Carly A

9.5

Raspberry, Pomegranate, blackberry, baking spice, green pepper, eathy. Dry finish. — 6 years ago

Isaac Pirolo

9.5

90° at 7pm calls for more Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc.
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Cloudy Bay was founded in 1985 by David Hohnen of Margaret River’s Cape Mentelle along with its first winemaker, Kevin Judd, who would go on to spend 25 years there before creating his own label, Greywacke. Judd is widely considered as the pioneer responsible for elevating New Zealand wine to its current status. Judd also happens to be one of the best wine photographers in the world (I highly recommend his ‘The Landscape of New Zealand Wine’).
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According to Master of Wine Bob Campbell “the genesis for Greywacke Wild Sauvignon was Cloudy Bay Te Koko; a funky, barrel-fermented sauvignon blanc that bent all the rules when it was made in 1992 and initially sold only through the cellar door. Greywacke Wild Sauvignon is a blend from 10 different Marlborough vineyards which are machine-harvested at night. After pressing the juice is settled before being pumped into mostly old barrels and fermented using indigenous yeasts (about 15-20 different strains). The wine undergoes a partial malolactic fermentation and lees stirring.”
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Incredible aromatics... an almost vibrant herbaceousness... red bell pepper, grapefruit zest, tangerine, apricot, and cucumber, with a silky smooth mouthfeel unlike most Sauvignon Blancs. Extraordinary. — 8 years ago

Daniel M

9.0

Nose of cherry, earth, metal, very appealing. The palate is all fruit with an acid back bone. But what a fruit! Cherries do indeed explode as if we'd be chewing some fresh summer ones. The finish is alright with cherry and metal notes. The more I drink this wine the more I wonder why I keep buying low level, regional appellation burgundy Pinot. — 8 years ago

Aaron Means

9.7

THE. BEST. DOMESTIC. CHARD!!!!!! Yes, yes, yes. I'm blown away. This is the best domestic chard I've ever drank. This particular vintage is killer. I could poor this in a lineup of top notch Meursault and none would be the wiser, that's how good this is. Intense smoke/funk brought on by minerality that most domestic producers could only dream of. A legendary wine in my book. @June's All Day, Austin TX — 8 years ago

Keith Crump

9.5

2010 this is an excellent Hermitage great nose of dark fruits and briars velvet with some metal, wonderful lingering flavours and not a prohibitive cost — 9 years ago

Luis Gaza

8.9

2012 is quite nice — 9 years ago

Josh Morgenthau

9.3

Raisin, plum, apricot, mushroom and damp leaves. Stunning — 6 years ago

Dennis Michael

9.3

Yes metal, iron whatever. Better with steak, needs to breathe. Good. Worth $30? Idk. — 7 years ago

Addison walz

10

Metal mouth — 8 years ago

with Jeffrey, Jason and 2 others

Paco Suro

9.2

Smoky. Rich. Coffee notes. Yum. — 8 years ago

Kim Stanbro

9.4

Earthy, peat moss, metal on the nose, silky on the tongue. Smuggled in Jo's dirty undies through airport security- thankfully no hint of that. — 8 years ago

with Turd, Dave and 1 other

Esther Garcia

10

Amber, orange hue. Complex, creamy texture with quince notes. — 8 years ago

Michael Meyer

9.0

Light and refreshing with a strawberry bent. Paired with oysters and a strawberry chili sauce. Heaven! — 9 years ago

Karen Ferguson

10

A dark, medium-bodied ale full of rich coffee and roasted barley tones. Beer AND coffee... what could be better than that?
— 9 years ago

David Kline

9.3

Atop heady iodine, wet mossy and pine bio, green apple sliced thin, melon, lemon and lime peel, smoky glazed ham with pineapple, igneous grind, dried sunflower blossom, jasmine, fall maple leaves, roasted corn with sweet chillies, cinnamon, and the faintest matchstick sail memory scents. Instantly warm and welcoming ginger candy, caramel, leather, graphite, cinnamon oil, hazelnut, pine sap, mint, calvados, cherry stem, eucalyptus, tangerine oil, lime, and jalapeño. Intense and lingering, filling the mouth beyond its capacity to taste. Really lovely Talisker manifestation conjuring metal and stone textures like some dark tale of briny ghosts! #Talisker #scotch #scotchwhisky #scotchwhiskey #whiskey #whisky #TaliskerStorm #singlemalt #Isleofskye #Scotland #madebythesea #classicmaltsselection #Islay — 6 years ago

with Courtney

Chris England

9.6

🥂 Valentines 💕 Bolly @ £71 in sexy metal box 😍 Quite a unique pink 🍾

🍇 72% PN, 28% Ch & 7% red wine

🍷 Soft peach salmon pink

👃 Subtle red fruits through grapefruit w/ minerals galore, zested honey, sweet biscuit, brioche, dried raspberry, mashed pairs, rose water, chamilia & fuchsia w/ a touch of new oak

👄 Med bodied fine mousse of creamy grapefruit biscuit driven red fruits w/ dry minerals oozing through dried raspberry & hint of peach

🎯 Med+ grapefruit & red fruit biscuity dry peach linger — 8 years ago

Justin Hansohn

9.4

Fantastic. Shining right from the beginning with all kinds of regal depth and intensity on the nose; leather, metal, rocks. In the mouth it is light silky and soft with a finish of bright shining Chardonnay. This is a pleasure to drink and great with all sorts of food. The transparency that shows as it evolves in my mouth allows the space for any of the foods this evening to play nicely. Also plenty good by itself. Everyone in any situation should love this wine. Magnum only. Value for sure. — 8 years ago

Isaac Pirolo

9.4

I have nothing to add to Robert Parker's spot-on take on the 2013: "The wine shows rich, saddle-leather-infused coffee and chocolaty blackberry fruit and plenty of robust, bordering on rustic flavors. This is a pedal-to-the-metal, fun wine and very well-made; a big, substantial mouthful of wine..." — 8 years ago

Ted

9.6

This is very good. Rusty metal, cherry, wet earth. It's been out for a few hours now. Gotta pace myself. Church tonight. — 9 years ago

with Jeni

Greg Clark

9.0

Great representation of Marlborough. Bright green apple notes rounded out with a deep complexity of fun metal, steel, and flint that is Marlborough — 10 years ago