Tom Garland

9.2

2 hour decant(decent fine/cloudy sediment). A brooding dark garnet color with little signs of aging. On the nose: plum, currants, funky smoked meat, mint, and pepper. Taste: soft, smooth wine with some blackberry, sweet tobacco, earth, spiced dark chocolate and some still there slightly astringent tannins....had better Dunn. — 4 years ago

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Bob McDonald

9.1

Similar notes to 118 weeks ago. A dirty mid Orange/Tangerine in colour - a little cloudy. Aromas of apricot and mouldy orange. Skinnsy apricot flavours with mild acid. A skins contact white wine fermented in clay amphora in the ground. We visited there a few years ago in Sicily. Finishes with a trace of bitterness from the skins. Natural wines - when they get them right they can be quite good but having just done a week of vintage in Coonawarra at Bellwether - you need to take risks with natural wine. — 5 years ago

Manny Abascal

9.4

Bought this knowing nothing about the wine on recommendation of my Delectable friend Anthony Lombardi, whom I have actually never met (one of the many things I love about this app). My initial reaction to the color and nose was WTF, not having any experience with these wines, but then I got it. Orange rind, over ripe peach, nectarine, apricot, orangina, capers, lemons, spice, sand, bunch of other stuff, all coming from a cloudy, orangish, smoky liquid that resembled what I understood to be wine, and I can’t say there was a finish because I kept tasting it long after it was done. Oh and it changed a lot over several hours. Felt archaic, organic, creative, weird, and natural. Thanks Anthony. — 6 years ago

William Henry Forrence

9.0

If you like natural barn yardy flavors this is a wine for you. Cloudy. — 6 years ago

Kriket04

9.1

Cloudy white, great balance of acid and sweet with a little funk. — 7 years ago

Justin Wade

9.1

A bit sweet, but really smooth. — 7 years ago

David Dranit

8.9

A beautiful cloudy straw color with a slight effervescent. Good acidity. Great sourness that hits in the center of the tongue. — 8 years ago

Jason

9.3

Honey deep yellow colour. Honey, dried mango, honey dew. Syrup, dried mango, light grass. Coats the mouth, pear, sticks on the top of the the teeth and lips. — 4 years ago

Tom Garland

9.4

Double decant and pour (decent fine/cloudy sediment). An imposing dark garnet color. On the nose: dark cherry, musty earth, slight minty menthol, iron, graphite. Taste: smooth, creamy, elegant medium plus body wine with dark plum/cherry, espresso, smoke, minerals, and a spiced red licorice long finish with firm drying tannins. YUM! Another terrific Saturday night...time to watch the next episode of Squid Games on Netflix. — 5 years ago

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Tom Garland

9.4

1.5 hour decant (little cloudy sediment). A beautiful deep purplish magenta color. On the nose: Blueberry, red berry, vanilla mocha, herbs and spice. Taste: WOW...we are on a roll with our 2021 wines so far!!! smooth, rich, silky, mouth coating wine with black plum, cedar, currants, graphite, spice and a nice long dry finish with slight tannic punch. A bigger wine than usual from HL, and a winner that will drink well for years.....if you are a HL fan, hope you got some! — 5 years ago

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Bob McDonald

9.1

Pale to mid crimson and a little cloudy - a characteristic one used to see occasionally in Bass Phillip as they are bottled unfiltered which adds to the flavour intensity. A beautiful perfume of whole bunch notes, sous bois and a touch of toffee. Amazing intensity for Bass Phillip’s 5th ranked Pinot Noir cuvée. Sweet and savoury fruits. Delivers more fruit on the palate than one would expect from the nose. For short term drinking but still delivers the Bass Phillip stamp of quality. — 6 years ago

Yuki Watanabe

8.9

Sweet ripe red fruit in the nose, cloudy light ruby color, easy to drink, — 7 years ago

AgeyFixey

9.0

Unfiltered Chilean Chardonnay. From the Atacama, near the Peruvian border. Cloudy with big flavours including apple, lemon and appricot. High minerality. Had it paired at dinner in Santiago. I would have loved another glass. — 8 years ago

Tom Garland

9.2

1 hour decant(decent fine/cloudy sedimen). A thrilling inky dark purplish garnet color. On the nose: subtle but beautiful notes of black plum, vanilla, floral, earth, and cassis. Taste: silky smooth, soft, elegant wine with black plum, cedar, touch of blueberry, earth, maybe a hint of black pepper, and a dark chocolate graphite finish. YUM! — 4 years ago

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Dan Michael

9.1

Always interesting to taste these wines, this vintage was already showing a bit of age, somewhat brickish in color, a touch cloudy but that is to be expected, the aromas were typical, on the palate it was low acidity, very silky texture, overall not the best bottle of Marcassin Pinot I have tasted but still solid. I would call it interesting. If you have 2012 in the cellar, I would pull the cork and get it in the glass soon. — 5 years ago

Tom Garland

9.5

1st wine of 2021....had to pop something fun....jumped in the pond with the frog tonight!!

1.5 hour decant(little cloudy sediment). An alluring purplish magenta color. On the nose: expressive nose of dark cherry, campfire smoke, little Cayuse funk (luv it), vanilla toast, meaty, plum, floral. Taste: Wow! elegant, rich, juicy wine with mouth coating dark plum, bacon fat, soil, iron, and a smokey minerally cherry long finish. YUM, great start to the new year. — 5 years ago

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JKT

9.1

12.5 ABV pale yellow and cloudy. Interesting acidic chalky nose and lean profile. Like a very strong Belgium beer mixed with vino. about as natural as can be. Terrific with the fish. — 6 years ago

Tom Garland

9.3

Big NorCal storm rolling in Friday night....calls for a nice bottle of wine!

Double decant(cloudy sediment). A mind-blowing deep dark purple. On the nose: black fruit, big crushed rocks, floral, very minerally, vanilla. Taste: black cherry, tar, mint, ending with raspberry coffee, tannins have sweetened but still there for the longer haul...nice structure, no hurry on my other 4 bottles. — 6 years ago

Jared O'Connell

9.2

pale yellow and slightly cloudy appearance. certainly not a fruity nose but maybe some citrus. awakening acidity. palette is bitter citrus, grapefruit, meyer lemon on the back. maybe some tropical fruitiness if you listen carefully. toasted nuttiness and an oxidized sherry-likeness.

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Had it with pork tenderloin with shallot mustard sauce, fairy tale eggplant and zucchini with a ricotta/mozzarella cheese sauce & fresh basil and mint — 7 years ago

Joshua Chan

9.1

“It’s actually pretty good” was I think the descriptor in the menu and it was spot on. None of the usual boring prosecco flavours. It was the most dry prosecco I’ve had with chalky minerality, some apples and excellent finish. Slightly cloudy. Brilliant stuff at brilliant corners. — 8 years ago