Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

In a glorious place. So elegant. More to come. Wet earth and deep red cherries on the nose on a background slab of minerals. Complex spice as well. Palate is so juicy and generous. Luscious, deep fruit with suave, velvety tannins and unreal density without weight. Such a mineral finish. After 16 hours open it’s so juicy, silky and downright decadent. 19 has amazing fruit. — 6 months ago

Mario Vaillancourt

9.3

Carafé et décanté 3 heures avant. Floral, fruits noirs, une bouche mure, juteuse, pleine et riche, puissant mais avec des tannins soyeux et approchables, excellent et encore un bébé presque. 93

Blind tasting lunch 2009 theme. My offering, decanted 3 hours. Flowery and black fruit notes, palate is juicy, full, rich and powerful with velvety textured tannins, nice finish, still a baby almost. — 3 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

The kid has made it big. Perfumed. Long. Stoney, elegant and sweet fruited. Really compelling. Was the star of the trio. — 4 years ago

Mario Vaillancourt

8.9

The aromatics are of lemon zest, some butter, a touch smokey and flinty and some ripe orchard fruit. Good acidity but dominated slightly by a certain richness and ripeness, a little more then usual and probably due to the warmer vintage. Nice, but not the better Droin bottle I had. 89-90

Des arômes de fruits murs, un peu fumé, touche saline, du zeste de citron et du beurre. Une bouche plus riche et mure qu’à l’habitude, due probablement au millésime plus chaud. Bien mais pas le meilleur Droin GC que j’ai bu. 89-90 au mieux. — 5 years ago

Ryan Vento

9.5

Fantastic Volnay that paired excellently with crispy duck. Highly perfumed on the nose with menthol/clove, cherries, spices, and game. On the palate very balanced and enjoyable with great acidity. Solid wine. — 5 years ago

Ely Cohn

9.1

The most storied houses of Catalan often show the best value (opposite is the case in Champagne). It’s like they’ve been in the game long enough to know how to most efficiently make great sparkling wine. Raventos (like the Mure wines from Alsace) is one of these houses.

Soft, fruity, and fine. Splash of Monastrell for nuance. — 7 years ago

Audrey Nadeau

8.9

mure, choco et café! — 2 years ago

Nicolas Duchesneau

9.4

Bu sur + de 3 heures, aération en carafe à l’ouverture. Arômes de fruits noirs, cerises, assez végétal. Belle couleur rubis! La carafe lui a fait un grand bien malgré ses 15 ans. Bien que le 1er verre m’a donné une légère incertitude mais le tout c’est replacé rapidment et le vin est tout simplement magnifique!

En bouche, il y a de la matière, belle acidité qui garde la structure du vin. En bouche, la mure, l cerises noires, un peu végétale, boîte à cigare. Tres long en bouche. Wow! — 3 years ago

Mario Vaillancourt

8.9

De la pomme mure, un peu évolué en bouche par contre mais quand même fort joli, finesse, élégance et classe.

Ripe apples, classy and elegant despite a tad of evolution, drink up! — 4 years ago

Fredybeans

8.9

Cristallin
Bouche délicate et mure
Finale revigorante et énergique — 5 years ago

Matthew Cohen

9.4

Needs 2 hours. Before then all luscious fruit.

At peak

Nose: gods blackberry perfume. Blackberries. Intoxicating. Elegant. A hint of sexy blackberries. sensual. Attacks the nostrils almost like a spice but not spicy.

Palate is clean blackberry juice. A hint of perfect cherry. The fruit here is insanely perfect. The rebourgeon style. Good intensity and palate thrust. A hint of blueberry.

I’m not getting much palate complexity at 2 hours or this would be higher.

Bought from fass selections. — 5 years ago

Vincent Piquard

9.1

2005. Très fondu à son apogée. Du beauvfruit très pur. Gourmand à souhait en bouche — 6 years ago

Fredybeans

9.1

En magnum
Jaune franc
Nez épicé exotique de raisin mure
Bouche ample gourmande avec des note exotique et finale associant du sucre résiduel et une certaine fraîcheur lié au terroir terminant sur des notes de tuf — 7 years ago

with picolator and El

Matthew Cohen

9.3

Nose : sexy. Luscious. Intense perfume. Intense cherry.

Palate intense cherry fruit. Delicious.

Fass selections.

— 2 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

My man killed 2020. Slayed it like it was a dragon. Super nose of stone, dark red cherries, lovely earth character, some tweed jacket and all of this is presented like refined silk or velvet. Man what strides William has taken. Wow that is just the sexiest, velvet, sweet fruited Pommard one can imagine! This is so fresh, yet also lush and succulent. Wow. What texture and refinement. Williams’s tannin quality has improved so much from 19 to 20. They are so silky, sweet and finely knit. Nose starting to get more red cherries and some nice florals. He nailed this vintage. So energetic and juicy. Just so good. As it airs I’ll be back. Such freshness with air and it gets tangy. Terrific, invigorating Pommard. After 3 hours nose has dark florals. Palate is now elegant and has such deep echoing fruit. So rich yet so ethereal. Masterful. — 3 years ago

Severn G

9.4

Nose has lemon zest, lemon slice, vanilla bean, crushing of flint, white wood smoke, room temperature butter, salt box and waxy yellow apple.

Palate has under-ripe pineapple, honeycomb, warm green apple, salty warm lemon, pulverized flint; concentration is amazing, finish is minutes.

Wow, Meursault I already ❤️ thee, but this is next level.

Decanted +3H, then double decanted for service tonight. — 4 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

Nose is tight out of the gates. Some cherry cola, dustiness. Pulverized rock dust. Really quiet at the moment but I have faith. 18’s are built like brick houses. More aromas coming but all mineral. Fruit is buried here. Palate is super closed. Wow. This will need mega air. Like mega air. Huge grippy tannins and terrific fruit on the long finish. Easily a 1er Cru length finish. But this needs mega air. My score will rise. As this air the fruit expands on the palate. Massive power, depth and concentration. Exceptional length. Nose picks up a hint of licorice. 9.2 to 9.3 after 20 minutes. — 5 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.2

Terrific nose. So fresh and pure. So so Pommard. Stones, spice, tea like aromas and deep cherry fruit. Juicy and complex with lovely fruit and purity. Fresh and ample but also energetic and linear. Delicious. Terrific volume and freshness. So pure. So clean. Amazing purity. Really impressive fruit soak on the finish. Exceptional village wine. — 6 years ago

Tommy Vincent Mathieu

9.0

Cerise, mure, surette, bon petit jus. — 7 years ago

Fredybeans

9.4

Rubis clair
Nez fruit rouge épices fume délicat viande froide
Bouche très suave et délicat
Milieu debouche mure sur la betterave cendree
Finale longue ou le fruit les épices se plongent dans mineralite


— 8 years ago

with El