Tree Kilpatrick

9.0

Aged three years! Catchy simple European label with screw-top convenience. Pours a light golden color. Smells like 🍋. Lemon sparkling waters. Flavors are excellent. Bitter bite of citrus peels, minerals too. Crisp as all get up. This is French style white wine. No sweetness, no oak butter, no bigness. Just dry, austere and brightly flavored. Would be fun to try beside CA Viogniers. Just to compare. I’d drink this again. Hot weather, white for sure. — 4 years ago

Chris Shultz

9.3

Maybe there aren’t any bottles floating around anymore, but I got lucky and snagged one. This is super juicy Tannat, which is not something I ever thought I’d say or hear. Dried cherries, super ripe plums, some underripe blueberry, a bit of funk on the nose. Graphite and leather too. There’s still great acidity which makes this gulpable. it’s an interesting wine, this mixture of dried fruits but bright and juicy acidity feels like it should be two different wines, but it’s not in any way disjointed or threadbare. It’s just got serious backbone, and long tannins. Like a northern Rhône Syrah without the floral aspects. It’s slightly meaty and spicy when first opened. The empty glass is restrained but all violet. I wish I could’ve had this a couple of years ago but it’s still really lifted yet soft tonight. — 6 years ago

Angelo Casagrande

9.3

This is still an ass- kicking wine. Big, bold, Stoney, not your daddy’s gamay. Has that intense candied cherry mouth, but in a sophisticated way. Awesome stuff. — 7 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

I love these wines. Big, ripe, peppery nose. Lots of vivid dark black fruits. Palate is mouth-filing and complex with terrific freshness and so much granitic minerality. Very juicy. Terrific wine drinking great now. Amazingly balanced and pure. — 9 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Awesome aromas. Dark blackberries. Game. Meat. Olives. Garrigue. Smells thiccc! Wow what pure blackberry fruit. Palate is so good. Hedonistic Syrah fruit with huge crushing tannins that are perfectly ripe. This is a big boy. So slippery and sexy though. Amazing finish that is highly detailed and delineated. This is a blackberry bomb though at this early stage. Love it. Massive concentration and fruit soak. Awesome velvety and sweet tannins. Mineral/granite tinged finish. But needs air. As this airs the granite really comes through on the nose. Love these wines. — 4 years ago

Tree Kilpatrick

8.9

It’s the colour of dark roses and blood. Lovely perfumed aroma with a hint of fragrant plums. Some flowers (maybe roses and lilacs?). Flavor is earthy with lots of leather, but it’s lithe and smoother than I expected from 100% Syrah. Plenty of tannins in there. Feel them on the tongue, teeth and lip. It’s an elegant, pretty wine. Clean and easy to enjoy. If it was a bit stranger and more complex it’d be stunning. At the price point of around $20 it’s great for a night with friends talking and enjoying the joy of wine. — 6 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Simply awesome. Nose of ripe blackberry, almost a coulis, lovely granite and olive and smoke. Gorgeous. So pure and deep. Rich and ripe with beautiful pure blackberry and raspberry fruit and loaded with granite, smoke and olive. Elegant and velvety tannins and terrific acidity and freshness. — 7 years ago

Tom Casagrande

9.1

A go-to dinner wine. Imagine mating a classic Cote de Brouilly with a Saint Joseph. That's this wine. Intense stony minerality and very pure Gamay fruit. — 9 years ago

with Lyle

Guillaume

9.4

Excellent, bon goût de Syrah. Puissant et fruité. — 5 years ago

Trey Shelton

9.1

Light and easy going with a bit of leather. Kind of like that s&m club in downtown Cleveland. — 5 years ago

Eric Tan

8.9

Decent syrah, had this at Bistro 45 with Parsons bord of directors. Decent but nothing amazing — 6 years ago

Colin Cahoon

9.3

The start is dry, but tart red fruit and spice quickly kick in and linger through the medium acid finish. A nicely balanced red with nice oak notes and dried cranberry predominate from mid-palate on. — 7 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

Pic is too dark. What is it? — 10 years ago