Bob McDonald

9.0

A very big wine in all respects. A certain amount of earthiness with plum on nose with a less than perfect coarseness and astringency. From these 100+ year old vines deserves to be better than this. Chose this wine tonight as we are travelling to the Hunter Valley tomorrow for the Annual Launch on Saturday of the latest vintage of Maurice OShea. The 2014 is one of the greatest vintages in the fickle Hunter Valley for decades. 99 points from Halliday and a potential 50 year wine. Edited note 2 days later - Halliday spoke at the launch and said it was a potential 100 year old wine.!! — 9 years ago

Mark Gaydos

9.7

Elegant and aromas of light fruit. Beautiful but has plenty of time left. A mistress at the beginning of the relationship. — 9 years ago

with Alan and Helen

Matt Trader

9.2

If I had one sentence to describe this wine, it is this: "Ca' Togni is the definition of desire." The vintage was a 2006, and let me tell ya, have the years been great to this mistress! Showing a deep brick red color, and a wine still showing all its wonderful fruits, with an expected maturity thrusting forth delightful complexity, this wine will make you love Black Hamburg! (Black Muscat) On the nose, notes of dried figs, dried rose petals, old leather, strawberry-rubarb jam, followed by a pallet of racy dark maraschino cherries, brown spices, and a vanilla finish. Phillip Togni is a hell of a wine maker out of Spring Mountain! I highly recommend trying one of these, even if it is $50, it was most certainly worth it! On top of that, it is 1 of only three wines he crafts, still in his 80's, still the king of the mountain. — 9 years ago

B

10

1990 DRC Romanee St. Vivant Burgundy. Drank this alongside the 1990 Richebourg at private room Melisse dinner. This wine is more fickle, less assertive, and playful- hard to pin down. So interesting and delicious, but overshadowed by the Richebourg. — 10 years ago

John Visto

9.3

A Bordeaux country lady in the streets...er nose, and a Spanish mistress in the sheets...I mean palette — 10 years ago

with Jarod and Madison

Simon Burke-Kennedy

9.0

Brown, caramel and tasty. This was great Christmas Day beer. — 11 years ago

Ian Hunter

9.3

I left the 1982 girlfriend at home to enjoy this 1982 mistress. — 11 years ago

with doug

Miguel de Leon

Service Director/Wine Educator Casa Mono

9.5

Seductive aroma of yellow fruit. A Chenin drinker's Spanish mistress. — 12 years ago

Cat Matson

9.7

Mistress by alpha box & dice mclaren vale — 12 years ago

with Michael

Olga Bell

9.3

Harder plz, mistress lemon peel. — 9 years ago

Meredith branstad

9.7

Midnight sun brewing, Monk's Mistress
Dark and a bit malty, complex and smooth. Not bitter. — 9 years ago

James Ellis

9.1

Oh aye, this was a sexy mistress! — 9 years ago

James Matthews

9.0

I'm flying! Gold medal. This is pretty pervy wine. Leather baby. For your mistress, not your wife. — 9 years ago

Kate Bock

9.3

Loveeee. Fickle and nervy but showing beautifully. Medium acid, high toned herbals, & red fruits galore! — 10 years ago

Jeffrey Long

8.9

Grapefruit pith, light hops, some maltiness emerges upon warming. A pretty decent IPA for a warm summer evening. — 10 years ago

Hannah Barbour

9.0

This is so delicious. Really quirky packaging 'hints of lipstick and leather'. Perfect to drink now but definitely better after it's been open a day or so. — 10 years ago

with James

Ben Cane

Head Winemaker, Westwood Wines, Sonoma CA

9.3

Was shy and even touch Brett first
Opened to elegant juicy mistress, come hither.... — 11 years ago

Philip Carpenter

Founder/Educator santabarbarawinetalk.com

9.9

The secret Pinot...from one of my favorite vineyards. — 12 years ago

Gilles de Chambure

Master Sommelier & Educator

9.9

pirchased from mistress of frederic Mugnier in 1961 in viager — 12 years ago

Josh Eichorn

9.3

My last bottle. A surprising wine from younger vines, this is meant to be the "low end" wine from Torbreck. However, this wine has taken awhile to show its true potential. Excellent clarity with some brickishness at the edges. Still quite vibrant with at least another 5-7 years left in it. The mataro shows through strongly, but mixes well with the more forceful Aussie Grenache. The candied cherry mixes with a slight funkiness to give away the mataro, but intrigue you to want to know more. Obviously fined and filtered (no sediment to speak of at 11 years old) this is a restrained Barossa red, but very elegant. This is no "juvenile" but a precocious mistress, a Lolita, if you will. Worth seeking out. Worth having again. Dave Powell understands what this wine can be. Bravo. — 12 years ago

Thomas Brenner

8.9

Regardless of how much I thought I knew about a Roussane blend, this may very well be described as Chardonnay's less fickle and more structured and defined big brother. True, this is a blend, yet tastes like a buttery, bold and structured Chardonnay. White flowers, yellow tree fruits and malo, oak. — 9 years ago

Zachary Price

9.0

The Alterra label is produced under the umbrella of the Alder Fels estate (though it may be owned by the Adams Wine Group). While the estate resides in Sonoma, the Alterra label (and several others) resides in Santa Rosa. That's about all I could find on the producer. So, Pinot Noir, that fickle little grape, chiefly known from Burgundy - it has found a permanent home on the west coast of the US. One of my favorite varietals! ~$14 | #pinotnoir #arroyoseco

On the eyes: Bright, rusty red, orange rim, light stain, med tears, no gas/floc.

On the nose: Chalky cherry rose, and vanilla and spice. Med alcohol.

On the tongue: med tannin, med acid, med alcohol, med body, juicy. Jammy strawberry-cherry ending in a warm clove and baking spices mineralty.
— 9 years ago

Bill Ward

9.4

Coy mistress — 9 years ago

Antonio Gianola

9.4

This bottle could be my mistress. So pretty at 26 — 10 years ago

Christanna Honer

9.5

Made by Jaffurs- seductive and possibly addictive stuff. — 10 years ago

William Gordon

9.0

Sorry guys, I found this short and uninteresting. A bright black fruit front just dies in the palette and disappoints me in the end. Entirely possible that this bottle needs at least 5 more years in bottle. Cornas is fickle. — 10 years ago

Bryce Einhorn

10

Just the right amount of syrup and spices. Tastes like fall should — 11 years ago

with Scott

Mitch Cahoon

Sommelier/Wine Director Petra's Bistro & Wine Bar

9.4

Terrific Pinot in a tough vintage — 11 years ago

with Lauren

Phil Stark

8.9

If you can get this on special it's definitely worth a go. Classic central otago. — 12 years ago

Quinzy Johnson

9.5

The Mistress never does the Johnson's wrong! — 13 years ago

with Kirsten