Alexander Vadas

9.4

Lithe and filigree; charmer — 6 years ago

Randy Fuller

9.4

The medium-dark wine really has a powerful nose, or maybe I should say an “expressive” one. The dark fruit is draped in earth and minerals and some of the more lovely holiday spice and pencil-lead notes that I've run across lately. On the palate, the fruit tastes “grown up” instead of candied - savory instead of sweet. The tannic structure is firm yet fanciful, the mouthfeel flinty yet filigree. The wine will pair wonderfully with a steak or a pork chop, but it's a great sipper, too. — 7 years ago

Tom Kobylarz

9.3

Fresh, tensile and loaded with filigree structure, this is one sharp and linear dry Riesling. The cooler vintage is apparent, but I still get some peach, honey, and then the citrus parade starts with lime, lemon and pink grapefruit. An underlying saline and smoky mineral note completes the terroir expression. Complex. Gorgeous. Oddly enough this would pair exceptionally with some ice cold raw oysters with just a spritz of lemon juice.
#rudipichler #kirchweg #smaragd #riesling #austria #wosendorf — 8 years ago

Tom Kobylarz

8.9

Really liked the elegance and purity, sift and light red fruits, very fine and filigree like structure. — 9 years ago

James Sligh

9.5

I’d write more, but the short version is: this got a table-full of sommeliers to sing the praises of gewürtztraminer, of all things. Some delicacy, good acid, dareisay filigree. A miraculous survival from my inauspicious birth year. — 9 years ago

Morgan Harris

Head Sommelier Aureole New York

9.2

Definitely marked by the softer acid vintage, in addition to the acid dampening effects of botrytis. Really intense, broad texture with a lot of appealing bitterness. Great blend of savory and fruity, with lots of filigree and shades of flavor hovering around the salted stone fruit spectrum. A very particular but generous and compelling expression of dry Riesling. — 10 years ago

Swii Yii Lim

9.3

Very flowery, with filigree texture and fine mousse. Thought it was 2000 or 2004 when tasted blind (not chalky enough to be '02). Definitely better than the Belle Époque from last week. Good juice. Still prefer Krug though. Had with Easter dinner. — 10 years ago

Morgan Harris

Head Sommelier Aureole New York

9.0

Reliable and focused, but definitely lacking some of the filigree and intensity of its stable-mates. — 11 years ago

Chip Hughes

9.3

To my taste, the best year-in, year-out red of French Catalonia. The confit red fruits, pie spice, bramble and wood smoke on the nose make you think it’s going to be a sledgehammer...and then it’s all elegance, filigree and lift on the palate, as it’s only 12.5% alcohol. Simple, non-interventionist vinification, but none of that natural bullshit. Everything in perfect order. #rocdesanges #roussillon #grenache #syrah #carignane — 7 years ago

Kevin Cahoon

9.3

A real contrast to the 2007, the Wine had an elegant nose with lanolin, red apple, Bosc pear with lovely creamy spice tones. Palate is high pitched but broad with mineral laced tangerine, Fuji apple and cardamom spice tones. This is a lighter weight Blanc from the Domaine. It has an elegant, mineral filigree to the finish. Drinks nicely now but still has upside. — 8 years ago

Patti Somers

9.0

Strong pear taste but very smooth. — 9 years ago

Tom Kobylarz

9.2

Very pure Gruner character, green apple and lime, with filigree and tension. An amazing value to boot as well. In 2015 Knoll knocked it out of the park. — 9 years ago

Chris DeBarr

9.5

I just tasted the Verona style of gorgeous Valpolicello Ripasso. Made by a winemaker who worked with Maestro Quintarelli, L'Arco brings that same delicate filigree of tensile strength & length woven like a spider web of pleasure! Impressive, nuanced, charming. — 9 years ago

Morgan Harris

Head Sommelier Aureole New York

8.9

A little less fresh than I like my manzanilla, but not without filigree. @Alex Alan said it first, but the solera is 7-8 years old. Dynamite with the right food, bet. Deeply savory for manzanilla. — 10 years ago

Veronica Castro

9.6

All this goodness at 12.9% alcohol. Absurd, I say. Great clarity and focus. Intense mineral notes with a lime finish piercing purity, and a very detailed filigree about it. A wine you want to spend the night on to ruminate. — 10 years ago

Diedra West

9.5

Diedra had this 11 years ago

Yoon Ha

Master Sommelier/Wine Director Benu

9.4

Incredible now but needs time to show the detail, filigree and athleticism. — 12 years ago

Craig Williams

9.6

Age has revealed a wonderful essence of mixed fruit compote, savory spices and filigree of balance, structure and finish. Quite extraordinary. — 7 years ago

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Ivonne Nill

8.9

Fresh, crisp, delicious with just enough RS and that filigree texture of the Mosel. A bargain too. — 8 years ago

Tom Kobylarz

9.5

I almost don't want to post about this wine as its so good and so affordable ($25) for a wine made from ungrafted 100 year-old vines from heart of this vineyard, the Rotlay composed of blue slate chucks in a shallow decomposed slate soil on a slate bedrock. #itsaslatething in the #mosel
Now the wine? Outrageously good with sweet citrus and nerve, lazer beam acids with and sense of pure rock minerality, filigree and linear on the palate. A touch of sweetness as this is medium dry, the acids balance is so perfect they both taper together into a long finish. This should easily go 20 years, likely even more...if you can wait that long!
#riesling @selbachoster — 8 years ago

Tom Kobylarz

9.1

Tension, purity, verve and filigree come to mind here and can only take the mind to one place for Chardonnay: Chablis. OK so now the mind is set in Chablis with style but then we take a different take on the finish that was crazy long and pure, dry extract on full display here as this hummed along nicely to the finish. Another amazing Chardonnay from Jim Law at Linden. — 9 years ago

Christy Canterbury MW

Master of Wine

9.0

Frothy bubbles with a light and airy, fresh field flower brightness in the nose. Filigree sweetness and jubilant acidity make for a highly refined palate that should keep the glasses flowing. — 10 years ago

Ivonne Nill

9.0

Great value, incredible quality: elegance, tight rope acidity, fine bubbles, complex aromas of wet stones, citrus, white flowers, filigree on the palate, long finish. Disgorged July 27, 2014. — 10 years ago

Diedra West

9.4

Diedra had this 10 years ago

Diedra West

9.1

Diedra had this 11 years ago