David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.3

The nose reveals, floral, ripe; blueberries blackberries, dark cherries, plum, boysenberries, strawberries and black raspberries. Limestone minerals, dry crush rocks, dark spice, sweet tarry notes, steeped tea, vanilla, some clove, a whiff of nutmeg, dark chocolate, saddle-wood to cedar, some black licorice, garrigue with blue flowers, violets and withering dark florals.

The body is medium full, round and lush. The tannins are around 80% resolved and still have some sticky tar. The structure, tension, length & balance have nearly come about to full evolution. Ripe; blueberries blackberries, dark cherries, baked plum, boysenberries, strawberries and black raspberries. Limestone minerals, dry crush rocks, dark spice, sweet tarry notes, steeped tea, vanilla, some clove, a whiff of nutmeg, dark chocolate, a little mushroom on the last glass, saddle-wood to cedar, some black licorice, garrigue, dry clay & top soil with blue flowers, violets and withering dark florals. The acidy is like a waterfall. The finish is ripe, elegant, well balanced, polished with powdery dry tannins on the long set. It’s finish is persistent for minutes.

Photos of; the Joseph Phelps tasting terrace, inside lounge area with original old vats and the spectacular view off the terrace.

@Dawn Emory Sampling wines along their evolutionary path is amazing. My thoughts still haven’t changed great wine for less $ with patience. — 5 years ago

twunks

9.0

Not too sweet with a rose-like texture. — 7 years ago

Joe Kaiser

9.2

Cheers! To a wonderful wine friend, Brad! Always remembered never forgotten! Our best Joe & Dawn — 7 years ago

Ned Gray Creed

9.4

A little Corsican Nelly/Grenny at dusk. Cheers to #yvesleccia from the North Coast vines. — 8 years ago

David Kline

9.2

Cantaloupe rind, grape-y feet, lemon seed, darjeeling tea with lemon zest, sugar sculpture, wheat biscuit nose over cork oak. Hazelnut, oak, brimming with acanthus and a tight spiral of cinnamon oil and cherry cough drop. Loosens to reveal fig, orange bitters, peppercorn, brushy evergreen shrubs, campfire wood smoldering hot to smoky resins, juniper, smoke-point olive oil, and singed paper. Remember this having a sweetness at bottle's dawn, but alas, dear chaps, we have reached the end, and she is smoldering like a pyrotechnic fuse. August and stolid, amplified, and robust for a highland lady! Give her a dance, but it is she who shall do the spinning! — 8 years ago

with Courtney

Randy B

9.0

Paid $27. A complex, a bit sweeter than advertised sake. Good complement to sashimi. — 9 years ago

Matthew McBride

9.0

Santa Rita hills showing its stuff. Bright fruit. Easy drinking. Makes me want to throw a dinner party seating at dusk. — 9 years ago

Mike Dombrow

Buyer Sunfish Cellars

9.3

So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
— 9 years ago

Wayfarer Vineyard

10

This wine emits a pale yellow-green silver glow. Wayfarer Vineyard’s cool coastal influence is evident in the wine’s complex aromatics, layered texture and impeccable balance. An interplay of citrus, orange blossom, Asian pear, white peach and flinty aromatics echoes and expands on the palate. Flavors are lifted and extended by acidity that washes over the sumptuous structure framing the expansive mid-palate. A finish of tangerine and acacia with hints of roasted almond and honeysuckle lingers in the mouth. Generous and complex, this wine will continue to evolve and open. Cellar 5-8+ years.

Waiting for the perfect moment to harvest was essential in achieving aromatic intensity while maintaining the wine’s buoyant acidity. We hand-harvested in pre-dawn hours to ensure firm, cool clusters were delivered to the winery. After gentle whole-cluster pressing, the wine settled for 12 to 24 hours followed by carefully-monitored racking. Our 2012 barrel program utilized 65% new French oak at medium toast levels. Cooperages include Damy, Francois Freres, Remond and Latour. Alcoholic fermentation was slow as guided by native yeasts, and lees were stirred often until malolactic fermentation was fully completed. The wine aged in barrel for 15 months and was bottled unfined and unfiltered.
— 10 years ago

Ceccherini Cristiano

9.5

Marvellous
Being Kellerberg the most aromatic expression of the Wachau area it had found a lovely balance with the minerality that has come out
So dawn good and easy to drink that disappeared in no time😜 — 6 years ago

Doctor No

9.1

Dawn of a new era at W-S but same-old at Hirsch. This is starting to get towards the end of it's prime drinking window but tonight it was lovely and had sweet, ripe-but-not-overripe candies fruit notes but no cola/pomegranate thankfully, and the zingy acidity balanced out the fruit well, which is classic Hirsch to me. Was in SF for a conference and picked this up at K&L for dinner with friends — 7 years ago

Mark Flesher

9.4

This is Cobra Dawn of the Dank. Last of the four and I hate to admit is the winner over the Dogfish! Poured a hazy DANK amber color into the glass. Nose of citrus and melon, almost kind of smelled like a torqued up Hefeweizen. Great hop structure. Finished really well. Almost as well as a Stone beer. But not quite! LOL, this was still a ridiculously good beer. Great way to start the weekend! — 7 years ago

TheSkip

9.3

It's my great pleasure to write the inaugural note for the inaugural Cabernet Sauvignon from Castrucci Wines. The winemaker is none other than @Steve Matthiasson

This is an extremely interesting wine. Quite notable vegetal notes of green pepper and tomato stem with fennel and blackberry. As the nose suggests, this continues through to the palate. The tannins are moderate. A pleasant finish. A job well done @Dawn Slavik Castrucci & @David Castrucci — 7 years ago

Andrea Bottarel

8.9

Always a pretty good,unexpected glass,ungraceful in the most shrewd way.
It did have those hints of fine lees that swinged from pear to dregs between one sniff and the other,but once in the mouth it opened up in a yellow-ish light,like a summer's dawn. — 8 years ago

Ryder Ditto

9.5

This is my wife's new favorite chardonnay. Smooth, buttery, oaky any vanilla — 8 years ago

Robert May

9.5

My two favorite beers, IPA and Amber, in one smooth, slightly hoppy, beautiful bottle. Smooth from start to end. If you love ambers and would like to step into IPAs, this is your carte Blanche to do it. I can't think of anyone who wouldn't enjoy this. — 9 years ago

Scott Cowan

9.0

Excellent Value.
Needs to breathe- a ton.
Delicious with dark chocolate. Will hold up to game, spicy red sauce, grilled buffalo burgers, and more.
Deep purple plum in the bowl that it coats with viscous legs.
Nose: Blackberry roots and vines, old leather, autumn dusk forest.
Tart cherry on the tongue leads to vanilla oak plummy mid-palate and ends with a lingering, black pepper finish. — 9 years ago

Charles Antin

Senior Wine Specialist/Auctioneer Zachys

9.3

Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he's got...lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and rip you to pieces.
Y'know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men! I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand! I don't know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin' chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player, boson's mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up and down in the water, just like a kinda top. Up ended. Well... he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. He's a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper, anyway he saw us and come in low. And three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened? Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb. — 10 years ago

Ruth Barnard

9.0

Bev Mo. —good for every day drinking — 6 years ago

Chris Madrid

9.3

Buttery, waxy and candied Meyer lemon, kumquat, and honeysuckle. Late afternoon/early dusk on a spring day. Keep enjoying this superb vino while enjoying the last rays of sun. Still warm but almost time to grab your windbreaker, start an outdoor fire and turn on the grill. — 6 years ago

with Joshua

LM Segal

9.3

Black as night, wet animal fur (in a good way, I swear) and earth-worm-laden earth lead a palate as big and smooth as a velvet zeppelin. Black berries, dark undergrowth and tangy tannins till dawn that just translate to a nice long finish. So yummy, loved a fatty veal chop! — 7 years ago

Evan Jones

9.4

Flavors of cassis and raisins at first, then musky, unfinished basement. Incredibly smooth. The nose in the glass has deep notes of cigar and the woods at dusk, which reminds me of fly fishing, but above the glass it's noticably sweeter, with oatmeal and plumb, and other notes that are harder to describe. Like wandering in the dark. — 8 years ago

with David and Guillaume

Wendy Garcia

8.9

Warm, smooth, balanced — 8 years ago

Joe Kaiser

9.4

I drank my last bottle of 02 Raphet Gevrey- Chambertin Les Combottes several months ago and decided to try 02 Raphet Gevrey- Chambertin Les Combottes Cuvée Unique which is my understanding that it was blended for an Importer or so I was told. Again this burgundy after 2-hours of decanting became expressive, balanced, with wonderfully integrated red fruit, asian spices, & cedar box, seamlessly coming together. Pairing wonderfully with the duck course! Love this wine.


On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 6:30 PM, <3173410304@mms.att.net> wrote:

> Hi All I secured a limo. However I left 4 messages yesterday & 2 today @
> Tallent. Apparently they weren't open yesterday. Mom/ Dawn tried Open Table
> to secure reservation for 12 tomorrow even 6 & 6 thinking couldn't book a
> large group no luck trying that. So am going to cancel limo & can play it
> by ear. Please respond so I know everyone is in the loop
> — 8 years ago

Ciprian Toma

8.9

La Folie de La Follette. Clones from La Tache ! Vineyard sits next to a goat pen. Sous bois, cherry, forest floor at dawn. — 9 years ago

Robert Dickinson

9.1

Had a fab Biale Black Chicken Zin last night at MuckyDuck listening to Dawn & Hawkes. Spoiled me a bit Great evening. Picked up this Seghesio Sonoma Zin at Krogers. $17 and very drinkable. Good for the PP. — 9 years ago

Charles Nebolsky

9.9

Excellent saki. Crisp smooth and still complex enough to be interesting — 10 years ago