Bryce Wiatrak

9.2

Domaine Du Gros ‘Noré harvests some of the most pedigreed fruit in Bandol, for years selling their grapes to Domaine Ott and Château de Pibarnon. Today, they craft a Bandol Rouge of elegance and length. Its fruit profile in this vintage veers just a notch redder than many of its peers - tasting of red currants, plum and game. 80% Mourvèdre, 15% Grenache, 5% Cinsaut.
— 7 years ago

Dale Garrison

9.3

Very good. — 8 years ago

Helen F

9.1

Very nice drink now — 9 years ago

Dorit Handrus

8.9

Garrigue to the max! That plus a bit of game meat and spanking acid make me love this. Faugeres is never one of my face either 🌾🌿🌱🍃🌼 — 9 years ago

with Jason

Chris Bensick

8.9

Showing well at 30, despite a spongy loose cork. Part of our thanksgiving game of chance, this was the best wine of the evening. — 10 years ago

Luisa Maier

9.5

Unwooded Chardonnay. Nice & buttery.
— 10 years ago

Devin Bray

9.3

Gamey and peppery! The nose smells like fennel and clove lain across a moist bearskin rug. The wine has a speckled, sedimented appearance that sits like raspberry jam in a glass. The flavors are of blackberry, garrigue, licorice, truffle, loads of pepper, game, and clove, with a long-lasting kirsch and mushroomy forest floor finish. Very interesting. Not quite like any wine I've had. Could have more fruit - perhaps a product of the "off" vintage. — 10 years ago

Christy Canterbury MW

Master of Wine

9.0

Bangin' value Priorat if there ever was one! Brooding fruit but well-balanced palate with moderate extract & no obvious new oak. Game, minerals, blackberries. — 10 years ago

Kell Mc

9.0

Round, soft fruit notes (little bit of pear) — 11 years ago

Peter Park

9.6

Strawberry at first, after an hour of decanting gave way to more of a pepper spice. Very good. — 12 years ago

Jay Kline

8.9

Fresh, zippy black currants and game. Pretty tannic still. — 7 years ago

Christina Ahlheim

8.9

Very nice! From SA — 8 years ago

John Visto

9.1

Earthy, fruity, so well balanced. Jean Foillard kills the game. — 8 years ago

with Madison

Julia Tate

9.0

Great Shiraz. Bold and heavy. — 9 years ago

Tom Kobylarz

9.1

Wild blue and red berry fruit, subtle notes of spice and game, a barely there touch of green comes through as herbal. While the alcohol is high, the wine shows elegantly and very feminine in style. Sauve and silky textured this has very ripe and fine tannin that get lost in the glycerol of this wine's youth. Always a perennial wine of the vintage and a great value (imo). #pegau #grenache #CdP — 9 years ago

Kim Colonna

Owner/Sommelier/Importer Petits Creux & Grands Crus

9.0

Very modern sangiovese !! Ripe fruit, spice a bit floral ... Nice and interesting wine. — 10 years ago

Marc Stubblefield

Wine Sales at Vino Carta and Kogod Wine Merchant

9.1

Young yet, but already so pretty. Blue fruit starting to unwind to reveal game, earth and leather. Closer to St. Joseph than typical California. — 10 years ago

William Davis

9.2

Purple core with small rim variation. Fresh black and blue fruit with olive tapenade, sage, and game. Clean winemaking. Bright acidity to keep it all in check. Could use a couple more years, although just fine now if you like tension in your wine. — 10 years ago

John T

9.0

Went well with the lamb we had — 11 years ago

Josh Wilson

10

Alain Graillot - one of the best producers in the game right now — 11 years ago

with Jessica and Fred

Kim Brannigan

9.5

Really good Sauvignon for about $12. — 12 years ago

with Wendy

Robert Stefan Wood

9.7

Really good I was shocked — 7 years ago

Ned Gray Creed

9.2

In game, with curry. Such a fortunate one to drink a bottle of this every year. Even if it is only one bottle, considering myself lucky. — 8 years ago

Ron Siegel

9.2

Enjoyed this, needed some time to open. This had black cherry, floral, game, earth and mineral. — 8 years ago

Adam Crane

9.8

Possibly my favorite wine of 2016. Incredible intensity in a delicate, nuanced package. Black pepper, game, and black raspberry. If you can find any of this, buy it! Thank you @Ron Siegel — 9 years ago

Scott Moye-Rowley

9.0

Love the show, would buy the stout anytime. Winter is here and it's time for stouts. — 10 years ago

with Mary and Mike

Tim O'Rourke

9.6

What? So good. All the olive and pepper and leather that you would expect and plenty of game and mushroom as well. I don't suppose I'll have another chance to taste this, so I'll have to rely on memory of something so delicious. — 10 years ago

Justin Madol

9.6

Beautiful vibrant bouquet of asian spices, tea leaves, black olives and cured game meats. Exceptional complexity on palette: layered red fruits, exotic spices, warm earth, canned olives, and stewed peppercorn. Smooth resolved tannin but with a towering structure that's very much alive. An incredible wine here. — 10 years ago

Adam Jesberger

9.8

Excellent bottle. The 01 is supposedly a better vintage but im not sure when it comes to this producer. Clear, day bright, garnet and orange brick like color, medium - concentration, orange/peach rim variation, slight sediment, low viscosity. Nose: sound, moderate intensity, stewed cherries/strawberries/raspberries, floral, spicy and lots of dill pickle and slight game. A mushroom note as well. Palate: dry, med- body, stewed plums over ripe cherries/strawberries, lilies, dill, vinegar, leather, button mushrooms, game, mulch with some cedar and coconut. Very complex. Med- tannins, medium alcohol, high acid, long finish. Between the 01 and the 98 its a tough choice of which one to put in the wine cooler to store. — 11 years ago

Kristen Murphy Caldecutt

Community Manager SevenFifty

10

Game, blood, tapenade, mineral, herbal. 2008. — 11 years ago

with Lyle