1995 vintage. Drank in 08/19/18. Good legs brick red, thin clear miniscus. Good fruit and tannin. Slightly high acidity but that is really a bit — 6 years ago
Birth year bottle for our first born daughter, Haley. Celebrating her graduation from Iowa State this weekend and her achieving gainful employment one week from tomorrow. The cork was stubborn but eventually cooperated, and we decanted and filtered the wine. Tart cherry the first sip, wondering if we needed a backup. Beautifully brick coloring and the sharp edges are rounding out and now we’re getting a smooth mid palate of dark berries and spice leading to a bright finish. And a bright future! 👍🏻🍷👩🎓. Cheers! — 6 years ago
V v tasty. Makes a kitchen table in Chicago February feel like a patio in summer. — 6 years ago
Jammy, Smooth, yummy — 6 years ago
The only Pinot Noir made with Napa fruit better than Brick and Mortar's Cougar Rock Pinot is this wine right here. complex, beguiling, nuanced and mysterious are some of the endless descriptors that can be used to describe this beautiful Spring Mountain Pinot. Can't wait to taste this in another 5 years or so, as it is destined for greatness. — 8 years ago
Great Thanksgiving Wine. Pairs well with Turkey and all the fixings. — 8 years ago
Beautiful brick color, deep, murky. Nose: chocolate, pepper, vanilla, toffee. Very interesting, round, red fruits, coffee, tobacco. Mouth: red fruit, sourness, blunt chocolate, tobacco. Very velvety, nose that is super expressive, nice acidity from sour red fruits. Very good wine, very good vintage. — 10 years ago
Lemon zest, mineral, almonds...burgundy-esque. — 5 years ago
I usually tend toward Pinot Noir, but when I want something just a bit bolder, Gamay hits the spot. I have really been enjoying this 2015 vintage. — 6 years ago
(aged in American oak barrels for nine years and then in bottle for a minimum of eight more years) Faded brick-red. Aromas of red berries, dried rose, cedar and tobacco show outstanding delineation and pick up woodsmoke and herb nuances as the wine opens up. Sweet and seamless in texture, offering mineral-accented red currant, cherry and blood orange flavors that spread out steadily on the back half. The extremely long, tannin-free finish shows compelling sweetness, lingering florality and an echo of smoky oak. (Josh Raynolds, Vinous, May 2017) — 6 years ago
Incredibly underrated @ £69 & drinking just lovely now @ peak 😍 Fab buy 👍
🍷 Opaque garnet ruby w/ brick edge
👃 Gorgeous soggy earth & leaves, soaked smokey oak, flinty crushed rock minerals, leather, herbs, liquorice, mocha, blackcurrant & dark plum
👄 Med body of creamy smooth earthy blackcurrant & dark plum in liquorice infused mocha w/ minerals, all beautifully balanced
🎯 Long earthy mocha liquorice mineral dark fruit seduction
😍 My kind of wine 😎 — 6 years ago
Lovely rose gold color, with a clean and fresh nose. Fruit, minerals, flowers.. Everything I would want in a rose. Plenty of strawberry, tart cherry, watermelon, white and red rose petals and dried herbs. Fruit shines on the palate with plenty of acidity to carry you to a pleasant finish. Sitting perfectly at 13.5, the ABV is not a detracting component. — 8 years ago
Deep brick. M+ intensity. Cherry, kirsch, blackberry, rhubarb, bramble, savory and saline. Lots of fruit for the age of this wine. M+ acid, sweet,long finish and complex. — 8 years ago
Going tawny color. Complex mature nose of meat and fruit. Brick leather meat strawberries. Great mature bottle. Complex savory with a line of almost sweet fruit. — 10 years ago
Stems deliciousness and hitting the balls out of the park! Oh yeah brickhouse! — 12 years ago
Fab GPL reaching peak drinking window @ £75-£90 always a lovely wine 👍
📍 Chateau Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2001
🏵 92-93 points
🍇 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 28% Merlot & 2% Cabernet Franc
🍷 Deep alight garnet ruby w/ brick edge
👃 Heady smokey oak through black currant & berry loaded with minerals, pencil lead & flint stone w/ dark plum, red berry, leather & damp cellar
👄 Med body of smooth touch dry mineral infused black berry fruits w/ a touch of red berry & cocoa
🎯 Long slight dry black fruit mineral bomb w/ a mocha liquorice kick — 5 years ago
Cherry pie with homemade whip and cinnamon. Red plums. — 6 years ago
My 28th/29th/30th & 31st bottles of the beautiful 04 & @ £40 & they are still superb value for a stunning old world Rioja 👍 & keep getting better & better 😁
🍷 Garnet w/ brick edge
👃 Old world Seduction of soft smokey oak, leather, plum, spiced cherry, vanilla, red berry & fig jam w/ a balsamic prune tone
👄 Med body of silky creamy red cherry/berry driven earthy & oaky mashed fruits with cocoa, fig & thick balsamic
🎯 Long soft smooth oaky rich cherry fruit linger with earthy cocoa & balsamic
— 6 years ago
The Steading definitely won most interesting wine of the night. It is a GSM blend, in fashion of Chateauneuf-du-pape. Oldest wine on the tasting list, from 2012, and it had a gorgeous brick red, slightly opaque color. Boy did this have a fantastic fragrance - strawberry, cranberry, saddle leather, decayed violets, pipe tobacco, dried eucalyptus leaf, and soy. If the nose wasn't the most enticing thing about the wine, it was equally matched on the pallet which was lush, elegant, and dainty compared to the sort of brash character of most of Torbreck's wines - red plum, bruised red apple, duck fat, braised and charred meat, luxardo cherry, dried rosemary, dried sage, graphite, hickory charcoal, and a juicy, lingering finish. What an absolute treat.. it is on its 5th year of age, but sadly it may only really have 3-5 more years of plateau to enjoy. Not meant for extensive age, but surely amazing value from Torbreck; not all wines are meant to be aged long! — 6 years ago
Second of the four year vertical we are trying out for #WAWineMonth. We had the 05, 07, 08 and 09.
Medium to deep garnet with brick edges. Quite a bit of oak on the nose with notes of cigar boxes, dark spices, dried fruits and woody. Medium tannins (6/10) and medium plus bodied. Well integrated with quite a bit of earthiness compared to the other three vintages. Very dark throughout with notes of cocoa, herbs and some black cherries. Medium plus to long finish. Showed better on day two. Drink till 2022.
Made up of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23.5% Merlot, 3.5% Petit Verdot and 3% Cabernet Franc. — 7 years ago
Smoking good and a big surprise as most Bordeaux in the late 70s was not good. The color was mature, but not nearly as brick as I would have expected. The nose I could smell all day and all night. Lots of perfumed red fruits, subtle spice and tertiary leathers and dried flowers. The palate was just as good and followed on from the nose, if anything a little less complex than the nose. — 8 years ago
Jason Gelman
solid bottle, fun to drink. cloudy yellow and some light sediment, very much looks smells and tastes like a natural wine. — 5 years ago