🐶 Epic bottle swap from Roger this month - what a lucky boy I am 😍 Check out his review also 👍 a 💯 RP wine! & so much life left in it 😎
💨 4+ hr
🍇 66% Cab S, 19% Mer, 11% Cab F & 4% Pet V
🍷 Dark opaque garnet ruby
👃 Mocha, burnt oak smoke, wet earth/leaves/minerals, lead, leather & herbs through dark ripe spiced mashed berries & plum
👄 Med+ body of super silky well integrated dark full fruits w/ a mocha, liquorice & earthy backbone
🎯 Long earthy dark berry, mocha & sweet liquorice smooth 💋 — 8 years ago
Pours a thick dark black with almost no head. Chocolate, vanilla, coffee, molasses, and bourbon all playing nicely with each other with no one flavor overpowering the others. A very nice barrel aged stout. — 8 years ago
2001 Case Basse Di Gianfranco Soldera Riserva Brunello. Drank this at Toscana w JM and others. First red of the night and this was epic. We thought it would be too young- decanted an hour or so. It was perfect. So smooth, rich, no hard edges, velvety, and long finish. This was my fave bottle of this wine we've ever had. KLD agreed it was showing perfectly. — 9 years ago
1994 Screaming a Eagle Cab. Drank at Charcoal. Loved this wine! Epic. Balanced vanilla, fruit, oak and amazingly long finish. Epic. — 9 years ago
Epic 1998: stunningly fresh & young, but so much density & development at the same time — 11 years ago
Wine 3 of an epic lunch. — 11 years ago
I know this site is mainly for wine, but nothing like a 7 year old beer to renew your faith in local brewing. Dried bananas mixed with candied lime zest with a bit of barleywine style malt on the finish. Amazing. — 11 years ago
Absolute perfection. I've chased the ghost of this wine since the first time I tasted it almost 2 yrs ago and was hopeful this bottle would show as well as the first. It did. Silky, still great fruit, mushroom, leather, truffles and tobacco. The finish was accompanied by heavenly harps with notes of unicorn tears. Epic stuff that remains one of the greatest wines I've ever had the privilege of tasting. Was slightly tight upon opening but after an hour it exploded in the glass. — 8 years ago
This was pretty epic. It needed a nap and it is ready to roll. — 8 years ago
A beautiful epic wine from a rare year indeed! — 8 years ago
This is the best wine I have ever had in my entire life. It's the embodiment of everything burgundy is supposed to be. Completely and totally epic and transcendent. Drinking perfectly. Aromas of ripe strawberries, macerated raspberries, soft red cherries, all spice, and magic! On a scale of 1-10 this wine is a 79. — 9 years ago
Fairly epic. But give it a few years. In stock now. — 9 years ago
Black cherry, raspberry currant, licorice, dried herbs, dusty leather and oak. Great structure and well-integrated tannins. — 10 years ago
One of the most epic wines I could ever wish to enjoy :-) — 10 years ago
'01 vintage. Epic bottle. I love Rayas. So so different to anything else. — 11 years ago
This was epic! Beautiful nose with amazing barnyard character. Almost smelled French. On the palate great minerality, great texture, fine tannins and fruit! Could have gone for many more years. Had with braised ribs in port wine reduction sauce. — 12 years ago
Late night coif — 8 years ago
This is as good as Bordeaux gets. Pure perfection in a glass and got even better with an hour+ in the decanter. Wonderful earthy notes, Forrest floor, leather, spice, faint menthol and bell pepper, floral, cigar and some dark fruits finished with the kiss of God and a drop of angel tears. One of the few wines I've ever had that I would rate 100 and an epic experience. — 9 years ago
This is an amazing beer. Delicious! — 9 years ago
Epic stuff. Graceful, elegant aged cab with brilliant acidity, depth of fruit, texture, nuance. Fascinating. — 10 years ago
1993 Domaine Dujac 1st Cru Les Gruenchers Burgundy. Drank at The Grill on the Alley w K, McC, and Gill. Awesome treat to try this wine. Was in perfect shape, despite its age and this might have been our fave of the night. Def notes of plum still lingering on this wine. Epic. — 10 years ago
Not a bad way to end the epic #birthyear tasting! — 11 years ago
Robert Rothfield
Epic Rutherford....great nose and depth of flavor though perhaps not as full throttle as recent Greer’s....as good if not better than any 2011 I’ve had — 7 years ago