Kathy Olson

10

Amazing with a cherry and hickory smoked turkey — 9 years ago

Nikita Malhotra

8.9

Decanted and waited 2 hours for this tightly wound up boy to turn into a gracious gentleman. A lot of blueberries and hickory smoke — 10 years ago

Sam Coturri

Winery Sixteen 600, Enterprise Vineyards and the Moon Mountain District

9.2

Smells like French Oakland-style BBQ, hickory smoked rhone with a sweet tangy finish but with a lot of dark fruit goodness still hiding behind a tight midpalate. 20 years old and still needs time. — 10 years ago

MICHAEL COOPER DipWSET

Owner TomeVinos wine shops, WSET Level 3, Blogger www.spanishwinesandmore.com, blog.tomevinos.com

9.2

Great Malbec and great price quality ratio. Smokey and spicy nose. Just lovely with hickory and cloves and herbs. Strawberries and raspberries. Can definitely age, will be good for the next ten years. — 10 years ago

Raun Kupiec

9.0

Smoky cherry, cigars and hickory. Thick and round. 2011 a bit too tannic for me, could use more time. — 11 years ago

with Barbara

Byron Bertram

9.7

A light nose. Hints of cherry and smooth finish with hints of hickory . — 11 years ago

Julie Northshield

9.0

Great taste of summer, but great wine any meal. Try with a winning hand in poker or take to share on the top of a hill with a great view. Balanced , smooth — 12 years ago

Larry Parker

9.2

Somebody has to drink it. May as well be me and my wife with a New York Strip steak cooked over hickory. Elegant Calistoga can. I was told 2010 was "okay" but I could sip this all night. I am tasting a touch of pencil shavings, black berries, and youth. Did I open this way too early??!! — 9 years ago

Ryan Stewart

9.0

Pale ruby color with thin legs. Seductive aromas of sage, vanilla, sweet hickory smoke, red cherries, cola, and rhubarb. Medium juicy tannins, medium body, with additional notes on the palate reminiscent of cloves and strawberry PopTarts! Med + finish, room to improve with bottle age for sure. Delicious, and varietally true to its terroir. — 10 years ago

with Natalie

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

Floral, hickory smoke. Purity is amazing. — 10 years ago

Matt Duncan

8.9

Spiced cranberry. Sumptuous tannin with hickory smokiness — 11 years ago

Michael Brown

9.6

Mild and buttery. Lots of oak with American varietal. Macy's tasting $29. — 11 years ago

Joshua F.R.

9.4

Fantastic-- medium bodied, wonderfully smooth, balanced levels of fruit and earth. A bit of hickory. Love this at $20. — 12 years ago

Julie Northshield

9.5

Great party wine. Crisp, clean not to sweet. One that is versatile, summer or winter hues. Try with turkey cranberries or just to share with lite fair., — 12 years ago

Matt Wilson

8.9

A little young.. a bit of air really opened up the nose and revaled currants and pepper with undertones of violets and hickory. Super clean on the palate. Elegant and classy — 10 years ago

Martin Redmond

9.0

Opaque violet color with appealing roasted meat, roasted black fruit, smoke and a hint of truffle aromas. On the palate it's medium bodied with very good acidity and soft well integrated tannins and a hint of minerality with concentrated roast boysenberry, plum, blueberry and hickory
flavors. Long finish. — 10 years ago

Lindsey Baker

8.9

At Highland Avenue in Hickory, NC — 10 years ago

David Kline

9.2

Plum strawberries with strawberry liqueur and underripe blueberries nose. Oaky-tasting, smoky, black plum palate with cedar and hickory. This thing swings wood like Babe Ruth, yet remains nude and almost oak less as an actual babe. — 10 years ago

with Courtney

Yianni Stone

9.4

Burning hickory — 11 years ago

with Haley and Roo

Alan Fisher

9.6

Nice cab. Other side of lake. — 12 years ago