Nick Farrell

9.6

Delicious and fresh. — 6 months ago

Brendan Baker

9.2

Fresh baguette, lemon zest, mineral, yeasty, fine bead. Disgorged June ‘16 ✨😋✨ — 7 months ago

Mark S.

9.1

Aroma is quite clear, BdB with rich fruity. Energetic bubbles. Crispy and minimals. Fresh citrus. @1500/G, mar, 230927 — 8 months ago

Sipping Fine Wine

9.5

A blend of a tad more Chardonnay than Pinot Noir, nice lemon yellow color with golden edges, aromas of fruit, spice and brioche notes, nice mousse and bubble flow. On the palate flavors of fresh fruit, peaches, pineapple and ripe lemon with hints of toasted nuts and citrus zest. Long finish ending with rich briny yeasty mineral character. Drinks well now but will go another 10+ years! — 9 months ago

Shuhui Ng

9.3

Heavy bodied, mild tannins. Notes of plums, fresh mint, liquorice and coconut. So pleasant to drink! — 2 years ago

Conrad Green

9.3

Delicious. Floral notes, honey, chalk minerality. Still fresh and delicious. Long — 2 years ago

with Bex

James Webb

9.4

This is wonderful - a nose of fresh ripe sweet red strawberry, morphs into some raspberry. Acid builds perfectly into a balance of fruit and acid with the prevailing strawberry note at the center. Finishes also fruity with just a tinge of green fruit but just a hint, and a I mean a hint, of chalk. This balances the finish beautifully. Really world class rose. — 5 years ago

Anna

8.9

Citrus and fresh fruits. Pairs well with cheese tortellini — 7 years ago

Jimmy Hayes

Estate Director Mayacamas Vineyard

9.6

This was explosive. So fresh but so concentrated. Brioche, hazelnut, toasted meringue. Powerful, wine. Really stopped me in my tracks. #tdc — 8 years ago

Neil Cornish

8.9

Out of 3 liter. Fresh and minty! — 9 years ago

with Michael and Jon

Brad Jensen

9.8

Holy crap this is crazy and funky and special. Fresh cut grass, licorice, fish oil, like, so crazy special. It’s been open for 24hrs and the acidity is still through the roof. Silky and fresh but with lemon rind and mouth drying freshness, this is delicious and really unique. — 6 months ago

Sipping Fine Wine

9.6

Began in 1944, Mario Incisa acquired Cab Sauv & Franc vine cuttings, planted them on San Guido estate, called Castiglioncello, Sassicaia, "the place of many stones". A blend of 85% Cab Sauv, 15% Cab Franc. Lovely ripe fruit & spice aromas. Bold berry fruit flavors with spice, oak, leather & cacao, a powerhouse. Soft tannins allows current enjoyment. Long silky smooth fresh finish ending with fruit, oak and spice. Great now, will age, but drink now, outstanding. Little pricey at $300. Tasting Sample. — 7 months ago

David Kline

9.8

Graphite and raisin, fig and marinated porcini, smoky dried cherries, black pepper on grilled beef fat, toasted sesame, dried black and red currants, all within an aura of damson and violet and honeyed rose petal. Palate leaps with damson and dried and fresh bing cherry, dried spiced plum, cedar and dried lavender, black olive, moist tobacco, and perfectly toned tannins which come off as a separate, undefinable taste of fruit skin extraction with stunning depth; tea leaves meet dried blackberry in a redwood stand. Soft date and creamy fig follow to a tart raspberry end.




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with Courtney

David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.5

Great 05 fruit with classic Bordeaux profile.

Starts with the bright, ripe fruits that 05 gave. Blackberries, black raspberries, very, dark cherries, black plum, raspberries, plum, perfect graphite for days, cedar, fresh & slightly dry tobacco, forest floor with dry leaves, perfect, dark spices, dry crushed limestone, dry river stone, nutmeg, cinnamon & vanillin, salted caramel, dry, dark chocolate bar, steep tea with fruit, anise to black licorice, haunting herbaceous notes, saline notes, dry to moist clay, bright, mid to dark florals framed in violets, excellent acidity with amazing tension, beautifully balanced & structured, polished, wire to wire finish that lasts close to two-minutes. So round on the palate. Great with the El Salciciero ribeyes.

Corn picked today from my organic garden. Ten to fifteen plus year left. — 10 months ago

Conrad Green

9.3

A very youthful and vital nose with white flowers, greengage, lime, wet stone. Still quite primary but very uplifting. On the palate slightly sweet and quite intense. Lovely presence with prominent fresh green fruit. Very good but has a long life ahead. — 5 years ago

with Bex

Henrik Poulsen

9.6

A bit more fresh than the last bottle so a 95+ for me. — 5 years ago

with Kurt-Inge

Mikey David

9.4

The holy grail of rose. Slightly effervescent and bursting with fresh strawberries and nectarines. Oh my. — 7 years ago

Elizabeth Rice

9.9

What is this - a Sauv Blanc that's a Fume but unlike any Fume I have ever had. I can see how this wine made it to the Wine Spectators top 10 list. Complex, elegant, fresh, with fantastic acidity that left me wanting more after each sip. Amazing! — 9 years ago

Luke Blanch

9.3

When in Siracusa, eating at a resto where a Japanese wife is at the stove & her Sicilian husband is front of house... Funky fresh & constantly changing. — 10 years ago

with Angie

Conrad Green

9.7

This is an immaculate bottle. Fresh and intense it could be 30 years old instead of as old as me! Dark plum, black pepper, iodine, deep k minerality. This is spectacular. Long and pure and delicious. — 6 months ago

with Tony and David

David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.2

It’s Miller time. Well…actually Billecart time. I like this more than I buy it. One of good cuvées easily found in 375ml.

The body creamy, layered, nice c02, bruised golden & green apple, ripe Bosc pear, pineapple flesh, tropical melons-mango driven, lime & lemon zest, cream soda, cream, white spice-ginger, bread, yeast, brioche, soft but grainy moist chalkiness, sea spray/fossils, slightly chard sourdough toast, wet/softened alluvial, limestone, wet river stone, notes of flintiness, yellow lilies, white orchids, fruit blossoms, jasmine, rainfall acidity, excellent balanced fruit & earth, tension, structure with a juicy two-minute polished finish that falls onto beautiful minerality.

BTW, home grown tomatoes with Companion Bakery wheat sourdough, lightly toasted w/ olive oil, burrata, Tondo balsamic (stunning), olive oil & fresh basil never gets old. — 8 months ago

Ray Vanderhoff

9.1

Bright lemon color. Particularly intense grapefruit aromas and flavors with hints of freshly cut grass, asparagus and fresh herbs. Distinct citrus note on the very long finish. Bright, crisp, refreshing and zingy! Wonderfully consistent from vintage to vintage. — 9 months ago

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9.5

This bottle of 1983 Pichon-Lalande (I really can't be bothered to type out its full name) is the best of many encountered over the years. This offers gorgeous melted red fruit, woodbines, smoke and cigar humidor scents that could only come from Pauillac. Hints of black truffle and morels follow after about an hour in the glass. The palate displays lovely balance, poised and fresh, perhaps more vigor than I ever expected, with just a hint of dried blood on the finish. Impeccable provenance played a role here, but it is still a 1983 that should not be underestimated. Tasted blind at Pichon-Lalande. (Neal Martin, Vinous, August 2023)
— 10 months ago

Matthew Hughes

9.2

Interesting evolution. In 30 minute increments wooden pencil, fresh cut wood, then sour cherry. — 3 years ago

Guthrie Raimondo

9.2

Funk funk funk aroma but shockingly fresh fruit — 5 years ago

Jeroen Koenen

9.1

Fresh, clean fruit. Hints of mushroom, wet leafs and dirt. Drinking very well, right now. — 6 years ago

Jose Menendez

9.5

Medium Amber color. Tiny and perfect bubbles. Not very yeasty dough, green apple, quince, almond. Good minerality and acidity. Still very fresh and young taste. Looking forward to retasting in a couple of years. — 8 years ago

Nick Apone

9.0

Reggie Bomb!! — 9 years ago

Lewis Chester

9.8

1966 vintage. From magnum. Wow!!! Savoury, lime, crushed rock, fresh. Like Evian in its piercing clarity. Medium golden hue. A triumph. — 9 years ago

Paul Kaan

Winemaker/Blogger FilthyGoodVino.com

9.6

It's Bordeaux O'Clock. 81 Palmer oppulent, refined texture, fresh, layered & yummy! A bit of extra Pre-Parker finesse perhaps? #FilthyOldVino — 10 years ago