Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Gorgeous nose. I adore Frühburgunder. Adore it. Unreal classic intense Früh spice. Just penetrating your nose like nothing else. Violets and ripe mid season cherries. Wow. Dead decaying leaves that smell so good. Best decayed leaves you’ll ever smell. I have also smelled many decaying leaves in my lifetime. Amazing nose. Just sick. Palate is ripe and rounder the the Spätburgunder “J” with exquisite fruit and powerful concentration. Huge tiny berry fruit intensity and so so detailed and nimble. Ripe and stoney tannins and unreal persistence. Outrageous and most people would say closed. But it’s all there. My god this is insane. Fresh and so intense. The spice on the nose is at Dune levels after 10 minutes. Perfume of the gods. Amazing inner mouth florals and such painfully intense sweetness. Young and raw but my god there is so much material here and the wine does not quit on the finish. This is a 20 year Frühburgunder.

After air. Wow. Epic spice bomb of the gods nose. Just pure perfume now. Palate is getting melty and more opulent. The precision is unreal on this but still after 25 minutes this seems like it will need 2 hours to open up. I’ll be back. — 5 years ago

Dewet Bisschoff

9.0

Excellent example of Chenin done well — 6 years ago

Adam Carroll

9.6

Dune nantucket long way to go — 7 years ago

Nick Ferrall

9.0

Nice depth once it opened up, but it also had an edge of sweetness that I wasn't looking for. — 8 years ago

Carrie Zulkowski

9.5

A lovely, briney wine with a Dune-reference name? It doesn't get much better. — 9 years ago

Bill Irvin

9.7

Enjoyed at Dune in ACK — 10 years ago

Cherry Flo

9.6

Vin souple et frais dune belle longueur, aux arômes de pêches de vigne. — 5 years ago

Amanda Wadeson

9.0

Bought on 2018 Michigan trip — 5 years ago

with Zach

Sam Zimman

9.5

Plugging into a higher consciousness via acid. Sliding backwards down a sand dune. Seeing ur friend in traffic on the freeway going the other direction and locking eyes — 6 years ago

Anthony Pro

8.9

Straw like in colour. Subtle honey and pistachio. Beautiful. — 7 years ago

Dock Hooks

9.7

Showing its rhythmic licks and groovy colors (Deep Purple and bold) presciently savvy to a rock-n-roll world well before its time and blasting some bright-lights bling showing bing cherry gradually toned down by dried fruit right out the archer bag (often strapped across my back) while on brisk hike along wet leaf-lined trail through a late-evening forest (think musky mossy spice) as a 3/4 moon shines its magic over a distant blue pacific as the Zin unctuously offers a bigger-yet blueberry coating, front to back, and soft tannins bring back the dried fruit and a leisurely downhill creep to that distant ocean thereafter rewarded by a sit down on the seaward primary dune gazing at the moon and, of course, another hit. It's a rock-n-roll love affair in a bottle, top to bottom. Get some...😎 — 8 years ago

Julia Eklund

9.1

Awesome rose for the price. White peach, cantaloupe and creamy mouthfeel — 9 years ago

William Morgan

9.5

Meritage, gouda, Dune #drinkingeatingreading #twitterafterdork — 11 years ago

Tooty Frooty

9.0

Harkonnenblod. Småpartierna på bolaget. — 5 years ago

October Cleveland

9.3

With the irrepressible Virginia Willcock. A cracking cab. Savoury, elegant, but powerful. With red snapper over fire, with saltbush, costal rosemary, beach mustard, dune spinach. — 5 years ago

Marissa A. Ross

Wine Editor, Bon Appétit

8.9

On the nose, this Malvasia di Candia blend from Emilia-Romagna smells like driving into Palm Springs from Highway 111 with the windows down—an intoxicating breeze of squishy peaches, lemon, hot asphalt, and freshly watered lawns.
Sipping on “Ageno” tastes similarly warm, with notes of apricot, navel oranges, leather, and sweat you accidentally licked off your own face. It’s bold but with balanced acidity and finishes with sandy tannins that feel just swept off a dune. — 6 years ago

Joseph Leahy

9.0

Tropical candy on the nose (star fruit perhaps). Easy drinking. Was impressed for $11 — 7 years ago

Dewet Bisschoff

8.9

Special Chenin. — 9 years ago

Angela Bortugno

8.9

Floral aromas and intense berry flavors. Supple and elegant with a lovely, long finish. Great with my ramen at Dune in Nantucket. — 9 years ago

Tom Blalock

9.7

2006 and outstanding $50 on menu at Dune. — 10 years ago