Joanne

9.1

Walter Hansel remains a favorite Pinot Noir for me. Big on fruit and peppery with a hint of fennel. This Winery never disappoints. Sipping 2018 . — 6 months ago

Conrad Green

9.4

Gold cap. Wonderfully fresh and intense. Still lifted. Fit perfectly resolved and balanced. Great stuff. — 9 months ago

with Amanda

Michael Walker

9.9

Excellent chard, beautiful golden color, fragrant pear on the nose, good full bodied follow through on the palate. Only demerit is the slightest acidic twist at the back end. But that mellows after breathing awhile. Don’t overchill — a year ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

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

Erik Sjolund

9.5

No, great pn. Pretty slim but very strawberry fruity n full. — 4 years ago

Ivor

9.1

Fruit filled glacier water with depth and a mineral finish. Pretty long for an ‘instappertje’ — 4 years ago

Mike Obley

9.1

Young entry level wine from this producer. Took an hour to open up. Nice depth a slightly reductive characteristics, in a good way. Will add depth over time — 6 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

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. — 9 months ago

Sipping Fine Wine

9.2

From 100% Wente clones that get max hang time, large and tiny berries packed together, pale lemon with subtle aromas of citrus and stone fruits. On the palate flavors of apple, lemon and lime flavors, crisp acidity, long finish ending with rich mineral character. Perfect now! — a year ago

Martin Sher

9.3

Excellent! Aromatic, sweet baking spice, gratifying heft. — 2 years ago

Dave Mayers

9.5

Lucille. Holy WOW! This is American excellence. Lemon stones and reduction xtreme. Wish I could try this in 10 yrs. Perf. — 2 years ago

Yueting

9.2

Nice sweet red — 4 years ago

Brett Owens

9.2

Awesome wine — 4 years ago

Graham

9.3

Beautiful balance between lusciousness and flinty minerality. Wowzer. — 6 months ago

Martin Bergo

9.2

Sumptuous but delicate. — 7 months ago

Sally Neal

9.1

Lovely Pinot from willamette valley. Paired nicely with sausage ravioli with cracked pepper and olive oil and sautéed spinach — 9 months ago

Will Stanley

9.0

Suuper reductive, with funky notes of petrol and sour cream. Quite spritely too - almost lemonade-like. The palate is intense, concentrated, powerful and acidic and honestly quite inscrutable at this stage. Wow, this is a serious Riesling that demands patience. 90++ — 2 years ago

John Van Trijp

9.7

Magnum Dry. Bottle 19/300 — 3 years ago

Joe Roth

9.2

A small winery making excellent Pinot Noir! — 4 years ago

with Jeff and Michael

Colleen McManus

9.1

Birthday gift cards = high-end thanksgiving pinots. Russian River candy apple top notes remain my favorite. — 5 years ago