Vino Joe

9.5

Tropical fruit mixed with such harmony. Absolutely delicious. Very good to Superior vintage. — 3 years ago

Ron from VA

8.9

2nd bottle? — 5 years ago

Natassia

8.9

I shall be the first to rate the 2016 vintage.. I find this Chardonnay to be almost perfect. I am usually not a fan of chards but Trefethen has the talent to make it palatable for every drinker. It has a marshmallow touch to it, light golden color, apricot on the nose and slightly lemony on the back of the tongue and tingly at the very top. — 5 years ago

with nachobiz

Brandon Boesch

10

Wow! Singing. Menthol, berries, hint of cream, herbs, cassis. I am influenced by drinking with the guy who made this wine while listening to him play songs from the album! Still excellent for an almost 20 year old wine. — 5 years ago

with Randy

Evan Bienstock

9.4

A trip through old world wines — France, Italy and Germany. This 2011 Clape was great. Decanted for 3 hrs and still it’s youth was evident. But the structure and fruit and earth are in great balance and harmony. Clape can do no wrong. — 6 years ago

Brian Stotter

9.6

PnP at a friend's house. Wonderful nose of blackberry, black currant, dried blueberries, cedar, eucalyptus, and tobacco that keeps intensifying with time in the glass. Full body with fully-integrated tannins and a long complex finish that fluctuates between black fruits, organic earth, and eucalyptus. Everything about this wine is in perfect harmony right now but it still has plenty of life left. — 7 years ago

Matt Lichtenberg

9.4

Best bottle yet of this wine. Tannin and fruit balanced in perfect harmony. If I can only source some more.... — 8 years ago

Chris MacLean

8.9

This is fine, just not close to the quality and harmony of La Rioja Alta — 3 years ago

with Sarah

Andy Hall

9.6

What a pull! Depth, complexity, structure, harmony and long ass finish! — 4 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

I adore this wine. A weakness of mine. It need so much time. Nose is gorgeous. Mint. Ripe and floral. Berry fruit. So dense. So layered. So precise. But deep. Really impressive. Palate is so damn impressive. Smokey and pure with ripe and elegant tannins. Awesome. Best bottle by far of this 2012. Has really come into its own. Concentrated and so elegant with terrific structure. Sweet and granitic fruit. Awesome purity. Really great wine. Fresh and ridiculously energetic. Incredible harmony here. So long. You gotta really really wait on these for them to show well. Worth the wait. — 5 years ago

MaJ CappS

9.0

Berries boxed in cedar - I could sniff this all day.
Alas, I want more - medium bodied, an incredible harmony of bold red berry fruit, Himalayan salt, cedar tannins and interesting orange zest at the very, last whisper of the wines embrace. Glad I let this set for a couple of years. Great producer, wonderful area, the Ribero del Duero..
— 5 years ago

Aaron Hamrock

9.8

This is an amazing wine. It is now in a prime drinking window. The tannins and fruit are in perfect harmony. I would think that this wine would last another 5-10 years. — 6 years ago

Tom Dare

9.1

Dark fruit in good harmony, drink today or cellar, very balanced today and will get better. — 8 years ago

Daniel Ciolek

9.0

Found this dusty bottle in my cellar and wasn’t expecting much after 7 years. Surprisingly it was great. Slight amber color. Light refreshing honeydew nose. Juicy acidity with slight buttery texture - some sweetness with melon and strawberry and hint of Concord grape. Very refreshing. — 3 years ago

Alex Grenewitz

9.5

Great tasting with little heat and no aftertaste. Absolutely smooth, no ice needed. — 4 years ago

Eric Urbani

9.2

This is a magnum of Jim Clendenen’s 2001 Harmony estate-bottled Chardonnay, “Nuits-Blanches Au Bouge” from the Santa Maria Valley in Santa Barbara County. Bien Nacido and Le Bon Climat vineyards. If you aren’t familiar with Jim or his Au Bon Climat and Clendenen Family labels, you are in for a treat. — 5 years ago

Matt

9.5

Drinking beautifully with a Northern appellation feel to it, more Brune and schistous to me. Would love to know all the lieu dits that contribute and their proportion in the final blend. Its darken fruit profile, meaty/smokey and forest notes make the argument that it’s of northern origin. Its opening up for now there’s a rich stream of dark black fruits reminiscent of Black raspberry liquor, soaked plums, almost prune, and overripe black berry/cherry. There’s still freshness to the fruit however, nothing ox’d or decaying. Singed cedar, leather, ash, roasted meat and animal come next, followed by the garrigue and bacon fat. Threads of eastern spices and of course pepper. It elusive now, the aromas coming and going. Palate has some lovely richness and bones to accompany it well, never pushy, always with restraint and nerve. Reminds me of Barolo. Great “basic” cuvée for Rostaing this vintage. Day 2 this really got going, much more harmony and focus on the nose. Loads of bitter root and pastille notes developing among its dark content. Very delicious — 5 years ago

Matt

9.6

The hallmark, and almost its give away, is its balance of all the complexities that come together to create a stunning wine of richness, precision, harmony and length. There’s so many facets to this wine and they all seem to be working together to weave a whole, uniformed wine. Reminiscent of Batard Montrachet, but with a little more CA sunshine to boot. So powerful but so playful and energetic on the palate. — 7 years ago

Bacchus Trip

8.9

Purple, aromas of fermented fruit, a briery blackberry front end with forest floor on the finish. Well structured and in harmony. 🍷🍷🍷✖️✖️ — 7 years ago

Peter Wassam

9.8

A softened ruby color. Beautiful balance, everything in harmony. Wet earth, raspberry, cinnamon, a whiff of truffle, intoxicating nose. So much ripe, fresh red fruit on the palate. Such soft tannins, damson plum, a mineral streak running through. Drinking a 15 year old wine for 15th anniversary of diabetes. This is splendid in the moment — 8 years ago