Martin Bergo

9.2

Take a typical good-quality PN and amplify everything from color, nose, mouthfeel, structure, and length - and you get to this wine from Rocky Point, a steep hill above a lake in central Otago. Color is deep violet; nose is high-octane black fruits (mulberry) and ripe cran- and strawberries, and minerality and a sweet herbaciousness; taste is full bodied with round tannins, dense fruit, medium-high aclohol, rubber and spice. And all well balanced. Would love to try in 3-5y. — 4 years ago

Bill Bender

9.4

Silky smooth high octane beast. — 6 years ago

Shay A

9.2

Jack & Arden put together a wonderful evening of delicious food and great wines, and a few of us attendees contributed some bottles to enjoy as well. Great night!

The epitome of full throttle. Buckle up and hold on. Like rocket fuel! Baked blue and black fruit pie and dark cocoa shavings on the nose. High octane on the palate, with a chocolate a-la-mode and creme de cassis finish. Very cool @Benjamin Keator — 6 years ago

with Arden, Jack and 3 others

Anthony Marocco

9.0

Racey acidity with spicy tropical fruit, a bit high octane so a couple glasses...forgettaboutit! Great summer closer, like Kimbrel in the 9th! — 7 years ago

Martin Bergo

9.3

Another slam dunk from Alsace! Liquid gold from the great -15 vintage. Nose is oily and full of liquorice, fennel, lots of tropical fruits, and chalkywet minerals; on the palate the wine is equally oily, fruity, robust, peppery and with a high-octane finish. Will keep a box for a few years. — 7 years ago

Neil Cornish

8.9

Savory and silky. High octane. — 8 years ago

with Jon

Josh Spurling

9.2

Lovely! 15% octane but doesn't show it. Perfectly ripened blueberry, blackberry, mulberry with refreshing acidity. At less than $25, it comes highly recommended. — 8 years ago

Aaron Tan

8.9

Once again, I would say this was a less than ideal showing of Kai's 16' Marion's Vineyard - be it storage or for some unknown reason, I felt the fruit should have been more vibrant especially in such a young wine. Anyhow, assessing it as it was, the wine was ripe, spicy, woody, and earthy. It sort of veered towards a Syrah, and finishes with a lick of old-world savoriness. Safe to say I wasn't a fan of the flavours this pino carried (in particular, that marmalade character I find in a lot of warmer climate pino), but the texture's a different story. Mouth-filling (probably courtesy of the high octane value too - 14) and plush, with fine tannins and crisp acidity. Definitely does bring about a sort of elegance. Likely a good pino in most cases, but just not for me. — 5 years ago

Shay A

9.4

BBQ & Zin night!

The most decadent of the zins tonight. It was high octane without being overboard. It was full bodied without being flabby. Ripe black and blue fruits in the nose with sandalwood and a baked cherry pie & toasted oak finish. Light on the pepper/spice. Drinking great now with plenty of life ahead. — 6 years ago

with Dan, Clare and 1 other

Cathy Corison

Owner/Winemaker Corison Winery

8.9

Ostras! Tapas in Ashland, OR. High octane but and ice cube fixed that. Rich, plummy fruit. — 7 years ago

with William

Stian Westerhus

9.3

Beautiful fruit, like drinking a velvet high octane jam. 2016 ftw. — 7 years ago

Henrik Poulsen

9.2

15% alc.

Martha McClellan's last vintage there so this was blended/bottled under Denis Malbec.

Big, voluptuous and high-octane true to Martha's style, I have the feeling Denis was trying his best to pull it in a more elegant direction. — 8 years ago

David Kline

9.3

Day 3: Big, black chocolate nose, with baked blackberry, black olives, and charred beef ribs charging from the glass. The floodgates have finally opened, and it was worth the wait! There is fresh cocoa bean pods and a jungle of flora; rosemary and iris extracts and an oatmeal raisin aspect to the perfuming.
Just the right texture for the pungent hothouse welcome: grippy and coarse, with a bitter chocolate and raspberry interplay, and a single unforgettable graphite and smoky slate backbone; unwavering in the churn of black currant, pepper, eucalyptus, leather and tobacco. Léoville Poyferré's high octane new world Malbec that puts a LOT of stick about! It also has an elegance, as all good dominatrixes should! You'll get a kick out of this! #LéovillePoyferré #bordeauxandburgers #argentinawine #Argentina #malbec #malbecmalbec #newworldmeetsoldworld #CuvelierLosAndes #andes #grandmalbec #ucovalley #uco #mendoza — 8 years ago

with Courtney

ESF

9.3

Just wowza: recall drinking this stuff back in mid-90s and it seems like they are one of the few classic Zins still cranking out outstandingly priced vino... this stuff was dense & fairly hi octane - shy nose until well over hour of decant, then strutted sublime full spectrum red fruit culminating in a sweet spiced raspberry / rhubarb pie w/vanillin accents. Suave viscous saturated extracted but never cloying, absolute stunning execution w/very long life ahead. — 6 years ago

Chip Hughes

9.3

Tastes great; less filling. Once again, it’s the confident, relaxed and precise benchmark for what all Catalan reds should be, combining an almost ferrous minerality with a pure expression of Grenache and Carignan that walks the line between reductive and oxidative. And once again, far too many of us will fall for the high-octane, vaguely-Rhônish, Prisonerized, nondescript slop that seems to be all the rage. — 6 years ago

Rudi Sanchez-Colberg

9.2

High octane! But very good. Still has room to go... — 6 years ago

Shay A

9.4

Wow! High octane, but at the same time, balanced. Red, blue and black fruit on the nose. Violet too. Nutmeg and some cocoa dusted bay leaf. Palate is young. Licorice and cassis. Blueberry driven finish that is both powerful and refined at the same time. Plenty of time ahead for this. — 7 years ago

with Dan

Randy Fuller

9.2

The Sharp Sisters red is inky purple, with a nose of big, black fruit and quite a savory side. I smell cigar box, spice rack and cedar plank on the nose, in addition to the plums and blackberries. The palate comes on less brawny that expected given the high-octane alcohol number. It's a pleasant array of black and blue fruit that is remarkably smooth, yet it's tannins are muscular enough to sit with a ribeye. — 8 years ago

Patrick Derdeyn

9.2

This is a beast of a wine. 8hrs of air and still strong on the tannin. Love the big classy fruit here and it's balanced for a high octane style, but do yourself a favor and let these chill for 3-4 yrs. — 8 years ago

Nick Jones

9.2

Delicious brown ale + 7.2% octane which is a pleasant surprise for a typically milder style — 9 years ago