Stephen Redenbaugh

9.3

Grapes for this wine are from Fred and Dora’s 100 year old vineyard in Mendocino. Color is nearly black, nose is tight, closed only yielding on day 2. Schizoid wine...huge, young, tannic, acidic, alive—but ABV 12.5! Fine on day 1... amazing on day 2 with Medium filets, mushroom risotto, and brocolini. I laugh as I type this.. the mouthfeel is medium at most... not viscous or oily... but vibrant, alive, dancing across the palate. I really like this wine..so utterly California, but not new world at all. — 5 years ago

Mike Levin

9.1

Creamy crunchy flowers and yellow fruit. Joyous — 6 years ago

Ned Gray Creed

9.1

They don’t make it anymore. :( — 6 years ago

with Mark

William Hughes

9.2

I swear I smell mince meat spices and steel. Melon flavors. — 7 years ago

Doctor No

9.2

Alder Springs makes Thingz with Zings! Does anything come from this place that isn't a laser or lightning bolt? Must make hair stand on end when you walk through it. I can just picture @Hardy Wallace picking his grapes looking like he had his hand on a van de Graff generator... — 8 years ago

Marc Stubblefield

Wine Sales at Vino Carta and Kogod Wine Merchant

9.1

Brutally tight out of the bottle, started to reveal a few hints after a couple hours open. Really hits a nice mid-weight for CA Mourvedre, sitting somewhere between Dirty & Rowdy and Ridge's offerings. I think this is going to be a stunner in a couple years. — 8 years ago

Bill Bender

9.3

White rose petal and green stems on the bouquet. Seems like this could have been whole cluster fermentation. Sweet red fruits, strawberry jam, nice pure finish. Modern style done right. This bottle, 2 bottles Sandlands, a rose' and a Dirty and Rowdy white blend all provided by fan favorite @Steve Anderson at Lamb Fest hosted by @Dan Blackwell the hobbling host with the most. Nice way to kick off summer. — 9 years ago

with Dan and Steve

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. — 10 years ago

Sean Shafik

9.0

Rustic and rowdy like the dirty south. She gets more elegant once you get to know her — 10 years ago

Chris Scanlan

Sales Amy Atwood Imports

9.0

I'm getting this tattoo on one arm and Dirty & Rowdy on t'other. — 12 years ago

Brian R

9.1

Really interesting, unexpected smoky element. — 5 years ago

Joseph Schwabauer

9.9

So great at cellar temp. — 6 years ago

Brendan Baker

9.1

Raspberry, mineral, med + acid, no tannin, drink with a slight chill — 6 years ago

Trent Fletcher

9.1

Starter wine for this Thanksgiving at the beach. Slamming good. — 6 years ago

Pete Schork

9.3

Real diff and playful Cab. Less tannic more fruit forward for sure. Drinks like a mouvedre and Bordeaux hybrid. Also not a bad backdrop: the Stifler’s Mom scene from American Pie in the background — 7 years ago

with Madeline

Steve Anderson

9.1

I've gotten used to the leaner Mourvèdre from Dirty & Rowdy, Sandlands, et al, so this one surprised me. Very ripe, full bodied and full flavored. Tasty wine, but I probably would have guessed Syrah if tasted blind. 15.3% ABV — 8 years ago

Marc Stubblefield

Wine Sales at Vino Carta and Kogod Wine Merchant

9.1

Once I stopped wanting this to be Muscadet (much lower acidity) or Ramato Pinot Gris (not nearly the tannin/phenolic structure) I really enjoyed this. It's a much quieter and more nuanced 'orange' wine, rewarding close attention and time taken. Lots of development over 3 days, and I'm curious where this is in another year or two. Thanks @Hardy Wallace ! — 9 years ago

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. — 9 years ago

Brian Koncius

9.0

2013 Dirty & Rowdy Skinner White Oak Flats Mouvédre. What Keith said and Yum! — 10 years ago

Ryan Mullins

9.9

Soul wine! — 11 years ago

Blake Walker

9.3

Inky black, ruby rim in the glass. Fruit forward, hint of pepper. Medium bodied. Excellent. — 5 years ago

Matt Perlman

9.0

Light, fresh, red fruit driven, just a bit of earth and tannic grip. A non-merlot lover’s merlot — 6 years ago

Monica Bibeau

9.3

Had at flaming buoy co, nice with fish..taste of pineapple — 6 years ago

Aaron Rankin

9.1

PnP. Very drinkable already. Spice, funk, and a melange of aromas in the nose. Velvety tannins and lively in the mid-palette. This is a thinking man’s weekday sipper. Will check back in with this in a couple days. — 7 years ago

Brendan Baker

9.2

Blackberry, blueberry, cherry pits, granite. Reminds me somewhat of a cru Beaujolais, somewhat of a Dirty & Rowdy Mourvèdre, but is entirely its own beast 😜 — 7 years ago

Alia Connor

9.3

Asked Slope Cellars for something similar to and cheaper than the Dirty & Rowdy Chenin. Perfect! A little earthy, minerally, super interesting. — 8 years ago

Tony Chapman

9.1

Fresh aromatic beautiful wine. — 8 years ago

Justin Hansohn

9.0

Fat! Slutty! Gulpable! A little hefty going rate of $38 on the shelf for what I consider value, but by all means totally pleasure able. — 9 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. — 9 years ago

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. — 10 years ago