I could write pages about this wine from 1995.but I will sum it up as one of the top five red wines I have ever consumed. @Maya Dalla Valle this is the golden standard. 😎😎😎😎😎😎 — 11 years ago
This is that wine that makes you grin stupidly when you first taste it. Our dinner guest for the exquisite meal at newly opened restaurant Pages. Silk, salted-butter caramel and angelica. YOLO. — 12 years ago
Dried apricot, peach, honeycomb, green herbs, earth, mushroom. Long finish, beautiful complexity. Love Sauternes. — 13 years ago
Unreal nose of Damson plum and sour cherry, smoke, leather. Medium weight and massively improved after 30 min decant, secondary floral aromatics and a wave of subtle pages from the Brunello handbook came through. Tad dry on the finish was sole dark spot. Not sure this has the stuffing for long haul but why wait? — 10 years ago
Great wine paired it with Halibut topped with fresh peach salsa, saffron rice and citrus butter. https://m.facebook.com/pages/Inn-of-The-Seasons/113854661979177 — 11 years ago
Back in 2006, I had the good fortune to invest in a box of the Neal vineyard designated bottlings pre-release. They have been sleeping in my cellar ever since. Last night, Tony the Fish, who is a frequent contributor to these pages, arrived with a bottle of the 2010 Neal cab sav. It was a solid effort and Mrs Fish quite enjoyed it. As we finished the bottle I remembered I had some of the 2003 vineyard designated wines in the back of the cellar and figured it was time to check in on them. We started with the Second Chance from Atlas Peak. Generally I am a mountain fruit guy, and like the volcanic soil that yields low yielding structured wines. There was plenty of stuffing left after 11 years, and a nice contrast to the 2010 cab sav blend. We then moved to Chafen. Another mountain- Howell this time, slightly lower elevation vineyard. This wine was bigger than the Second Chance with mouthfuls of ripe cassis, berry fruit and coffee- almost a cocoa powder character to it. The final wine of the night - and best of show - was the Howell Mountain Estate. Dark rich tannins with intense velvety chocolate cake flavors. This was a fun night going from the 2010 blend to the all 2003 single vineyard designates. Most of us aren't patient enough or buy them as a group so you can taste them altogether at once. Everyone should do this from to time. It reminds me at least of how different climate and soil can be in the same year. It's even better with friends. Thank you Mr Fish for the inspiration. — 11 years ago
Red berries, smooth. — 11 years ago
Full bodied french wine, really great with any kind of food, ready right out of the bottle. The sommelier described it as elegant and I really think it lives up to that. — 11 years ago
Sultry. Bordeaux doesn't grace these pages often...but 01 Latour is lively in 2014. — 12 years ago
Fraser McKinley
A thimble of Lapierre Morgon and a few pages from Kermit's 'Adventures on the Wine Route' - harvest preparations are now complete - 2013 — 9 years ago