Peter van den Besselaar

9.0

Vintage 2023 | I visited this cooperation with my winefriends of Brabantse Wijnsociëteit, and we are impressed by the passion of the people, the impressive equipment, fine vineyards and beautiful cellars. This is probably worlds finest wine cooperative. This wine is made from a cooler vineyard, it is very refined. With a beautiful bouquet. — a year ago

Peter van den Besselaar

9.3

Cantillon Brewery | Blueberry Lambic | very rare, made in cooperation with Ølbutikken in Copenhagen | excellent! | Tasted at the Brewery in Bruxelles — 4 years ago

Greg Ballington

Co-Founder of Millennial Drinkers Wine Blog

9.0

#VABeerMonth

One of the beers our buddy Zack (@MyLifeIsAComicality) traded with us. This canning is a collaboration between Aslin Beer Company in Herndon, VA and Kings Brewing Company in Rancho Cucamonga, CA. Made as a sour ale with peach, mango, raspberry, pink guava, vanilla and milk sugar. 5.0% Alc/Vol.

Cloudy and opaque pink almost like a grapefruit with a light head. Stinky to start on the nose with a bit of guava and more tropical fruits. Medium to medium plus bodied with some tart characteristics coming through. Quite refreshing and crisp mouthfeel with some tropical, sour red berries and stone fruit notes. Medium plus finish.

$$ - $4.51 a can. — 8 years ago

Chris Zitzman

9.1

I've always loved this wine. It will take you to the happy place. Rope, rich and round- just a wonderful example of what can be achieved with extraordinary cooperation.
#dr.loosenbaby — 9 years ago

with Beth

Steven Roy

9.2

I have always enjoyed this big house Champagne. Lot of Character. Sometimes the cooperation gets it right. — 12 years ago

Peter van den Besselaar

9.0

Vintage 2022 | This is the basic Pinot noir of the cooperation Mayschoss Altenahr in the Ahr, the oldest in the world. Ridiculous price and só lovely, bottled raspberries and elegance. Topwine on a Monday evening after a hard days work. Paired with Cantonese beef with mango, a dish we have been making for 30 years and still makes us ultra happy… — 2 years ago

Peter van den Besselaar

9.1

Vintage 2016 / great effort from the oldest cooperation in the world. Light colour, warm and frivolous smell, recognizable Pinot Noir/Spätburgunder, juicy taste, small bitterness, mocca, elegance. Also potential for further development. Blind tasted. Almost everyone placed this in France... — 6 years ago

Ming L

8.9

This is just like the sunny Sardinia: intense, rustic, and yet beautiful. Nice mix of red and dark fruits. Tobacco, baking spice, cured meat, and port-like bitter sweetness. Round acidity. Tannic.
A cooperation between Tenuta San Guido Sassicaia and a local coop. Made of dominantly Carignano with small percentage of Cab and Merlot, 18 months in French oak barrel, 30% new. I regret to open the bottle this young. — 7 years ago

Roel van der Burg

Sommelier at Restaurant Entrepot

9.3

Walporzheimer Kräuterberg 2010. Picked up at the cooperation a few years ago. So glad I let it age a little. Showing great beauty! — 9 years ago

Brandi Bratek

8.9

Yes more please — 10 years ago

aigars

9.5

What else, you need! A crispy dry rise — 3 years ago

S.S. Mandani

9.2

After-rain, dewy, Florida grasslands fragrance, meant in the best way possible 😂

Fresh river zephyr.

Slight effervescent quality, dancing on the tongue. Enjoying the salinity balanced with acidity. Notes of pear, mango, nectarine, and chalk. Nice chew to it, which is always sort of an intangible I can’t quite nail, but enjoy quite a bit — 4 years ago

Peter van den Besselaar

9.5

Vintage 2011 / excellent balance from this Chenin Blanc, made by Ampelidae, thanks to cooperation with Château Bellerive — 6 years ago

Peter van den Besselaar

9.0

Mayschoss Altenahr is said to be the oldest wine cooperation in the world, founded in 1868. This #liquorwine is made to commemorate this fact. Made from #regent grape, portstyle. #curious and lingering attractive. — 8 years ago

Jack Cranley, Backroads Wine Club & Cascadia Premium Wines

9.6

Absolutely terrific wine. Bound to uplift even the most doomy-gloomy mood. As such, it pairs well with political discourse and the prospect of "President Trump." Go ahead, drink those sorrows away. You deserve it.

Beautiful, shimmering golden color. I believe it's actually already deepening with age. (2012 vintage consumed in mid-2016)

On the nose, apricot fruit and unrefined honey dominate but is accompanied with a menagerie of rare and precious aromatics. The result is a feeling of having something truly exotic in your glass. This is a world-class wine for which there could never be any argument over its worthiness. You will be taken by this wine and there's really no way to over-hype it and set the expectation bar too high because this wine will meet it every time.

As we dig in deeper past the obvious top notes, we discover a treasure chest filled with persimmon, sandalwood, white flower, and vanilla bean.

Upon first entry in the mouth you are met with a zippy liveliness but then that melts gently across your palate to really give you a fine, pervasive coating that excites the taste buds in every corner of your mouth. This is a POWERHOUSE of assertive flavor. This wine will stage a veritable coup d'etat upon your complacent palate. There will be an ouster of your resident ennui. No incumbent sense of boredom will be safe from this wave of populist essence. There will be a complete and total transition of power in the halls of your mind's parliament leading to a peaceful but efficacious revolution. With your personal Congress in shambles, this fresh new confederacy shall draft a Constitution that will usher in a new era of utopian cooperation and transcendental civic euphoria!

Sorry, maybe for a little carried away there. For reals though. Drink this wine when you're feeling down and feel the BURN! Well, not really - because the alcohol is really well-integrated. ;) — 10 years ago