Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.1

The nose is intensely ripe and liqueur-like, with kirsch, cassis, blackberry and other dark fruit, along with spice, potpourri, leather, graphite and camphor. There is a polished, expensive-smelling quality to it, but everything feels blurred and overworked rather than focused. The palate is concentrated, juicy and very long, with big tannins and plenty of material, but the alcohol sticks out everywhere and the ripeness keeps pushing the wine out of balance. It tastes expensive, but at the moment that feels more like a facade than substance. I’m absolutely willing to let this improve with air, especially given the wine’s reputation, but right now 8.8 is where it is.

With more air, this has improved from 8.8 to 9.1. The nose is still remarkably blasé and unfocused, basically generic red-wine aromatics without much identity or finesse. The palate has come together considerably, with less obvious heat, better balance, good freshness, serious length and massive tiny-berry fruit concentration. Still highly extracted and overdone, with enormous material but essentially zero finesse, yet at least now it feels like a coherent wine rather than a complete mess. — 5 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.8

@Delectable Wine this is called Cornas Lieu-Dit Toto by Domaine du Tunnel. Thanks!

Stunning Cornas. Deep, serious and complete. — 4 months ago

John Tan

8.9

Bbq at Val’s — 4 years ago

Mike Evans

9.1

This is the Cuvée Prestige. — 9 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

Ultimately disappointing after how beautifully this showed at the estate. There is good texture and some attractive Syrah fruit, but the nose is dominated by spicy wood, with a little prickly heat on the palate, and the whole thing feels strangely anonymous for a wine with this pedigree. Perfectly good wine, but nowhere near the layered, silky, distinctive Peygros I tasted in June. — 13 days ago

Rob van Kalmthout

9.3

Great wine. Blend of Roussanne and Marsanne. Apricot, white flowers, white almonds backed with subtle vanilla. Paired with John Dory and beurre blanc. 2021 is a surprise in northern Rhône white — 2 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

Rich, ripe, elegant, juicy and clean, with beautiful purity and very fine tannins. Classic, polished and delicious. — 4 months ago

Stephen Digaetano

9.1

Still young, but tasty! — 6 years ago

with Monica

Matthew Cohen

9.6

Maximally delicious. Almost too much but not quite so.

Optimal after 45 minutes.

Nose: yellow flowers. The aroma of a perfect peach whose juice is dripping down your chin. A hint of dried apricot.

Palate: unbelievably delicious. Peach. Apricot. Long. Still some mountain stream here. As this opens apricot nectar. Insane.

It’s a lot of wine but it holds together. One of my favorite wines on earth. If you can’t enjoy this, you can’t enjoy life.

Fass selections — a month ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.8

Started broad, warm and slightly all elbows, then within minutes transformed completely. The palate became astonishingly elegant, serene and weightless, with enormous concentration, tiny-berry tropical fruit intensity, tremendous granite minerality and extraordinary texture. The warmth never fully disappears, but it integrates into the wine and somehow becomes part of its aristocratic character. Juicy, feral, mineral and profoundly refined, with the kind of effortless authority I associate with truly great wine. One of the most interesting whites I have had all year.

Even better integrated on day two, with the 14.5% alcohol completely disappearing into the wine and classic Marsanne gras, vanilla extract, enormous density, purity, sapidity and Grand Cru authority. Unbelievable finish and still the wine of the night. — 2 months ago

Stephen Dodson

9.0

Good buttery starter pleaser — 10 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

Rocking Roussanne. The freshness on the palate of these micro cuvee St. Perays is just unreal. They drink like nothing else in the Rhone. If Pur Blanc is the Montrachet of the lineup then this is the Chevalier as this is an awesome elegant Roussanne. Like Grand Cru level. Stunning nose. So complex, yellow fruits, pear, mineral, tree bark, earthy, quince but so refined and clear. Amazingly clear actually. Yellow plum. The palate is masterful. Concentrated yet so elegant with such texture and just awesome balance. This is next level Roussanne made in tiny batches. What finish. Fruit is plum, yellow peach, mango, papaya, but so fresh and not vulgar. All class. Just nuts. — 7 years ago