Greg Ballington

Co-Founder of Millennial Drinkers Wine Blog

9.2

Gave this around 4+ hours in the decanter and it needs more. Dark and deep ruby with high intensity. Quite a bit of heat on the nose and palate. Dissipated a bit on day two but this needs some bottle aging. Notes of dark cocoa and dark raspberries on the nose as well. Heavy tannins (8.5/10) and full bodied. Dark palate with vanilla, dark cocoa, cloves, dark raspberries and cherries. A few restrained black fruits too. Layered and thick with balanced acidity. Long and lingering finish. Only issue is the heat in this. At 15.5% thats a lot of alcohol, hopefully it tones down with some time. Drink from 2018 till 2028. — 8 years ago

Benjamin Hickey

9.0

Really soft but bright fruit buckeye integrated with the oak. Med body, good length. Very dark purple. — 10 years ago

Brian Koncius

9.0

2013 Dirty & Rowdy Skinner White Oak Flats Mouvédre. What Keith said and Yum! — 10 years ago

R Chambers

9.5

Ohio's finest — 10 years ago

with Sam

Beth Nelson

9.3

Starting off Buckeye weekend on the harbor. — 11 years ago

with Adessa

Regina Daniels Davis

9.6

A nice oaky Pinot with a tinge of sweet. Enjoyed it at the Flats Bistro with a simple chicken dinner. — 11 years ago

Ryan Eskridge

9.4

2008 Brown Estate Recluse Zin paired with mesquite smoked brisket 9 hours in the egg. Went perfectly w a buckeye win! — 12 years ago

Mitchell Mandler

9.2

Didn't write on time. Harris brought over. Very good. — 9 years ago

Hansal Patel

9.1

Good scotch ale. Tastes more ale like than scotchy. Had at beer head in flats east — 9 years ago

Clayton Bahr

9.0

Screw top aging is pretty awesome. Licorice, dried red currants, baked cherries, dates, orange rind — 10 years ago

Sandy Lieberman

9.5

Premiere Napa Valley Cimarossa 2009 — 10 years ago

Mark Pagliaro

Winemaker Stone & Key Cellars

9.8

Wow, a great Howell Mountain Cab from Buckeye Vineyard! — 11 years ago

Andrew Lampasone

Owner Wine Watch Selections

9.6

Dark berry fruit blueberry blackberry coulis very intense with smoky toasty oak notes from an old Malbec vineyard on red mountain espresso and dark chocolate. A big wine with lots of dark berry fruit velvety tannins, a complete wine from the center out on the tongue pretty violet and lavender notes big but elegant and fresh at the end. Most excellent + — 11 years ago

Caitlin Michelle

9.6

Yum yum yum!! — 11 years ago

Tara Eby-Morgan

9.7

Music City Flats — 13 years ago

Andrew Willingham

9.3

Very dark purple, almost black, totally opaque, no sediment. Medium+ viscosity, medium staining. Pepper, tobacco, cherries, tea, cocoa on the nose. Palette has a long finish with sour cherries, raspberries. Medium+ acid, balanced round tannins, light mouthfeel. This was a real treat- big, bold, balanced and surprisingly fruity Napa cab. — 9 years ago

David Kline

9.0

Gasoline-pear, old sock and hot stones, tropical banana, hibiscus, lemon and coconut water and salt flats greet the olfactory bulb. Very lemon, bordering pith, baked pear and dry dirt, icy acidity. — 10 years ago

with Courtney

Keith Levenberg

9.1

Old vine syrah from the wrong side of the tracks in the Cornas neighborhood, so it's appellation Cotes du Rhone, but the hope is that it's kind of Cornas-y even if it comes from the flats. At first it's super-structured and backwards but also very hearty and dense with that rich old-vine concentration. The flavors at that point might have passed for something grenache. With a bit of air it gets more civilized, though, retaining that hearty richness but the structure turning almost silky even though it builds and toughens up on the back end. How Cornas-y is it? Well, it doesn't have any of the wild meatiness or much non-fruit stuff, and the particular berry flavors still coulda fooled me on the syrah vs. grenache thing, but that dense inner core and muscled structure seems about right. — 10 years ago

Nick Dor

9.2

Buckeye roadhouse. Great cab!!! — 11 years ago

Gary Westby

Champagne & Sherry buyer K&L Wines

9.9

All grand cru, 69% cote de blancs, but the rest from Sillery and Puisieulx on the flats of the north facing slope of the mountain of Reims. Very expressive now, but with a long future in front of it, this wine has great baguette and Brie aromas with the incisive minerality of the terroir and great acid of the vintage to back it up. — 11 years ago

Gonzo Pinot

9.6

Buckeye in Mill Valley — 11 years ago