Scott Rowe

9.3

Enjoyed on a ‘wine tour at home’ whilst slight restrictions are in place here in South Australia. We can still enjoy 30th birthdays 🎂🍾 — 6 years ago

Tom Inners

9.2

Took this old friend to trivia night and came home a winner. Hands down one of my favorite Pinot Noir sites in the Ceritas program. This wine is so true in its smells and tastes of place. — 8 years ago

Edward Nelson

9.2

Opened in MN. Finishing at home. — 8 years ago

with Michelle

Willie Carter

9.1

Deep blood red with a wide brim. Fun nose with a mix of fruit and savory aromas. Blueberry, soft vanilla, and forest notes dominate. I love these little Syrah, Grenache blends that have popped up all over the place. Full bodied but able to maintain a silky smooth mouthfeel. All the dark fruits on the palate, along with black tea, licorice, and lavender. The finish is long with hints of spice with nice legs. This Rhone by way of Sonoma is just a teenager now and will be even better later. Highly impressive stuff. — 8 years ago

Byron C Mayes

9.0

Dark, clear garnet purple. Heady nose of cranberry fruit leather and cigar box. Echoed on the medium-bodied palate with bright medium plus acidity and chalky medium plus tannins. Long, black cherry finish. Definitely has a few more years left (2021?), though it’s in a great place right now. At home anywhere you might serve a decent Burgundy, but a rich seafood paella seems like a natural. — 8 years ago

Christian Fischer

9.1

Intense and full of fruit, very nice bottle at the Chinese place — 9 years ago

Julia Weinberg

9.4

Press check & home stretch till my babies venture out in the world! 12s in such a vibrant place right now - floral, juicy and all that white rock structure. — 9 years ago

Judy shertzer

9.0

Home with Clay girls — 6 years ago

Jessica Feaster

9.1

Brought this 2014 vintage bottle home from our first and sadly only visit (thus far!). Paired with gruyere cheese - so tasty! Would love to have again. Would love to got back too - what a special place! — 7 years ago

Mark Flesher

9.5

@Tracy Hall got me thinking about these, so I brought a few home. I knew this one was not going to last very long, but I didn't know I would drink it on the first night! This would be a really fun wine to serve at a blind tasting. Everyone would guess this was Italian if served in the first 2-3 hours after cork pop. This wine starts off with black cherry, cola, mint, allspice. Hint of age on the nose and on the palate it shows as an earthy note. There is a mushroom note here towards the finish. As the wine sits beyond the 3 hour mark, it develops a plum and almost kind of a green olive note. Finishes soft with a touch of acidity. I wouldn't say that this wine has too many years left, and this is my last of this vintage. — 8 years ago

AgeyFixey

8.9

Great, easy drinking wine, although I was sure my bottle was somehow extra small. Well balanced with fresh but dark fruit flavours. Love the winery in Keremeos, great place to stop on the into the ok Valley and on the way home. — 8 years ago

Lindsey King

9.4

How do I even begin to comment on the privilege of lapping up the last drops of a life's work? Puffeney's 52nd vintage, his final potion. The wine that made me aware of the Jura, that first sparked sensation of time and place, a wine that exists equally in bottle as it does in brain. When you find yourself paused mid-step on the walk home, paralyzed by the distant sound of a youthful pianist stretching their hands across blessed white and black keys. Recognizing the tension that folds over their shoulders in tandem with the all encompassing lightness of body that accompanies practice. There is something so real about the way they are playing, without too much fluidity, they stop and start again and somehow that's better than an unstopping song. There is no performance here. What is it about the walls, windows and air between you that deliver these wafts of sound in such a pleasurable way? How does the space aid the aesthetic? You keep standing there, basking in this auditory coat, and for a sliver of time you want nothing. You want no one. You have everything. This pianist will never meet you, nor you them, yet there is partnership, a unity, an offer and reception. An electrical circuit you have both worked to complete. You want to cling tightly to this moment and you find yourself searching for evidence to make you present. The sky was blue, the pavement was wet, I was just about there, I was happy. But all of this is already phrased in the past tense, the moment has already slid away from you. You pick up your forgotten step and continue forward, dizzy from experience, left with only a stamp in your mind that you can picture but never fully revisit. Little death. — 8 years ago

Rob Moose

9.3

Very pleased about this! The first bottle of a case that sailed home from Burgundy. Flinty and lit at the start, then gave way to measured orchard fruit and honey. Quite beautiful. In a great place now if you don't rush the glass! Wine House — 10 years ago

Sipping Fine Wine

9.3

A blend of 99% Cabernet Sauvignon & 1% Cabernet Franc, aged 26 Months in 75% New French Oak, grapes from their home St. Helena Estate. Deep Ruby, medium+ aroma intensity of red berry fruit, sweet spice and just starting to develop some secondary aromas of herb and leather. On the palate flavors of raspberry, cranberry and cherry fruit, herb pepper, cacao, cedar and vanilla spice with slight creamy texture. Fine structured soft tannins, nicely integrated with acidity, great mouthfeel, a big wine with a long finish ending with fruit and oaky notes. Tasting Sample. — 7 years ago

Carl Fischer

9.3

Thank you for the recommendation @Martin G Rivard - such a lovely place and this was delicious. Sadly my phone died right after I took this picture all my notes are based on a fuzzy memory after quite a few “tastings”. But of all the roses I had In Provence, this was the one we wanted to bring home! — 8 years ago

Marc Stubblefield

Wine Sales at Vino Carta and Kogod Wine Merchant

9.1

Like drinking a cool, rocky stream. This is all mineral and refreshment, maybe a little softer than many, and certainly restrained on the fruit side. If you're looking for juicy gooseberries or acid cut, you've come to the wrong place. If you're looking for something clean and precise and palate awakening, you're home. — 8 years ago

Bob Schroeck

9.2

Vintage 2013. Drank on 4/14/2018 celebrating new home on Boardwalk Place — 8 years ago

Kim Stanbro

9.1

Merry Christmas magnum of Deck the HALLs before caroling at the Polish Home Club. — 8 years ago

with Jenima, Amy and 1 other

Mark Kania

9.5

Enjoying our first home cooked dinner in the new place. — 9 years ago

Joe Lucca

9.4

Just arrived home after a long week away and my truly better half had this open and waiting for me. Instantly, stress turned to SMILES! This is drinking really well right now. Crushed black and blue fruit, cedar, fresh tobacco, bay leaves, earthy minerals, ripe tannins and some black pepper. Not typically a huge Cade fan, but this Howell Mountain bottling shows a nice sense of place. So much better than when I tasted it on release. Thank you @Diana L for slowing down a hectic week. 🍷 — 9 years ago

with Diana