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

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

Andrey Goncharov

8.9

Бурное начало: геркулес, горький шоколад, перепонки грецкого ореха, железо, подветренное мясо, лавровый лист, вяленый томат.
Вкус сначало терпкий, вяжущий, потом все мягко, спокойно, тихо и бархатисто. Черный чай, черный перец, черная рябина. — 7 years ago

Brian Duffy

9.1

Strong blackcherry notes make this a worthy opening salvo in Babbo's 2001 Barolo Revisited. — 8 years ago

Kyle Harvey

9.0

I Vigneri/Salvo Foti's take on Salina - Malvasia and Carricante -90/10 - give this unique white and great off-dry, salty, minerally character #qprAeolians — 9 years ago

Stuart Robinson

9.2

Delightful savoury opening salvo; settles, segues to a smooth flavoursome palate. — 10 years ago

Cynthia Langstaff

8.9

Clean bouquet and opening salvo of flavor => develops gradually into softer honey and then minerality softened by a vegetal afternote-- wood? Or nuts? Very faint at end. Light, but good medium length linger. Wouldpair well with fish & lighter foods — 10 years ago

with David

Aran Healy

Partner Ruby WIne, Carlotta Cellars, Thistle Cellars

10

With Malaysian food
2012 — 11 years ago

terroirista-cy

10

i Vigneri, Arundo — 12 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

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

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

Kyle Harvey

9.4

Third go around with this bad boy, and looks like it’s hitting its stride - ripe dark red fruits with leather and spice, some minerality - best in show single vineyard Nero D’avola from legendary hands of Salvo Foti. — 8 years ago

Livio Pastorino

9.2

Esta vez lo acompañamos con un arroz con pollo, este plato de la gastronomía peruana es uno de los mas especiados, el vino acompaño muy bien, sus notas herbaceas, algo de especias, no agregue ají, salvo el incluido en la receta, me gusto la armonía. — 9 years ago

Sarah Bray

10

Gorgeous Carricante from Salvo Foti, an icon in Sicilian winemaking. Lightly honeyed, with notes of citrus, almonds. Rich, deep, with a long finish, it was gorgeous throughout all eight courses. #carricante #etna #sicily #wine — 10 years ago

with Anique

Greg Sorensen

9.0

One to watch on Etna. Definitely going after it. Salvo Foti. — 10 years ago

Peter Wasserman

Importer Le Serbet/Becky Wasserman Selections

9.7

Memorial day dead soldier! Part of the first salvo! — 11 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

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

Jessica Wicksnin

10

With Scott at salvo vapio osteria — 7 years ago

John Beeler

9.0

Funky but solid! Really fun to drink. — 7 years ago

Brian

9.3

Amazing. Fruity bold and smooth finish. — 9 years ago

Robert May

9.0

Rootin' tootin' straight shootin' IPA. Nothing fancy (in a good way) but the lagering (not sure if that's a real word) adds a really nice bit of mellowness. It also prevents an overly fruity finish. Which, had I thought about it, I could have rhymed with the whole rootin' tootin' opening salvo. Oddly enough, I scarfed this down as a complement to a bowl of Tikka Masala. — 9 years ago

Al Doyle

9.0

Joe Goddard bought a bunch of wine for my birthday and we drank it on the bus. Absolutely did not need to have anything more after that initial salvo but bowing to his greater wisdom I accepted a few plastic cups of this shochu which was very nice from what I remember. Joe may have misjudged his own prescription however as there were some rumours of "bunk sickness", so far unconfirmed. As Paracelsus would say, "the poison is the dose". — 10 years ago

Peter Scudamore-Smith MW

9.0

Tasting with Salvo Tomasi (who I once met as my tour guide in COS Vittoria, Sicily); at #gamberorossoworldtour in Sydney Town Hall; here he represents #veneto with Cantina Negrar San Rocco 2008 bottling, single vineyard Amarone della Valpolicella; and heavily represented at this tasting; — 10 years ago

Jon Fine

9.6

Salvo Foti. Had a much easier time finding this in NYC than I did in Sicily. — 11 years ago