Joe Loughran

9.4

This was really delicious. Amazingly youthful still, with loads of dark fruit, some tannins remaining, and good acid. Paired beautifully with pork chops and roasted vegetables. Plenty of life ahead but this felt like prime drinking to me. — 9 years ago

Meg

9.2

Tonight we had a little fanfare for my Dad's 64th bday. This man has been thru a lot in the last few months. The celebration was twofold.... as my Mom rested on the couch, her last day of this treatment cycle tomorrow. I have been dreading birthdays for a while now, a reminder of fleeting youth, but I had an epiphany.... that each year of life that passes is indeed a blessing and a very good reminder. I got him personalized golf balls as a gift - something I put some thought into that I thought he might enjoy using on an almost daily basis. The price was more than I wanted to spend, but it's not really the gift, or the price of the gift that matters. Or the tangible gift at all. Or the wine, or where we are. At the end of the day, just being together is always the greatest of gifts. — 10 years ago

Lyndsy Holmes

8.9

Also smells really good. — 10 years ago

Hal Halbert

9.1

Sweeter than expected but fabulous: good start to a birthday dinner with friends. — 11 years ago

Will Phelps

Joseph Phelps Vineyards

9.5

2004, in good form. Still so much life ahead. — 11 years ago

David MacMillan

9.3

All I can say is wow.....what a wine! Great company, great wine......life is good — 11 years ago

with Jonathan

Nils Bernstein

9.2

The 1988 Coutet. Great Sauternes/Barsac vintage. Still full-bodied & good acid w/lotsa life yet. Lemon marmalade, light toffee, some pungent spice and Rieslingy petrol realness, & a long Lemonhead candy finish.
— 11 years ago

Tim O'Rourke

8.9

Closed down at first, but started to spring to life after about an hour open. Good mix of power and finesse. — 12 years ago

Zz Da

9.2

Not really tasting the ginger but still good and sweet. — 12 years ago

Lacey Chaput

9.8

Awesome tasting at Cade with my favorite people. Life is good — 13 years ago

Adam Harrell

9.0

Lot of life left. In a good place & drinking well. — 9 years ago

Gary Westby

Champagne & Sherry buyer K&L Wines

9.4

Steak & claret Friday is back. This bottle was more evidence for my theory that wine always shows best once it sells out. Dark fruit, savory tertiary character and plenty of sweet life in this "for steak only" northern Medoc. Hats off to the butchers at Draeger's... I don't know what that "cowboy" steak was, but it sure was good! — 10 years ago

Erik Longabardi

9.5

This is beautiful. Please do yourself a favor and find this. Good work West County — 10 years ago

Erin Hollrah

9.2

Marcel Lapierre Morgon… I smell it in the breeze, the warm kind that makes my head float above the leaves and just flutter down to the ground below — no matter if that ground be sand, snow, concrete or dirt. It doesn’t matter, for this wine personifies my favourite wine descriptor: high toned.

Medium garnet in colour, a generous nose of fully ripened strawberries; red and dark cherries; and warm, granite-rich earth leaves room for no other aroma to interfere. For a daydreaming stint, I become sweet sixteen. Everything is deep pink and love is such an easy red. Life is silky and breezy and good. I could live forever in the slipsteam.

The wine is dry but its fruits are gushingly sweet. A soothing mouthfeel and supple tannins offer too lovely an experience. It is so tempting to bite into the bitter little seeds inside the berries, but instead Marcel Lapierre Morgon begs you to roll with the black cherry skin and enjoy the simplicity before harsh aspects of life are unavoidable. The cover of YM magazine will never be interesting again, so why not enjoy it while it lasts?

Alas, the heartier-skinned wines and those unbathed in hippie funk; the awkward intrigues as well as dangerous lusts inevitably called my attention. Life may never be that raw and pristine again, but the beauty I can always recapture in this unforgettable bottle.

— 10 years ago

Andrew Whittle

Co-Owner/Director Summit Estate Wines

9.4

Perfect end to a great day of wine tasting & touring - life is good! — 11 years ago

Jonathan Tadros

9.3

I never see this as a true Chardonnay as you get hit with citrus like pa-pow pa-pow! So the start is crisp and dry. The finish is where that smooth oak and butter comes to life. Nice balance. A damn good white to enjoy on a hot day, or with some bomb seafood. #nothinglikenapa — 11 years ago

Howard Yang

8.9

Dark burgundy in color, smell of current, cider wood, raisin and mint, medium to long finish, soft tannin, good balance with nice acidity. — 11 years ago

Remi Barrett

9.6

89 Lynch Bages... So good! Tons of life in it. Perfect tannins — 12 years ago

James Parker Huston, CWE

Sommelier Charlie Palmer

9.1

Life is good. — 13 years ago

Daoud Sangwa

Sommelier Whole Foods Market

9.2

Finally found a very good french hard cider. Classic. — 13 years ago

David Donalson

9.5

Cider! Who knew it could be this good? — 10 years ago

Gilbert Van Hassel

9.3

2005 vintage extremely tasty. Tastes great and this wine has another 20 years of life. No doubt a superb effort but I am very worried. Just like Bordeaux is no longer claret, rayas is no longer a delicate wine. Rayas was a delicate, subtle, light colored, feminine wine. It has become high alcohol, big color, masculine wine. Very good but I miss the elegance. Has Emanuelle Reynaud listened too much to RP. We don't need another Pegau. Rayas was just fine as it was. — 10 years ago

Pinotman /// Andreas

9.0

Very good at the end if its life - drink now. Classic dark fruit and tealeaves. Was 70 bucks. This monopole 2 ha vineyard La Bussiere from Roumier is now 150$ and out of my range😩. I am drinking up my burgundies and replacing them with Pinots from Germany and some from Oregon. — 10 years ago

Max Gottesfeld, FWS, CSW

8.9

Dry clean crisp. Very good. — 11 years ago

John Trentacoste

9.5

Good riddance, intern. Hello Cider! — 11 years ago

Matt Easton

9.0

Light carbonation, good apple flavor, semi-sweet, natural tasting. — 11 years ago

Greg Sorensen

9.3

This has got life to burn. Super good. — 11 years ago

Martin Redmond

8.9

Nice dry, crisp cider. Very good, but prefer wine. May revisit when the weather turns warm — 11 years ago

Jamil C Williams

General Manager at Silverlake Wine

9.7

Pretty damn good. — 12 years ago

Jessica Pinzon

9.5

The perfect Fall apéritif - Bordelet apple cider from Normandy... Like biting into an apple fresh off of the tree. So good! — 13 years ago