Ron R

9.4

See my prior notes. Outstanding presentation. This will hang around for a few more years, too. — 5 years ago

with Anne-marie

Hanibal

9.1

A wine to drink without food to fully appreciate as it is at a point where it is starting to loose its intensity but has lots of complexity still. Don't wait too much longer — 6 years ago

Ted Corvey

9.1

Alto Piedmont may be one of the best places for hang of your buck. Once Nebbiolo hits a certain age it really sings. Rose petal, cherries, and dusty earth notes. Drinking great. — 7 years ago

Erica Levendosky

9.4

Crisp, refreshing, doesn't hang around. Great summer wine — 8 years ago

Raul Puga

9.3

Excellent. Great wine that can hang with the big boys that are much higher in price. Will keep exploring similar wines — 8 years ago

Tom Kobylarz

9.1

The Gombaude-Guillot, one of the few Bordeaux wines the Kermit Lynch works with, is a Pomerol that has the textbook satin-like tannin, a byproduct of the Merlot grape planted in these hallowed clay soils up on the Pomerol Plateau. Still plenty young, the fruit was plush but not too generous, showing juicy red fruits that buttressed and a subtle core of earth and minerality. Drink now or hang on for another 10 years easy. — 9 years ago

Stuart Robinson

9.1

Smokey, dusky, smouldering red fruit

Light, lithe, possesses volcanicity - that sense of a wine that is airy like a pumice stone; Fine texture, it opens up to reveal a loose and fine structure.  — 10 years ago

Ely Cohn

9.7

Raul Perez, Mencia wizard and human garden gnome, makes some of the most innovative and highly allocated wines from anywhere. I don’t often drink stuff this good. Sometimes you need to be reminded that average and good wines are made for relaxation and enjoyment and that extraordinary wines are art.

La penitencia could be the best thing I’ve ever opened at home. It’s elegant and bootlegged. The front label probably designed in an Internet cafe, the back label looks like it was cut and glued by a five year old. These things make it lovable because it’s so bad and it’s so good.

Pours a browned purple motor oil. The aromas fly. Perfumes of red and blue colored berries, clove, spice, leather. Like a brand new catchers mitt that needs some oil and some love. Feels of plush berry fruit and flavors of prunes and macerated strawberries and boxed raisins that seem to hang around for about as many years as I waited to open this thing. — 5 years ago

R Bowers

9.2

Another great one from Katherine Hall. While it’s a 2010, properly cellared it’s held up really well. Full body, with an awesome finish. Just a treat to hang back, relax and enjoy. — 6 years ago

Patti Gamboni

8.9

Natural, biodynamic, longer hang time, botrytis so honey, but dry, unfined, unfiltered. Like this! Not like any other Sancerre! — 8 years ago

Ben Edwards

9.1

Wow. Pours almost black. Was expecting a fruit bomb, but it's fully attenuated, and predominately earthy. Long, subtle hang that offers surprises as it oxidizes. Pairing with my usual cured meats, cheeses, pickled things. Definitely a winner. — 8 years ago

Molly Collins

9.0

Great hang around the house wine — 9 years ago

with Rob

Warren Sapp

9.1

We went upstairs and got Loose! — 9 years ago

Raye Ackerman

9.5

We decanted and let her warm up from the cellar. Phenomenal as she warmed up and still felt tight and spicy and continued to develop. Reached a massive peak of fullness and complexity faster than expected about 90 minutes after decanting and started to flatten and loose something from there. Final glass to end the evening a full 3 hours later and there was still something there but next time, I would not decant. Rated based on the best drinking period. — 5 years ago

Austin Hohnke

9.2

A lovely, mature Zin. In a great place right now showing beautiful layers of leather, tobacco, and forest on top of the softened berry fruit. Lytton it all hang out! — 5 years ago

Mark Flesher

9.5

In my opinion, this is a pop and pour Cabernet Franc at this moment. I do not believe any additional years in bottle are going to make this one any better. This wine is ready to kick butt. Full bodied, glass coating wine. Nose of black fruit, tar, hint of iodine and some floral notes although the floral has gone from primary to secondary over the years of aging. Palate is rather consistent with the nose, but added some dark cocoa powder towards the finish. Good acidity throughout, but the edges on this wine have definitely softened. Finishes a little bit gritty, which I think is mostly tannin integration. I think this one will hang around for at least another five years. But, this one is drinking most certainly at peak. — 7 years ago

FCK AFD

8.9

Geradlinig, saftig und mineralisch- — 8 years ago

Eric

9.2

Super solid pop n pour. Cab, Merlot, CF, PV. Nice balance and acidity. Minerality from nose to finish. Bright blue fruits and slate. Cinnamon tingle on the nose. Drinking perfectly now, but can hang out for awhile too. — 9 years ago

Eric Egan

9.0

This was lovely; full of primary fruit and lovely a point tannins but starting to loose its flesh. A very good easy drinking wine, though unfortunately that's all it was. As expected. — 10 years ago

Doctor No

9.4

I wrote and deleted two tasting notes for failure to capture the essence. Honestly, if you don't love this wine, you are a bad person, and you and I should not hang out. Ever. — 10 years ago