Now I see how this wine can be so divisive. LOTS of brett at first, more band-aid than barnyard. Takes a while to get past it and then lots of exotic spices show up. But after 40 minutes in the glass still nothing primary. It’s got the funk I can appreciate in some good left bank Bordeaux but also feels somewhat single-threaded. — 3 years ago
Celebrating the end of 2020! — 3 years ago
First course. Vegetable soup that has a chicken broth/red wine/port base.
Also, working with 2nd course, pumpkin spaetzle with squash, brown butter, parmesan, sage & crispy brussels sprouts.
Beautiful poached strawberries & cherries with fresh & slightly candied, bright dark & red florals.
Great soup & spaetzle from our friend Chef Hedy! Find her @plateandbottle
Christmas with live Christmas music 🎶 🎵 🎼 Merry Christmas! 🎄🎅🤶🦌❄️⛄️ — 4 years ago
Road wine so ease off me please and I usually enjoy stag leap but last night so so
First off o smiled but because I drank entire bottle
Color was fine smell was aromatic but from there the other things were off
Taste was not what I expected as was too much heat and alcohol and finish was weak
Sadly I have a few and will be handing off as gifts to people I really don't know when needed - sorry to al future gift receivers — 7 years ago
Amazing, lucky to have been invited to try this.....first time.... The nose in this 2002 was really amazing, super complex...still the px way out of range and particularly my budget!!!! — 8 years ago
Fantasic wine! Great last press celebratory bottle!!! — 9 years ago
The first vintage release from Harlan estate. Now I can say I have been lucky to try every vintage of this wine. Long finish, with a lot less of a ripe attack than anticipated. Long life ahead of this wine made in a different era in napa. #timetraveling — 9 years ago
Ethereal genius from the old stalwart — 11 years ago
A little thin at first, but then got going after an hour or so being opened — 2 years ago
Tasted blind. Dark reddish tawny. Mostly translucent. Amazing nose. Powerful. A spectrum of notes including red fruit, cola, pencil lead, black truffles, coffee, blood sausage and some dry dark soil. Animalistic. Massive fruit and structure with a long finish. Someone says "honey ham" as a note in the nose and we all agree (first ever note involving the word "ham"). This was a wine where everyone's score or appreciation greatly improved over the evening. A best ever Unico for me. (M's 60th bday 4th of 14) — 3 years ago
Medium yellow color. Tropical and vanilla on nose. Oak With something I can’t distinguish.. maybe some salinity? Bright pineapple. Then rich buttery creaminess. Slight vanilla into an oak finish. Slightly dry — 4 years ago
First time tasting and what a treat. We balanced, subtle with flavors that keep evolving. — 7 years ago
What can I say? I love a granache. — 7 years ago
Crazy good paired with dipping into gamba al ajillo (emphasis added), at Napa's groovy/real Zuzu, catching a classic deeply dirty nose while still sporting sun-drenched fruit that initially reworks one's first blush front mouth with an iodine edge that morfs into red and black fruit edgy with acid/tannin slow dancing to the depths and begging for another pinch of broth soaked chewy freshly baked bread and the associated next swig of this sweet juice...rhythmically stellar by day or by night😎🌌👣🍷🌀🎼
PS hit Zuzu (friendly, delicious and real...
— 9 years ago
1960 was for kind of forgotten close to the nice 1959 and 1961 vintages - but the wine still handle well, with a light profile, a nice experience from a nice gift, maybe 60 was better for the Beatles !? However it feels kind of younger than 1960 at first sight, an off vintage in good shape but will get soon enough to its peak 😐 — 10 years ago
Needs to breathe a bit at first, but drinks well. Tastes more expensive than it is. Good red! — 11 years ago
Deliciously decadent, yet balanced Pinot that held up nicely with a Porterhouse steak! Ample plum, black cherry and sweet earthy notes with velvety-smooth tannins — 3 years ago
This is now the second time in the past ten months I’ve had the chance to visit the 2017 Chateau de Beaucastel. Just as good as the first time I tried it, the 2017 Chateau de Beaucastel Rouge is a nothing short of a scintillating wine from this historic estate. A blend of Grenache, Cinsault, Syrah, Mourvèdre with Counoise, this comes off as a touch more heady than most vintages with layers of ripe boysenberry and black cherry with dried thyme alongside lovely savory tones and salty, stony terroir. The length here is quite impressive, as is the soft texture and bright acidity that brings you back to the glass for more. Wonderfully seductive in its youth, this has two decades of life in front of it. Drink 2022-2038- 95 — 3 years ago
I snuck aboard the space station and made my way to the holding cell where I was told the princess was being held. Upon breaking down the door, I was confronted by a short person in a diaper and odd headdress who said "I'm sorry, but the princess is in another death star".
About that time all the alarms in the space station started going off.
After some brief firefights I found myself cornered, my only escape to done down a shoot into a garbage compactor. So I did. Once in the trash compactor I met a friendly monster called a Dianoga. We shared a lovely bottle of Slow Press while the walls of the compactor slowly closed in on us.
Fortunately for me, I'm the hero of this tale and, as such, made a timely escape, rescued the princess (eventually), and managed to do it all without realizing I had spilled wine on myself. — 7 years ago
Really delicious 2011. Just singing right now. Fruit in full swing but depth and acid balance. Bottle was gone before I knew it. — 7 years ago
First experience with a true grand cru Bordeaux and was not disappointed — 8 years ago
First time tasting Jamet. Nice deepness on this hard vintage. Hints of smoky lard, cumin and pepper with a touch of flower. Ready to drink. — 9 years ago
Delicious wine well balanced. Drinking like an aged first growth Bordeaux — 9 years ago
Last bottle! Being discontinued at the restaurant — 11 years ago
Great wine with pork or chicken — 11 years ago
Nicole K
Once opened up, Smelled like truffle butter. At first tasted like grass — a year ago