Alex Lallos

Owner No Limit Fine Wines, Private Wine Consultant

9.0

Super solid Chardonnay. Only $35 and worth every penny. Crystalline yellow with a lime green tinge. Slightly hazy. Great nose of orange rind, lemon zest, essential oil, verbena, and creme brulee. Framed by subtle oak. Almost reminds me kistler Durrell — 9 years ago

with Lee

Eric Bennett

9.5

Hits all the essential notes in a refined and unpretentious manner. — 10 years ago

Nat Gunter

Winemaker Cultivate Wines

9.1

Bottle was empty FAST! @Richard Betts — 10 years ago

with Lily

Aran Healy

Partner Ruby WIne, Carlotta Cellars, Thistle Cellars

9.8

Showing very very well. Lemon sorbet! Essential oils. — 10 years ago

Laura Burgund

9.3

Very smooth & velvety — 10 years ago

Jörgen Lindström Carlvik

Owner, Brix Wine Consultants

9.0

Showing great tonight. Didn't take formal notes, but I did like the structure. Serving temperature will be essential! Keep this monster cool. — 11 years ago

August Deimel

9.5

Not really inclined to Delectable my own wines but I would like to note this was amazing in a smothered onion sauce (recipe from Essential Italian Cooking) — 12 years ago

Geoff Troup

Sales Eder Brothers, Cellar Fine Wines

9.0

Who loves pouilly fume? This guy! Grass, rocks, like I'm eating the backyard. Citrus and refreshingly tart. Essential pouilly fume. — 9 years ago

Pieter Verdickt

9.0

Thanks Whole Foods for this great price-quality cab franc! — 9 years ago

Courtney Cochran

Sommelier/Host hiptastes.com

9.4

Let's begin with one word: FRAGRANCE. Just back from Italia, I will posit that this deep-garnet siren is just about the essence of that famed land on ones nostrils. My olfactory is pleased, greets this cuvee: *ciao*. We get right to business, where smelling is concerned: how very red tea of you, Amore. How very cinar-esque you smell today. Is that chanterelle on your breath, cracked black pepper in your hair, gravel crunching warmly under your feet? Thought so, certo. Moving right along, we address that thing essential to all dancers, composers and clothiers: STRUCTURE. Yours is on the delicious knife-edge of acidic to too-acidic, tannic to too-tannic, in both cases falling on the right side of the blade. Your alcohol level is just warm enough, not hot, and your finish is somehow cool and lingering. You are a cool cat, balanced and self assured. But wait: there's more, because we didn't talk abt your other PERFUMES leaping from the glass and traveling lovingly to my olfactory: brown spice, astronaut strawberry, cranberry, purple flower. DOLCE & GABBANA/ we have, at last, your newest fragrance: La Dolce Susumaniello. Carry on! 🇮🇹 — 10 years ago

Beto Esteves

9.1

Great balance — 10 years ago

Craig Williams

9.5

Dancer crafts lovely wines. This '10 exhibits essential oil aromas of citrus and white flower; appealing acidity and weight with a youthful finish. — 10 years ago

Philip Carpenter

Founder/Educator santabarbarawinetalk.com

9.7

Larry's roussanne is a game changer. Essential elements of the varietal are present...but bumped up with a lively acid streak. Going out with a bang before flying back to UK tomorrow. — 11 years ago

Craig Williams

9.4

Initial H2S ( rotten eggs) blows off within 5 mins after opening revealing aromas of essential oils and citrus. More convincing is the length and weight w/o being tannic or cloying. Slight C02 adds lift. This exemplifies great viticulture: quality fruit with impressive extract from Trebbiano no less!! — 9 years ago

Rich Huber

9.5

This wine is a quint essential Syrah!! The velvety mouth feel throughout is phenomenal. — 10 years ago

Justin Hansohn

9.0

Sans liege. 2010. Bright with the essential fruit leather character to back it up. The 16% abv is surprisingly well hidden. As with most cali these days I mostly taste weather but nonetheless Not over extracted and not over ripe...I think...if so coulda fooled me, and I'm pretty happy about it. — 10 years ago

John Wilmot

8.9

2011. Fun wine. — 10 years ago

Ryan Mayeda

9.1

great red blend — 10 years ago

Dock Hooks

9.6

After long day on the Harley, this crisp rose from Provence proves clean showing an essential mineral-based quench washing away the trail dust and enriching the scallops, etc. in the brilliant French garden @ The Market Place on 20 Wall Street as sweet jazzy guitar works with the wine melting the neck and shoulder stress associated with 7 hours in the saddle screaming across NC, from my azure Carolina coast to our monster waves of blue mountains - Asheville! Sublime almost all the time! Cheers — 11 years ago

Jurij Avramovic

9.7

Essential morellino — 12 years ago