Amazing Garganega!! Refreshing and engaging, haunted primary nose of linden, wh orchard frt, mild tarragon, wh chalky rock soil. Dry n balance acid, finish miles. Wednesday free corkage w/ Amar Santana and paired w/ Hamachi crudo, octopus a la placha — 11 years ago
Love this old-style bourbon for sipping and mint juleps. I want to tour the haunted distillery. — 11 years ago
This great wine and a haunted old Odd Fellows orphanage and retirement home to boot. This winery was at a very unique location and the vineyard owner was really interesting to talk with. Apparently you can also find him and this place on a recent episode of Ghost Stories! — 12 years ago
Where do I even begin? I was the winemaker's assistant this vintage for a very stressed and haunted man. David Hirsch didn't believe in air pumps then, and the press that was installed at the winery wasn't quite high enough to press into barrel with Gravity.... So I can honestly claim that I punched down every lot everyday every time, and I hand bucketed every drop of wine in paint buckets out of the press and up into barrel. Still I never got a bottle of the stuff until I bought it recently for 35 off Benchmark. As dangerous and chaotic of a harvest gig it was, the wine now sure tastes worth all the hellfire. — 11 years ago
Strong aromas of cherry, licorice, and cured meats. Nice chalk and slight pepper. Great mineral driven, but all is haunted by a perceived alcohol. Even thought it may not rank with CA octane, it just seems to unbalance everything. — 12 years ago
Zachary Sussman
Wine writer PUNCH
Profound Amontillado. So generous, yet still haunted by flor. — 11 years ago