Jamie Lauder

9.3

2010 vintage.
Tantalus has some of the oldest Riesling vines in Okanagan Valley.
Bright and golden in the glass.
Honey, apple, petrol, golden plum and white peach on the nose. Lemon-lime, honey, apricots, petrol and golden raisins in the mouth. The acidity is mouth watering. This wine could age another 10 years and will only improve in complexity.
— 5 years ago

Maria Wooks

8.9

*white blend 2017 — 6 years ago

Rachel

8.9

2017 Skin Ferment Gewürztraminer from small-batch Ontario winery Trail Estate.
Rich (but only 11.6%), aromatic, golden hue, not your average gewurtz!
Hand-harvested, wild-fermentation on skins for 16 days. — 6 years ago

Sue Cooper

9.0

Very nice! Enjoyable with Caesar salad & chicken & on its own. — 7 years ago

Leslie Matheson

9.2

Complex, balanced, aged — 7 years ago

Martin Bergo

9.5

Oily and viscous golden wine; the smell is like sticking your nose in a bouquet of perfumed lillies and roses - quite striking; and on the palate it is opulent, fairly high in acidity for the region, and had a mile-long finish with tropical fruits. Had with sushi! — 8 years ago

Danika Hawthorne

9.0

This is actually for the rosé, not the red. Fresh strawberries on the nose, beautiful balance, lovely aftertaste. — 8 years ago

Mark Lindzy

9.5

This is a crazy single vineyard field blend of mostly white grapes, about 15 total, mostly Pansa Blanca (xarel-lo) and Sumoll. One mile from the sea, old vines on granite, co-harvested and co-fermented in vat. The color is golden, but with only 12hrs skin contact it's not a true "orange" wine. Super refreshing with citrus and pear, saline/granite minerality and bracing acidity. Wow.

Only 871 bottles this vintage. — 9 years ago

Rose Ireland

9.4

Sin Cera. Better if it breathes a day or too. Nice and oaky not too sweet. Merlot blend. — 5 years ago

Neil Valenzuela

9.5

Golden straw color. Aromas of pear, Granny Smith apples and a biscuit. End of a 2,113 mile RV trip. Grand Canyon, Tombstone, San Diego, LA and back to SF. Delicious sparkling, hints of golden raisins on the palate. — 6 years ago

Ryan Whittaker

8.9

Buttery, dry, low acidity and fruit-forward. Wonderful pairing with a nice buttery croissant. — 7 years ago

Sipping Fine Wine

9.3

Rombauer Vineyards was founded in 1982 by Koerner and Joan Rombauer and sits on a tree covered knoll overlooking the Napa Valley. The winery features caves that extend for over a mile into the hillside. Golden straw with aromas of stone and tropical fruit with sweet oak spice scents. On the palate peach, melon and apple, with soft vanilla spice, rich & creamy. Lingering smooth finish, well balanced ending with mineral notes. — 7 years ago

Holly Richardson

9.0

Very nice- at Highlander — 8 years ago

Steven Beishuizen

9.0

Spicy and tropical. Just a touch off-dry I guess, but perfect with dinner on the beach. — 8 years ago

with Anita

Shawn Thompson

9.2

Light golden colour, off-dry with an intriguing nose of petroleum, jasmine and slate. Nice acidity on the initial taste, mellows out with a citrusy palate of pomelo, green apple and lemons. A great Okanagan Riesling pairs well with spicier dishes. — 8 years ago

Stephen Delaney

9.0

Very good! Golden color (“attractive straw yellow color”), drank after a 90 degree, 5 mile run with Kevin’s pasta alfredo. 😁 “on the palate it is buttery with a fine fruity (pineapple and mango) finish” — 6 years ago

Leanne Ingham

10

Really loved this rosé. Slight bit of... smoke? Really flavourful with long finish for a rosé. It’s been a while since I had it so I can’t recall it well but I know I need to find a few more bottles. — 6 years ago

Silvia's Wine

Founder, V&N Cellars - Barcelona

9.1

2014 vintage Its a big improvement for Peñafiel winery since they changed winemakers. Moving towards the Golden mile style. — 7 years ago

Martin Mills

9.3

The top wine from the now defunct producer of what I’d rank as the best wines yet made in Canada, making this perhaps the pinnnacle of Canadian winemaking. This one is mellowing in its dotage, but delivering superbly complex layers of Meursault-like popcorn/toast/smoke on top of a seam of minerality that traces from salinity through to lime citrus fruit. Lovely golden hue in the glass, I expect this to continue to evolve ever more finesse for at least five more years. Seemingly unavailable any more in Ontario, I found this at The Port NSLC in Halifax for $87 and a special occasion. — 7 years ago

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.3

I bought my first vintage from this producer & terroir beginning with the 2010 vintage and what a vintage to start. I bought four bottles for right around $50 or a little less. They were so amazing, I drank through them in no time at all. For those of you that read my posts, that’s not normally what I do. I like to drink one & age the rest. Since then, I have looked & looked for more. I’d finally given up hopes of finding more until recently I struck gold. I should have bought all nine bottles but a calmer head prevailed. It’s definitely changed since having it fresh. On the nose, the fruits are slightly macerated. Heather honey, beeswax, golden & green apple, pineapple upside down cake, slight orange citrus blend, mango, glazed nuts, soft, delicate, chalky minerals, a touch of jasmine & yellow lilies. The body is much rounder & thicker than when it was young. Waxy. So, beautifully layered across the palate. Much of the palate matches the nose. Heather honey, beeswax, golden & green apple, apricots, peach, pineapple upside down cake, slight orange citrus blend, mango, slight molasses character & glazed nuts with citrus blossoms, yellow lilies & jasmine. The minerals are much more grippy & bold as they cut across and set on the palate. The acidity round & phat. The texture is amazing as is the length, balance & beautiful, rich, long finish that lasts two-minutes plus. So glad I found more of this wine! Hubert Lamy seriously over deliver the terroir & the price point by a country mile. If you are not buying this wine on pre-arrival, you are missing great wine and excellent value. Can’t say enough good things about it. Especially, the 2010. I expect the 15 to hold similar quality. Photos of; Olivier Lamy, Olivier working in this vineyard, barrel room and their Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet Vineyard. Producer notes and history...There have been Lamy’ s growing vines in St-Aubin since 1640, today it is run by Olivier Lamy. Olivier is a new breed of Burgundian grower keen to progress. He trained Méo-Camuzet & made a number of vintages before taking over in 1996 from his father Hubert. Hubert Lamy used to sell fruit to négociants, but that stopped in 1997. He grubbed up and sold off peripheral vines, keeping only the best and oldest sites. Currently he is experimenting with different planting densities in a quest to capture even greater expression of terroir. The Domaine produces both reds and whites and now has 16.5 hectares of vineyards, mostly in St-Aubin but also own a few parcels in Chassagne-Montrachet and a tiny plot in the Grand Cru Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet. Yields are kept low and recent innovations have been introduced with selection tables in the cuverie to ensure that only the healthiest and ripest grapes are used. His more recent move to reduce the amount of new oak with the introduction of demi-muids 300-600 liter barrels have also helped to improve the wines. Vinification is traditional and the wines are matured with only 20-30% new oak for 12 months before minimal filtration and then bottling. The quality is very high and is often superior to many wines from much more prominent villages that sell at twice the price or more. — 7 years ago