Spinning_spins

9.1

Olive, creosote, fennel, and black pepper drizzled over slightly unripe blackberries. Syrah, beautiful, Syrah, in its northern Rhone suit of gossamer armour. Vive La France! Vive La Terre! The rating is only due to this wine's youth; there's more here with time. — 10 years ago

Perry Riddle

9.1

Gossamer and airy. Gentle sweetness and lightly ripe apple and stonefruits. — 10 years ago

James Alford

9.0

You know when you walk into a really good farmers market, and you're temporarily overwhelmed with the piquant gossamer of stone fruit aromatics that just seem to good to be true? Yeah. There's a little of that. — 10 years ago

Austin Beeman

9.4

Nose is wild, funky unpredictable but the palate was gossamer pure Riesling. Long pristine finish. $90 restaurant price. — 10 years ago

with Susan and John

Daragh Hoey

8.9

Focused, light, gossamer delicate. This wine knows what it wants to be - it's not about gravitas, it's about fun. Really like it. — 10 years ago

Sybaritewino C.Lawrence

9.5

gossamer winged pinot perfection from mr. lim. — 11 years ago

Perry Riddle

9.2

A rare dessert wine I brought back from Switzerland. A passerillé made from Doral (hybrid of Chasselas and Chardonnay). Unctuous on the front and middle but gossamer on the finish. Good balance of acidity/sweetness. Mandarin orange and peach nectar. Touch of bitter orange too. — 11 years ago

Petra Thieriot

Owner/Importer Dee Vine Wines

10

A gossamer, utterly ethereal example of the marvelous potential and sheer finesse of Nebbiolo! — 11 years ago

with Dade

Keith Levenberg

9.2

This is one of the most gossamer red wines I have ever had. The physical material is so delicate it feels almost fragile, like a butterfly's wing. The color is a pale brick and the fruit autumnal and completely beyond the primary. For a time it has me wondering whether this is just a little too "natural" (read: sans SO2) to keep a grip on its material. But even as it conveys that sense of physical fragility and seems like it could start to crack up, it never does. To the contrary, it seems to compose itself more and more the longer it's open. The scents segue from an early whiff of chemical funk to more appealing earthy funk to stuff that's more dominantly fruity, though not sweet primary fruit - still in that autumnal family, mulled apples, etc. And the physical body remains so lightweight it's a wonder it's even there. — 10 years ago

Dade Thieriot

10

Classic #Saar steeliness and clarity with delicate mineral notes and an almost gossamer mouthfeel to it... A wine to quaff and enjoy with all sorts of spicy foods... utterly refreshing! #Reinert #ritterpfad #riesling #kabinett #feinherb #2013 — 10 years ago

Christine Havens

9.7

Where to begin? The Château Ausone 2000 recalls some of my top red Burgundy's—wines of this caliber have an otherworldly quality, that can only be described as an ethereal, gossamer, and transcendent. Complex, evolving layers of black currants, ripe blueberries, gravelly earth, iron, olives, sweet tobacco, violets, camphor, and even a touch of dried honey. It's as multidimensional on the palate, like some living thing with a precise, delineated core, and intersecting mineral tones wound around fine tannins. — 10 years ago

John Allport

9.1

Rich, earth,leather, acid....mature fruitKona Carbon Race by Deda
SIZES SC49, SC53, SC56, SC59, SC61cm
REAR SHOCK N/A
FORK Kona Carbon Race by Deda
CRANKARMS FSA Gossamer Pro Compact
CHAINRINGS 50/34t
B/B FSA Mega Evo
PEDALS N/A
CHAIN KMC X10
FREEWHEEL Shimano 105 12-25t 10 spd
F/D Shimano 105
R/D Shimano 105
SHIFTERS Shimano 105
BRAKE CALIPERS Shimano 105
FRONT BRAKE ROTOR N/A
REAR BRAKE ROTOR N/A
BRAKE LEVERS Shimano 105
HEADSET Deda
HANDLEBAR Kona Road
STEM Kona Road
SEATPOST Kona Road
SEAT CLAMP Deda Clamp
GRIPS Kona Cork
SADDLE Selle Italia X1
FRONT HUB Mavic Aksium WTS
REAR HUB Mavic Aksium WTS
SPOKES Mavic Aksium WTS
RIMS Mavic Aksium WTS
FRONT TIRE Mavic Aksium WTS 700x25C
REAR TIRE Mavic Aksium WTS 700x25C
PAINT COLOR UD Carbon w/Orange & White
EXTRAS N/A — 10 years ago

Travis Morningstar

9.5

Tangerine and white flower juice wrapped in a gossamer acidic structure. Dope. — 10 years ago

Christanna Honer

9.8

Some of the best pinots coming out of Soboma Coast. Big fruit on nose, gossamer on palate — 11 years ago

Manny Jemente

9.8

Incredible wine. Heft and weight in the mouth yet silky gossamer tannins too. Muted red fruit with prounonced earth and spices. Love it. — 11 years ago

with Katie and Marie

Christine Havens

9.2

Hanzell Vineyards 2012 Chardonnay is poised, 26% of the wine goes through malolactic fermentation in new barrels, with the balance matured in stainless steel. The resulting blend strikes a harmonious balance between freshness and oak, with pretty notes of ripe pear, lemon curd, marzipan, and meadow flowers. These notes are echoed on the palate, along a fine silky cord that steadily unfurls, with each layer providing dimension—a sort of weightless, gossamer expanse that closes with baking spice. Sample — 10 years ago

Keith Levenberg

9.5

2005 vintage. It's from Corsica. This is my last of three bottles bought from Garagiste back when they regularly offered fascinating stuff like this, before they jumped the shark. It was the first and last time they ever offered this wine despite my repeatedly prodding them to do so again after I opened my first two early on. I was floored then - it was like drinking a Truchot, almost impossibly light and gossamer. I've been holding on to this last bottle for years, afraid to open it as I didn't want to ruin that perfect memory. Shouldn't have worried, this is still great. And in fact it's aging very much like a Burgundy, although tasting more mature than a Burgundy of a similar age would be, and it's oddly put on a substantial amount of weight: the color's deeper and the material denser than before. It starts out with slightly spiky acidity that needs a bit of time to sort itself out. Then it has a fresh green aroma, full of Alpine herbs. Then it turns deeper, more savory and earthy, with mushroom and saddle leather, very much like a Burgundy knocking on the door of a tertiary period. It has a very fresh acidic spine with a juiciness that brings to mind orange or tangerine, not ordinarily the type of acidity that you see in a red wine. That adds a youthful perspective to a profile that otherwise feels fairly developed. But the most remarkable thing about it is the texture and sleek, slender proportions, not much changed since those bottles years ago that felt like drinking Jacky Truchot. Won't somebody consider importing this wine again? — 10 years ago

Keith Levenberg

9.7

My oh my oh my. Let me first try to describe this as objectively as I can before I start babbling in tongues about why it's awesome. So, okay, we'll start with the color, which is somewhere between a rosé and a pale red. That's as good a portent as any for what you get when you taste it, which is this ethereal, gossamer, lacy thing that would probably flutter to the earth even slower than a feather if it were a solid object. It has a sense of freshness and light without being overtly fruity, i.e. it features the freshness and essential perfume of the fruit without the sweetness or fat. It has a minerally element too, subtle (though everything about this is subtle) but clearly reminiscent of gravelly rock pulverized to an ultrafine powder (everything about this is ultrafine). The word "finesse" is a cliché, ditto for "ethereal," but ultimately that's what's so awesome about this. I have had a lot of disappointing German pinot noir, even from highly regarded producers, and they never turn out to be what you think German pinot noir ought to be (i.e., as clear and pure and transparent as riesling, with all that cool-climate lightness). Somehow some of them turn out to be big fat Sonoma pinot lookalikes, which I will never understand. This is not like that. I am really at a loss to think of anything from anywhere to compare this to that so effortlessly pulls off such a vivid personality out of material so fine it only barely seems to have a corporeal existence, and not a flaw or seam to be seen in the way it is all put together. I can think of a Jura pinot that was in the ballpark (the '08 Chais des Vieux Bourg) and the weight and physical presence bring to mind something like Coteaux Champenois or the Dirty & Rowdy reds, but as far as I am concerned this is sui generis. There are aspects that bring to mind all sorts of things but it really needs its own frame of reference. It is profound but not in the same way that grand cru Burgundy is profound; it's a brilliant soloist, not a symphony, almost minimalist in its simplicity and tranquility, best paired with your favorite easy chair and some quiet moments. — 10 years ago

Perry Riddle

9.4

Wowzer. Absolutely terrific. Whiff of petrol on the nose. Beautiful, lifted floral and citrus aromas. Gossamer texture with great balance and minerality. — 11 years ago

Perry Riddle

9.1

Like gossamer — 11 years ago