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 — 8 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! — 9 years ago

Berg

9.3

Haven't had a Gonon in a while, figured I'd check in on '11. Good amount of black and blue fruit still, and an ample amount of that briney-umami-black olive flavor I love in here, and some mildly funky earth tones, that go really well with the rich earthy nuttiness of this 42 day aged NY strip (home aging by joeD). Think the last Gonon I recall opening was '13 after release last year, and it was brutally young. The '11 however is nicely settled down, smooth fine tannins, long finish, but plenty of room to mature yet. — 9 years ago

Benjamin Hickey

9.0

Soft cherries, touch of smoke. Long very soft finish. — 10 years ago

Andrew Willingham

9.3

Lovely dessert wine. Need to get some of these to keep at home... — 10 years ago

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. — 10 years ago

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. — 10 years ago

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. — 8 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. — 9 years ago

with Timothy

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. — 9 years ago

with Alberto and Giovanni

Sam Hege

9.5

Rich coffee and caramel layered in dark purple fruits on the nose. Lot of nice slate and minerality through the mouth with decent acid and light tannin. A welcome home from the holidays wine with chocolate and pizza! — 10 years ago

with Colton

Paul Weil

9.3

Slightly jammy, full of blueberry and blackberry flavors, and delicious as a a food wine. — 10 years ago

Mary Ahmad

9.6

Fruity, crisp, nice finish. One of the better Sauvignon Blancs I've had. In fact, all the Rodney Strong wines we've tried have been excellent. — 12 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. — 8 years ago

Ryan Vento

9.1

A heavy hitting wine with a bit more finesse than, say, one of Phinney's power bombs - cinnamon, clove with some tar and black pepper. Flavorful and delicious. — 9 years ago

with Krystal

Matt Sterr

8.9

Somewhere between saline and smoke. — 9 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. — 9 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. — 10 years ago

with Brandi

James Parker Huston, CWE

Sommelier Charlie Palmer

9.1

A lot of heat gave away its origin blind. Still a ton of fruit and will go another 10 years. — 10 years ago

Brian Wahlund

9.1

Sat afternoon at home bottle 1 of 2. Ups to Jill at Domaine — 12 years ago