Tony Padilla

9.0

Fairly smooth, but needs more time in the bottle. I'll buy a few more and put them away for a few years and come back to them. Subtle notes of blackberry and cherry. Very drinkable, but just think it'll be better with time. Reasonable price. Enjoy! — 8 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.1

Nose is not the best I'll admit. Dominated by a green note that won't go away and only got stronger. Under that is a nice nuttiness and some good spice and cherry fruit, but the green vegetal quality is overwhelming. Palate is great though. Light and ephemeral, sappy and delicate. Very mouthwatering. — 9 years ago

Kalamota

9.2

It's a mega fruit bomb; but - so what! It's excellent. I'll never turn a glass or six away. Good stuff for sure... — 9 years ago

Martin G Rivard

9.5

Wow., everyone at our table was absolutely blown away at the sophistication and crafted brute force of this wine. We hands down thought our next wine was going to be the WOTN but this actually edged the 3rd. You won't believe what it beat!! This was everything we expected it to be. Dark fruit with a long seductive finish and left you wanting just one more sip every time it was done. We just kept begging for more.....good thing I had a Magnum of this! I've said this a million times already but I'll say it one more time: 11 was not that bad if a year. Time has a way of smoothing out rough edges & Great winemakers always find a way to succeed in less than ideal years. Man., am J glad I didn't back off from my purchases in 2011!!! Thank you Bill & Alicia Deem 😍🍷😍 — 9 years ago

with Christine

Steve Runner

9.0

Ruby on the darker side of red, this is a Pinot that goes easy on your nostrils. There's none of that typically sharp "fruit slice" that some Burgundians impose. I usually love that character, but on the nose...this one treads lightly, and I like that as well. You've got to really work the O2 into this before summoning any kind of cherry/orange-peel/rose petal scent. On the palate it's more involved. This 667 Pinot Noir is light to slightly medium bodied with medium acidity and a red pepper, green tomato spicy kind of flavor. This is a slick, good-natured car salesman who looks you in the eye, shakes your hand and tells it like it is: A hot salsa cherry bomb that will improve as it opens up...or so it seems (it did open up after an hour, but I had to decant it). So far, so good...I'm liking this wine alot...but lets talk about the finish. The first word that comes to mind is "sour". Not "damn, this wine is sour" but kinda like "hmmm...interesting sour note at the end". You only get that "sourness" for an instant as it quickly fades away, leaving the slightly tannic dry-leather cherry echo. Overall, this is a really good....not "great" Pinot Noir. I paid $10 US for it, and I'll definitely buy this again. Despite my mediocre review here, I would rate this a 90. — 9 years ago

Gerry Velasquez

9.1

Heavy rubbing alcohol smell at first, then a sweet chocolaty smell. Some vanilla and a nutty smell it feels like the aromas of being in a bakery.

Lots of spices on the tongue; allspice,cloves,a lot of Rye also. There's a mild oak taste followed by some honey and brown sugar. It honestly just taste like the best cake ever!

Not sure if I would pick up another bottle guess I'll just have to keep drinking away to make that decision. — 10 years ago

Sam Winfield

9.0

Good good. Smells like margs, tastes like SA. — 10 years ago

with Oliver

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9.6

I'm blown away by how good this is, for such a maligned vintage. I don't think it's one to cellar too long, so I'll be enjoying mine over the coming year or so. But if they're all this good, I'll be a very happy camper. — 10 years ago

Jay Svoboda

8.9

If you know me you know that I appreciate value in my wine. This holds especially true when you're purchasing wine away from home, such as at a restaurant or while on vacation. The more aware you are of the general pricing you might find in wine shops and grocery stores, the better prepared you will be to maximize value when you're not playing on your home turf. Case in point, this S. African gem I bought on property at Disney World (not sure if it's widely available here, but you'll definitely find it at the Animal Kingdom Lodge). I've purchased this bottle back home for around $18 (Delectible currently lists it at $19) - Disney is selling it for $23. I'll happily take a $5 mark-up over the more common 50% mark up any day. Maybe Disney gets a great deal on it (although my restaurant sells it for $39ish), either way I was happy to lay down my money.
The wine itself sports a nose of leather, menthol, spice, cigar box, black berries and currant. The palette features brambly black berries and black cherries, accented with a bit of meatiness, black pepper, licorice and a hint of menthol. I could easily see this one mellowing a bit with age/aeration, accenting the more subtle nuances. — 8 years ago

Paul T HB

9.8

"Put your left leg down your right leg up.
Tilt your head back lets finish the cup!"
Figure that one out @Eric Shanks .
This is fantastic & unique, what else out there smells & taste like this? Because I'll buy it if you tell me, amazing juice .
Closest I can think of is Ramey Pedregral.
For me too much air took away from its uniqueness, I liked it better at P&P — 9 years ago

Claudio Dias

9.6

Heaven in a bottle albeit still too young to enjoy at its best. Tannic and robust fruit flavor that's got more depth than Channing Tatum's abs a week before filming his next stripper movie. On the glass Bin 389 is an impenetrable magenta color with legs like Usain Bolt. On the nose it's lush dark fruit that we've come to associate with Australia's southern Cabernet and Shiraz. Baking spices and tobacco with a smokyness characteristic. There is a nice earthiness to it and pencil lead is quite noticeable. Mouthwatering acidity right away. Finish is l.o.n.g loooong. If I go to sleep now I'll probably be tasting it when I wake up. In short, grippy, tight and focused but nonetheless still enjoyable. Now I've made a mistake; I've only bought one bottle. Time to buy the remaining stock and give it to time! — 9 years ago

Kimberly Scruggs

9.4

I'm terrible! I bought four bottles of this ice wine in 2005 in Niagara Falls, Canadian side. I'd never heard of ice wine before. I gave two away as gifts at the time. The other two I've been keeping and moving- not under ideal conditions! Most all the time kept in bottom drawer of refrigerator. I decided to open this bottle the other night. It tasted almost like a sherry. Much better than if I drank it 'young'. Mind you, this wine is now 10 years old! And a white ice wine! Loved it! Even better than back in '05! I have one more bottle of this. I'll drink it before the year is out. Keeping the bottles! They're so elegant looking. 😊🍷🍷🍷🍷😊 — 9 years ago

Jeff Verellen

9.4

So light and efferfecent it floats above your tongue and tries to fly away. Like having a layer of the lightest wam butter on your tongue with a light strawberry mousse. — 10 years ago

with nicolas

Robert McCall

9.4

Pours clean dark purple into the glass showing no age. I'll be damned if one couldn't enjoy the dark fruit aroma from 5 feet away. Wow. Dark fruit, leather and pleasant oak quality supplemented with a silky tannic structure that gave a 60 sec finish. Not the most complex Latour I've enjoyed at this point but this bottle actually tightened up over an hour after opening indicating much life ahead. Sheeeit! — 10 years ago

Jeff Clavier

9.4

Blown away by that wine. I'll take back anything snarky about Brits knowing nothing about wine.
— 10 years ago

Ed Merrison

9.0

Fair bit of bricking, nose is fairly pronounced with roast root vegetables, barnyard, plum and clove. Mid weight and showing good fruit from entry on - plum compote and red cherry - plus spice, caramel, beetroot. Nice complexity without feeling deep - more a sense of entwined flavours. Length and freshness pretty good, that oak caramel sweetness lingering with stewed rhubarb and red plum. Good drink; have got more tucked away but I'll be onto it soon - drinking well and don't think it's going to improve from here. — 11 years ago

Benjamin Hickey

9.0

Super dry, nice texture, a little tannic on the finish. — 8 years ago

Nicholas Livingston

9.5

As a palate often more fond of and familiar with the moving and generally more tense and substantive Pinot Blanc of Alsace and the Palatinate then Pfalz, I seldom find Pinot Blanc outside of those parts firm, flexing and yet nimble. Much like St Innocent, Paetra is a stunning revelation that Oregon has a bright future with this variety. Full but not fulsome, bright without hard edge, fruity but not limited to the Crayola 64. As an aspiring fly fisherman and avid trout eater I now have a screw capped wine for my creel this Spring. Tonight it was a delight with a ginger lemongrass poached cod on a bed of seared bok choy and fluffy white rice. Barely lasted the meal -next time I'll buy two for an evening with my little fox. — 8 years ago

Larry McGrath

9.3

Just delicious. Stands up to a bit of cellaring. 2009 drinking well now but I'll leave a few bottles away for a few more years. — 9 years ago

Henrik Poulsen

9.2

14.5% alc., 50 cases produced.

First vintage under the direction of Denis Malbec who tragically passed away a few weeks ago.

I'll be very interested in tasting their 2014/15 and think this is a winery to keep on the radar..... — 9 years ago

with Kurt-Inge

Gae Saccoccio - NdC

9.8

Vintage 1949 in Burgundy according to Broadbent: “..most perfect end of a decade - elegant, well-balanced wines”; Clive Coates in his book Cote D'Or: "best vintage of 40's all-perfect beauty and purity”; Robert M. Parker Jr.: “it was the best of post world war II vintages before 1959”
Henri Leroy at that time was négociant based in Auxey-Duresses, his mythical daughter Lalou Bize-Leroy in 1949 was only seventeen.
Les Cazetiers is amongst the most elevated of Premier Cru site in Gevrey-Chambertin - and indeed the whole of Burgundy.
I drank this precious bottle on Mount Etna with #FrankCornelissen and other dear friends. Uncork this bottle lead to a surgical operation. Just begun to pull it out, a light breath of wine molecule with air bubbles magically have emerged on the surface of the cork. It's been like witness the passing away of a dying old man (or Pinot Noir must be a woman?) That humanized wine had held "élan vital", hope and breath inside him for the last 66 years! A miracle of a wine still so tasty, robust, citrusy, vibrant, earthy, incredibly alive and well-preserved despite color and neck level did not bode so well.. that's what I thought and I'll remember until I die: "the wine was waiting for us to drink it up, he gave off his mortal blow to offer us life, joy and smile!" — 9 years ago

with Alberto

Keith Eddleman

9.6

Amazing Cabernet... They taste better when you've been there, stood among the grapes, seen the workers sweating and met the wonderful people behind the wine. Taking nothing away from the wine itself. Loaded with fruit and smooth from start to finish. After an hour the tannins have opened up and are nearly undetectable. It says, "drink me every night and I'll never grow old. " — 10 years ago

with Jill

Sasha Agapov

8.9

Quite interesting. Strong cherry and forest berries on the nose, but taste gives away young Oregon Pinot — being a fan of Burgundy, I'd say that this wine has approximately 25% of Burgundy's pallette. Clear and easy, it has no secrets or unanswered questions. Very enjoyable overall, but I'll stick to my best French friends. :) — 10 years ago

Victoria Psomiadis

10

I love this wine. I know it's super sweet and "unsophisticated" but moscato is my comfort wine and Barefoot does it well. If they ever make a Barefoot Bubbly of this I'll buy a case right away. — 11 years ago