Sipping Fine Wine

9.0

Blend of 60% Grenache, 30% Tempranillo & 10% Graciano, aged for 6 months in used oak, for this debut offering, deep Ruby with aromas of red fruits, floral and spice. On the palate flavors of cherry and red plum with licorice and floral spice. Medium+ finish, fine tannins, good acidity balance, ending with fruit and mineral character. — 4 years ago

John Watson

9.0

Amazingly good at the price point! Hits all the right rioja notes, tasting like wines costing $10-15 more — 6 years ago

Joe Estrada

9.3

Grenache Blanc is my favorite white varietal and the boys at Waylan do it right!!! This vintage is like a Kelsea Ballerini song, light and happy with some a little bit of edge. — 6 years ago

with Greg

Campbell Howe

9.0

Non sweet but light bodied. Like a perfect, lightweight, summary pinot. No fruit. Liked a lot. — 7 years ago

Natalie Stassen

9.4

Excellent with red meat. We loved it — 7 years ago

Daniel P. Drake

9.5

This past Saturday I attended a get together with close friends. We opened the 2014 Saarloos & Sons Family Tree Rhone Blend. 55% Grenache, 27% Mourvedre and 18% Syrah. This was the hit of the evening that turned heads and got people talking.

The nose was light with cherry, raspberry, plum, cinnamon, black pepper, anise, roses and an earthy gravel.

On the palate was beautiful fruit of black cherry, blackberry, plum, black pepper, anise , clove and a good gravel component.

The wine was soft velvety smooth with a medium mouth feel and medium to plus acidity with medium smooth tannin that leads to a medium long finish. A very enjoyable wine. Almost the weekend please be safe. Nostrovia! 🍷🍷🍷🍷 — 8 years ago

Anna Blumberg

10

Thanksgiving — 9 years ago

Craig Williams

9.2

New to me, this Mencia is filled with black cherry tobacco fragrance. Terrific length and texture. Need to drink more Mencia! — 9 years ago

with Maureen

Tabitha Doyle

9.0

Easy to drink- went well with both a steak and pasta. Seemed well balanced and slightly fruity with minerals — 9 years ago

Maddalena de Zambiasi

9.0

Villa Favorita — 12 years ago

Brandi Bratek

9.0

Great choice with a good steak. Starts off a bit dry but opens up nicely with some air. A bit musty with ripe cherries, and a hint of dark chocolate. — 5 years ago

R Bl

8.9

Pineapple grapefruit pith, a little vanilla — 5 years ago

Gerardo Hernández

9.5

Vino mexicano con cuerpo robusto, color rubi intenso y semi turbio con sedimentos en copa. Tánico con notas de roble, vainilla, sotobosque, zarzamora y canela. Por supuesto que tiene sabor salino característico de la región y unas ligeras notas de pimiento verde al final de cada sorbo.
Astringencia es media y la permanencia es alta. — 6 years ago

Josh Hirsch

9.5

Delicious. Drink it. Love it — 6 years ago

Katie Hahn

9.2

Delicious berry forward red. — 7 years ago

Mark Flesher

9.3

Curious, so I decided to open up one of these while waiting for someone to help me consume the other half.... This wine is youthful, and for that reason is a bit out of balance from the previous wine I remembered and scored quite a bit higher than this one. This wine is a 93 right now, with potential for a 96-97 IMO. The fruit in front is massive. Black cherry, black licorice, but as @Shay A was mentioning there is a red fruity kind of touch to this one and I completely agree. The middle is a little bit muted vs. the previous vintage. The finish is quite peppery, toasted oak. Tons of potential on this full bodied Moon Mountain monster. Hold for the next 10 years. — 8 years ago

with Shay

Lisa Lennard

9.5

Mustard Seed in Inverness, Scotland. Lovely city, lovely wine. — 9 years ago

with Amy

Julie Hamberg

9.0

On the sweeter side, a great screened in porch sipper. — 9 years ago

Alberto Pineda Magro

8.9

Buen hallazgo, un buen vinito rosado, nos ha acompañado en una bonita noche. — 12 years ago

Steven Gullo

9.3

Finished in Sherry casks. Very cool savory element to this. Salty minerality and green apple. Very unique but reminds me somewhat of dry Alsace Riesling — 5 years ago

Alvaro Bustillos

9.5

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Ruth Younie

9.0

Love this wine - soft on the palate, gentle spice (coriander) on the nose. Perfect accompaniment to cooking dinner! — 6 years ago

Curtis Hauge

10

Aromas of baked apples, apricots, nutty and waxy. On the pallet it’s crispy and refreshing with taste of green apples, creamy with a mid to full body mouth feel. — 6 years ago

Martijn

9.3

Oen for 3 days now and what a wine this is. Berries, chocolate nose. Sweet and acidity very well balanced. Paired with porc loin with apple calvados sauce. — 7 years ago

Scott Hamilton

9.1

Solid profile. Slight earthy almost peppered. Great with red meat — 8 years ago

Esther Garcia

9.5

Deep ruby. Black cherry, sweet spices hints. Rich, long lenght. — 8 years ago

Clarke Gasper

9.2

Blue and black fruit with sweet spices, ash, and menthol. Definitely decant! — 9 years ago

with Matthew

Luis F Gimenez

9.1

After 39 years, this wine still has held up well. Typical Rioja Tempranillo grapes with tobacco, leather and black fruit to the nose. Oaky. Almost no tannins and still balanced.
Given to me by a good friend of mine who obviously kept it well cellared all these years! — 9 years ago

Joe Gonzalez

8.9

Great Summer wine! Citrus and floral. — 10 years ago