Ntobeko Ntusi

9.2

From the home of Prosecco. Excellent in every way. Vintage 2015. Very, very good. Goes well with everything and even better on its own. — 6 years ago

Ashleigh Klare

9.2

Lighter on the palate than the nose; nice surprise. Smooth and light. Like coppa - soft, melts in your mouth, not bitter, a little buttery and very slightly sweet with a hint of herbal notes. Enjoyable with pasta and pesto dinner at home. — 6 years ago

Matt Perlman

9.0

A little Produttori nightcap on the road. Somewhat medicinal on initial pop but with an hour or two of air reveals beautiful cherries, dried flowers and herbs. Looking forward to finishing this on the train back home tomorrow evening. — 7 years ago

Matt Trader

9.3

I know I know, it's young but Wine Advocate thought it was a 97 so I thought I'd take it home and see what this vintage is all about in the Sauternes department. Nice perfume to the nose - orange zest, papaya, and Asian pear, and honeysuckle. The pallet shows zippy but appropriate acidity, and light color of its youth - pineapple, apricot preserves, Meyer lemon, and a very faint hint of white pepper spice mixed with a soft mineral note. I definitely think this was a great vintage, but not quite a 97. I will say that I'd love to see this at its plateau. For 2nd Cru, this is outstanding in its value ($19.99 for the 375ml). Buy and lay away for a little while. — 7 years ago

Elayna Trucker

9.0

Strong scent of raspberries with a hint of earthiness. Tastes sweeter, though, with spicy overtones: cardamom and clove, hint of citrus. — 8 years ago

with Timothy

Charles D Cummings

9.0

Really love the Seghesio brand, so we picked the Home Ranch. Had a lot of mixed fruits on the nose. Also big fruit on the tongue, raspberry and blackberry with a little spice and oak. Like this year but I prefer the 2009! — 8 years ago

Benjamin Hickey

9.0

Soft cherries, touch of smoke. Long very soft finish. — 9 years ago

Rob Garretson

9.0

Full-bodied and fruit-forward without the syrupy sweetness of most inexpensive California zins. Great $11 beach wine and even better at home for $8.50 at Total Wine! — 9 years ago

Paul Weil

9.3

Slightly jammy, full of blueberry and blackberry flavors, and delicious as a a food wine. — 9 years ago

Jason DePriest

9.1

One of my favorite Chardonnays to date. Opens with strong aromas of green apples, pears, and tart lemons, with hints of flowery nectar and butter. Balanced acidity. Finish is long, enhancing the butteriness and lemon flavours. Very slight hint of honey/candied citrus at the end. This paired with fish and goat cheeses has been a real treat. Highly recommended! — 10 years ago

Phil Stricker

9.6

Surpisingly creamy and wet. Hints of cherry and appricot. Not your typical cab. — 12 years ago

Berg

9.1

🦄 🦄 1 of 308 bottles. Pretty simple on the palate, but love the nose of watermelon and eucalyptus, very unique — 6 years ago

with Carla, Doctor and 4 others

Doug Powers

9.6

Berry fruit and wild Provençal herb aromas, still very youthful and primary, but great depth of fruit, ripe tannins and still structured, not bitter, really excellent bottle of LCF that needs further aging!! — 6 years ago

Michael Cook

9.0

Solid...reminded me of my home team Pinot Blanc (Lieb Cellars) while I was on the road. I’ll drink a bottle of this anytime — 7 years ago

Mark Flesher

9.0

Nice little pinot but man these 2014 Martinelli Pinots could all use about 4-5 years of bottle aging! 1 of 4 brought with us on a little weekend getaway, and was a great accoutrement. Nice acidity, great raspberry grit and had an herbal nose and finish. Really pleased, and even more pleased that the rest are in the lockup where they belong for a few years. — 7 years ago

Casey Stringer

9.4

I just found this for a ridiculous price at a sort of out of the way liquor store on my way home from the dentist. $60! Had to take a flier on it for that price. The wine is excellent. Darker than expected. Silky tannins with notes of sandalwood and tart cherry. Years of good drinking ahead on this one. — 8 years ago

Gae Saccoccio - NdC

9.6

Really complicated on these so suspect days, expose themselves with concepts such as: tradition, terroir, identity without falling into the most sinister rhetoric if not sounds just trite and hypocritical as the counterfeit currency with which even large-scale industries - supported by marketing - pays back its inattentive mass audience riding the wave of the country of origin or protected typicality. A diabolical mechanism this one for which even the most noble ideas probably the right practices and good experiences completed in the scale of centuries to human measure and not on massive industrial scale, are trivialized by sleazy slogan, emptied of meaning to be more or less surreptitious thanks to barbaric persuasion techniques and brain-washing propaganda.
Yet with the Valentini's Trebbiano you may not groped to summarize in words if not by drawing on terms so appropriate to express it. Now concerning this iconic label we've got behind it a local grape variety, a real family and a great wine that collect in a bottle the past and present story of a side of Abruzzo who claims to defeats victories and sacrifices to dominate the abuses (on and of) nature, miseries and splendours of agricultural seasons. Places, people, vision, wines such as Valentini are here to remind us how each bottle stay so proudly standing as non-reproducible beauty and fermented goodness expressing all its artisanal uniqueness and authenticity which are just that suspect to industrial wine production in manufacturing chains on standardized quantities; wines that are all equal to themselves even though wine itself is not much left at the end of the day/cycle. Trebbiano d'Abruzzo Valentini 1998 is what we have to rate right now: rusticity with class; style, purity and glory of a local grape recognized by many admirers from all over the world: act local think global this is another slogan-cliché which in this specific Valentini's wine exemple could sounds a little less false and more effective. — 8 years ago

with Alberto and Giovanni

Damon Zaylor

9.3

Big and rich Chardonnay still oak notes after 11 years. Hazelnut and caramel corn. Still has minerality present few years of life left (like my cat except more teeth). Granted I could come home any day now to find wine or cat dead but the future looks bright for both. — 9 years ago

Rich Bluth

9.0

Beautiful deep color, full of flavor, great with food. I am getting a finish minutes after a taste. — 9 years ago

Chris Miller

9.4

$18.99/$30, elegant and delicious, great balance of fruit and acid with hints of mocha and banilla — 10 years ago

Bret Barker

9.2

One of the first bottles I bought when I started collecting. Sat in the back of my closet for 6 months- that was my wine locker back then! Huge fan of this producer. Don’t get sucked into epic vintages solid producers make great wine in any vintage. 01 wasn’t anything to write home about but when you drink this, you think otherwise. — 6 years ago

Sam Coturri

Winery Sixteen 600, Enterprise Vineyards and the Moon Mountain District

9.5

Nothing like coming home to Uncle Bobby pulling one of your favorites out of his wine bag. The balance, the spice rack of aromas, the depth and length of the dark blue fruit. Syrah defined. — 6 years ago

with Philip

Paul T HB

9.2

This arrived this morning on my way out, just got home & popped one.
Its good, but I prefer the Realm & Bevan especially since they are almost half the price. Picked the Realm up for $40.00 each for 12-14 3 bottle lot.
Bevan is $36.00 this Arkenstone was $60.00, most places around $70.00 not sure what the release price is.
This is a thinner more focused SB, I like thick & Viscous. Just personal preference
@Ellen Clifford please let me out of the trunk, the sun is finally coming out & my wine is starting to get a little warm. — 7 years ago

Cara Lyn Crenshaw

10

This is my favorite wine on the market so far. It has just the right amount of sweetness to make your mouth water. Perfect for any creamy pasta meal or a crisp fruit salad! — 7 years ago

Matt Sterr

8.9

Somewhere between saline and smoke. — 8 years ago

Rajiv Ayyangar

9.9

Holy hell this is good!!! Stunning precision of ripeness, complexity of fruit condition. 50 shades of blackcurrant. There's no hint of raisination or underripeness. Secondaries of olive, graphite, and slate. Pauillac with a punch. Relatively modest at 14.1% Well-structured. Tannins are neither over-polished nor astringent. Oak is well-integrated and decidedly in the background. Best cab I've ever tasted

The 2015 and 2014 out of barrel were terribly exciting as well - I know they'll get better with elevage but I'd happily drink it now. I contemplated just stealing a barrel but I left my forklift at home. — 8 years ago

Charles Hudson

9.2

I bought a 3-pack of Rhys off a friend who is on the list. Didn't disappoint. Very light and tasty. — 9 years ago

with Brandi

Marc Stubblefield

Wine Sales at Vino Carta and Kogod Wine Merchant

8.9

Still seems youthful, with lots of ripe fruit leading the way. If there's a clue to its age, it's the way the oak has receded and integrated - still there, but not as present as in a younger Ridge wine. In a nice spot, could go for a while yet. — 9 years ago

Barbara Chung

9.0

Reminded us of Etna Bianco. — 10 years ago

Brian Wahlund

9.1

Sat afternoon at home bottle 1 of 2. Ups to Jill at Domaine — 11 years ago