Bill Bender

9.5

A distinct aroma of apricot, entry is a rush of intense hops followed by a breadth of flavors including pine cone, chestnut, fresh baked sourdough/yeast and a savory almost deli meat quality. Medium acidity and crispness with noticeable minerality. Always worth a quaff when you can get it. — 6 years ago

Ming L

8.9

This bottle from a small 4.7-hectare estate next door to Mouton is a pleasant surprise. More red fruits than dead fruits, it also displayed aroma of tobacco leaf, dark chocolate, pine cone, incense, and fermented black tea leafs. Medium to full body, round but chewy tannins. Sweet and spicy long finish. Nice find. — 7 years ago

Ryan Vento

9.2

Very delicious. Voluptuous dark fruits, graphite/pencil shavings, pine cone/cedar. This is some fragrant, delicious juice. — 7 years ago

with Taryne and Krystal

Marissa A. Ross

Wine Editor, Bon Appétit

9.0

A perfect chilled summer Pinot. It smells like boysenberries, limes with a hint of a melting vanilla ice cream cone, and tastes like brambleberry crumble served with unfiltered lemonade while listening to Bobby Darrin's "Dream Lover." — 8 years ago

Kellie Dolan

9.2

When I smelled this wine my mouth watered. Beautiful deep cherry with raspberry and cassis; vanilla and a hint of tobacco and spice. The vanilla and spice cone out with the finish that is amazingly balanced with tannins and acidity. — 8 years ago

M

9.4

Complete unadulterated decadence. Rich raisin fruit and toffee. This wine needs to be treated like a single lick of an ice cream cone. To fully appreciate, keep on the tip of the tongue. — 9 years ago

Stanley Parks

9.0

Lemon zest, white flowers, pineapple, and an intriguing pine cone undertone. Fresh acidity just barely rounded off at the corners. Light-bodied and refreshing. — 9 years ago

Christanna Honer

9.2

Man this has got some serious fruit. Pleasantly plummy with blackberry, cedar, pine cone, even a little black mission fig. 09 seems to be a crowd pleasing vintage. Soft enough to be approachable now. There's some power wrapped up in the core, would love to see the 09s with a few more years. Nice value. — 9 years ago

Emily Kresie-Harrington

8.9

55 Viognier 35 Semillon 10 Riesling on this vintage. White peach, yellow apple, tangerine, melon, yellow flowers and honeysuckle, mineral back end. Fresh, pretty crisp and floral. No need for the cone of shame on this one! — 10 years ago

Zeus Fonsi

9.0

This is very young, and yet still quite approachable. At the current price point is a bit high for my "unicorn" daily drinker Burgundy, but still affordable enough to have one once a week :-)
The fruit and svelte cone out after 15m or more in the glass and make it a great village wine. I wish i had bought more — 10 years ago

Leysan Galimardanova

9.0

candy shop on the nose, dry fir cone on the palate — 10 years ago

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.0

The nose reveals, ripe, slightly baked & candied; blackberries, dark cherries, black raspberries, black plum, strawberries haunt the high nose & cooked rhubarb. Forest floor, elegant, soft, understated dark spices, hints of wild mushrooms, steep fruit tea, limestone minerals, dry clay & top soil, dry river stone, cedar, tobacco leaf, soft, used leather, fresh red flowers, violets and dark withering floral bouquet.

The body is full, round, creamy, lush and glides effortlessly over the palate. The tannins are about 55% resolved, dark and still a little sticky & tarry. It hasn’t hit its peak. The structure, tension, length and balance are in a good place but, another 3-5 years of patience will definitely be rewarded. Fruits are ripe, slightly baked & candied; blackberries, dark cherries, black raspberries, black plum, raspberries, strawberries haunt the high nose & cooked rhubarb. Forest floor, elegant, soft, understated dark spices, hints of wild mushrooms, herbaceous notes, mint, steep fruit tea, limestone minerals, crushed dry rock powder, dry clay & top soil, dry river stone, dry stems, cedar, tobacco leaf, soft, used leather, beautiful florals of fresh red flowers, violets, lavender and dark withering floral bouquet. The acidity is nice but off from the better Le Petit Cheval vintages. The finish is still more earth dominate than fruit but nonetheless enjoyable and persistent.

Better with food (steak) than on its own. 3 hour decant.

Photos of, the original Chateau, new cylinder cone style stainless tanks, barrel room and the new modern addition to the Chateau in complete modern contrast to the historic Chateau. — 6 years ago

KRS

9.5

3/10 pine cone, Douglas furr, alps — 7 years ago

Marshall Todd Herron DPM

10

Papillon 2014 Orin Swift! Of coarse its amazing, its Orin Swift. I changed the rating four times!!!!!!!! Super opaque cab blend! Bouquet is raspberry tart! The initial palate is black cherry, blackberry, boysenberry bliss. There is a spice that kicks in along with a tart tang that tingles the tip of your tongue and numbs the roof of your palate. Oak and tobacco cone to play in the taste next along with a dark chocolate spice! Yummy!!!!! Along with the bouquet the sip doesn’t last long enough so I must have another sip. It is moderately dry. Where is my steak????? — 8 years ago

Michael Tao

9.0

Really nice blend. Enjoying at La Ginestra — 8 years ago

Grant Harmsen

9.4

Paired wonderfully with fresh berries in a waffle cone. — 9 years ago

Hiroshi Tominaga

9.0

Great! Rich and smooth. Bought at Tokyu for ¥2,850. — 9 years ago

Marc S

9.5

Uncorking need some strength because of the proportionally large cone shaped cork. Lovely attractive fresh nose. Citrus caramel and a nut oil creaminess — 9 years ago

Alex Adams

9.4

cone shape legs, very thick--boozy. peppery bouquet, fruitier than I anticipated. delicious, heavy, well-balanced — 10 years ago

Rob Guimaraes

9.2

Wonderful structure. Pretty medley of medicinal herbs, potpourri funk, just-ripe red and black raspberries, and hints of moss, pine cone, and soft earth. Merits the hype, and has aging power. — 10 years ago

Mircea Dincă

9.2

Huge upfront bitterness, long finish, I would recognize this from among many. Great start for my recent Craft Cellar expedition — 10 years ago

Stas Medvedev

9.6

🏅 Rating 96/100 (4,6🌟)

Super Vintages of SuperSeconds🍷

Classic Margaux with graphite of pencil shavings, rich in fruits, black tea. Fragrant and graceful. Pure elegance.

3eme GC Classé, but considered as SuperSecond. 47% CS, 47% M, 6% PV. Fermented in steel cone-shaped vats. 21mo aging in 45% new oak. Fining, no filtration.

'89 was a super vintage for Palmer.

The only true competitor to Ch.Margaux.

Significant cellar rennovations in late 90s make even better wines now. — 7 years ago

Mark Oldman

9.0

is anything else needed to ride out the final frozen days of March? gorgeous Syrah-based #wine (look for St. Joseph - this one smooth, blackberry/minerally gem) and a cone of double-fried fries? #Rhone #WineWednesday — 7 years ago

Michael McGuire

9.3

Medium + body, pine cone on nose, black cherries, licorice, tar, herbs. Slightly grippy. Paired with organic string cheese on day 1 and roasted brussels sprouts on day 2. Costco purchase (~$20). Would definitely purchase again. — 7 years ago

MaJ CappS

9.1

Greasy garden smells, stalks of tomato, green pepper. I would swear this was Chilean by the nose..

Roasted sugarless berries, a fog of smokiness, ending with light tannins blended with acidic whispers that cone in and out of the tannins, as of a yin and yang.
Highly enjoyable. — 8 years ago

Joel Hammett

9.1

Expressive but still primary. Tannins are mouth puckering. Needs time but it should cone together nicely. — 8 years ago

Todd Abrams

9.1

2014. Salty green peach and lime skin. Makes me want a cone of fried calamari and anchovy in Riomaggiore. — 9 years ago

Dorit Handrus

9.3

Maybe not a 9.3 per se, but something about the uniqueness of this wine; the yogurt, almond, lemon, ice cream sugar cone, combo...I want more soon — 9 years ago

with Jason, Tripti and 1 other

David Kline

9.2

Dusty pine cone, soggy pretzels, snow iced cream nose. Cut wild lowers and tall valley grass, Coral pieces straight from the sea, covered in living shells. A hint of walnut in cinnamon. Whoa! Absolutely oceanic initially. Send forth the mollusk!! Maybe soda bread, but really just sweet clams pulled from the mud and injested. The idea of cinnamon surfaces often but is not the driving force. You aren't taking the maidenhead for wife, but you can dream. There are no clouds atop this cognac-colored ocean, but the lacing is unbreakable and washes like the ocean around the bowl. — 10 years ago

with Courtney

Mitchell Mulder

10

My all time favorite Anchor beer, and the one they have been since April 18, 1975, it is why I am reviewing this beer now, Fourth of July coming up, it was really to celebrate the 200th Anniversary of Paul Revere's historical ride, and it is also my birthday, April 18th, but back to the brewery and this beer, if you did not know, Anchor Brewery is the very first craft breweries in the USA, when they brewed this beer it was the very first American IPA's some today call it a American Pale Ale, it is brewed with cascade whole cone hops, with a rich malt backbone, by today's standards it seems quite mild, not over hoppy, nor bitter, super well balanced, I love this beer and one of my personal favorites, been drinking this since 1978, It is a true classic that had held up so well, excellent beer all around, pairs with just about any food, and just great tasting, I am a little basis on this, so I give it the highest grade, just because it really was the very first IPA in America and for me, and the price is dirt cheap for such a well made beer from a Outstanding Pioneer brewery — 10 years ago