Mandy Tripp

10

Absolutely love the fruit forward wine. Nice finish — 6 years ago

Georgina McDonald

9.5

Nose of raisins, mint chocolate and a little cookie dough. Burnt orange skin, plums with good spice. High acid and good grip; enough to stabilise / cellar for 5+ years. — 7 years ago

Allison Lyzenga

8.9

Medium lemon; medium intensity aromas of yellow apple, blossom, underripe peach, apricot, savory autolytics, biscuit, butter cookie, brioche; dry, medium acid, medium alcohol, medium body, medium intensity flavors of yellow apple, underripe stone fruit, blossom, biscuit, brioche; medium plus finish, concentrated flavors, very good — 7 years ago

David Kline

9.0

Sweet Madura tobacco and mocha with a touch of tar, dark roast coffee, prime rib, iron pan, luxardo cherry, cedar bark, toasted marshmallow in this autumnally aromatic feast of perfumes. Spicy and lean into dense graphite and dark chocolate, blueberry, cassis, smoky raisin, baked plum, blackberry and pomegranate reduction. Violets for miles with a rich sloe-berry and burnt sugar cookie finish. #williamfèvre #carmenère #espino #chilewineday #chile #wine #redwine #svs #singlevineyard #grancuvée #mountainwine #mountainfruit — 7 years ago

with Courtney

John Howard

Harvest production at Hirsch and Cobb Wineries

9.0

Floral, lemon bar, golden delicious, cookie dough, slight honey/candied, mineral/salt. Really good QPR. A bit high on acid, not unlike me in '91. — 8 years ago

Joe Lucca

9.2

Tightly wound. Needs time. Oatmeal raisin cookie and doughnut on the nose. Crushed rocks, clay, deep red fruit. Nice spice at the end. — 9 years ago

with Frank, Kevin and 3 others

Martin G Rivard

9.3

@David A Lentine @Gina Sabean @Christine You know that you are drinking GREAT wines when you can say that a Realm Beckstoffer To Kalon came in last. I love this producer beyond measure!! Every wine they make is a hit. Everyone tonight agreed that drank by itself it would have been amazing. However, it still needs a few years to open up and spread its wings!! All of my bottles were decanted for 8 hours today, I began formulating thus rodeo of a lineup around 11am. The Realm had huge dark fruit but too many rough edges in comparison to the others. In all honesty, these are so good that we are splitting hairs but alas they must be ranked and that is how the Cookie Crumbled this evening. — 9 years ago

with Christine and Gina

Severn G

9.2

Quite consistent with my notes from ~6 months ago:

Nose has over-ripe apricot, almond oil, marzipan, meringue cookie and cold butter.
Palate has warmed apricot pie with extra flakey, buttery crust, sweet sand, white flower honey and mango.

Admittedly I love Sauternes and have many bottles, yet it's a rarity on opening and posting to the Community. We paired this bottle with a hard, smoked goat cheese from a local, Hudson valley producer, a solid match of sweet and salty. — 6 years ago

Mark Flesher

9.2

Most restricted wine of them all. I've got a 14 of this so I will plan on locking it away for 15 years or so. Sweeter black fruit dominated front. For some reason in the middle of this, I was getting an oatmeal chocolate cookie note with some dates and black pepper on the finish. Softer tannin, but ample. Solid 92 now, perhaps capable of more? — 7 years ago

Lee Pitofsky

9.5

Rich, powerful and concentrated, notes of butterscotch, Meyer lemon, hint of marzipan cookie, lingering finish — 7 years ago

Neal Schaffer

9.0

Second time having this vintage. Gained a lot of earthy and smoky tonalities. Acidity stayed sharp and fruit didn’t fade out. The finish is like you grilled cherries on a open fire and then ate a ginger snap cookie. Alba does this varietal right. Many want to slap an oak bomb on this and call it a day, but this is shown respect and dignity. Cheers! — 8 years ago

with Dana

Sean Trapani

Founder/Educator Wine Fluent, Consultant ABC Fine Wines & Spirits

8.9

Like the chewy fruit center of a cookie, this was an assertive PN with notes of candied cherry/strawberry and floral perfume blend. Quite nice. — 9 years ago

Mary Lanham

8.9

Light bright zin oatmeal raisin cookie on the nose w baking spice flavors on the palate. Some earthiness on the finish and beautiful mouth feel. — 9 years ago

Alexa Karstaedt

9.0

Creamy, browned butter, slightly burnt sugar cookie. Yum. — 9 years ago

David S. Lopez

9.0

I am revisiting this wine from last year. It pours a rust red. It is dry with a very long finish now. Vanilla is present on the finish. The “Vanilla Coke cookie” flavor has evolved some, more of a Sophisticated Dr. Pepper with some fruit. Wishing I would have bought more - it is aging very well. — 6 years ago

Mark Flesher

9.6

Victim to experiment. 85 percent Mourvedre, balance is grenache. Thick. Poured like tar into the glass. Nose of wildflowers and oateal raisin cookie. Entry is inky, thick purple and black fruit dominated. Tame acidity. Nutmeg. Spice. Plum mingles in the middle. Finishes sweet, black pepper, and a surprising amount of dry tannin. Sweet and chalky powerful finish. Don't think I would have pegged this for a 15 as this has so many characteristics of both a young and an older CDP. I cringe to know where this will be in 5 to 10 years. — 7 years ago

Mark Flesher

9.4

This wine did well with a little bit of air. It was a little bit dark and mysterious before it had a chance to open. More of a tobacco and muted figs. Seemed to get more youthful and more fruit forward and more peppery on the finish as the hours went on. Started showing a cinnamon spice cookie note in addition to all the black fruit backbone. This is my first experience with this wine and hopefully won't be last. — 7 years ago

Jack Petras

9.0

Honey, nut nougat, like an Italian cookie. Clean and full but restrained and subtle — 8 years ago

Victor Chang

9.5

Licorice and cookie spice on the nose. Prominent fruit up front, blackberry, with a long finish. Would imagine that this should age well, if you have the patience and discipline. — 9 years ago

Martin Bergo

9.0

Deep dark purple; the cabs dominate the nose with green bell pepper pyrazines and with blackberries, mulberries, cookie dough, vanilla, violets behind; well integrated but rich tannins, nice midpalate and a delicious sweet finish. — 9 years ago