Fredrik Finn

9.4

Quality check on Le Raganie Brunello di Montalcino 2013 and what a showstopper, starting off a bit shy but evolves into a layered complexity with plenty of finesse, with four hours in the decanter its hard to raise your nose from the glass. Red, very vibrant fruit is backed up by dried spices and pronounced but balanced savoury complexity of forrest floor and crushed stones. A subtle volatile lift brings further complexity. Fresh palate with, fine grained tannins and a tactile sensation that brings the wine throughout its long finish. Not Brunello, its a trademark Ragnaie! — 6 years ago

Giancarlo Cicero

9.4

Great wine! Forrest floor, cedar, and cigar on the nose. Dark chocolate still on the palate, surprisingly. Also still have time left. — 8 years ago

Ann

8.9

With tomato, basil chic pea salad. Wsj wine. T and I both like a lot — 8 years ago

Carol Krakowski

9.5

Very fresh, smooth, fruity but not sweet — 9 years ago

Casey Robertson

9.2

Amazing light crisp white with green apple, lemon ... Brings us back to New Zealand and our honeymoon!
— 9 years ago

Trevor Loomis

9.2

I have drunk cases of this wine over the last 8 years, I'm personal friends with Bob, Dinah, John and Brigid. This wine has surprised me for years. Back in 2008 we thought the wine was falling over so we tried to sell it out through the cellar door, but it just keeps going. I had another bottle with my wife the other night and it didn't disappoint. Beautiful savory notes on the nose and the palate. Lashings of tobacco, dried herbs and iodine on the nose with a touch of molasses. On the palate flavours of stewed plums, herbs, iodine and slightly gamey. Lovely integrated oak with silky fine grain tannins on the finish. This wine just keeps going. The only fault would be the corks are dried out and a bitch to get out in one piece. Gordon Russell is an icon and one of New Zealand's greatest winemakers. — 10 years ago

Cody Short

9.8

Everything great Bordeaux should be. Cork crumbled in the Durand but first sniff and I knew it was on. Waves of saddle leather, tobacco, cedar, forrest floor and cherries. The wine was intense but more feminine than I expected, a great balance. Truly one of the best and most memorable bottles I've had the last few years. This is what drinking wine is all about, experiences that shake you to your core. — 10 years ago

Tyler McNulty

9.4

Sometimes its all in the dirt. Forrest floor, mushroom, and a pepper finish. It tastes like the land of old. — 11 years ago

with Matthew

Sergio Licea

8.9

Earth driven wine, pottery soil, pea tendrils, mushrooms, forrest floor, black pepper, dried blackberry. Excellent acidity, medium bodied, slight dusty tannin finish. — 11 years ago

Scott Cunningham

Owner/Importer Bottleneck Wines

9.8

Reminds me of a Mountain Bike ride during the fall in Park City. Decaying Forrest floor, dried leaves, lavender, violets. Red and blue fruits, allspice, beautiful (yet) heavy integration of oak, persistent finish. Best wine I've tasted this year (Feb 21, '14) — 12 years ago

AJ Gubser

9.4

Lovely nose of blueberry, boysenberry, clove, pepper, oak, and loamy, forrest floor.

Palate continues with much of the same. Acidity is still nice and bright, but the tannins are soft and velvety. Oak notes are still there but are so well integrated and just lend to the complexity.

Beautiful wine in a beautiful place in its evolution. Lovely to just sip and contemplate. — 6 years ago

with Brooks

Marc vanholst

9.5

Still so young but already solid. Pegau in good years always performs. Spices,pepper but also lots of forrest fruit. Great complexity and nice length. Beautiful but will still get better. — 7 years ago

Craig Stanfield

9.5

More French Syrah in style than I would have thought. Games with wild, brambly fruit. Blood, meat, truffle, loamy earth and dark fruit. Forrest floor on the nose. It also has sucrosity and a richness as it opens. — 9 years ago

Peter UPA

10

Big nose with concentrated notes of dark cherries, licorice, forrest ground, leather, coffee and bitter chocolate. Very big body, massive but still elegant fruit, complex aromas, potent tannins, well balanced, long aromatic finnish. — 9 years ago

Alder Yarrow

Wine Blogger Vinography

8.9

Wonderfully balanced. Margarita mix and greengauge plums. Yum! #sauvblancday @forrestwinenz — 10 years ago

Scott Taddeo

9.2

Fragrant red berries, forrest fruits, raw meat, potpourri, candied ginger and a hint of smoke. Juicy, tannic, lengthy. Ticks so many boxes!! — 10 years ago

Giancarlo Cicero

9.3

2012 vintage - huge, forrest floor on the nose, earthy — 10 years ago

with Heath

Kecia Bird

9.2

Kecia had this 11 years ago

Sergio Licea

10

Dried blackberries, dark plum, black currants, cassis, tobacco, smoke, wet forrest, cigar box, clay, barnyard. Excellent acid and velvet tannin structure. Incredibly long earthy finish. — 11 years ago

Nate Redner

9.5

Lots of dried fruit. Straw. Forrest funkiness. — 12 years ago

with Mike and Michael

Ben Christen

9.5

Mushroom Forrest floor and safety from the war above hiding in the caves being fed by the French - Rachel’s descriptors nailed it. — 6 years ago

with Emily

Jan de Weerd

9.2

Earthy, great dark fruit. Fuller body than most Pinot’s we tasted. — 7 years ago

with Tammy

Craig Stanfield

9.4

Probably a bit young. It's certainly tightly wound. Bright red and blue fruit at the first. Medium tannin. Spice, including anise, and Forrest floor. After a couple of hours, the tannins seem oddly firmer. Picking up more chocolate and tobacco notes, along with plum. Really great wine. I'll need to sit on my other bottles for a few years, though. — 8 years ago

Andrew Goldstein

8.9

Berry, must, Forrest, pepper, tannin, full body. — 9 years ago

with Mark and Lindsey

Craig Becraft

9.0

Slightly softened with age but still luscious fruit with the underlying spice Forrest licorice and earth — 9 years ago

Chris MacLean

9.3

I need more cab franc in my collection. Love the clean, bright chalkiness and pure forrest fruit flavors in this wine. — 10 years ago

with Sarah

Amanda Joffee

9.3

Great value under 20! Notes of bright red berries, forrest floor, and black tea. — 10 years ago

Dick Schinkel

9.4

Purchased just after release at the celler after a great tasting with Pere and his daughter Maria.
Made from 80 years old Cariñena and Garnacha 50/50 blend.
Great nose with black and blue berries, plums, a touch vanilla, authum forrest, spices from the Porrea hills, drinking this wine 8 times over the last 10 years and is now fully mature the hard edges are gone and has mellowed out, still full bodied, well balanced and smooth tannins, nice mineral touch, long aftertaste..... Sadly my last bottle of this 2000 vintage..... — 11 years ago

Dmitri

9.2

Dark as the deepest depths of Mordor. Volcanic ash, bing cherries, cocoa, umami, rose petals, forrest leaves. Powerful tannins and great acidicy. When it opens up, more of the brighter berries comes out, like ripe raspberries. Captivating. Wish I could try an older vintage. — 11 years ago

Large Juggs

9.0

Good wine. Syrah. From Forrest and Cassandra. — 12 years ago