Rob Moose

9.1

Boy it pays to hold these. This is in a fabulous place but I know from experience it can go much longer. At a nice intersection of fruit, plush texture and growing herbal influence. Just the thing! — 8 years ago

Robert Lim

9.1

Aged Beaujolais that drink like crus - always a good thing. Pure, wonderful fruit with a youthful energy married with finesse. — 9 years ago

Amanda Rehn

9.1

Vintage 2000.... age is such a beautiful thing. — 9 years ago

Matthew Cohen

9.5

Wow great wine. Lilac and licorice nose. Fantastic juicy Syrah fruit. Lovely internal aromatics. Has that edge of palate coating thing going on. Sweet good licorice. This could be epic in a few years. Or just really really good. Bought from Fass selections. — 9 years ago

with Lyle

Jonathan Wall

9.6

Wow. I had a glass of this and could still taste it two hours later (not always a good thing but in this case it was). Taste like a hike on Mount Veeder. — 10 years ago

Justin Floyd

9.2

Excellent wine...here's to mo oak!!!! — 10 years ago

Hannes Huefken

9.2

Crowd pleaser, too! Smelling it, I think of buckthorn. My friends thought of tamarind, though. I like that. My third bottle. What a fun drink! :-) By the way, store cool and in upright position. Lay it down and the cork might be pushed out. Or worse: friends had one bottle explode all over their (room temp) pantry. The store replaced their bottle, saying the know about the problem. Their display bottle has the cork pushed out about 2mm. On one of my bottles, I saw dried-up drips on the outside of the wax seal. So the store now told me to store it upright and cool.Doesn't seem like something you should store for longer than a few months. Who needs tertiary aromas with something that funky anyways!? — 10 years ago

Jocholla

9.0

Spring means one thing...I won't be the only person drinking rosé. shhh. You can hear the angels now. — 11 years ago

conun DRUMS

10

Sweet Jesus! Stewed cherry, cassis, smoked charcuterie, leather, with a brooding plum/almost raisin note running under the whole thing. Worth the splurge! — 12 years ago

Jonathan Wood

10

Great wine makes me happy, and a little extra happiness is a very good thing right now. — 13 years ago

Kirsten Michener

9.5

This is my favorite viognier — 8 years ago

Stanley Lipkin

9.6

Last year I wrote:"Just lovely. Some pepper on the nose. Gamey while it was cold. Then it turned to silk with notes of leather, cassis, and soft tannins. Elegant."

The only thing I would add is that the dark berries sing in harmony with the balanced tannins. — 8 years ago

Carl Fischer

9.5

Renegade Wine dinner series at Rebelle NYC presented by sommelier Patrick Cappiello. Focus was on Cab Franc: 15 wines paired with 5 courses. Posting a few favorites.

This was WOTN for me. First thing I noticed - and could hardly believe - was how bright red the wine still was being 38 years old. There was some funk on the nose but a ton of fruit as well. The fruit stood out on the palate - and the wine had a brightness to it I couldn't believe. Flavors of raspberries and gravel and still had a great acidity. The somm did note that there is a lot of bottle variation. He opened the same vintage recently and it was all mushrooms and little fruit - so he felt his bottle was a little atypical. But that worked for me. Paired well with Comte. — 9 years ago

Max Reichwage

9.2

Drinking well, still has that juicy raspberry thing at 7 yrs old — 9 years ago

James Gordon

9.3

Spirit wine. This thing is at a great place right now. Perfect with roasted chicken, lentils, and roasted vegetables. — 10 years ago

Ryan Sones

10

Really speechless... Just imagine the best thing ever to hit your tastebuds outside of the bedroom, pure palate ecstasy — 10 years ago

Brian Nickerson

9.1

Crowd favorite after a little exposure to that thing called oxygen. — 10 years ago

Xiaowen Feng

9.8

It is my first day on this app, so I decided to rate this old bottle of wine I had two years ago with Florence. As it is profiled, 1949 is a great vintage and this particular bottle proved it is quite right, even though the bottle had a below shoulder fill. Brownish red color, silky, perfectly balanced, great long finish. Also, since 1949 is the year when People's Republic of China was founded, it added some emotional thing to the taste as well😋 — 11 years ago

Ira Schwartz

9.4

Tasted blind, the first thing that struck me on the nose was the amount of forest floor and pine.
Filled the mouth with concentrated fruit , some pepper and very smooth tannins. — 11 years ago

Charles Hudson

9.2

Everyone talks about 2007, but don't sleep on the 2008. I prefer it today and thing it will outpace the 07 over time. — 13 years ago

Jason Lee

8.9

Lmao at this alt right pet nat thotty it’s dirty and fun though 💁 — 8 years ago

Narun P

9.0

53.5 CS, 40 M, the rest PV and CF
Pnp from a half bottle.

Youthful look with deep garnet, dense core, and minimal bricking effect.

Great bouquet. Probably the best thing about this wine. Savory dark fruits, barnyard, mushroom, soil tone, smoke, graphite.

Still very tannic for its age, med acidity, and med plus bodied. Overt sweet fruit of dark plum, dark cherry, and blackberry, so typical of 2003. The level of acidity just about enough to prevent this from falling flat on its face. New oak profile very strongly present still though not distracting. Finish long on cedary new oak.

Not the biggest fan of 2003 but this sails high above my expectation. Doesn't even need a lot of decanting to open up. Very nice at a great QPR. 90. — 9 years ago

Mike Saviage

10

Tasted blind. Ruby color. Almost opaque. Young fruit forward nose. Notes of plums, mocha, dark chocolate, coffee, cinnamon and some exotic thing like eucalyptus. So rich and vibrant in the mouth. A forever finish. This wine took us in all directions. Immortal. Stan's 60th will always be remembered for the 45 Latour vs 45 Mouton mano y mano battle. A wine life moment for sure. — 9 years ago

Tom Small

9.2

Excellent cab - especially for the price. First thing I noticed was the color, a very deep purple that suggests its depth. Don't be fooled by the less than $10 cost - this one is worth keeping in stock. — 9 years ago

Charles Leisure

9.2

Excellent, but still very young, decant for a few hours before drinking. We waited on half the bottle and were disappointed we didn't wait on the whole thing. — 10 years ago

Mathew McNamara

9.0

While not my thing, this looked good, all pencil shavings and sweet fruit. Could have been young Bordeaux. — 10 years ago

Dave Weick

9.6

1996 In a perfect drinking zone. Still good color, complex fruit with a bit of leather. As close to Bordeaux as Napa can get. Aged ribeye and aged cab is a beautiful thing. — 10 years ago

with Nolan

Victoria Fager

9.8

I could drink this every night for the rest of my life. So rich and buttery. Here's to Rosie & Gommi! — 11 years ago

with Landon, Susan and 1 other

Tobin Trevarthen

9.6

My favorite bordeaux region and it delivers. Black cherry popping out. Celebration is a good thing. — 11 years ago

Alexa Rose

9.4

Shrimp and Selosse. It's a Sunday morning kind of thing. — 12 years ago

with Glen