David Kline

9.5

Twice this venomous viper has evaded review. She jumps out and thrashes, coils round and inculcates. A devil of a bite too! Seductive, deceptive nose of caramel creme, rosemary, bay leaf and cinnamon roll. Palatal acupuncture ensues, as you slowly succumb to the hot cinnamon oil and scotch bonnet burn of the first phase. Phase two brings cinnamon and grilled peach with brown sugar cobbles and scotch bonnet honey. And finally the nose and close converge in satin vanilla, cinnamon, cracked black pepper and ginger. .
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#willett #willettrye #willettfamily #willettfamilysmallbatch #willettdistillery #smallbatch #smallbatchwhiskey #Kentuckywhiskey #Kyrye #ryewhiskey #rye #rarerelease #estatebottled — 5 years ago

with Courtney

Matthew Cohen

9.5

On open ....Glorious 2015 fruit. Black cherries. Spice. Maybe a kiss of licorice. Long sweet finish. Super tasty but not super complex at this point. Integrated tanins. Crazy silky on the palate. ... after an hour there Are sick flowers peeking out from under the covers. Candied lilacs ? Palate getting sick and more complex. Like this concentrated licorice flower on the finish Odd because it doesnt present as tannic or woody like most wines that are too young. ... 2.5 hours in this is much more serious. Like a brooding teenager a bit. More young and correct cherries. More apparent structure. Tanins are more present. Bizarre. Almost like a Benjamin button wine a bit. — 7 years ago

Shawn Thompson

8.9

Bold and smooth. Very Merlot like with notes of cocoa, black fruit, black cherry, tobacco and leather. A favourite for the night and paired perfectly with wood fire roasted ribs at Park Distillery in Banff. — 7 years ago

Frank Kuo

9.4

Color of black tea. Nose of apple, oil, paint, crayon, lemon tea, and minty. Taste is spicy, yet quite sweet from caramel, and grapefruit zest. Quite smooth. Overall, combination of simple yet delightful flavors (spice and sweetness, bittersweet zest), not too complex but straightforward, and easy to enjoy. — 7 years ago

Alok Sharma

9.0

Great, slightly sweet taste! A notch less than Johnny Walker Black Label! Had it with ice & a little bit of water! — 8 years ago

Aly G

9.0

Extremely smooth bourbon taste with creamy finish. Sweet liquor. Far less bite than Bailey's (made with Irish whiskey) — 8 years ago

Riccardo L.

9.1

The smokiness is subtle and the caramel brittle underlines it. It’s a great whisky. Japanese is the ish. — 7 years ago

Tracy Hall

9.6

This is El Jolgorio Coyote. Rarely found black bottle distilled in 2017. This a awesome. I had already written notes but since this is not in @Delectable and ask for them to identify (and gave great details of this including name, etc and notes) which were erased. The best Coyote I’ve had to date. — 7 years ago

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9.0

Definitely still in its drinking window, As is often said to be the case with older zin & zin blends, however, it’s more like a claret than a zinfandel. Subdued fruit notes are woven with earth, button mushroom, and black tea, atop silky smooth tannins. Just a wisp of spice on the close. A nice way to start off a few 25th anniversary year wines. — 7 years ago

Frank Kuo

9.4

Clear. Nose of minty, coriander, black pepper, and lavender. Taste of pine needles, carbonated water, juniper wood, dry, and a bit mineral. Aftertaste of some sweetness, like, spice, and lingering. Quite an interesting taste. — 7 years ago

Anna Vocaturo

10

Black currant, forest floor, button mushroom, cranberry. Not only do I love the people who make this wine, I love everything Cristom does- time after time this wine never disappoints. I want to drink this with every holiday meal! #oregonpinotnoir @cristomwine #cristom #willamettevalley — 7 years ago

David Kline

9.3

Warm vanilla and sherry trifle notes bordering on sponge cake with candied orange peel and cloves, as well as caramel apple, baked pear, baklava and bahri dates in this nose-feast. Hot entry with heavy oak that bites like a thorny rose stem, burnt brittle, toasted black sesame, leather whips, black pepper, vanilla bean, cedar, spicy tobacco with a squirt of grape seed extract, lingers on an wooden point that suggests cypress, but my mind returns to lac and wood stain, if they were edibles. There is also an igneous quality to the whole. The wooden Arrow of rye whiskey: Hot hot hot! #Willet #whiskey #whisky #rye #ryewhiskey #rarewhisky #barrel — 8 years ago

with Courtney

Anthony Pro

9.1

Everything is better when it’s black. — 7 years ago

Tracy Hall

9.3

This is El Jolgorio Jabali. Black bottle very floral and expressive. Notes and name erased with bottle numbers etc as this was not in @delectable and erased when asked to identify — 7 years ago

David Kline

9.5

Unreal herbaceous depth here where rosemary and allspice hide their monstrous love child. Black, white and green peppercorns blast from a hollowed core sample of graphite, and igneous matter just above the roof of hell. But fear not mystic traveller, this is simply the expanse that shields the event horizon through which our universe has fallen. Yes, we are scorched and terrified, our very bone marrow boiling, our teeth dressed in ash cloth and dusty black earth, here is the golden hand of life pulling us back slowly, with tangerine lavas, smoldering lemon oils, to cardamom, hazelnut oil, the oxidative brawn of sherry, toffee, mocha and finally the cool kiss of mint, as we leave the burning sands and cross into the unexpected joy of the dangerous jungle. Better here in the tangle of living cruelty, where there is shade and dark water. — 7 years ago

Frank Kuo

9.2

Color is quite deep, like concentrated black tea. Nose is powerful, oily, crayon, aldehyde, spicy, apple cider, and a bit oak. Taste is spicy, minty, oaky, zesty, and drier than I pictured in the first sip. Ginger and more zest in the following sips. Still quite dry until finally caramel like sweetness comes out. Powerful and Anot for faint heart. — 7 years ago

Frank Kuo

9.4

Color of light black tea. Nose of oak, fermented grains, ripe fruits, and aldehyde. Taste is super oaky and woody, with sweet vanilla, caramel, a bit spice , orange zest, cinnamon, and flowering note. Aftertaste of flowering and honey note, a bit spice, and some more oak. Pretty straightforward and decent. — 7 years ago

Brian S

8.9

Peat, burnt coffee, old campfire, old black cherries, charred jerky. — 8 years ago

David Singer

Sommelier/Wine Educator LibationEducation

8.9

Drinking well. '13 of this isn't for long term cellaring but will develop well over the next couple of years. Black cherry, strawberry, cigar box, forest floor, white button mushroom, pink grapefruit acidity. Good length. — 9 years ago