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

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

Alexa Karstaedt

9.0

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

Marshall Todd Herron DPM

9.5

Hello my friends! Well it is time to review another sake! This is my favorite so far. It is Gekkeikan 's Black and Gold. This is an amazing cold filtered sake. The bouquet reminds me of wild flowers and honey. The initial palate is so smooth and buttery. It has to be ice cold to appreciate the butter cookie dipped in milk effect. The finish is dry with hints of chocolate raspberry tart. I give it my highest rating yet for sake! I need salmon sushi now and another sip! WOW! — 10 years ago

Traci Mogil

10

From my wine club. Amazing! Vanilla cinnamon maybe an oatmeal cookie?!! Soooo good. — 10 years ago

Dmitri

9.0

Violets, cherries, strawberries, ginger bread cookie. Palate is silky, with medium acids, soft fruit, medium tannins. Quite nice young. — 10 years ago

Robbie P

9.2

Tastes great with a Linzer torte cookie. I — 11 years ago

Courtney Cochran

Sommelier/Host hiptastes.com

10

Caramel-marzipan-orange-cookie love. Lemon dust and graham goodness, sassafras cola cool, toffee crunch and date, honeycomb and brown sugar-apricot. Rich, full bodied but somehow light on its feet. YES — 11 years ago

Bill Wenzlau

9.1

Champagne fortified. Balanced and full great with a chewy chocolate cookie ala mode. — 12 years ago

Alexa Rose

9.2

Like eating sugar cookie dough as a kid. — 12 years ago

with Glen

Jack Petras

9.0

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

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

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

JL

8.9

Scharffenberger Brut, Rose, Mendocino County. Well balance fruits, acidity, fine finish. Had this is Café Epi, Palo Alto , tasted with chocolate chip cookie. Yum! — 10 years ago

Alison

9.0

Paired with Girl Scout cookie: Thanks-a-lot — 11 years ago

Emanuel Table

9.3

Surprisingly earthy for being a lighter-colored red. Cookie dough and leathery scents. :-) Great with seafood. — 11 years ago

with Jerry

Linda Hawk

9.6

Floral, smooth — 11 years ago

Karina Cisneros

9.7

Yeah buddddy! Deep dark cherry pie with a sugar cookie crust. Bright red cherry on the palate. Delish!!!!!! Definitely revisit! — 12 years ago

Carissa Bryant

9.8

Very smooth. Sweet! Silky. — 12 years ago

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

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

David Kline

9.3

Pinecones and orange blossoms. Pineapple cake and dried apricots fill your nostrils. Lemon-orange, maple, sweet corn, creamy grapefruit, pine nuts and lemon cookie coalesque and then a resinous pine in burlap emerges triumphant in the face of the tropical monsoon. It carries on like pine tar on a baseball bat. Home run! — 10 years ago

with Courtney

David L

9.1

13' Matthiasson Michael Mara. 12.9 % ALC. The weight of this wine & depth is something unique for a California chard...except with a Matthiasson. Sugar cookie batter, peach, crushed rock, pronounced acidity. It's so unusual… after you swallow it the acidity washes clean , except for the front of your tongue, you can still taste that peach/ almonds😋 I think drinking this at cellar temperature, if not even a little warmer is best. — 10 years ago

David Kline

9.3

This thing is like a merengue cookie after you get through the citrus zest and gum arabic candy crust. There is a tangerine characteristic, that turns into tangerine pith, and has a powdered sugar millisecond before becoming bony and rich. This thick little lady is bumping in every respect! — 10 years ago

with Courtney

Howard Yang

9.4

Really enjoyed this Barolo, dark burgundy in color, showing brick at the edge, cigar, tobacco leaf, dried date, plum emerged, very fine integrated tannin, tastes of black tea, oatmeal cookie and fungi, rustic and bold with a long finish. — 11 years ago

Jeroen Koenen

9.3

Moody copper gold in color. Wonderfully mature, botrytis infused, sugar-coated pecans, salty caramel, cookie dough, dried guava, cappuccino cream, cured ham. Did I say it's very complex!? Really love the balance and mixture of full-throttle sweetness and mouthwatering savoury, hearty elements. Beautiful wine to sip and contemplate on this perfect Indian-Summer-Sunday.... — 11 years ago

JuliAnn Sklow

9.7

Perfect Christmas cookie baking wine... — 12 years ago

Isabel Hall

9.0

Smart cookie! — 13 years ago