Clay Bullwinkel

9.2

Salvo Foti comes through in California with minerality, herbal, saline, citrus flavors. — a year ago

Fabio Franchella

9.2

In San Salvo for a week spending good time with my relatives. Supermarket - and I I see Zaccagnini, one of best wine producer in Abruzzo. But a bottle for 7 Euro? Let‘s try! And you should do it too!! — 2 years ago

Keith M

9.0

金木犀、紹興酒、蜂蜜、黄桃、アプリコット、レモン、ハーブ、ミネラル。
広がる果実味とアロマ。それを締める酸とミネラル。重層的であり構成力が素晴らしい。 — 3 years ago

Josh Morgenthau

9.5

Wowow. Salmon-ruby colored, packed with red fruit, pink-green just ripe strawberries, wild berry, and zingy minerality and acid. But with a leesy, buttery quality reminiscent of great rosé champagne. Intoxicating combination, leading with the nose. Excellent texture and mouthfeel, and a long finish. Great stuff; some of the top rosé, anywhere. — 5 years ago

Peter Sultan

8.9

New Years 2: part of our opening salvo of wines: quite integrated tannins & lovely fruit-the blackberry thing. — 5 years ago

Jay Kline

9.3

Last night, a buddy of mine who’s a Disabled Veteran and Registered Architect, announced that he was assuming control of a SDVOSB Architecture firm. He had spent the better part of a year of trying to reach a purchase agreement. So it was an evening of celebration. He’s been a Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars fan for some time and he planned to pull the cork on a few bottles. We had a couple of rando bottles too but all were California Cabernet Sauvignon. This was the opening salvo and a very good one at that. Perfumed, lush, velvety fruit with lovely structure. Hugely quaffable and already drinking very well with a short decant but I think this is pretty characteristic of the 2014 vintage. — 6 years ago

Jessica Wicksnin

10

With Scott at salvo vapio osteria — 7 years ago

Jason Mills

9.3

Smells of mulberries with initial salvo of intense strawberries. Long, evolving finish that silks away with some tabacco and maybe even a fat green olive, some black pepper on the pallett. In this 7-year old vintage, tannins have all mellowed. — 2 years ago

Jay Kline

9.3

This bottle was chosen as our opening salvo for the Cellar Raid. We paired it with Kaluga caviar and let me tell you: it's hard to think of anything more hedonistic than taking bumps of caviar while sipping vintage Champagne. Okay, back to the wine. The 2006 D-L BdB currently pours a bright golden color and while still quite effervescent, the mousse is no longer persistent. On the nose, you're immediately hit with a fresh croissant to the face. There's also bruised apple, lemon bar, honey and almonds. On the palate, the wine is dry and has such a lovely, creamy and viscous texture. Acid is zippy enough. Apples, marzipan, lemon and a touch of butterscotch. A lovely, balanced Champagne that's aging so gracefully. I have one more bottle and plan to enjoy that in the next 5-7 years. — 3 years ago

Jay Kline

9.2

On the nose, orange and lime zest and wet stone. On the palate, citrus, minerals and lanolin. Crushable and yet, serious. These Chenin’s from Sandlands are so dope. A lovely first salvo for Thanksgiving. — 4 years ago

Josh Morgenthau

9.6

Volcanic rocks and tiny berries, red fruits, rhubarb, a touch of caramel candy. Creamy mouthfeel, cutting acid and subtle tannins. And a finish that goes on for minutes. Sometimes a wine speaks so much of place, it’s hard to describe, but drinking this brings me back to Etna in a way few others can. High altitude (1300m) blend of indigenous Etna grapes blanc de noir. Everything is there for graceful long term aging too. Brilliant wine. Disgorged 2019 — 5 years ago

Tobin Trevarthen

9.1

Second bottle of this vintage - six months apart. Decanted for an hour left us with a nice opening salvo. Mocha, dense cherry, soft waves of black fruit. A pleasure. — 5 years ago

Jonathan Bennett

8.9

First Zin in a while & the opening salvo in a Prisoner vs Orin Swift showdown..... — 6 years ago

Fabio Franchella

9.3

Osterie delle spezie, San Salvo - one of my fovourite locations. Small producer, unusual elegant Montepulciano d‘Abruzzo. Invited by my love! — 2 years ago

with Kathrin

JD

9.0

Shadowed ruby, sweet herbs wild berry flowers, sweet herbs fresh cherries just off dry sweetness but not sugary mineral bright acidity lighter tannins — 3 years ago

Alder Yarrow

Wine Blogger Vinography

9.2

I probably drink too many Etna wines, so for a change here’s a Sicilian wine that is NOT from the volcano. It’s from the center of the island, near the city of Caltagirone, and it’s an unusual blend of two expected grapes (Nero d’Avola and Frappato) and one fairly unexpected one (Alicante Bouschet). Grown in dense vineyards planted with head-trained bush vines at about 1000 feet above sea level, this wine has a deep garnet color and a stony core surrounded by blackberry, licorice, and black cherry fruit. At once ripe and chiseled with acidity, this is a perfect expression of Sicily in many ways. It bears the i Vigneri stamp of consultant Salvo Foti, a good sign if there ever was one on Sicilian bottles. — 4 years ago

Dasha

9.2

Gorgeous buccia di cipolla color. Texture of rosé champagne decanted, pinot meunier. Super delicate, guava, Haribo peach rings, overripe apple, red apple skin tannins. Unico! — 5 years ago

David Nicewicz

8.9

Opening salvo — 5 years ago

Jonathan Bennett

8.9

An honourable score draw from Zin salvo 2 from Orin Swift.....
— 6 years ago

Jay Kline

9.0

Opening salvo in a night of delicious dinner courtesy of Howard Street Wine Merchants and Chef @Paul Kulik , the energy behind Le Bouillon. Our dinner guest was our friend John Paine from Rosenthal. Tonight was an evening of Burgundy, which outside of Chablis and Beaujolais, has always been a challenge for me. This was a delicious opener, if not an outlier. Regardless, a really tasty wine with bright red fruits of notable freshness. Not super complex but unique and always fun to drink Sancerre Rouge. — 6 years ago