Justin Gilman CSW, CSS

9.1

Love it! Exciting #Grenache #wine

Deeply layered with blue fruits. Brushy. Intense mid colors, lightening to light hues at the edge. Aromas of blue flowers. Lasting palate. Opened 4/24/17 — 8 years ago

Shawn R

9.3

Love the entire crew at Donum, great people-Big nose explodes with tight crushed black fruit with a brushy cedar oak taste. Gripping tannins that give it a long finish. Great all around! — 9 years ago

Tim Herrmann

9.4

This bottle is in such a good place--open, perfumed, and complete. Somehow both full but an elegant and pretty wine, too. Like relaxing in a field of violets and brushy long grass with a basket of cherries on a summer day, I picked up several of these to enjoy and cellar. — 10 years ago

with Elliott

Justin Madol

9.3

A beautiful wine that exemplifies the pure craftsmanship of Quintarelli. The nose explodes with stewed dried berries, berry liquor and sweet oregano with dried brushy notes and chocolate riding in underneath. The palette is laced with lush berry but is accompanied with beautiful hints of hot earth and bitter cocoa. Balance, complexity, and power. — 10 years ago

Shadd Scott

9.2

Round, brushy, delicious gin — 10 years ago

John Skupny - Lang & Reed Wine Company

9.2

Always a class act - brushy - great fruit impact - lovely svelte lengthy - an under appreciated Napa first growth. — 10 years ago

with Jamie

Lynne Bryant

8.9

Red berry, savory notes & "brushy", slight eucalyptus note, nice acidity — 11 years ago

Shawn R

9.1

Not your classic California Cab. Soft chewy tannins-balanced acidity in this highly extracted wine. Notes of black currants, tobacco and five spice. Rounds out with a nice brushy cedar flavor and slight eucalyptus notes. Nice wine. — 9 years ago

Yoon Ha

Master Sommelier/Wine Director Benu

9.2

Ill say it again. The '95s are ready to go. Well integrated tannins, precise fruit and brushy complexity. — 9 years ago

David Kline

9.2

Cantaloupe rind, grape-y feet, lemon seed, darjeeling tea with lemon zest, sugar sculpture, wheat biscuit nose over cork oak. Hazelnut, oak, brimming with acanthus and a tight spiral of cinnamon oil and cherry cough drop. Loosens to reveal fig, orange bitters, peppercorn, brushy evergreen shrubs, campfire wood smoldering hot to smoky resins, juniper, smoke-point olive oil, and singed paper. Remember this having a sweetness at bottle's dawn, but alas, dear chaps, we have reached the end, and she is smoldering like a pyrotechnic fuse. August and stolid, amplified, and robust for a highland lady! Give her a dance, but it is she who shall do the spinning! — 9 years ago

with Courtney

Robert Gray

9.0

Dusty, dark berry fruit, brushy. — 10 years ago

with Chelsy

Anthony Lombardi

9.0

Brushy, almost savory Cabernet. In a perfect place for drinking. 1996= fantastic. — 10 years ago

Diedra West

8.9

Diedra had this 10 years ago

Diedra West

9.1

Diedra had this 11 years ago

Shawn R

9.1

Slight bottle variation over the last bottle. Nonetheless a great bottle. Brushy cedar on entry, fine tannins show on the mid palate revealing spice and crushed blueberry. — 9 years ago

John Skupny - Lang & Reed Wine Company

9.3

If you're going to go all in for Merlot you might as well go deep. Enormously complex, brushy, sweet/sour cherry and cassis. Huge volume and length. 2008 vintage. — 9 years ago

Kaitlin Ohlinger

9.5

Heavens. I am thankful for 1.) this wine, and all its sage brushy, coffee grindy, white peppery craziness and 2.) for coworkers who are club members and share with me. Amen. — 10 years ago

Mason Balistreri

Sommelier, International Wine Guild; Balistreri Vineyard; Sales, Joy Wine and Spirits

9.4

Even though there are plenty of aweful wines made from Zin, I still consider it one of my favorite grapes - and tasting one like this makes it clear why. Rustic with olive and brushy bramble spices. Powerful but made authentically - drinking a glass you become instantly transported to some beautiful vineyard in Sonoma. Sense of place, pleasurable and interesting. This is American wine at its finest. — 10 years ago

Meryl Mccormack

8.9

Savory nose, like cured meat or shiitakes. Fruit on palate is marasca cherry, brushy spice, medium high acidity, medium tannins. — 10 years ago

Jeremy Noye

CEO Morrell & Company

9.2

Nose right out of gate is ripe dark olives rambly brushy and fun. Let's see how it goes with my fennel crusted pot roast Over time it clapped down and got mean & lean. Give 5years — 10 years ago