David Kline

9.0

Smoky smoky toast and plum skins, burnt cherrywood, pencil, and a cinnamon-cedar interplay. Exciting bouquet! Their Chenin is equally enticing! Dark baker's chocolate and tar are enveloped by burnt violets, bitter, salty, purple tropical flowers, herbs de Provence, dagga root, licorice extract and charred cedar. Earthy debris finish evoking torched fields. #southafricanwine — 8 years ago

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Matt Sterr

9.2

This on has been in bottle for a year or so. Big, toffee-colored thick head with a nice, tight, frothy head. At 10% ABV it has held up well in the bottle. Up front is a definite note of baker's chocolate chocolate and coffee. Notes from the wine barrel are muted, but more present on the finish. Rich and thick body, this one has certainly aged gracefully and to my memory has improved greatly since its initial release. Delicious. — 9 years ago

David Kline

9.1

Lovely Dogliani Dolcetto, offering aromas of bright cherry, cherrywood, and fresh baked bread. Conjures cherry blossom as well. Smoky cherry entry, but decisively mineral in nature with a clove and mushroom mosaic. Tannins abound, but deceptively linger under the palate, all across the roof of your mouth, cedar, marigolds and a baker's chocolate. — 9 years ago

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Oscar Bonilla

9.0

Plush and rich with concentrated flavors of dark plum, porcino, baker's chocolate, and blackberrt. Drink now through 2018. 1250 cases made. — 9 years ago

Michael Larner

8.9

Great wine that ages really well. Very pleasant nose of blackberries, salvia, char, slight whiskey, vanilla, and baker's chocolate. Smooth silky tannins and a considerably long finish. — 10 years ago

Tom Kobylarz

9.1

Bubbles with the wife, early Vday and winter storm celebration! Blanc de Blanc so 100% Chardonnay. Deep gold in color. Almonds, golden delicious apples, Bosc pear, baker's dough, almost sourdough like, slight oxidized note. Great acidity and minerality on the palate. Medium + finish. Good stuff! — 10 years ago

Patrick Dolan

9.6

Very jammy and sweet but absolutely delicious!!! Kinda weird talking about a slightly sweet Cabernet Sauvignon but it is really got a very nice rich stewed berry taste and its smooth. — 11 years ago

Elizabeth Martinez

9.6

2008 Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast Bella Vigna Vineyard
Winemaker's Vineyard

Notes: Steeply sloped (think black diamond for all you folks who snow ski), southeasterly facing hillside. Goldridge loam soils. Two-thirds 777 and a third Swan clone. Ton and a half to the acre. Harvested on October 3rd.
Winemaker's Tasting Notes: 100% French Oak, 40% new wood. Punch downs only. Indigenous yeast primary fermentation and natural completion of ML. Unfined, unfiltered. Lighter shade of ruby in color. Big, floral nose of rose petal, dark red fruits, sassafras tea, and soy. Secondary notes of pencil shavings, vanilla, and a touch of bacon fat. Full-bodied, rich flavors of baked berry pie, pomegranate, and baker's chocolate. Finishes super long with flavors of ripe cranberry and bacon fat. 14.5% alcohol. 330 cases produced. — 12 years ago

Sam Coturri

Winery Sixteen 600, Enterprise Vineyards and the Moon Mountain District

9.4

I don't always drink Pinot Noir, but when I do it's made by a Cabernet specialist. Jeff Baker's personal label, keep an eye out for this one. — 8 years ago

Eric Hwang

9.5

It was time. It drank well. Lively cherry and cranberry with a touch of earthy complexity. Delectable: Although it was Alan (not Akan) Baker's project, the label says "CR" for Cellar Rat and that was the name of the wine. — 8 years ago

Cameron Porter

9.2

2006. Fiercely modern. Voluptuous, creamy. Mint, toasted coconut, baker's chocolate, espresso; roasted and exotic. Showing development, but still has life ahead of it. Beautiful. — 9 years ago

David Kline

9.1

Balanced wine, with pecan shell and baker's chocolate wound into tobacco, cherrywood, black cherry, overripe blackberries and a speck of mint. — 9 years ago

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Sam Coturri

Winery Sixteen 600, Enterprise Vineyards and the Moon Mountain District

9.4

2004 vintage. Jeff Baker's home label. Pipe tobacco and bittersweet chocolate. Really delicious cab. #moonmountaindistrict — 9 years ago

Geoff Labitzke

9.7

That side dark ruby red color like translucent. aromas a very ripe cherries ripe plums Baker's chocolate a bit a bit overripe still has good acidity but really just about ready to drink now. Long finish black cherries in the finish a little bit of chocolate in the finish is well — 10 years ago

Armin Pfleiderer

9.4

1993 Freemark Abbey Cabernet Bosché: Sweet black cherry, cranberry, leather, licorice, clove, & burnt baker's chocolate. Higher-toned and more delicate than expected. Food-friendly. Pretty. #Bosché #Napa #wine #delectable — 10 years ago

Tanya B

8.9

Light n rather sweet for Pinot noir — 11 years ago

David Kline

9.1

Mushrooms in mocha, brown rice, caramel-y citrus with Bing cherry, soy sauce, and beef ribbons tease the nose. Happy to see less candy and soda in a beer. Soy sauce, molasses, baker's chocolate, oak, cedar, and cinnamon with allspice. Great! The sour is at the end but buoys the whole. — 8 years ago

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Christine Havens

9.4

From the prestigious Beckstoffer Georges III vineyard in Rutherford, the Bell Clone 6 Cabernet Sauvignon 2007 is as the name suggests, 100% Clone 6 Cabernet. True to form, it exhibits lush, saturating notes of boysenberry, black cherries, sandalwood, tar and meadow flowers. In the mouth it's opulent and silkily textured, with juicy black fruit, cassis, and fine, ripe tannins. In addition, an incredibly lengthy finish that tapirs off with receding exotic spice notes, baker's cocoa and cedar. — 8 years ago

Eric Hwang

9.5

Not nearly as good as the PX de Anada 2011 (WA 100) but still impressive. Thick viscous and complex with figs, raisins, molasses and candied orange peel. Finishes with a bit of vanilla, baker's chocolate and turbonado sugar. — 9 years ago

LM Segal

9.0

Wow - espresso and baker's chocolate, black/blueberry. Fine tannins say this could even improve a bit in time. Best Seder wine ever. $22. Really. — 9 years ago

Rochelle

9.0

This is the perfect name for this why it is juicy little bit sweet but really well rounded flavor — 10 years ago

Kyle Schlachter

Writer Colorado Wine Press

9.0

Up on Atlas, Peak Baker's Chocolate and grilled meat, Spicy and neat — 10 years ago

Saman Hosseini

Writer Maison Abattoir

8.9

Bread pudding and bananas foster, in liquid form at 107 proof.
Chewy, complex, opulent. Coats the mouth like a Speyside single malt (to a lesser degree) but more rewarding in its complexity. The style is similar to Blanton's but rather the fat southern matriarch that family who is always baking or giving you a spanking. — 11 years ago

Laura Wagner

8.9

Pretty sweet but with a bit — 11 years ago