Sipping Fine Wine

9.3

This wine honors long-time Shafer Winemaker Elias Fernandez and his relentless pursuit of quality. Sourced from a single ridgetop vineyard adjacent to the southern border of Stags Leap District, gravelly clay loam, sourced from a rugged and remote part of the estate, the grapes for Relentless are a blend of 90% Syrah and 10% Petite Sirah, which is a more bucolic grape than Syrah, providing for a blend that becomes an extraordinarily lush and rich wine. Aged for 30 months on 100% new French oak, deep Ruby with aromas of concentrated dark berry fruit and a hint of smoky pepper spice. Layered meaty flavors of blackberry, cherry and blueberry explode on your palate and subtle tannins relax to a nice long finish, great mouthfeel. This is certainly one of the best Syrah’s I have tasted. Will age well! — 6 years ago

Samantha Amberg

9.4

Singed wood, dried tobacco, bitter almond, this has a lot to give. — 6 years ago

O Smith

9.4

Tasty sav blanc type wine — 7 years ago

Mick Farrell

9.3

Tetsuya's course 9 — 8 years ago

with Paul, Peter and 3 others

Rivers Bradford

9.0

Smooth and smokey — 9 years ago

B Schrader

9.2

Nice and crisp. — 10 years ago

Skip Smyser

9.3

Exceptional nose, red fruit forward, high quality and dense rich flavors. Mineralality lingering mid pallet. Castello di Amorosa is referred to as the Disneyland of Napa Valley. They have a wine for every price point but not enough attention is paid to their upper end wines. Exceptional 🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷 — 10 years ago

Josh Wang

9.8

Delicious full body wine. — 10 years ago

Piergiuseppe Trigona

10

Don Anselmo 93 — 11 years ago

Olga Tuttle

Partner/Winemaker Teutonic Wines

9.9

Sicilian wine from the base of Mount Etna. 95% Nerello Mascalese, 5% Nerello Cappuccio. Soft but chalky, earthy, more low tones, herbaceous but not too much. Medium body, slight rhubarb, but again- not in the way wines can be when they are too young to drink. Really lovely wine. Apparently, the winery is no longer making wine due to lack of interest from the family heirs. — 12 years ago

Pablo Cetlinski

10

Oily, cherry, herby. Beautifull!!!! — 6 years ago

Tessa De Vilbiss

9.0

tropical + reminds me of flowers — 6 years ago

Eva Harvard

9.2

Great Pinot — 7 years ago

Isaac Pirolo

9.2

Only took two hours to finally unleash this beast. Fortunately that beast was a peppered beef jerky and chocolate-chip blueberry cupcake. — 7 years ago

Antoine Pin

Wine Buyer Kroger/QFC

9.5

Absolutely. When I have the room. 95pts. ANW206 — 8 years ago

Paul Henderson

8.9

Needs to open, but a complex example of Tempranillo. Fruit comes through, but filtered through oak and vanilla. — 9 years ago

with Ramona

Magdalena Spirydowicz

9.2

09 don chisciotte fiano skin contact, dark beauty — 10 years ago

Maya Kaczorowski

9.0

Strong Malbec with peppery touch. Drink again — 10 years ago

Lori Peterson

9.4

Great bold wine. Smoother than most reds I have had from Argentina. Similar to a spicey Cab with a peppery finish. — 11 years ago

Ryan Guy

9.7

Barnyard, cherries, pie crust, red currant with layers upon layers on the lifted nose. You could just sit and smell this wine and be satisfied. Smokey cedar with juicy red fruits on the palate. Rich and smooth with balance and finesse. Excellent Pinot! — 11 years ago

Mike Holzer

9.1

Typical very good toro wine. Great black fruit. Good length — 6 years ago

with Ania

Tobin Trevarthen

9.1

A garnet plum color that yielded a tasty treat for the senses. — 6 years ago

Ned Gray Creed

9.0

Nice to taste a bottle before it was famous. — 7 years ago

Amber Camille

9.0

Tart, dry. Actually decent — 7 years ago

G Sivec

9.0

Great with our Mexican meal at Toucan Resort. Definite do over. I hope they have it at the LCBO in Ontario. — 8 years ago

Kathleen

9.0

Nice. Good body. A little acidic
Good buy. — 9 years ago

Marcos Fonseca Santos

9.2

17.07.2015 — 10 years ago

Cathy HO

9.4

Drank this wine at a famous wine collector's home in Tokyo. — 10 years ago

Ray Boudoin

8.9

Crisp start kind of like cranberry then a nice licorice oaken finish... Unique! — 11 years ago

Andrew Lampasone

Owner Wine Watch Selections

9.2

Older vines this goes into barrique for aging — 11 years ago