Marc Stubblefield

Wine Sales at Vino Carta and Kogod Wine Merchant

9.2

My favorite vintage of this from Larry. Plums and blackberries, earth and animal, crisp and palate refreshing. Lighter than most Bandol, weightier than [say] most Dirty and Rowdy, plain tasty. — 10 years ago

Marc Stubblefield

Wine Sales at Vino Carta and Kogod Wine Merchant

9.2

I'm not sure how @Hardy Wallace gets so much flavor and complexity packed into something that is as light and graceful as this. Cranberry, rhubarb, rocks, earth and mushroom. Orange zest. Smoked meat. I need too figure out how to not drink these for a while, to see what they become. — 11 years ago

Gabe Barkley

9.2

2014
I tried to keep my hands off... @Hardy Wallace Good thing I Have 7 more! — 11 years ago

Ryan Mullins

9.9

Soul wine! — 12 years ago

Keith Levenberg

9.3

This was great. Equal parts Dirty & Rowdy mourvedre and Enfield pinot noir, grown in the same place. I haven't had anything from Enfield besides this, but this is definitely in line with the Dirty & Rowdy wines I love so much. The amazing thing about this is that you'd figure a 50/50 mourvedre and pinot noir blend would drown out the pinot noir and you'd just get lighter-weight mourvedre - but that's not what happened here. Instead, it tastes very much like pinot noir. Perhaps the mourvedre is beefing up the tannins a little bit, but the structure is still on the gentle side - a little raggedy, but with a loose grip and friendly enough not to get in the way of this being super-drinkable. — 11 years ago

Sean Shafik

9.0

Rustic and rowdy like the dirty south. She gets more elegant once you get to know her — 11 years ago

Max Gottesfeld, FWS, CSW

9.3

Smelled like red apple skins, and smashed raspberries. Foggy color light and delicate if I lived in California I'd drink this all the time. It's just too pricey for me on the east coast. — 12 years ago

CS

Sales Amy Atwood Imports

9.0

I'm getting this tattoo on one arm and Dirty & Rowdy on t'other. — 13 years ago

Chris Pittenger

Owner Gros Ventre Cellars, Winemaker Skinner Vineyards

9.3

While I may be biased, I still love this wine. Freshly structured pretty stuff. — 11 years ago

with Sarah and Hardy

Keith Levenberg

9.7

My oh my oh my. Let me first try to describe this as objectively as I can before I start babbling in tongues about why it's awesome. So, okay, we'll start with the color, which is somewhere between a rosé and a pale red. That's as good a portent as any for what you get when you taste it, which is this ethereal, gossamer, lacy thing that would probably flutter to the earth even slower than a feather if it were a solid object. It has a sense of freshness and light without being overtly fruity, i.e. it features the freshness and essential perfume of the fruit without the sweetness or fat. It has a minerally element too, subtle (though everything about this is subtle) but clearly reminiscent of gravelly rock pulverized to an ultrafine powder (everything about this is ultrafine). The word "finesse" is a cliché, ditto for "ethereal," but ultimately that's what's so awesome about this. I have had a lot of disappointing German pinot noir, even from highly regarded producers, and they never turn out to be what you think German pinot noir ought to be (i.e., as clear and pure and transparent as riesling, with all that cool-climate lightness). Somehow some of them turn out to be big fat Sonoma pinot lookalikes, which I will never understand. This is not like that. I am really at a loss to think of anything from anywhere to compare this to that so effortlessly pulls off such a vivid personality out of material so fine it only barely seems to have a corporeal existence, and not a flaw or seam to be seen in the way it is all put together. I can think of a Jura pinot that was in the ballpark (the '08 Chais des Vieux Bourg) and the weight and physical presence bring to mind something like Coteaux Champenois or the Dirty & Rowdy reds, but as far as I am concerned this is sui generis. There are aspects that bring to mind all sorts of things but it really needs its own frame of reference. It is profound but not in the same way that grand cru Burgundy is profound; it's a brilliant soloist, not a symphony, almost minimalist in its simplicity and tranquility, best paired with your favorite easy chair and some quiet moments. — 11 years ago