Joshua Figg

9.5

Full bodied, rich, and fruit forward. Excellent! — 5 years ago

Dan Howell

9.4

I first have to note that I tend to like sweet wines. On the nose it had notes of ripe stone fruit and if you can smell honey it would be there as well. Now the tasting is where this wine shines. The “Noble Rot” is there in its full glory! The sweetness is not over the top. I happened to have this wine with a spiced pork roast with a nice layer of fat and this wine matched up lovely with it. Back to the flavor profile, you have the ripe stone fruit and honey notes. You will enjoy this wine. — 7 years ago

Berg

9.2

Great bottle of wine. Black tea, cherry, plum, barnyard, glory. — 7 years ago

Nathan O'Brien

9.6

#Glory #HappySicilianDay — 9 years ago

with Anthony

Jay Bergesen

9.0

Delish. Funk and yeast at first. Mellows over the hour. Fresh fruits and joy. Unfiltered glory. — 9 years ago

Alan Goldberg

9.0

The Riesling that changed my mind about trocken. Balanced in all its fruit, acidity, and minerality glory — 9 years ago

Josh Spurling

9.3

I'm upping my rating on this. Wine needed air to show its full glory. Today, it's blowing dark fruit, tree bark, big cinnamon and dark spice - yet, it remains fresh and vibrant. It still reminds me of really good Cru Beaujolais but the Mourvèdre character is more present. Yum! — 10 years ago

Kai Wright

9.3

We drank it soon after a transport, so the wine was a bit closed and in-expressive. And way too young. But still signs of glory that will come. Rich dried fruit, earth and olive. Fuller body and booze, plenty of fruit to age. Look forward to drinking the one I stowed away years down the road. — 10 years ago

with Jedd and Derek

John A

9.0

Still with hints of fruit notes to tease of a past glory, but it was limited at this point with other notes touching on raisins, earthiness with mushrooms...but overall past its prime. — 6 years ago

Matt Austin

Owner/Winemaker, Grosgrain Vineyards, Walla Walla, WA

9.3

Not sure that the Chardonnay barrel treatment brought much to the table, but in the end it is still a well aged Samichlaus in all of it’s 14% abv glory. Merry Xmas! — 7 years ago

Mark Morgan

9.0

S. France in all its glory — 7 years ago

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.4

I've been curious about this wine for some time. The original 05 Ausone review from Parker was revised and one would think it was at the request of the Chateau. Parker's 💯 point review started something like this...if you are over the age of 55, you'll want to decide if you want to buy this this wine. Largely, due to his call on it's years of drinkability; which was from 2055-80. Parker's review was mysteriously revised within two months of it's original review. Tonight, I Coravin-ed this tasting of the Chapelle D'Ausone. The 05 Chapelle D'Ausone is still very big & tight but starting it's journey into a decent drinking phase. The tannins are still chewy and dark. The fruits are; ruby blackberries, dark cherries, a mix of blue fruits, strawberries paint the back palate, dark & milk chocolate, caramel, Christmas cake, clove, nutmeg, cinnamon, vanilla, spice-box, black tea, a whiff of green bell peppers, irony minerals, loamy soils, tree bark, a touch of leather, lead pencil shavings, dry stems, dry stones & dark moist soil. The acidity is perfect. The structure, length, balance and tension flirt with glory. The finish runs ripe to dry fruit and the minerals are rich with a dark elegance that lasts and lasts. As good as this wine is tonight, I'll put this bottle back; which is 1 of a 6 pack and wait another 7-10 years to reopen it. Both of Ausone's 05 wines are meant for most collectors end of life or meant to be left for their children. — 8 years ago

Gae Saccoccio - NdC

9.6

Really complicated on these so suspect days, expose themselves with concepts such as: tradition, terroir, identity without falling into the most sinister rhetoric if not sounds just trite and hypocritical as the counterfeit currency with which even large-scale industries - supported by marketing - pays back its inattentive mass audience riding the wave of the country of origin or protected typicality. A diabolical mechanism this one for which even the most noble ideas probably the right practices and good experiences completed in the scale of centuries to human measure and not on massive industrial scale, are trivialized by sleazy slogan, emptied of meaning to be more or less surreptitious thanks to barbaric persuasion techniques and brain-washing propaganda.
Yet with the Valentini's Trebbiano you may not groped to summarize in words if not by drawing on terms so appropriate to express it. Now concerning this iconic label we've got behind it a local grape variety, a real family and a great wine that collect in a bottle the past and present story of a side of Abruzzo who claims to defeats victories and sacrifices to dominate the abuses (on and of) nature, miseries and splendours of agricultural seasons. Places, people, vision, wines such as Valentini are here to remind us how each bottle stay so proudly standing as non-reproducible beauty and fermented goodness expressing all its artisanal uniqueness and authenticity which are just that suspect to industrial wine production in manufacturing chains on standardized quantities; wines that are all equal to themselves even though wine itself is not much left at the end of the day/cycle. Trebbiano d'Abruzzo Valentini 1998 is what we have to rate right now: rusticity with class; style, purity and glory of a local grape recognized by many admirers from all over the world: act local think global this is another slogan-cliché which in this specific Valentini's wine exemple could sounds a little less false and more effective. — 9 years ago

with Alberto and Giovanni

Gabrielle Yeager

9.3

on the nose— juicy dark fruits, strong generic “grape” scent at the end (not in the bad way, in the way grape soda smells amazing). round, very fullll in body, dark purple in color, light dryness and powerful sweetness in all its well- deserved glory. This wine was 17% wow! I drank it at the end of a multiple course dinner after many diverse white wines from the same region... couldn’t have been a better experience. — 6 years ago

Gerardo Suro

9.4

Lovely orange peel and ripe golden apples laced by vibrant acidity brimming with mineral energy and promise. The saltiness on the backend highlights the gorgeous Mediterranean pedigree of this wine in all its glory. — 7 years ago

Martijn

8.9

2011 vintage on 28.11.17
Dark pale. Typical SB nose. Well balanced jn the mouth. — 8 years ago

Paul Einbund

Wine Director/Sommelier Frances

9.5

2007 with the most intriguing nose in a long time seaweed and salt water shitake mushroom and sweet black cherry juice live on with glory my friend!! — 9 years ago

Dan Weisshaar

9.3

Chewy, marzipan glory. Outstanding balance with lovely nutty finish. Decant an hour or two for girlfriend experience. SO GOOD!! — 9 years ago

with Lyle and Matthew

Sam Barber

9.0

Cherry cola, dirt, balanced. Young but heading towards glory — 9 years ago

Paul Luce

9.1

The glory of hanging out with the young & upwardly mobile...the Luders ability to throw a party is unmatched ...cheers — 10 years ago