David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.3

It has been a great day hanging out with my love & best friend for Valentines Day. If I could give anyone young enough advise on selecting partner, marry your best friend you love. Greater degree of happiness & success. ❤️😍😘🥰

Love you Sofia and raise a glass of one of our favorite N/V Rosé Bubbles in celebration. Cheers! 🍾🥂

Happy Valentines Days everyone. Hope you are with the wine & one you love the most.

@Oswald — 4 years ago

Eric

9.2

Really ballsy and unique wine. Today’s tasting in Yountville will go down as one of my favorites of all time. First I’d ever heard of this grape, grown in Paso. Black fruit covered in licorice. If you go (and I’d highly recommend it), go for the cheese pairing it’s well worth it. — 6 years ago

Nate Miles

8.9

Lean and mean. 1st day had some pleasant reductive funk, day 2 had blown off. I’d compare to cru bojo, bough more savory/less fruit. 10% alcohol. Tasty. 👍 — 6 years ago

Kristie Tacey

8.9

Super pale, reddish copper color, high acidity, slight bitterness, bright earthy aromas, iron, smells of watermelon jolly rancher, yo! — 7 years ago

Richard Johnson

8.9

Beautiful color nice acidity and texture. With mussels at Waterboy. — 8 years ago

John Fiehrer

9.0

Great brosé rosé... Not too sweet, good structure and flavor, need more — 9 years ago

Fang

9.2

A good one. Really full flavored chard. Great drinkability. Will be buying a few more of these — 9 years ago

Michael Kuperman

10

#FunkyRareCreatures
#ClosSaron #Teutonic #ForlornHope #ATributeToGrace — 10 years ago

P A

9.2

Always a good bet — 10 years ago

Andrew Yandell

9.5

Bright fresh plums and blackberries with flowers and chervil dancin around with lively juice! — 10 years ago

John Wilmot

9.1

Better with some time open. — 4 years ago

Ned Gray Creed

9.2

This is actually the Albariño blend, but who really gives a damn. I do. It’s tasty. It’s light and happy. It’s the perfect one glass quaff before my to go is “ding ding, order up!” — 5 years ago

Kurt Schuster

9.4

Smelled of deep, rich herbal earth. Like a warm summer afternoon hiking in the foothills of Appalachia. The taste was so starkly different to be unrecognizable. Butter, like a steak basted in butter. Fruit was an afterthought, but the entire thing was still big and bold and tricks your senses. Like dating a red headed girl. — 6 years ago

Lee Lightfoot

9.0

Better as it warmed up — 7 years ago

Phil Stice

9.1

Seriously tasty. Dried apricot and pineapple. Had a little funk upon opening but blew off in about 30 minutes. Really evolved in the glass as the temperature rose. — 8 years ago

with Lauren

Andrew Cebulka

9.4

Delicious! Yeah Rorick, peppery sweet tarts meet light wisps of sage and granite — 8 years ago

Craig Stanfield

8.9

What I would expect from a good a good petite sirah. Still young. — 9 years ago

Nick Rancone

9.0

A rare beast... — 9 years ago

Reilly Brock

9.2

Wow lots of dark fruit and intrigue here. A unique wine! — 10 years ago

Michey M

9.8

Vinoversity. Delish. Cali version if Rhone white. Lush creme brûlée passion fruit guava nectarine. Layered but still dry — 10 years ago

Joyce Brooks

9.5

Dependable good taste! $13 H-E-B — 5 years ago

Keith Watson

9.4

West London Wine — 5 years ago

Pete Turley

9.0

Light, with lots of strawberries... Finished with some slate.. A funky but delicious wine. — 6 years ago

Kevin Finch

9.0

It's a Rippa! — 7 years ago

Justin Hansohn

9.2

Old and wise. The screaming definition of forlorn hope is in this wine. — 7 years ago

Rachel Marie

9.0

Nice for a dinner for one at Russell House Tavern in Cambridge — 8 years ago

Bryan Vogt

9.1

Great nose. Needs to breathe to open up. Better on second day — 9 years ago

Christine Havens

9.0

Forlorn Hope is a producer that has received great press of late, the last couple of bottles I tried, I felt vaguely disappointed, given the reviews. Here at last, is a spot-on dry Gewurztraminer from the Russian River Valley, that is exceptionally floral and deliciously concentrated. Orange blossom, jasmine tea, Cox Pippins. Fermented on skins for seven days, it imparts a lot of texture and even some tannins. Tart, with an almost austere quality, finishes with pink grapefruit and candied orange peel. — 9 years ago

Myorei

9.3

Smooth and velvety — 10 years ago

Kell Mc

8.9

Smooth, slightly dry finish — 10 years ago