A stunning showing and 16 might be the best vintage ever at Walter. Nose is late season cherries, some framing oak, spice, tobacco, stunning minerality and just endless depth. So floral and complex. I could smell this all day. Smells like elite NSG right now. Palate is just amazing. Ridiculous dark cherry fruit that is so crunchy, fresh and concentrated. Wow this is so precise and succulent. Insane balance and hidden power. What depth and length. Amazing stuff in that it’s so silky and juicy and sweet and the oak is already so well integrated on the palate. This has sexy, velvety tannins and an amazingly long finish. 9.5 now but this will go higher. — 2 years ago
Sparkling wine, feeling so fine. This was so lovely. The grapefruit notes made it very memorable. — 4 years ago
(Tasted November 2019)
Not your uncle’s Pinot Grigio. Full bodied and luscious with ripe orchard fruit, minerals, and enough structure to keep evolving in the cellar. This was a fun left field bottle to share with wine geeks at thanksgiving. $40
More info: 25 year old vines in heavy clay soil. Pluris vineyard is steep with only one row of vines per terrace for maximum exposure. — 6 years ago
Dry and minerals — 7 years ago
Big 18 sunshine nose. Violets, mulch and spice. Some nice sweet wood as well. But just enormous spice. Very Fruh. Palate is so elegant and full of violets and wonderful inner mouth florals. Really nice opulent texture and just floats. Let’s see what air does. After air this gets more linear and gains edge and energy. Really different now than when it was p and p. — 8 months ago
dessert course (rhubarb) — 2 years ago
Our final lunch in Cairns last Sunday for the boys weekend away. A wonderful lunch at the Salt House on the Cairns waterfront. No formal notes. Pepik is the 2nd label of Josef Chromy from the East coast of Tasmania. Red fruits on nose and palate with a little white pepper. A good match with the superb seafood curry. — 4 years ago
Really good — 6 years ago
Really cool, light and very drinkable - blackberries, red berries and some natural funk — 6 years ago
vibrant snappy green Grüner. excellent complement to fish taco @ Quintonil. — 2 years ago
Natty bubbles and silly good. This was in a category unlike anything I can recall. — 6 years ago
Dulce como la entrepierna de la mujer que amas....! Solo con verlo te sube la azúcar y puntos diabéticos!!! — 6 years ago
Andrew
2013 drunk in 2024. Excellent honeyed character; long finish. — 8 months ago