Charles Gibbs

9.1

Pepe Galante was Catena's chief winemaker from 1976 - 2010. Widely considered the most important winemaker in Argentina's history. Around 1000 cases, the last vintage, which was the first vintage, got 94 points from Wilfred Wong. Search it out. You will not be dissapointed! — 11 years ago

Michael Salazar

9.6

Carmenere has quickly become one of our favorites and 2009 would have more body but this 2012 is very good. — 12 years ago

Kari Hudnall

8.9

Middleburg/barrel oak — 12 years ago

Cathy Corison

Owner/Winemaker Corison Winery

9.5

Charity dinner for Sonoma Academy, chief CIA instructor Lars Kronmark at the stove. Masterful cooking, lovely wines. This was the wine of the night for me. — 13 years ago

Michael Mench

9.5

Chief and Roger for my 50th — 11 years ago

Ryan Shatt

9.7

I like this better than the Big Chief. Medium bodied, fruit forward, aromas of dark chocolate and toffee. Well balanced. — 12 years ago

Lucy Macon

9.8

Love this Viognier blend! The Chardonnay cuts the sweetness and adds a lot. 2nd favorite wine. — 12 years ago

Jason Schrotenboer

9.0

Jammy, tasty with a big red fruit nose. Good wine after a manhattan. Typical Sunday night with the chief — 12 years ago

Charles Antin

Senior Wine Specialist/Auctioneer Zachys

9.3

Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he's got...lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and rip you to pieces.
Y'know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men! I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand! I don't know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin' chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player, boson's mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up and down in the water, just like a kinda top. Up ended. Well... he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. He's a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper, anyway he saw us and come in low. And three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened? Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb. — 11 years ago

Martin Kelly

9.8

Our favourite value Shiraz from McLaren Vale. Named after chief winemaker of the oldest family vineyard in the vale. $30 well spent. — 12 years ago

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