Maciej Kurka

9.3

This drinks like vintage port or better — 5 years ago

Stephen Redenbaugh

9.2

Ripe dark black cherry and briar. Extremely young, but wonderful exuberant fruit and acid balance. Cool climate Syrah with nice class. Round, smooth, and already showing rounded ripe tannins. I think their syrahs show amazing value and sing with a Swiss steak braise. — 6 years ago

Severn Goodwin

9.3

Don't ever pass on the second labels, pricing is always attractive in comparison, especially in a great vintage!

Decanting now, notes forthcoming...
Initial nose has dark and dusty fruits as the wine entered the decanter, think a good night will lay ahead.

Getting into this finally, after ~3 hours in the decanter.

Nose has moist earth, tanned leather, ripe plum, cassis must, touch of eucalyptus and tobacco.
Palate has ripe plum, ripe black cherry, faint mulberry, fresh plum skin, eucalyptus and green+red peppers. Tannins are medium, but quite present.

Paired this along side a beautiful NY strip steak from one of our local farms in nearby Columbia County. We got a beautiful, medium rare, cook in the sous vide bath, then finished with a great, quick sear on the stove top. Delicious, I love cooking with science!

Drinking nicely this evening at ~18 years past vintage. Expect this bottle to hold strong until at least 2028-2032 in proper storage. — 6 years ago

Willie Carter

9.3

Deep, deep ruby. Wide brim with cherry accents. Beautiful aromatics of stewed plums, milk chocolate, cedar, and ripe red cherries. Yes, you can make the claim that this yet another Merlot that drinks like a Cab and you wouldn’t necessarily be wrong. For me, this is a quintessential Napa Merlot, big and bold with more than enough finesse to separate it from Cabs. Medium to full bodied with round tannins and medium acidity. Just enough fruit on the palate with black cherry, more plums, and cherries. The savory aspects come into play with forest floor, black olives, and oak. Wonderful length and spice on the finish.
— 7 years ago

Dan White

9.0

Ripe raspberry and cherry up front. Very bright ruby color. Balanced structure. Overall, a very tasty Pinot that lines up well against other fruit forward / acid driven Pinots. — 9 years ago

James Fry

9.5

Excellent finish to Xmas Eve after the Black Cordon Chardonnay and the 2009 Vineyard 7&8 set up — 9 years ago

Eric Waxman

8.9

Black cherry nose. Lingers a bit. — 10 years ago

Koire Rogers

9.3

Savory, black fruit, spices, beautiful acid. Really good — 10 years ago

Alishia Odom

9.5

Alishia had this 11 years ago

M Otto

10

Best bottled wine I have had to date :) loved it — 12 years ago

David Kline

9.3

Black bear body with blonde grizzlies piled high, atop. Licorice, espresso bean, toffee, dark chocolate, burnt honey, dried violets, dried black cherries and rich malt aromas. Sarsaparilla taste, with dark, sweet coffee, dark chocolate, baked raisin, dried black cherry, dried black currant and licorice. Stupendously supple integration of all elements! The bitter bits are a perfect counterbalance. .
#boulevardbrewing ##beer #bier #birra #biere #stout #cerveza #cerveja #stout #darktruthstout #boulevarddarktruth #kcmobeer #mobeer — 5 years ago

with Courtney

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.0

This Anthill is well extracted. Too much for how I like my Pinot’s. It is also has a slight alcohol burn in the back of my throat which; I & other professionals consider a fault in wine. It’s like Oregon fruit & florals meet the over-extraction of Bella Glos. That aside, there are some merits here.

The nose reveals slightly stewed, yet ruby & candied fruits of; blackberries, strawberries, dark cherries, plum, creamy raspberries and notes of pomegranate. Pronounced baking spices; vanilla, cinnamon, clove and nutmeg. Black, rich earth, black licorice, sweet tarry notes, limestone, dark spice, dry, crushed rocks and bright; red, dark, blue and purple florals.

The body is big, thick and lush. She still has sticky, meaty, tarry tannins. The structure & tension is quite big. The length and balance are good but, still require some more time to hit their peak. Slightly stewed, yet ruby & candied fruits of; blackberries, strawberries, dark cherries, plum, creamy raspberries and notes of pomegranate. Pronounced baking spices; vanilla, cinnamon, clove and nutmeg. Black, rich earth, gravely, dark volcanic minerals, black licorice, sweet tarry notes, limestone, dark spice, stem inclusion, leather, hints of graphite, dry, crushed rocks and bright; red, dark, blue and purple florals. The acidity is round and good. The big, long, finish is, rich, ruby, elegant, well polished and persists for minutes.

Photos of; one of the vineyards they source fruit, three friends & partners that founded Anthill; Anthony Filberti, David Low, and Webster Marquez who met while working at Williams Selyem and the staff working the process in the cellar. — 6 years ago

Eric Vrtis

9.2

Right up my alley. Full bore with black tea, baked cherry and plum pie, black licorice, raspberry compote rubbed leather. Rooibos finish. — 9 years ago

Heidi Lauer

10

my all time favorite cider — 9 years ago

Peter Heidt

9.0

...I am such a shitty collector. Only reason I opened this, was because Jamie is in town and we are watching Black Mass... John Depp should get an Oscar; Leo and the bear notwithstanding... My God... These grapes... YUMMY... — 9 years ago

Michael Okusa

9.3

Bright acidity, tart raspberry and black cherry, grapefruit zest, a touch of wood and spices. Elegant and delicious! — 10 years ago

Amylynn Moon Sick

10

Yumm! Favorite from this winery by far! — 10 years ago

Jaime Aparicio

9.0

Smooth with great aroma, delicious lingering taste — 10 years ago

Meredith Freudenthal

9.7

One of our favorite reds. From the Leelanau Peninsula in Michigan. Got it as an anniversary gift from Mackenzie. — 12 years ago

Sean Mulvihill

9.0

Very good white. Sweet but not head ache sweet, got to love that! — 6 years ago

John Willison

9.2

Cherry and black licorice all day. Star fruit, garden herbs and soil, grippy fruit finish. — 6 years ago

John Willison

9.1

You can imagine this fruit at a straight up Pinot. Back drop of raspberry, black cherry, red licorice, and damp earth. But in a rose wrapper of crispness and acidity. — 6 years ago

Chris B.

9.3

This will only get better with age and it’s already terrific. The biggest takeaway for me was the lingering taste of hot chocolate mix; subtle but undeniable. The bouquet is stuffed with cedar shavings, the dark fruit is strong but not obnoxious and the tannins coat the tongue, rather than attack it. — 6 years ago

Young Bock Lee

9.1

Leo hanson chenin blanc
Hint of oak, tart fruit, minearality and soft yellow flowers on the nose. Med body, high acid, crisp acidic, minerality and acidic kick on the back followed by soft yellow peach and yellow apple fruitness. Balanced chenin, drunk with salad(black kale, black gsrlic, black rice, chicken.
Good lairing with asian vinegrattr. — 9 years ago

Heidi Lauer

10

Absolutely love this but can only get for a limited time — 9 years ago

Timothy Lund

9.2

One of my favorites from Black Star Farms, Old Mission Peninsula. — 9 years ago

Marc Sherrell

8.9

Oaky and vanilla. Not a typical Chardonnay. — 10 years ago

Richard Austin

9.0

This is a beautiful summer #rosé sweet strawberry, cantaloup, great balance of acidity and sweet. — 10 years ago

Joel McElrath

9.6

Very nice, light and not too dry. — 11 years ago

Ryan Key

9.1

Tremendous black fruit, earth, and spice. Favorite wine of the night. — 12 years ago