Andrew Lampasone

Owner Wine Watch Selections

9.4

A good amount of violet lavender floral notes. Very forward with coco and spice notes. A good amount of raspberry and blueberry fruit a bit of tannins on the finish but has lots of juicy fruit and notes if spice. Finish 45+ excellent+ — 11 years ago

Cristin C

9.5

Great summer wine! Full body with a silky, dark fruit on the mouth . Finishes with velvet flavors of coco and very subtle baking spices! — 12 years ago

with Tara

Andrew Lampasone

Owner Wine Watch Selections

9.6

Dark black fruit cassis and currant berry fruit dark chocolate very well endowed. Still a lot of sweet berry fruit with ripe round tannins and mocha spice very nuanced and sweet tobacco spice. Dark coco very long complex finish. Finish 50+ most excellent +
— 13 years ago

Andrew Lampasone

Owner Wine Watch Selections

9.7

This wine is made by the great Michel Roland and is a blend of 81% merlot 19% Cabernet Sauvignon from weinbau vineyard candy mountain Dionysus and Conner lee vineyard all are warm sites and the Cabernet is from tapteil on red mountain. A very big and seductive bouquet of dark plum and crem de cassis like fruit very rich and ripe with toasty oak spice dried flowers and dark coco very complex and long on the finish. Big and chewy very rich and layered with silky smooth velvety texture with layers of dark chocolate and a very long finish. Finish 50+ wonderful balance and length with a firm hand of acidity — 11 years ago

Takashi Trshirogi

9.8

It s from 栃木 actually
I had this at one of the great local restaurant 「おわん」 — 12 years ago

Andrew Lampasone

Owner Wine Watch Selections

9.4

This is the first vintage of this wine dark spice with lots of dark coco sundries figs and dark plum black licorice very complex bouquet. Starting to mellow out a bit but still youthful and has tannins to resolve well balanced with lots of everything. Finish 50+ most excellent — 13 years ago

Ry

Winemaker Chateau Ghetto, Cellar Stag's Leap Wine Cellars,

9.2

Funky. Coco like. — 11 years ago

Jeff Perlegos

9.5

Coco Kerrigan. Great stuff from the Passalacqua family — 11 years ago

Andrew Lampasone

Owner Wine Watch Selections

9.3

Ripe red cherry and currant berry fruit on the nose with currant fruit with fresh herbs and dark coco sweet tobacco. A good amount of Currant and cherry fruit with an array of dark earth and that nuance from the nose through the finish 45+ excellent + — 12 years ago

Andrew Lampasone

Owner Wine Watch Selections

9.1

Currant and cassis berry fruit espresso coffee notes and dark coco black earth very complex. Still quite big on the palate dark earth and spice fresh balanced finish dark coco — 13 years ago