Joe Gillies

9.8

An absolute beast a wine! Needs a short decant to open up and let the glycerol smell and taste blow off. I decanted for 30 min.

Huge dark fruits, charcoally smokiness, and spice. Inky deep deep black color and of course it doesn't get any more full body than this. — 9 years ago

Martin G Rivard

9.5

@David L Thank you David for sharing this incredible beauty with me! Such a soft, opulent rich wine. The bottle age definitely helped and was evident throughout. Drinking superbly right now and I imagine would evolve for another 15+ years! It was that good!!!!
I am biased, I am a huge fan of Spottswoode. I felt like a kid that robbed a candy store when I uncorked this one. I hadn't tasted their 2003! It was in my top three for wine of the night. Swing, batter batter swing, homerun! — 9 years ago

with Ryan and Christine

Gregory Fulchiero

8.9

Huge bargain for good Napa cab — 10 years ago

Chris Regina

9.2

Dark red fruits. Cassis, black cherry nose. Gets a little cherry cough syrup upfront. Huge saturation with over 16% alcohol which is NOT in check with the wine. Needs quite a few years of cellar evolution to refine balance and focus. Blackberry, raspberry charred oak, baking spices on the lengthy dusty finish. Briary cranberry lurks. — 10 years ago

Edward Chung

9.4

Pretty awesome with Texas BBQ! A huge Napa cab...what else would you expect???!!! — 10 years ago

Michael Malpiedi

8.9

Huge jammy medium oak delicious. Swift does well once more — 11 years ago

with Caine

Peter Cobos

9.5

2008. Huge fan of this one. — 11 years ago

David Hackett

9.2

Great concentration, huge tannins, still developing, nose slightly closed off, could use decanting, graphite, fresh dates, has a little heat to it. — 11 years ago

Jeff Hollinden

9.5

Leather and dried fruit, soft tannins, not a huge wine but complex. Very nice. — 12 years ago

Hyoji Jang

10

2010 the Kongsgaard! Massive big huge oaky smokey nilli vanilli.. Anyway, wow! I kind of running away from this kid of char, but now I want to go back to it again!! :) — 13 years ago

John Zuzek

9.4

Wow! Inky dark, big, bold and viscous. Some smokiness on the nose. The palate is huge, well integrated, balanced, with cassis, tobacco, and other bramble dark fruits. Just really, really well made. — 9 years ago

Edmond Bordelon

8.9

I am a Huge fan of Scouts Honor. However this 2014 was so jammy right out of the bottle, we almost passed it up. We gave it over and hour and drank the Philip Togni for a while. (Amazing). Coming back to it, the jam died down and the excellent fruit blend came through. Lesson learned. Don't give up on this historically great wine! Just give it time. — 9 years ago

with Katherine and Ryan

Joe Gillies

9.4

This is massive! Huge concentrated black and blue fruits, chocolate and eucalyptus. Still young and has many years ahead of it but why wait? — 10 years ago

"Odedi"

9.1

For my 888th review, I chose this wonderful Napa Valley Petite Sirah.

Dark deep purple /almost black, with a purplish rim.

An explosion of ripe black fruits on the nose with blackberries, prunes, dried figs, raisins, plums, raspberries, oak, vanilla, licorice, spices, leather, dirt and black pepper.

Full bodied and bold, with medium plus acidity and long purple legs.

Bone dry and fruity on the palate, with blackberries, figs, raisins, chocolates, prunes, cherry pie, black currants, earth, leather, spices and peppercorn.

Long finish with huge, green tannins and bitter spices.

This Napa Petite Syrah is still young and needs 3 more years in the bottle, but it is very enjoyable now, if you can tolerate the big tannings, or if you have it with BBQ Meats.

I enjoyed it by itself, by the pool. Not fully balanced, yet it has enough acidity and tannings to last it for a long while. This 2012 vintage is very ripe and very enjoyable.

14.1% alcohol by volume. — 10 years ago

Matt Brown

9.2

Great beer to catch a buzz as you scare trick or treaters on Halloween.👻 — 11 years ago

Lydia

9.3

Very much enjoyed Will buy again — 11 years ago

Lisa Newman

9.8

Soft yet spicy. Deep dark red cherries. Huge Pinot- Superb with steak! — 11 years ago

with Chuck

Matthew Valade

9.2

Excellent Rioja and it makes Zach's hands look huge. — 11 years ago

with Zach

Jennifer Jane

9.5

So full bodied and peppery. Tastes like a delicious blend of cab sauv and zinfandel. Drank this at Bear Creek Cottage with a delicious meal of steak, grandad's potatoes and fresh corn on the cob over Fourth of July weekend! — 12 years ago

with Joshua

Mike Saviage

9.5

Tasted blind. Tawny brownish red color with amber rims. Huge bouquet in the nose of roses, berries, pencil lead, minerals and some dusty dirt. Light on its feet in the mouth. Round soft fruit. Better than the last bottle of this a few months ago. — 9 years ago

Steven Mendes

9.1

Outstanding Cabernet Sauvignon. — 9 years ago

B

10

2009 Screaming Eagle cabernet. The single Cal cab we drank during the K charity wine dinner. Massive wine- we decanted about 2 hours by the time it was served and it was still enormous. A little bit unfair to drink this after the '90 Cheval and '90 Rothschild. This wine was just all around bigger in every way- more fruit, riper fruit, heavy leather and tobacco, huge tannins, plus additional savory notes of olives, and game. Fun to try it in the order we did and definitely noted that we can decant for longer next time. — 10 years ago

Daniel March

9.7

Huge white pepper, great tannic structure, dark fruits. Unfortunately too drunk to remember anything else. There is a fog of "oh my God" but not sure why.... — 10 years ago

Patricia Novo, CSW

9.3

I just love this Pinot! Such beautiful texture and elegance... Definitely a favorite — 10 years ago

Rick Wolfen

9.5

Another winner from Caymus! Fruit forward, huge but beautifully balanced. Nose is wonderful. Full body. Well structured. Great finish. Every bit as good as the 2012! — 11 years ago

Bradley Turley

9.6

'46!!! Huge flavors, colors all there! Best wine day ever — 11 years ago

Naveen

9.0

"Cherry, currents & blackberry Pepper, oak, vanilla & violet"

They describe it perfectly.. altho I didn't get as much of a vanilla taste.. — 11 years ago

Jörgen Lindström Carlvik

Owner, Brix Wine Consultants

10

100 points? Yes, I believe so! Amazing energy, huge structure and much more elegant than any previous vintage, this is a complete home-run by the El Nido team. Complete admiration from my side. Sincere thanks! — 11 years ago

Juel Bell

9.4

Very smooth — 13 years ago

James Bailey

10

I may be biased but this was awesome. Big, fruity, structured! — 13 years ago