Scott E. Becker

9.2

[Tasted on May 25, 2025 at The Optimist in Nashville with Jay]

Wine is from Pisoni Vineyard in Santa Lucia Highlands. Cherry, blackberry and red plum fruit, with baking spices, caramel and violets. — 5 months ago

Tree Kilpatrick

9.4

Basic label. Smells like cherry coke and wood oil. Flavors are complex and chewy. Cherry cola in flavors. Licorice too. Age-d. — 5 months ago

Gladys Xiques

9.0

Easy approachable and a great pairing wine! — 7 months ago

Bonnie Chu

8.9

The Indianapolis Whole Foods wine selection is improving — 4 years ago

Krystal Bassinger

9.0

15.97 Plum Market — 6 years ago

Kellin

9.2

Perhaps a bit young but very enjoyable with our food. — 7 years ago

Jordan Wardlaw

9.1

Quite elegant, lifted and fresh. Classic secondary aromas and flavors with loads of acidity. — 8 years ago

Neal Krishna Devaraj

9.4

In Bordeaux tasting. Incredibly bright floral. Lingers beautifully. — 8 years ago

KLH

9.2

Clearly aged, but still had some fruit and exotic notes of a wonderful wine — 9 years ago

Raymond C Wiley

8.9

"Double winner and a chicken dinner!"

This wine was given to us by a guest we had over for dinner, and it was very good! So "win/win" for us!

Great flavor, well constructed blend with an even balance. — 11 years ago

with Masae

Jan A

9.5

Full bodied with tropical fruit, honey. Bit reduction and fatty viscosity. Excellent! — 5 months ago

Conrad Green

9.6

Gorgeous and deep. Blood and herbs ( rosemary and thyme), black pepper and iron. Intense and salty and delicious. Great. Stuff — 5 months ago

with David

Sipping Fine Wine

9.2

Blend of 81% Cabernet Sauvignon & 19% Merlot, aged in new oak. Deep Ruby color with aromas of ripe berry fruits and floral and earthy spice notes. On the palate flavors of blueberry, cherry and blackberry with licorice, tobacco and toasty oak notes. Long rich finish on soft juicy tannins, drinking well and still has room to age. Very Nice! — 8 months ago

Ebbe Bonde Soerensen

9.3

This is Beaujolais like you never tasted it before, I guess, decanted for 60 min, color deep red, nose deep dark berries, not the raspberries juice with banana notes, this is wine, needs time, after some hours it still kept the balance , awesome☄️☄️ — 5 years ago

Fredybeans

9.0

Rubis fonce
Nez réglisse myrtille frais
Bouche mur ample épaisse et fraîche
Finale sur le fruit — 7 years ago

Michael Piaker

9.1

3 June 2018. The Four Horsemen, Brooklyn, NY. — 7 years ago

Paco Suro

8.9

Surprisingly rich for a bdx listing 12.5% abv. — 8 years ago

Nic Irving

9.4

Love this! Fresh squeezed lime, light grapefruit notes. A little peach and white pepper. This is a very well integrated wine. — 9 years ago

Peter Martin

9.8

Deep honeyed with complex nutty flavor. Balanced with plenty of life left. The complexity ratio is SB and Semillion is in full flower. One of Woltners best even at 37 years of age. — 10 years ago

Kayla Young

10

Obviously a winner. And, older than me! — 11 years ago

Pooneet K

9.0

Forgot to take detailed notes, but this was nice. Not really any carbonic / natural / “new agey”notes, just a solid classically made gamay. Definitely has some structure, opened 4 hours before serving which was good. Didn’t sing on any one dimension of fruit / earth / acid / length / texture but was nice overall. — 5 months ago

Alessandro Dalle Carbonare

9.2

Naso intrigante e ricco. Bella consistenza e complessità data da un uso del legno presente ma non invasivo.
We’ll see after release! — 6 months ago

Bruce Leboff

9.1

Nice cigar and cherry notes on the nose. A bit thin but very pleasant and enjoyable. Medium weight and medium finish — 3 years ago

with David and Max

Philip Dobrin

9.2

Dominus 94 won out this night. A little muted on the palate but smells right — 6 years ago

"Odedi"

9.2

It's time for my #FridayCabernetfix. Here is a youngster from Pessac Léognan in Bordeaux.

A beautiful color of dark ruby with a wide reddish/ brick rim.

Pronounced nose of blueberries, black currants, plums, cherries, oak, vanilla, licorice, spices, leather, earth, forest floor, dark chocolates, light bell pepper, barnyard, bitter vegetables, river rocks and black pepper.

Full bodied and smooth with medium acidity and long legs.

Dry on the palate with plums, cherries, currants, blueberries, wood, light vanilla, earth, pencil lead, wet leaves, forest floor, smoke, green vegetables, herbs, spices and black pepper.

Medium plus on the finish with medium minus tannins and tangy raspberries.

This left bank Bordeaux is already drinking very nicely now, although still young. Showing nice balance and elegance with nice texture. The nose is really special, and I kept on smelling on it for a long time.

Needs a couple of hours to open up properly. Still very earthy with lots of vegetable notes. The tangy ending makes it interesting.

Good by itself or with food. I paired it with cheeses and crackers.

Good now and will be better in the next 15 years.

A good price/ value for a not so good vintage, as it is less than half the price of the 2010 vintage.

Wine Advocate 90 points.

A blend of Cabernet Sauvignon with Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot.

14.5% alcohol by volume.

91 points.

$120. — 7 years ago

Qin Zhou

9.4

Beautifully balanced! Smooth and rich body from Syrah! Delicious! — 8 years ago

Jusden Aumand

9.0

Solid effort. Shows the balance of the 2008 vintage. — 8 years ago

Oskar Gissberg

9.0

2008 Nice, really Nice. — 10 years ago

Oscar More

9.0

Afrutado finisimo — 11 years ago

Rob Moose

8.9

Amazing tobacco/leather profile for a super light wine — 12 years ago