in #mclarenvale. If only they exported to the US #sigh — 9 years ago

Samantha Teague

9.0

2014 Montepulciano Langhorne Creek. Great pre-dinner drink. Rhubarb, cherry. Beauty. — 10 years ago

Lily Mirabelle Freedman

8.9

Better than your average apple juice box — 10 years ago

Austin Beeman

9.1

Red apple skins on the nose. Red fruits Stoney dusty tannins. Spice box. Tobacco. $50 — 11 years ago

Kristen Polzien

9.2

Tart and juicy — 12 years ago