Alison Story

TexaCali Ali - Owner of www.texacaliwine.com & Co-Owner of the upcoming www.smithstorywinecellars.com

9.5

pure magic — 10 years ago

Fabien Lainé

Blogger VinDeling.com

9.0

A great project from Antonio Maçanita in the Azores - the original Verdelho in a pure style from Pico island on volcanic soil - something to discover, taste and drink if you can #winelover — 10 years ago

Paul Masson

8.9

Dirty earth nose with a pure red fruit palate. 2011 — 11 years ago

Mark Kulpins

9.0

Day 1: Very pure bright strawberry and cherry. Super fresh and weightless.
Day 2: Damp earth, smoke, and spice....same weightlessness.
Two wines for the price of one. — 11 years ago

Wineslikesex

10

Dirty sex, pure and simply. /b — 11 years ago

Roger Carrillo

9.1

Pure cassis, firm and dusty tannins, bright acidity, would be great with a steak but needs a little more bottle age. Nice project from Roger Rosenblum. — 11 years ago

Christine Havens

9.0

Founded in 1996, Ca'Marcanda is an offshoot project of GAJA. That being the case, my expectations were high—I was not disappointed. The 2000 opens with sumptuous aromas of violets, saddle leather, dust, cherry and red currant. Poised and elegantly textured, fine, velvety tannins encase a core of pure fruit. This sensational Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cab Franc blend is just beautiful now. Finishes with notes of bouquet garni, sweet tobacco and baking spice. — 11 years ago

Colin Davis

9.3

Home with Seabring after long day! Not much of one for Australian wines! Excellent...dirty Shiraz...still a bit tight fullll body...fruit fully defined — 10 years ago

S Butterfield

Sommelier Flask Fine Wines

9.4

Super earthy, dirty like the Delta blues. High tones of leather and wet leaves. Good palette punch, brilliant pure berry-branch fruit. The zippy fine tannins give it a long delicious finish. This one can take a bow. — 10 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. — 11 years ago

Jordan Gianelli

9.5

Tip top quality. Dark and dirty tones on the nose lead to an eyeopening showcase of depth of flavor carried with such grace and softness. Pure artistry and craftmanship. Homerun, slamdunk, hole in one. — 11 years ago

Boxer Briefs

9.5

Sexy, light, rich, pure raspberry, tight, dirty, extremely interesting. Great #wine — 11 years ago

CS

Sales Amy Atwood Imports

9.3

THIS... is... Seriously. Good. Phucking. shtuff. Surprisingly good...? Maybe. Luckily good..? Perhaps. Unless you've met Dirty: Which most of the wine drinking USA has -but, rather, intentionally fucking good. AND -possibly luckily too -as long as luck has something to do with exceptionally talented farming combined with tremendous desire(s) to make vibrant and ridiculously love-able fermented grape juice of pure integrity and a casually particular design. This wine is that friend you only get to see once a year, that one you cannot wait to see again. The wine is too young to rate with any opinion other than Rawesome, and while I've only had one bottle, I've certainly not had enough to offer an opinion against Rawsome -therefore tasting notes be damned -yet, this can be said: here is a clean wine, lacking brett or VA or other 'flaws'; a bright, refreshing jubilant anthem of untainted wine, an ode to a grape that will likely become California's bastard child once popularity hits and Dirty & Rowdy prices climb to astronomical, near Tempier-like pricing and ficcichlty to come by. (I liked ficcichlty over difficulty since spellcheck kept it purposely so did I.). Oh wait, they're already ficcichlt to come by. Damn it. — 13 years ago

Spencer Raymond

9.0

Very fruity and pure. Nothing dirty or earthy. Light in color. Very little tanin. Delicate. Oak picks up with food. Tasteful but not super oak — 10 years ago

Jackie Smith

8.9

Sake-like characteristics with dirty wet wool. — 10 years ago

Andrew Torrens

9.6

Pure peach juice. — 10 years ago

Lance Anders

8.9

Tasty blend. — 11 years ago

with Danielle

Peter N

9.0

Bright and light lemony yellow. Pure semillon aromas with some beeswax. Fresh, sleek texture.; lemon shortbread comes to mind. Long @olmsteadwine — 11 years ago

Daniel Warner

9.6

A blend with sav b predominantly... Tasted like orange blossom — 11 years ago

Aaron Meeker

Sales & Marketing Vine Street Imports

9.3

@TORKenwardWines made this hidden gem - '02 Durell Syrah...great elegance and pure red fruit — 12 years ago