Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

Silly great nose. Subtle spices, elegant apples, brown sugar, glorious mineralic spices, pear flesh and green apple skins, even jellied apples, so complex and haunting. Smells so harmonious and complete. The nose is also harmonious and orb like which is what 18 is so good at. Amazing spice and complexity on the palate and big acidity. Highest acidity of any Chavy 18 so far. Incredible inner mouth salinity, like the most gorgeous salt placement on one’s palate ever then straight into just absolutely crazy complexity and freshness. What energy and straight as an arrow. The purity is top notch. The finish just dissipates and the harmony is so gorgeous. What a finish. Minutes at least. Amazing amount of material on the palate and subtle concentration. So saline and juicy. Incredible. — 5 years ago

Philip Dobrin

9.9

Very special 18 year aged whiskey bottles in 1948. — 7 years ago

Robert Cunningham

Wine Educator DeVinimus, Wine Workshop

9.4

Beautiful and rich. — 8 years ago

Brett Conway

9.1

Celebrating last day of school year — 11 years ago

with Ann

Christine Havens

9.6

A colossus, the Jacques Selosse V.O. Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut is, as with all of his wines, a Champagne of immeasurable depth and complexity. Expressive notes of buttered croissant, Meyer Lemon Budino, golden apple, marzipan, Madagascar Vanilla seed pod, and smoke. A rich golden orb in the glass with a fine perlage, it is intense and powerful. Crafted in Selosses' slightly oxidative style, a taught, electric mineral vein of acidity that cuts precisely and cleanly through it's core, leading into white grapefruit, lemon thyme and chalk. Great length. Disgorged 10.28.13 — 11 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

Yeastiness, lemon, brioche, toasty, minerals, nuts, so concentrated and lemony. Huge power, acids and so so juicy. So long. Balanced and almost orb like. Amazing balance and purity. Showing so well. — 5 years ago

Lorena

9.0

From Chelsea and Dayna. Very enjoyable 🌟 — 7 years ago

Sarah Thompson

9.3

Absolutely delightful with a cheese and dessert. Crispy caramel & honey. — 8 years ago

Craig Haarmeyer

9.2

Nice little orb of bouncing tight roundocity. — 10 years ago

Nick Gaskin

8.9

Completely opaque in colour. On the nose it's effectively Christmas Cake! Black fruits, spice, cinnamon. Medium finish, dry with soft silky tannins and a hint of vanilla. I'm presuming this wine has seen a bit of oak given the complexity and it is so well integrated with the fruit. Pretty awesome wine considering we retail it for just over $25 — 11 years ago

William Paley

9.3

Not certain this is a “blend”, rather this is straight up Melon de Bourgogne, driven to the fruit edge, but lovely with oysters (as befits) and equally nice without them...delicate acidity and an unusual dark roundness, orb-like, mildly bitter flesh and some medicinal quality, which I think is this grape...wine for watching seagulls. — 6 years ago

with Jess

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

I have been waiting to taste this wine for 4 years and it’s better than I imagined. Holee fuck. This is the best young Walter wine I’ve ever had. Blind anybody would say grand cru red burg. Easily up there with the top 5 German Pinots I’ve ever had. Just insane nose. It’s insane right off the bat. The nose is a spectrum. There is so much and its so fragrant and so detailed and so vivid and so so delicate. It’s the Pinot Noir experience from a top vineyard that nothing else can reproduce. Huge chestnut, fresh rotting leaves, orange rind, cherry flower, mid season cherry. Tons and tons of the most beautiful spice your nose gets lost. It’s so stunning. And I’ve only described maybe 1/3rd of the nose. There are accents of mint and menthol and also hints I’d very fine cigar. A new nuance and detail every time you stick your nose in the glass. The palate puts the G in Grand Cru. It’s totally seamless. Just this beautiful orb of Hundsruck that is blessing your palate. It’s opulent and sweet but also velvety and has the most velvety, melty, to die for tannins. Just perfect balance. I know Walter and I know this wine is only showing 10% as I’ve NEVER had a mature Hundsrück. The 11 and 12 are still too young. This is a mindboggljng wine that is so distinctive. No Pinot in the world acts like it smells like or taste like Walter’s Hundsrück. This is a masterpiece. This is Walter’s Seven Samurai. So elegant and deep wirh just an amazing finish that keeps on adding length and richness the more the wine aerates. This is a 9.7 right now. Any other producer we are at 9.8 now but this is Walter and air is this estates friend. A masterpiece and a new benchmark in German Pinot.

UPDATE: after 3 hours this is as transcendent as German Pinot gets. Just velvet. Amazing delicacy in this wine. A privilege to drink now at 3 hours. Waffling between 9.7 and 9.8. — 6 years ago

Amy Christine

Sales Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant

9.5

A Coravin'd sample orb 2 weeks old - still lovely! @Lily Davis
— 11 years ago

with Peter

Samantha Lewis

9.7

Around $12 at specs and delicious - definitely a fav at this price range — 12 years ago