Ellen Clifford

8.9

Oh hey very good in my baked apple recipe. And a couple other cocktail recipes this shall be in. Dependable ripe yum and balanced if not cocktail-inspirational (hallo Manhattan Sours) port. Use at at will — 7 years ago

Tom

9.3

Great red fruit, barnyard and amazing sours and freshness. Invites to drink more and more. — 8 years ago

Brandyn Pryce

9.2

Smooth with small sours and mid body. Delicious — 9 years ago

Lauren S

8.9

Nose needed to open up. Light tannins, but good mouthfeel. — 9 years ago

Al Doyle

9.0

Very upfront sours initially, gave way to something a little more stone fruity but this is a real punch in the chops no doubt. If it catches you in the right mood it could be a winner. — 9 years ago

Yuriy Roman

9.5

DeRat is an amazing bar in Utrecht. Vast selection of sours. This one is quite peculiar. Get strawberry and burnt wood on the nose, then it hits you with powerful sourness that burns in the aftertaste, and finished with an interesting oak+butter taste. The guy pouring it separated the sediment, which surprisingly smells like char coal. Too many compounds here. — 9 years ago

Chad Henderson

9.2

Wine sticks to the glass. Slow runoff.
Nose of grapefruit and hibiscus.
Taste of limes, apricot and slight citrus sours aftertaste. — 10 years ago

with Kristen

Shay A

9.1

Weekly Wednesday Wine Committee lunch...always such a treat to attend. This week, Dan hosted. 1 sparkler, 3 whites, 4 reds and 1 dessert wine. All blind as usual.

What. A. Head scratcher! Wow. Never had a wine like this. Nobody in the room guessed the varietal. In the glass, it looked like an orange wine. Sherry like. Nose and palate were so cherry dominant...cherry sours candy, cherry tart, licorice and even orange rind. I called it Beaujolais. — 7 years ago

with Dan and Weston

Jeffrey Long

9.4

Bottled 2/15/17. Seems to be quite some variation in this spontaneously fermented beer. Significantly better than what I had recently on draft at the brewery. Well-rounded easy drinking sour that goes down well on a very hot afternoon. Doesn't have quite the complexity, intensity, and body of their other barrel aged sours. — 8 years ago

Amanda Cripe

9.5

What a great treat! One of the best sours I've ever tasted! — 9 years ago

Brandon Boesch

9.9

Consistently one of the best sours. Amazing complexity from a toasty maltiness, fresh baked bread, apples, honey, lemon, it just keeps going. Chardonnay barrels really shine on this one. I almost feel like I can taste the malolactic fermentation from the Chardonnay! — 9 years ago

Al Doyle

8.9

Not THAT Occhipinti, which made me think something was very wrong with this to start with, but once it was pointed out that this was something different I began to make friends with the new situation. Very forward, tight sours, but evolves and softens in the glass. — 9 years ago

Sheri Pattillo

Consulting Sommelier Texas Hill Country

9.1

Black plum and cherry sours, white pepper, thyme and tobacco, rounded out with mocha-mint and licorice. Ripe tannins and lingering finish. Thanks @Chris Wallendorf for the gift! Lovely wine!! — 10 years ago

Chris England

9.5

A stunner of a Rôtie that’s oh so smooth & superbly elegant @ £105-£185 although I paid £70 as a bin end 😁 bargain 👍 drinking well now but tons of age here 😉 give 3 hours to open 😎

🏵 95-96 points

🍇 100% Syrah

🍷 Opaque deep ruby

👃 Fried bacon & spiced blackberry cola, rich herby earthy olive tapenade w/ red cherry sours, smoke, farmyard, peppered blueberry & wet dirty oak
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👄 Med+ body of incredibly smooth earthy creamy blackberry & dark cherry

🎯 Long blackberry, ripe red + dark cherry & olive silky kiss — 8 years ago

Jackie Cartwright

9.3

One of the most fantastic sours I’ve ever had — 8 years ago

Brandon Boesch

9.8

This is fantastic! Huge amount of sour on first sips, but the flavors just keep evolving over 30 seconds. Rose and tropical fruit apparent. Definitely finishes with the loveliest touch of orange. One of the best sours I’ve ever had. — 8 years ago

with Randy

Eric Egan

9.2

One of those odd vintages of Yquem. A fabulously restrained expression of botrytis, with an intensely honeyed nose and cutting yet poised acidity. Very long indeed. However, there is a faint, dry, almost tannic bitterness on the very end palate that sours the experience ever so slightly. Like being invited to experience the tasting menu at El Bulli and realising that you have to do the washing up afterwords. — 9 years ago

Nico J. Snyman

9.9

One of the best sours on the market. — 9 years ago

Marshal White

9.1

The lighter side of Aglianico, which I think is much underrated. Fresh, bright fruits, tannins still firm. Dusty, balsamic fruit character. Definitely natty - there's an bit of acetic acid character that sours the wine a bit. — 9 years ago

Tom Wood

9.3

Delectable won't find it. But this is their low sulfur pinot. Such an intriguing abundance of aromas here, some even reminiscent of Barolo. There is such a strong scent that reminds me of polished wood at furniture shops. Crushed rose petals, pomegranate juice, cranberry, musk lifesavers, smoke, almond, orange peel, plasticine, leather, raspberry sours and fresh cherry. Palate is bright, juicy and full of life. It drinks in a bright red-fruited manner with the feintest of a tug from the tannin. Juicy acidity to this helps carry through the mid palate and there's quite a long finish additionally — 10 years ago