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John’s bday dinner
Gloria — 2 months ago

Neil Valenzuela

9.7

Salmon with copper tones. Strawberry, white flowers, brioche and biscuit on the nose. Pink grapefruit, mandarin and dried cranberry on the finish. Superb! — 3 months ago

Billy L.

9.5

Merry Christmas 🎄🎅🏻🎁🍾🥂 — 5 months ago

Brandon Boesch

9.4

Really nice wine with great balance. Flint, dark fruits, some cocoa, but drinks lighter than I was expecting. Lovely. — 8 months ago

Boris Plutov

9.3

Shiraz Day — 10 months ago

with Horseman

Malcolm Trimble

9.4

Pale clear yellow. Nose of lemon pear with a nice crispness on the palate. Very burgundy like on the way down with a great combination of lemon, pear, melon and great mineral. Love this wine — 3 years ago

Ron Siegel

9.5

Floral & polished showing lots of dark cherry, raspberry fruits, bacon fat, licorice spice & violets that is just reaching its drinking window. — 5 years ago

Mandi Speidel

City Territory Chicago, Maverick Wine Company

8.9

1.5L of P Noir for Berwyn Fam Hangs! Welcome to Global Warming March Chicago — 2 months ago

Larry Kooper

9.1

Solid, smooth, silky finish — 3 months ago

Chiak Kenai

9.0

Very smooth and delectable! — 4 months ago

Mike Lev

9.0

Black cherry, red fruit too, med+ body, med tannins. Mostly carignan with Grenache and mouvedre, savoury and garrigue notes, wet stones too. Drink now or hold a few years. — 8 months ago

Daniel Bello

9.4

Best vintage Belle Naturelle — 9 months ago

Josh Morgenthau

9.3

Apple and citrus mix with red berry suggestions on the nose. Hint of good funk and savory/ meaty quality. Cabbage patch kids and green apple candy on the palate. Yeasty, long prickly finish. Powerful and light; almost reminiscent of Dom. Disgorged 21, base 18. — 3 years ago

Stephen Frail

9.5

Very yummy, paired with mushroom raghu over polenta. — 3 years ago

Diane Heyboer

8.9

Dark fruits and spice with a medium body. Was a tiny WSJ taster bottle and I am hoping I can find a big bottle of this one! — 3 months ago

with Ethan, Jody and 1 other

Sipping Fine Wine

9.3

‘Las Alturas' Spanish for 'the heights', a fitting name, this vineyard located on one of the highest grape-growing benches in the Santa Lucia Highlands AVA. 4th gen Winemaker Joseph J. Wagner from family with farming & winemaking roots in Napa since 1906. Met Joe several times. Deep Ruby (darkest Pinot I have come across). Nice berry and floral spice aromas. Rich cherry/plum flavors with oak, spice and vanilla. Long finish, bold ending with sweet oak notes. Very Nice! A Fav! — 4 months ago

Andrew Flavell

9.2

2015 vintage. Wonderfully light and fruity. — 7 months ago

Kimberly

9.3

Yummy just on its own. — 3 years ago

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9.7

The 2021 Chardonnay Belle Côte is a wine of tremendous density and power. Orchard fruit, dried pear, graphite, anise and dried flowers infuse the 2021 with tremendous flavor complexity. Readers will find an intensely mineral, savory Chardonnay with the fruit pushed into the background. Belle Côte is the original Chardonnay planting at Peter Michael. (Antonio Galloni, Vinous, July 2023)
— 10 months ago

Ellen Clifford

9.2

Chasing my chaotic self-administered pandemic hair chopping with a Gewurtz from Arroyo Seco which seems to me apropos as I imagine the region as wind-swept and tousled. This wine is not so much and that is a good thing. All is in harmony. There is just the right amount of everything and it hits you in order—the lychees are followed by a green lawn leading to the flower garden full of roses and gardenias all spirited along by a nice amount of acid and powered by a prickling tannin. I’m not normally the biggest Gewurtz fan but I’d reach for this a second time. I’d maybe even pair it with a “hard to pair” thing like artichoke. Something about the floral nature of both I think could line up. Is that crazy? Maybe. But this is coming from someone who just used her kitchen scissors to give herself an intentionally asymmetrical haircut. — 3 years ago