Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.3

@Plate & Bottle Summer Dinner.

Main Course, Beef Skirt Steak, Roasted Tomato, Artichoke, Potato Mousseline. Steak has mash potato, roasted tomato relish, lemony artichoke purée with a smokey component.

Hedy is an amazingly, creative Chef.

Superb food & the wine pairing doesn’t suck as a friend of mine is famous for saying.

Photos of the evening at our friends Jeff & Hedy.

— 6 years ago

Mike R

9.5

What an amazing cab franc - stunning example of what CF can be - just wish I would have bought more

Easy smiling like this easy drinking wine with absolutely no burn or alcohol after taste — 7 years ago

with Jeff, S and 1 other

Bob Ballard

9.1

Good minerality, subtle creaminess, tart green apple pear melon rind subtle citrus. White floral component. — 8 years ago

Paul Woolls

9.2

The added sweetness of this Shows well. Love the salty component, with typical caramel. — 8 years ago

Todd Abrams

9.3

A glass is bursting with aromatics, the foremost a heady floral component reminiscent of Chambolle-Musigny. Alongside are fresh berries, red licorice, and baked stone. A sip is simultaneously concentrated and spry, with a long, energetic finish. — 8 years ago

Christy Canterbury MW

Master of Wine

8.9

Love the Barbera component, which makes this wine very gluggable! — 9 years ago

Gibson Campbell

9.0

Black fruit licorice and fierce tannin. Wonder if it was blended w some Syrah or Carignan. Needs decanting and food. Tar component worked well w osso buco — 9 years ago

Matt

9.0

This captures the style of Saint Préfert quiet well with its sleek profile, freshness and lifted aromatics. This has some serious class for its CDR origin, very pure and elegantly structured. Fresh to overripe black fruit, stones, candied olive, smoke and lavender. There’s a hint of meaty-ness as well. The florals are this wines most intriguing component, coupled with the snap of acid the blend has, tremendous value. 85 GR 15 CI, “la Lionne” in Sorgues, gallets soils, full concrete — 6 years ago

Conrad Green

9.2

Dark and punchy, inky fruit. Quite cool blooded, with a sour component and graphite. A long life ahead of it. Delicious. — 7 years ago

Wine101Hamden

9.0

Hints of balsamic reduction and tea leaves on the nose. Beautiful crimson red in the glass from middle to rim with faint brown edges. Medium tannins and acidity. Black tea, espresso grounds, unripened plum skins and a tomato jam component on the finish. Oak is moderate and well integrated. Tannins hang in there through the finish. Paired with meatloaf...whatever bro. Eat what you got, when you can, when you work in retail. — 7 years ago

Ceccherini Cristiano

9.4

Young, little green, but altogether delicious and definitely potential to age longer. You could hardly taste the Cabernet component yet — 8 years ago

Scott Evans

9.5

Perfect - ready to drink, 96 vintage - starting to get that dried honey component I like. — 8 years ago

with Peter

Antonio Capurso

9.2

Nose: rich nose of sweet honey, orange blossom, stone fruit, white rose... The floral component balance very well the fruit one. After flowers, stone fruit comes
Palate: medium body but still very light, good acidity level - nice citrus then flowers note, honey. Drinkable but still complex enough.

(Château de Lascaux - wine tasting) — 9 years ago

Tom & Lois Kelly

9.2

Big Aussie 2004 vintage Shiraz. Licorice is primary component with evident dark fruit. Tannins are well integrated. Very nice. — 9 years ago

Greg Koslosky

9.6

Stunning bottle well balanced with cassis minerals violets game with a savory component . A beauty ! — 6 years ago

Brandon Boesch

9.5

Much better than last year. Ripe strawberries, rose, it has a kind of lemony acid, and then a great herbal component. It’s almost like concentrated strawberry lemonade with a wood component that’s really nice not at all like oak. — 6 years ago

Jim McCusker

9.4

Terrific syrah from Paul Lato. Seriously closed at first - and an earthy component makes you think that it might be showing a hint of cork - but the wine evolves in the glass over the course of an hour or so to reveal amazing, deep aromatics of blackberries, iodine, and wood-roasted meats. Palate is super primary, suggesting that this wine needs either 2-3 hours of decanting or another 3-4 years in the cellar. A terrific offering from Mr. Lato that is only going to improve over time! — 7 years ago

with Vanessa

Daniel P. Drake

9.3

The special second wine of the evening this Sunday night we have opened the 2012 Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou. A special weekend with life long friends deserves a special wine.

The aromas are of big dark fruit, black cherry, black raspberry, blueberry, black currant, licorice, graphite and a good soil component.

On the palate are excellent notes of black cherry, black raspberry, black currant, green bell pepper, black pepper, graphite, a bit of oak, florals and a nice rich soil note.

This wine is medium to full bodied with medium + acidity, medium + well rounded tannins that leads to a lengthy finish that is pleasing all the way through. An enjoyable wine now or will be even better in 10-15 years. Have a great week and please stay safe. Nostrovia! 🍷🍷🍷🍷 — 8 years ago

Justin Gilman CSW, CSS

9.2

Amazing #Malbec. This #wine never really takes off with bright fruits, but rather hits the palate with mid level black fruit and the structure persists. Light blue flowers and subtle black pepper dominate the nose. A total food wine as the structure, spice and acidity all hit the tongue on the side and finish singular, bitter and slightly vegetal from a brief cherry and jalepeno component. — 9 years ago

Eddy Kangnavong

9.2

Mineral and racing acid with a little almost earthy component. — 9 years ago