Riccardo L.

9.2

Volcanic. Eruption. — a year ago

David Kline

9.0

Powering through the last of the oak beers on the way to wine immersion. On a positive note, the baby now has a room! Anyway, last year’s Good Gourd! Looks like dark tea or a hot cider, nice eruption of bubbling magic. Orange tinged; good start! Super spiced cinnamon apple, caramel, vanilla, nutmeg, and oddly smelling of a California wine. Sierra foothills mascarpone notes and also a hot buttered rum smell. Cinnamon tea, clove studded orange, whiskey-lemon-honey tea, toasted coconut, sweet tobacco, brown sugar, dates, fruitcake candied notes with a nod to its density. A cream soda finish with raisinets. #cigarcitybrewing #cigarcitygoodgourd #goodgourd #imperialale #ale #beer #bier #biere #birra #imperialpumpkinale #pumpkinale #pumpkinbeer #ccb #halloweenbeer — 4 years ago

with Courtney

KA

9.9

Ridiculously good last bottle of rum from 1929 before the eruption of the volcano in Martinique — 6 years ago

Chris England

9.3

🌋 Volcanic explosion of aroma & taste in this 2nd wine of La Mission Haut-Brion in a top year @ £67 that's drinking beautifully 👍

🍇 46% Cab S, 44% Mer & 10% Cab F

🍷 Opaque ash ruby

👃 Smokey earthy volcanic ash, lava smoke, minerals, gravel, coffee, burnt oak, dark plum, blackcurrant & cherry -Just fab 😍

👄 Med+ body of perfectly balanced silky, slight dry, earthy dirty mashed & stewed refined creamy deep dark & light red fruits

🎯 Long eruption of fruit embers all over w/ liquorice elegance — 7 years ago

Mike Holzer

9.1

First night in Boston. Pop and pour. Wow. Red fruit eruption. Leather. Fine tannins. Long. Delicious. If this is example of 2007s…..drink next 3-5 years. Will try again tomorrow as 1/2 bottle left. — 2 years ago

with Ania

Kyriaki Kalimeri

9.6

this vineyard was destroyed after the latest volcanic eruption — 5 years ago

Chris England

9.7

After a tiring day shopping 👠 👜 with Mrs E you gotta love Barcelona that you can pop to the local supermarket next to the hotel, grab some meat, cheeses, hummus & bread as well as a €295 98-100 Point by Vega Sicilia Unico 🤣 & a decanter + some glasses, then sit in your room overlooking the beach & city to chill @ sunset 😎 💗 Barcelona 🇪🇸

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Drinking superb already but will become legendary 😍

📍 Vega Sicilia Unico 2006

🏵 97 points w/ huge potential but I prefer 04 at this crazy price 😁

💥 14% ABV

🍇 94% Tempranillo & 6% Cabernet Sauvignon

🍷 Opaque pitch black ruby

👃 A heady intoxicating nose of date & prune jam, chocolate kinky goo sauce, raspberry & cherry Black Forest gateaux, melted liquorice, smoked dry cured meat, mint infused fresh cut cedar & herbs w/ spiced damson plums & subtle oak 😍

👄 Full bodied rich & ripe raspberry & cherry through creamy cocoa w/ dark plum, prune, blackcurrant, liquorice & parma violets

🎯 Long prune choc cherry & raspberry gateaux cake food fight eruption in your cake hole 💥 Did somebody say food fight 🤣 — 6 years ago

Willem Booij

9.4

What a big nose! This is a eruption of dark red fruit fully blended with great use of oak. Dark chocolate and spice mix like Ras el Hanout. Super juicy and silky&soft — 3 years ago

David Kline

9.5

Huge milk chocoalate to Cappuccino colored eruption of thickest froth dwindles, flattening to a lunar landscape. Dark chocolate and coffee elements initiate. Machinery. Roasted almond-in-shell, vanilla and hazelnut aromas. This stout will zap the tongue with malty coffee notes that feel like a 9 volt battery connection, then shimmer in bitter arabica, dried violet, valerian root, nutmeg, clove tinges of ginger. The whole almost suggests licorice, but the flavor isolates encourage soloism. Dark chocolate abates, revealing rich roasted coffee in a splendid finish. Launch into the darkest astral day with the breakfast for champion cosmonauts. — 5 years ago

Chris England

9.5

Like wearing silky underpants whilst apple bobbing covered in gooey sticky toffee 😉 This £97 fills your upmost desires for a good Blanc de Blanc bobbing session 😍

🏵 95 points & will improve

📍Tattinger Comtes de Champagne 2006

🍷 Light golden straw

👃 Caramelised apple over toasted butter brioche w/ citrus zest, honey, soft smoke, vanilla & wet crushed chalky minerals

👄 Never-ending eruption of fine bubbles in a med bodied creamy mousse of caramelised tangy green apple covered in zingy citrus infused honey w/ dry rock minerals in med acidity - a tiny bubble tickle in every crevice

🎯 Long dry mineral infused caramel honey apple & citrus buttery sweet biscuit finish

🧀 Paired with a cheese sarnie 🥪 & sunshine 🌞

Bubblelicious 😍 in a #zaltoglass @zaltify — 6 years ago