Silvia's Wine

Founder, V&N Cellars - Barcelona

9.3

A great surprise from Sicily. Deep fruit with integrity and long lasting finish. Light tannins. — 6 years ago

Jiga Hitorn

9.4

One of the greats. AmaZing integrity. Orange peel, nutty, green nose. Salty, balanced, structured. Mushrooms. Great length. — 7 years ago

with Charlie

Patrick Hu

9.4

Integrity. — 7 years ago

Scott Newton

9.2

A perfect example of a traditional style, great integrity! Delicious, sings with food — 8 years ago

Kenta Usuzawa

9.0

Very well made. Restrained fruit, classic pic st loup garrigue. Great structure for a first tier wine. Fruit really came out with time, and the wine never lost its integrity. Can't wait to taste more from this vineyard. 2014 vintage. — 8 years ago

Bill Bender

9.5

This was everything that's right about napa cab with a little bottle age. Balance. Integrity. Integrated tannins. Gorgeous mouthfeel and long lush finish. '03 again proving its legitimacy — 8 years ago

Jeffrey Lew

9.7

Ex-Chateau bottle. Testament to perfect storage. Light Amber edge with a darker core. Started off full of toast and just a whiff of brett. Slow ox for 2 hrs then poured. Amazing life for a 54yr old wine still in its stride. Light and dark fruit with seamless integrity and polish. Classic old BDX. After the initial funk blew off it kept developing in the glass. I could drink this all night long. Awesome — 9 years ago

Jay Clark

9.1

A lot of integrity. Stone fruit, lift through the mid, white pepper finish. Nice work. — 9 years ago

Marlene Marchewka

9.0

2012 vintage. Full bodied. Sonoma, one of the oldest wineries in the US. Integrity, philosophy, local...icon — 9 years ago

Max Kogod

Owner Kogod Wine Merchant

10

This rocked, as usual. Seamless and integrity of fruit was just profound. — 10 years ago

Jordan Wardlaw

9.1

The 2015 Langhe DOC bottling is really a strong effort. 100% Nebbiolo and declassified Barbaresco from the Martinenga cru, these younger vines are already producing some gorgeous fruit. I found this to be appreciably more elegant and complex than prior vintages, but perhaps that's just my palate evolving along with the young vines. The tannins are much softer than I was expecting, and such lovely fruit and aromatics at this stage. I really admire the purity and integrity of this wine at this modest price. Part of the beauty of Piedmont is discovering these pure Nebbiolo wines year in and year out that are quite serious and affordable. They provide lovely food wines to enjoy while our Barolo and Barbaresco are resting. Absolutely one to seek out and buy in multiples. A real steal at less than $20. — 6 years ago

LM Segal

9.7

Top 2-3 Napa Cabs I've ever had. Magical nose, cassis, cocoa, red flowers. Rich but nicely aged mid-palate, spreading into a wide swathe of candied red and black fruit, soft but powerful. Secondary stuff in spades. Then - an explosion at the back-end of cedary fruit and fig, tobacco, dark chocolate that lasted for >60 seconds. Just a monumental wine, sadly a solo.
This is note #500 for me, grateful to so many Delectable contributors who take the time to educate and expand my wine perspectives (or, in the case of @Bill Bender...other stuff, too!). Thanks to @Anthony Lombardi @Kimberly Anderson @Jörgen Lindström Carlvik @Jeff Savigny@Ron R@Shawn R @Richard Steinberg @Martin G Rivard (who is living the dream), @Greg Gregory among so many others, not to mention @Roman Sukley with magical reach to inaccessible, iconic SQNs (and the will to pop them) and frank open perspectives from legendary winemakers like @Mike Smith and @Cathy Corison, you all make this a neat community of which I try to be a small contributor.
Finally - a renewed plea to @Antonio Galloni to return "trending" to this community, as it was stolen by the bean counters! I'm no social media expert (I do have 2 teenagers!) but I'm pretty sure that "trending" speaks to the integrity and will to contribute of an entire community...take a look! — 7 years ago

with Melissa

Alex Christian

9.6

I mean come on...if you don't enjoy this floral, berrylicious,
Aromatic beauty of a Pinot then I question your palate or integrity — 8 years ago

Bill Bender

9.3

Rich dark expresso, smoke, blue and black fruit, I thought it was tannic but not overly so. A lot of integrity and style. — 9 years ago

Mike Pliss

9.0

Large fruit a sweet finish. Integrity and sustainability certified for $9. Great value. — 9 years ago

Blake Conklin

Cellar Hand Relic Winery

9.0

Interesting — 9 years ago

with Katherine

Sébastien Nadreau

9.0

Nice wine. integrity and sustainability aproved. real expression of the ground who make it grow!!! — 9 years ago

Tannin Wine Bar & Kitchen KC

9.3

Flirting with oxidative on nose, nutty but with plenty of integrity. very pure fruit in palate with a bit of wild herbs. — 10 years ago

Renee Sweany

9.1

$10.99 from mass ave wine shop. Integrity and sustainability certified. — 11 years ago

J. Kim

8.9

Achieves integrity and wholeness most wines miss. Bright and exceptionally pure. Has that lively quality standard wines do not have. Very high quality fruit has both dimension and tension. — 7 years ago

J. Kim

9.2

Authentic aromas, deep structure, impeccable integrity. Has the taste of rightness only the great wines possess. — 7 years ago

Cathy Corison

Owner/Winemaker Corison Winery

9.1

Amazing value. Integrity. Complete, pretty. Cherries, peppermint, sandalwood. Delicious. — 7 years ago

with William

J. Kim

9.0

Crafted like 50 dollar Bordeaux rather than 15 dollar Bordeaux. Authentic Bordeaux aroma, body and color. Polished exterior and powerful interior structure. Has multi-dimensional integrity and symmetry. Conventional but fine wine. Tastes right. — 8 years ago

Mitja Sirk

Production La Subida, Aceto Sirk

9.5

Integrity, complexity and drink ability !! — 8 years ago

with Giampaolo and Marta

Dylan York

8.9

2001 Paul Chapelle Santenay "Graviéres" 1er Cru - Well balanced and holding up nicely. Irony mineral, flinty red cherry, orange peel, hay and mushroom, with medium acid and med(-) tannins. Did well with shitake mushrooms sautéed in goat butter and sweet vermouth served over the Osso Bucco. Enjoyed over a 4 hour period with hard salami and Calabrese as well and it never lost its integrity or tried to close up. Drink now and enjoy. — 8 years ago

Don Pople

9.0

Nose: subtle hints of pancetta, dark cherry and red berries.Some nice whole berry lift evident. Good integrity from nose to palate in terms of flavours. Oak well integrated and balanced. Juicy and generous mid plate offering great fruit concentration. Tannins very slightly chewy and stemmy on finish. Will continue to develop well. Smart wine — 9 years ago

Leah Greenberg

9.8

This wine is just fucking alive. So much energy and happiness in my glass. Why can't all Cali Pinot have this kind of vibrancy and integrity? — 9 years ago

Bill Bender

9.5

What it lacks in label integrity it makes up for with seamless, delicious, subtle sweet beauty. — 9 years ago

Gabrielle Micheletti

8.9

Balanced, persistent finish, and with integrity to the varietals. Quotidian. — 10 years ago

Chris Scanlan

Sales Amy Atwood Imports

9.3

THIS... is... Seriously. Good. Phucking. shtuff. Surprisingly good...? Maybe. Luckily good..? Perhaps. Unless you've met Dirty: Which most of the wine drinking USA has -but, rather, intentionally fucking good. AND -possibly luckily too -as long as luck has something to do with exceptionally talented farming combined with tremendous desire(s) to make vibrant and ridiculously love-able fermented grape juice of pure integrity and a casually particular design. This wine is that friend you only get to see once a year, that one you cannot wait to see again. The wine is too young to rate with any opinion other than Rawesome, and while I've only had one bottle, I've certainly not had enough to offer an opinion against Rawsome -therefore tasting notes be damned -yet, this can be said: here is a clean wine, lacking brett or VA or other 'flaws'; a bright, refreshing jubilant anthem of untainted wine, an ode to a grape that will likely become California's bastard child once popularity hits and Dirty & Rowdy prices climb to astronomical, near Tempier-like pricing and ficcichlty to come by. (I liked ficcichlty over difficulty since spellcheck kept it purposely so did I.). Oh wait, they're already ficcichlt to come by. Damn it. — 11 years ago