Hp Harrer

McGah Family Cellars

Scarlett Rutherford Cabernet Sauvignon 2015

Mike R
9.7

While this is so good and what a way to reintroduce myself back to red wines - amazing - we had to fight off wine zombies at our local high end burger joint as they saw our faces and knew the wine was speaking no screaming to us “I don’t like it, I LOVE it” as my friend @David L says but we escaped with our lives and enjoyed our wine

We kept drinking listening to Bon Jovi Wanted Dead or Alive while our horses got hydrated (well 500 horses in HP) as we did as well drinking this brilliant example of Cabernet Sauvignon from my new great friends
@Mike Smith and Leah Smith - thank you so much - I praise you as I love this as much as one of top fives which is Quivet LPV 2013 which we discussed as well when we were together - this is different and Rhonda says it has a strong hint of vanilla beans that makes the scent unique and pleasant - I doubt she is right

The music changes to Dave Matthews and we taste to wine and man does the palette get pleased and finessed like a sexy women talking to me which I am lucky as that is my wife

The length of the taste is like watching your breathe on a cold day as Stone Temple Pilots plays on the speaker and really enjoying this masterpiece of wine craftsmanship / bravo Mike

By the way hope the family is great and Rob our son is doing good in first job after college and he is happy so we are blessed
— 7 years ago

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Mike R

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@Mike Smith astonished to say this but there was a half of glass in the decanter left so just tried and I am going to report this is now 98-100 points wine after fifteen hours - all smiles
P A

P A

@Mike R Mike fun review Smiles and Cheers from the True North 🍷
Jody Scharf

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Beautifully said

Highland Park Distillery

Aged 15 Years Single Malt Scotch Whisky

HP had a way of making sharp edges feel like diamonds not sticks. Add a touch of honey, hard candy, butterscotch. Beautiful. — 9 years ago

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Tom Kobylarz

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I had the lucky chance to try this 18 and an older version of 18. Different recipe for sure, and while this one is good I loved the older one. There are spirits auctions you can buy these at.
LM Segal

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Wonderful and - like the Macallan 18 - increasingly rare. Strange they would change the recipe as the big houses strive so much for consistency, and there are no vintage variables. God bless Scotsmen in any event!

Littorai

Platt Vineyard Pinot Noir 2011

If you are what you drink then let me be Pinot and Littorai is a fav! Platt Vineyard - I wonder if the vineyard name will change now that the vineyard sold...yes that was Lew Platt former CEO of HP and Kendall Jackson. — 10 years ago

Bodegas Sierra Cantabria

Rioja Tempranillo 2011

A nice lite cab that we drank at Ash in HP for $10 per glass. Abundant fruit flavor a resonate with cherries and plums with hints of vanilla and licorice . — 11 years ago

Highland Park Distillery

Ice Edition Aged 17 Years Single Malt Scotch Whisky

I was skeptical with the packaging being so OTT. However, this is a very good whiskey from HP and certainly worth a try if you come across a bottle. For my palate, just the right amount of peat. — 8 years ago

Peter and Margaret Lehmann

David Franz Lehmann Saltram Checked and Re Corked 'HP' Shiraz 1973

A fantastic treat and a truly inspiring bottle. Still lush, mouth filling and bursting with life at 43 years old. The antithesis of Grange and Hill of Grace from the same era - 1973 — 9 years ago

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John Van Trijp

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Wow! What an experience!
Fraser McKinley

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As far as I know @Roman Sukley, in many cases a more recent or current vintage is used. In this case the same wine from the same vintage. The existing fill levels on these were exceptional, no doubt due to their provenance (they've resided in the Lehmann family cellar since bottling).
TheSkip

TheSkip

Impressive!!!

Fattoria di Fèlsina Berardenga

Fontalloro Toscana Sangiovese 1990

Matté
9.1

First bottle wasn't right, HP Sauce mate! Next one was stunning, wonderfully fresh fruit laced with a sweet spice, scorched earth & graphite. In the mouth you get more of the same though on the rich side, one glass wine with food. — 10 years ago

Domaine A

HP & R Althaus White Blend 2008

Tetsuya's course 6 — 8 years ago

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Mick Farrell

Mick Farrell

It's actually the red blend... Cab/Shiraz/Merlot

Weinbau Harrer

HP Traminer 2013

traminer "ried froschau "

HUGE austrian white!!
what a tension, complexity and potential!
always makes me smile!!

for some pragmatic reason hp used different barrels that year (oak instead of acacia), which leads to a slightly different style with less incense impact.
my all time favourite is 2012.
— 9 years ago

HP Harrer

Vom Kalk Blaufränkisch 2011

most sincere red wine.
loving it!

huge tension, unagitated. lingering aftertaste, not jammy.
this is - as the winemaker- not s stage hog, for gods sake.

— 9 years ago

Bodini

Rosé of Malbec 2014

Good Malbec, one of my favorites. Thanks hp — 10 years ago