This was a bit of a brute. Super ripe and a touch stewed on the pour. After about 30min of air the stewed character was gone and this fantastic. Dark fruits, wood and spice. Still fiercely tannic. Great with food or on its own. This really wasn’t showing any signs of losing steam. — 7 years ago
Impromptu meet up at Classic! Having a relaxing Friday afternoon with good friends and good wine makes for a perfect start to a weekend!
I was only able to enjoy this from pop and pour until about 30mins later when I needed to leave, but as I was leaving, this was full steam ahead drop dead gorgeous! Black cherry, muddled raspberries, cocoa dusted cherries. Clay and herbal complexities on the palate with a finish that brought about some bark/sandalwood. Wonderful! — 8 years ago
Pure joy, but losing some steam in my@mind eg getting old. sad. — 9 years ago
Stunning perfume. Starts out strong on the palate but loses some steam as it finishes and doesn't end quite as vibrant. Still, it is a terrific wine and if you wondered what to drink with your pasta with Bolognese sauce - this is it! — 10 years ago
So clean and fresh Like a steam in the mountains under a pine tree — 10 years ago
Very enjoyable Wednesday Wine Committee lunch today with @Weston Eidson & @Colby Siratt hosting. Same format as always...1 sparkler, 3 whites, 4 reds and 1 dessert wine all tasted blind.
Lovely aromatics here. Mix of red and black fruit. Tar, pipe tobacco, graphite and black cherry cola. This picked up steam the longer it was open. I’d hold these. I called this left bank 2012 vintage. — 7 years ago
Raspberry compote, creme de violette, a handful of wet soil with crushed twigs and leaves. Balance and structure like the work of a romantic carpenter building his dream house. Like a semi-lucid dream where a warm, hazy sky is breaking like a glow stick into twilight hues and you’re on a beautiful old double decker steam train with a rooftop standing area. You’re whizzing by vibrant green fields of gigantic flowers, their petals flapping slowly in the wind like sheets drying on a line. Old oak trees growing fruits in colours that don’t exist yet. Glowing fireflies just above your head like painterly orange astronomy. In the dream it’s New Years Eve but in the dream everyday is New Years Eve and you could very well spend everyday alone with your dream power. — 8 years ago
Really good. — 9 years ago
Great colour, bright and golden. Smell of butter fudge and mango. It was great to our steam cocked cod with asparagus and butter sauce. We like! — 10 years ago
1970 vintage. Losing steam but oh so lovely — 10 years ago
Super good!!! Good aroma. This is really well mixed French and US. Elegant, but enough volume and concentration. Sweetness as the feature of CA CS. 2013 @2384, tatong - X Steam, 190310-190313 — 7 years ago
I know now this needs more time to integrate, but it’s down-soft in the background, so difficult to see a balanced future. Warm plum and black berry-currant, cranberry stuffing, rich chocolate, sherry trifle, all loosely sprinkled with fine graphite. Steamy jungle flora notes merge with hemp stem and black cherry skins. Hard chocolate entry bringing dried blackberry and even drier black cherry stripped naked in a sauna of chamomile and phantom eucalyptus outlines describing a swarthy shadow through steam. A recent denizen of the cedar benches, puffing sweet tobaccos? There is subtle power at play despite the fruit-forward leanings. I was initially on the fence with this. This one is enigmatic with a nod to Napa in the 1970s. #Napa #Walton #cab #cabernet #cabsauv4life #cabsav #california #egelhoff #EgelhoffWalton #Bobegelhoff #egelhoffwines #StHelena #sthelenacab — 8 years ago
Flamboyant aromas of orange/honeysuckle and green drupe fruits. Light on the front of the palate yet gains steam from there. Warm shortbread with a side of macadamia nuts. Hint of tarragon and white pepper make for a minute plus finish. Decant for at least an hour. — 8 years ago


White pepper for days! I thought this bottle was off, and maybe it's weird, but I'm interested to track it. Day 2- this wine makes a lot more sense. Needed to blow off some steam! — 9 years ago
Nice balance of hops and malt. A touch weightier than the regular Anchor ⚓️ Stream. — 10 years ago
Nice fullbodied red that went well with steam. — 10 years ago
Laith A
Losing some steam since I had it last .. starting to show less fruit and more leather, grilled meat juice and smoke! Still very good though! — 6 years ago