Ground Breaker
Ground Effect
Never Say Never Syrah
Thanksgiving! — 10 years ago
Pierre Gaillard
Malleval Côte-Rôtie Syrah 2009
Some of the best damn Côte Rotie I've had. Love this producer. Aromatic intensity with no shortage of ground pepper and bacon fat aromas. — 10 years ago
Hallowed Ground
Proprietary Red Blend 2014
Delicious tart cherries and vanilla finish. Love it, great sipper on its own — 11 years ago
Marcel Lapierre
Morgon Gamay 2013
Ground breaking! Thanks to one of my best buddies.. Happy Thanksgiving! — 11 years ago
Arianna Occhipinti
SP68 Bianco Terre Siciliane Albanello Muscat of Alexandria 2012
Peach jolly rancher wrapper with a hint of ground cherry. Creamy, yet bracing. Super nice! — 12 years ago
Real Companhia Vinicola do Norte de Portugal
Vintage Porto 1847
The year when Kristianstad burned down to the ground. A mind blowing wine. Room filling bouquet, vigorous, balanced and an infinite length. Decanted 2,5 h — 13 years ago
Higher Ground
Monterey County Pinot Noir 2014
William Hill Estate Winery
Bench Blend Napa Valley Malbec 2012
An extremely impressive effort, this Malbec is binged in a style Californian to the core, rejecting the more sharp and tangy acids of Argentina for a Cabernet like approach, with rich velvety chocolate and cherry flavors and a lingering coffee ground finish. A bit sedimented, it benefited from some time in a decanter with a punt. — 10 years ago
Domaine St Nicolas
Fiefs Vendéens Brem Pinot Noir 2013
Sommelier, International Wine Guild; Balistreri Vineyard; Sales, Joy Wine and Spirits
Beautiful and intriguing wine from off the coast of France, below Muscadet, where the vines grow mere inches off the ground from the brutal winds, and the soil is all schist rock. Dark cherries, tons of mineral notes, and also some wild game. Extremely taut acidity. — 10 years ago
Penfolds
Bin 389 South Australia Cabernet Shiraz 1998
Still rich in colour. Very dusty nose. Penfolds nose of choc/malt but becoming more ground coffee. A very good combination of plummy fruit and savoury palate. Penfolds say to 2030! They certainly build them to last! 18+. — 11 years ago
Pierre Gonon
Les Iles Feray Pays de l'Ardèche Syrah 2011
Give me your root day! This wine will wrestle it to the ground! Boom! — 12 years ago
Remhoogte
Honeybunch Reserve Chenin Blanc 2015
Freshly ground garden hose — 9 years ago
Paul Jaboulet Aîné
La Chapelle Hermitage Syrah 1975
In English and French.
What a luck !
- A magnum Hermitage La Chapelle 1975 from Paul Jaboulet Aîné.
Bottle opened 24 hours before drink.
The wine is brown and trouble.
A big density, the bouquet offer lot of spicies, cinnamon, dried grappe, old cherry in alcool, date fruit.
The palate :
Full of spicies, deep. Again the cinnamon followed by date fruit and dried grappes, smooth and elegant, a long and fresh finish on the ground aromas like mushroom an old and luxury wood.
Not so old ! A great wine. Loved it.
Around 1200 - 1700 €
- Chance incroyable !
Degustation autour de ce magnum de 1975. Rare. Bouteille ouverte 24h à l'avance.
Sous sa robe usée, trouble et marron, ce vin cache une ceritable fraîcheur.
Son bouquet s'ouvre sur les épices, cannelle, fruits secs, raisins secs, cerise à l’eau de vie et dattes fraîches d'Iran.
Un grand bol de fruits secs, d'épices, de dattes, beaucoup de matière et de tendresse. Un style tout en élégance.
Une longue finale sur des notes tertiaires de mousse, champignon, et de vieux cèdre.
Très beau. J'ai beaucoup aimé.
Attention, le goût de vieux vins est toujours particulier !
Autour de 1200 - 1700 €.
À bientôt.
Florian. — 10 years ago
The Ojai Vineyard
50% Roll Ranch Vineyard 50% Bien Nacido Vineyard Syrah 2000
An opaque red/purple, the '00 Ojai Syrah '50% Roll Ranch 50% Bien Nacido' is richly scented with black raspberry, ground pepper and dark cherry notes. Powerful mouth-coating flavors of ripe black fruits with spicy cracked peppercorn accents then flood the palate. The fully-rounded and well-integrated tannins make the lingering finish lip-smackingly delicious. — 10 years ago
Edmunds St. John
Higher Ground Syrah 1997
Dog fell asleep on this beauty! — 11 years ago
Rene Rostaing
Ampodium Côte-Rôtie Syrah 2010
Whohohoooa out the gate: incredibly vivid pepper, chicken broth, dried rosemary, red currants! Man this is fabulous! Only my second Rostaing and I'm loving this. Opens into afar smoother red currant bright earthy wine after 1hr. Tantalizing, alluding to what is to come, but I can't resist alluring young ones. Already a silky fresh ground black pepper monster. — 12 years ago
LM Segal
Giusto hits another one outta the park. Sicilian take on new world Pinot Noir, made in clay amphorae buried in the ground, light, pure pomegranate and red berry. Love how the clay and the red earth come through. Very long. Seek this out, decant a bit. — 9 years ago