Josh Morgenthau

9.3

Absolutely my favorite producer of Taurasi. Pure, high-toned, just-ripe red fruits complicated by the wild herbal intensity of Mastroberardino. Exotic like a poultice of orange peel, goji berries, sage, chrysanthemum, raspberry leaves, tea, camphor and other medicinal plants. But also so familiar; florals of hyacinth and violet as it opens.

So weightless and concentrated. Hard to pin down, but I think lovers of high altitude Nebbiolo or Loire Cab Franc will find a lot to enjoy here. — 4 years ago

Joe Lucca

9.3

@Mike R just being a plain old STUD. No better way to step off the plane than to be poured a glass and lots of SMILES. Honeyed apricot, Cara Cara orange, hyacinth. A big boy that needs time. — 7 years ago

with Diana and Mike

Jackie Wargel

9.2

Wonderful! Tastes like it was marinated in hyacinth water! Nice earthy flavor with some floral undertones — 8 years ago

with Joseph

Joe Lucca

9.3

Extremely floral nose. Bursting with hyacinth, lily, sweet citrus, and orange blossom honey. The nose is all about Moscato d'Asti, but the palate is laser focused and bone dry. Light and crisp, great acidity. Finishes with some earth and minerals. Pairs great with crudo. — 9 years ago

TheSkip

9.0

Remarkable notes of hyacinth on the nose. Good structure. Nice tannins. — 9 years ago

Alexandre Albore

9.4

Very flowerish smell: hyacinth, Lilly of the valley, then some complexity die to age — 10 years ago

Jeroen Koenen

9.2

Liquid gold. Captivating and complex nose of hyacinth, oak, vanillin, Asian spice, marzipan and juicy tangerines. On the palate this showes a lot drier than the nose suggests, but the complexity is just as interesting. Some metallic elements in the finish make me think that this should be drunk sooner than later.
Better when it's warming up. — 10 years ago

Jared O'Connell

9.0

Purchased at the Texas winery in March 2018, returned it to its native homeland to sit in our Brooklyn basement for 2 years. Crystals galore on the cork. Gave it about 45 mins of air. Consumed with Le Fond lamb takeout on Easter at the end of week 4 of quarantine. Stewed spring strawberry inside an unfrosted freshly toasted pop tart. lil bit of sautéed portabello mushroom. Put it in your mouth and it’s tart unsweetened cranberry juice with some vibrant bretty thing that jumps around on the tongue. Continues to rich floral bergamot and vetiver and hyacinth. Finishes back to ocean spray cranberry cocktail. Lots of sediment. — 5 years ago

Tsuyoshi Enoki

Sake Specialist Hasegawa Sake Shop Tokyo

9.0

Il Vei Colli Piacentini Pinot Grigio rose

Clear color but a kind of soft drink, or charming ruby red with a little bubbles.
I love this note. At first I could enjoy the scent of blackberries, tomatoes, roses, Hyacinth, colorful flowers, then I felt the dept of this wine like soils under woods, boiled egg, hot spring, sausage, wet dog, wild animals, pickles, and Parmesan cheese. Complex and interesting note.
Soft sweet attack with comfortable bubbles texture, lightly ironically nuance with charming sweet acidic body and minerals, bitter finish.
Good character of Pinot Grigio . — 7 years ago

Jeroen Koenen

9.1

An absolute sunset wine... golden hue, oriental spice, dried apricot, peppery nuances, hyacinth.
A wonderful wine..., but drink up...!
— 8 years ago

Dan Lit

8.9

Good balance — 9 years ago

Jeroen Koenen

9.1

Completely mature now. In the nose you'll encounter the typical bouquet of wet wool, hay, warm wax, hyacinth, cashew and melon. On the palate it's very round, ripe and creamy. Strange..., this serving doesn't seem completely dry to me... Last bottle from a 6-pack, all other bottles were driz-a-bone. — 9 years ago

Jeff Sarfino

VP Sales and Marketing Lanterna Distributors, inc

9.3

Mature yet still vividly colored this wine erupts from the glass with notes of rose petal, hyacinth and tar. On the pallet there is ample berry fruit and a bit of spice leading to relaxed tannins. The finish quite long ending in leather and earth. Drink this now as its already showing better than expected 5 years ago — 9 years ago

Thomas Bennett-Stroud

9.3

V. 2012. About as classic as it gets from a northern Willamette Valley Pinot Noir. Loamy, dusty, decaying hyacinth aroma and an incredibly silky texture. An elegant and ponderous beauty from an otherwise hot and overpowering vintage. — 10 years ago

with Brian

Kimberly Anderson

8.9

Pale yellow in color. Light scents of hyacinth and pear. Butterscotch, pineapple with a fair amount of acidity. Perfect with foie gras and seared halibut entree — 6 years ago

Jeroen Koenen

9.4

Clean, Cristalclear and Precise.
Peat, resin, reine claude plums, chalk, lemonpreserve, yeast, tripel ale, iodine, old foudres, hyacinth... I could go on and on.
Very elegant and complex. Thirstquenching yet cerebral.
A wonderful wine in a unique style that reminds me of Chablis from Raveneau. — 6 years ago

Nindia Ogura

10

2014 - Roses, tuberose, hyacinth, ylang-ylang. Like Eyang’s grave — 7 years ago

Jeroen Koenen

9.4

Light golden colour. Mature Riesling nose. Firne, slate, hyacinth, orange blossom, citrus zest and oriental spices leap out of the glass.
On the palate this is unusually (for the Mosel and for the vintage as well) rich, concentrated, almost fatty in mouthfeel. Yet it remains in balance remarkably well. Very floral and tropical in its aromatics, this is not your typical dry Mosel wine. Actually, it's not legally trocken, more a feinherb kind of wine. Busch's wines only resemble those of Heymann Löwenstein in style; I see some parallels in their concentration, balance, richness, spicyness, yes uniqueness. What a gorgeous wine....!

This year this wine had 2 versions. One barrel fermented to a Trocken wine and was labelled "Falkenlay GG". The second barrel stopped earlier so a Feinherb remained. This was labelled "Falkenlay (Erste Lage)". — 8 years ago

Jonas Palmqvist

9.1

Big nose with flowery notes of hyacinth and marzipan. In the mouth, medium bodied and well structured with red fruit, nice tannins and long after taste. — 9 years ago

Joe Lucca

9.3

Decanted about 4 hours. Youthful in the glass; purplish hue with a ruby rim. I detect crushed black currants, boysenberry jam, spring hyacinth along with hints of camphor and toast on the nose. The palate starts off smooth as silk, opening to tart berries, green pepper, crushed rocks, some savory herbs. Youthful acidity! The flavor profile is a bit atypical for SLD; more polished and graceful than neighboring properties. However, you can sense the fruit was small and concentrated, the result of allowing the vines to struggle. Having visited the winery many times, I'm transported there; in the shadow of rocky palisades, the hot afternoon sun beating down on the vineyard. Finishes with some heat, tones of white pepper linger. While this wine has the structure to continue to evolve with time, the prime drinking window is closing. As @Ron R would say, 'Get after it!' — 9 years ago

with Diana