A real favorite. What a value — 2 months ago
Great white wine — 2 months ago
Lonesome Dove — 2 months ago
This bottle was smoking incredible richness complexity and length. Impressive! — 4 months ago
Complex and pleasant nose, not too fruity. Balanced tannins with hints of blackberry, plum, black cherry, spices, oak, and black pepper. Bold and smooth. Dry finish. — 5 months ago
Ines en beach club monaco — a month ago
This was tasty worth the extra $ — 2 months ago
Очень приличное насыщенное, но спокойное шардоне, хоть я и не любитель. — 2 months ago
Very nice and smooth Chardonnay. Fruity to start but nice oak on the backend. — 2 months ago
Big fruity nose. Dark purple hues. Big, but easy drinking. Plums. Cherries. Vanilla. — 3 months ago
Beautiful bottle. Classic cab w terroir — 4 months ago
Highly rated for a reason. It’s quite good. — 5 months ago
Mondavi To Kalon Wine Vertical @ Thyme Restaurant — 2 months ago
Ruby in color with medium intensity and a wide reddish rim.
Fresh red berries on the nose and medium in body with medium acidity.
Dry on the palate with nice complexity.
Showing fresh cherries, sweet raspberries, light wood, tobacco, black pepper, chocolates, spices, light earth and herbs.
Tangy finish with fine grained tannins and tangy raspberries.
This young Pinot Noir from Oregon is starting to drink nicely now, and needs a few years in the bottle to mature properly. Rich and fruity, smooth and spicy. Nicely balanced and complex, soft and elegant.
I've had a few vintages of this Pinot Noir and it is so much better with age. Will continue to age nicely in the next 10 years.
Wine Enthusiasts 93 points. Robert Parker 93 points. Wine Spectator 92 points.
A good quality wine. Good right out of the bottle, and better with some airtime.
Interesting, easy drinking and a good sipping wine.
Pinot Noir grapes were aged in (55% new) French oak barrels for 16 months.
14.1% alcohol by volume.
91 points.
$95. — 2 months ago
1985. 40 years young. Gave it an hour to open up before dinner (paired orange ginger glazed duck with pistachio apricot farro). Thankfully my partner is a master of the Durand. There’s very little for me to compare this too - most aged whites are preserved by acid; Chave relies on glycerol here. It gives the wine gravitas but also life and freshness. Pleasant wood veneer/wood shop notes, dried apricots at first (become fresher with time), yellow plum, truffled earth. Salty poached apricots and timelessness. In a perfect world, we’d be sharing this with my dad. Strange & sensational. — 2 months ago
So much to say about this bottle. Its profile, its history, its growing rarity. And the fact that it was made at the very peak of The Patriarch’s era…
Then there is the occasion. A wine you cellar and protect, waiting patiently for the one moment worthy of all its allure.
A wine from a cooler Napa Valley, so evident in the glass it becomes mesmerizing. The freshness, the tension, the quiet authority; everything speaks of a time and place in Napa which no longer exists.
Yes, this is the kind of bottle that stays with you, not just as a wine, but as a memory. — 5 months ago
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Corked cesar leal y ale leal — a month ago