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. — 9 years ago
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
Interesting — 9 years ago
2012 vintage. Full bodied. Sonoma, one of the oldest wineries in the US. Integrity, philosophy, local...icon — 9 years ago
Large fruit a sweet finish. Integrity and sustainability certified for $9. Great value. — 9 years ago
Nice wine. integrity and sustainability aproved. real expression of the ground who make it grow!!! — 10 years ago
$10.99 from mass ave wine shop. Integrity and sustainability certified. — 11 years ago
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
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
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
Balanced, persistent finish, and with integrity to the varietals. Quotidian. — 10 years ago
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
Kenta Usuzawa
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