Vasanth Balakrishnan

9.0

Just an incredible 14 year old #syrah from Wind Gap that’s just screaming Crozes-Hermitage or Cornas in the glass. Cured meat, bacon fat, black olive followed by a deep well of brooding black fruit aromas. Palate is fresh with salivating acidity, aged fruit, coffee, dark chocolate and ethereal tannins on a long finish. Beautiful wine, especially for $53 for 6 bottles at WineBid (before shipping.)
— 5 years ago

Severn G

9.2

Nose has mashed red table grapes, washed raspberry and crushed granite.

Palate has cherry skin, first Summer strawberry picked, limestone pebbles, Spring violets and wet beach sand.

One of the most expressive rosés from Provence I can really recall ever tasting. Generally we expect drier styled wines. We bought these last year, and my preference is buy and hold most rosé, one year minimum. What a year has done with this wine since we initially tasted! $10 WTH, really? GD, I don't have enough! — 6 years ago

Peter van den Besselaar

9.2

Vintage 2015 / No sulphites. No filtering. 3 months on amphora, 4 months on barrique. Mix of authentic grapes #nielluciu #sciaccarello #minustello #carcaghjolu #morescone that makes this #corsicanwine very enjoyable. Rich and refined. Pretty round. Some roses. Frivolous. I like it very much. — 8 years ago

Pooneet K

9.1

Really nice, and showing quite well with 7 years of age. Medium color, extremely well balanced. Dark earth, black olive, savory notes for sure. Long finish with great acid. Excellent food wine. — 8 years ago

Erika Peterman

9.3

A very nice wine, especially after decanting for 3-4 hours. — 9 years ago

Michael Ochsner

9.1

Nice perfumy candies red fruit and spice. Fine tannin and light presentation. — 10 years ago

Max Reichwage

8.9

Really tannic (the hard stemmy type), dark, olive, lavender, rather dense. Either needs more time in bottle or less stems in the cuve — 10 years ago

Pascaline Lepeltier, MS

Master Sommelier, Wine Director Rouge Tomate New York

9.2

Nori and black olive and more nori — 11 years ago

with Bryan

Peter Davison-Lancaster

10

This is my favorite Deon De Swardt — 12 years ago

Doug Powers

9.6

Olive, smoke, beautiful older Syrah aromas, seamless on palate, just wonderful wine!! — 13 years ago

Mark Eastom

9.0

Had before. This vintage has a bit more new oak (maybe the year they brought in new barrels to the mix). Dark berries, smoke, vanilla, medium plus bodied, blackberries, minerals and nice acid. — 5 years ago

Andrew Lohse

8.9

Olive, earth, red fruit, brine — 7 years ago

El Deez

9.0

Top Barbera d'alba! Zalig. — 8 years ago

Ron Siegel

9.2

This has gained weight since last tried showing black cherry & raspberry with meat, black olive, pepper, violet & licorice spices. — 8 years ago

Ron Siegel

9.5

Classic La Mish with complex aromatics of red & black fruits with cedar, earth, leather, soy, olive, bell pepper, licorice, tar, cigar box & violet. A wine that I have had many times that never disappoints. Everyone’s favorite today!! — 8 years ago

Rachel Goyette

9.2

Crisp and spritzy, not too sweet. Super solid — 9 years ago

Alex Xu

9.7

Incredible. Jaboulet family apparently inconsistent in final years of ownership, but this one had everything. So dense still, with lots of kalamata olive, olive brine, cherry, blackberry, black pepper, leather, cured meat, earth. Savory, sweet, powerful, elegant, hit every end of the taste spectrum. Super long. In magnum — 10 years ago

Ben Patel

9.4

V complex but elegant nose- kirsch, herbs and olive with loads of meaty dark flavours. let down only by the high alcohol — 11 years ago

Naomi

9.1

Uniquely dry kosher for Passover wine. — 11 years ago

with Jamie

Justin Timsit, MS

Wine Director, The Rittenhouse

9.2

Smoke, olive. Truffle, blackberry. Completely secondary. Gorgeous. — 12 years ago

Kate

8.9

Dark pungent wine. Taste better than smell. 15%. Sat for over an hour and didn’t open up. Drinkable but not what I expected for a a chateauneuf du pape — 5 years ago

Kelly Krok

9.5

Very smooth Malbec — 6 years ago

with Joe

Matt

9.8

Raspberry jam, huckleberry compote, crushed black cherry, peach pit, violet liquor, bbq meat, fur, licorice whip, olive tapenade, sanguine, beef jerky, iodine, coffee grounds, smoke, pink peppercorns, a touch of leather. The salinity this has is unreal. It has real class and carries its weight well. Balance of the acid is keen, a cool-climate personality. Tannins are beautiful, resolving but bringing texture and posture. This could go another decade easily, but the balance is there now. Brownie points for the length and complexity. — 7 years ago

Michael Meyer

8.9

Close your eyes and it’s Corsican rosè — 8 years ago

Greg Connell

9.1

What an amazing wine! Proof of the true values in Rhone for how complex this wine gets. Initial nose is tight with smells of farmyard and black olives. Letting it open up reveals a true bouquet of Spices, Lavender, Sage, Clove, Oregano, Leather/Hide, Dried Strawberry, Licorice, and more I wrote down and can't remember. It's chewy, but the Tannins are balanced, it's acidity said "Sure you COULD put me on the shelf, but I am actually drinkable today!" Let's just say that I will be getting more. — 8 years ago

Michael Retter

9.0

Potted soil, good acidity. — 9 years ago

Paco Suro

9.0

Vibrant. Wow. Nice. Bright red fruits. A bit grainy. Good QPR. Go #corsica — 10 years ago

Tim O'Rourke

9.6

What? So good. All the olive and pepper and leather that you would expect and plenty of game and mushroom as well. I don't suppose I'll have another chance to taste this, so I'll have to rely on memory of something so delicious. — 11 years ago

Ned Gray Creed

9.2

Had before. Loving it tonight. Who wants to go to Corsica June 26-30? — 12 years ago

Gabriella Macari

9.1

Black pepper green olive gorgeous syrah — 12 years ago