Jakes Fault Winery

Morlet Family Vineyards

Coeur de Vallée Cabernet Sauvignon 2012

2hr decant. A great balance of hedonism and restraint. The ripe powerful fruit is there but after 7yrs the tannins have really integrated and it was silky smooth. Almost too well balanced to a fault. Paired well with the 1kg ribeye block. — 7 years ago

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Peter Michael Winery

Estate Vineyards Les Pavots Knights Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Blend 2005

Not as good as the other time I had it a month or so ago. Might have been due to the service... Waiter breaks the cork in half. Happens to all of us. He then proceeds to tell me that it wasn’t his fault and that the cork was soft. Ok. Not sure I care, it happens. Says he has to decant it. Great, thought we would no matter what right :) Comes back with one of those tiny decanters, filled to the top with cork all over the top of the wine. Sigh. Then proceeded to pour very full glasses for my parents who are sitting there saying just a little please. Comes back a bit later and proceeds to top off the glasses and empty the decanter. Can I blame the wine for not having a good showing? My last one too :( — 8 years ago

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Bob McDonald

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@Norman Gennaro How frustrating. You showed great patience!
Susan Sangiacomo

Susan Sangiacomo

The glasses, people you are with, conversation, restaurant, food, setting, etc. can turn an excellent wine into not such a great wine and vice versa. Thank goodness you had good company or I bet you would have rated it lower.
Ira Schwartz

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@Norman Gennaro unfortunately that experience sounds like a situation comedy episode🤬

Trimbach

Cuvée Frédéric Emile Alsace Riesling

A bit sweeter than I’d normally enjoy, but so light and elegant it’s hard to fault. — 8 years ago

Amizetta Vineyards

Complexity Estate Napa Valley Red Bordeaux Blend

Now that I have calmed down, Im drinking the other bottle of Amizetta from a few weeks ago. This cork is damaged by wine seepage and pressure, but not as bad as the cabernet bottle's cork. I still have not heard a word from the "fine people" at Amizetta. However, this Complexity is much better than the cab due to heat damage in shipping. Which was Amizetta's fault. However, it is sour, puckers my lip. Ill never buy from this company again. Only if Spencer calls me directly and apologizes will I buy from him again. For real though,
Color is dark, bouquet is blackberry pie and Red licorice. The initial palate - after a 30 min decant - is raspberry, blackberry, oak, and mild spice. The finish is fast and mildly dry. Drinks like a Merlot which is 40% of the blend. It does loose the sour beginning but it resurfaces on the finish after the decant.
— 9 years ago

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Mount Langi Ghiran

Langi Shiraz 1990

Drank this amazing wine in July 2016. Could not fault it what's so ever and lives up to the expectation of one of Australia's best wines. — 10 years ago

Shaw and Smith

Adelaide Hills Shiraz

Class wine. Could not fault in the price range — 11 years ago

Rosetti

L'Oca Ciuca 'The Drunken Goose' Red Blend 2012

Really nice light but well-made Tuscan red. Terrible with salmon, but that ain't the wine's fault. — 11 years ago

West County Cider

Redfield

Inherited a "bad batch" of Redfield, still crazy good acidity, cherries, red currant, made with red fleshed American apples. The fault - unfiltered, definitely a plus. — 11 years ago

Fougeray de Beauclair

Bonnes-Mares Grand Cru Pinot Noir

Elliott Holt
9.4

Elliott had this 12 years ago

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Conti Costanti

Brunello di Montalcino Sangiovese 2012

This wine had really good black cherry aromatics along with a bit of a savory character. The entry of this wine is medium-bodied at best, and then it sort of descends into a hole in the middle. Makes a nice comeback in the finish, with some mint and black cherry. Very stiff youthful oak tannin finish. This seems to be a producer that sided on the Traditionalist side in the Barolo wars, and this is the side I typically prefer. However, this one just didn't have the complexity, no fault of its own. Will be a monster in 10 years. — 7 years ago

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Farr Rising

Geelong Pinot Noir 2014

Can’t fault it! Velvet. — 8 years ago

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Michael Spurritt

Michael Spurritt

This has been on my “to do” list for a while 😍

Fault Line

Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2017

Patio drinker, stereotyped nz $9 wg — 8 years ago

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Gérard Raphet

Cuvée Unique Vieilles Vignes Morey-Saint-Denis Pinot Noir

First good red burg I have had in a while... that's my fault though... it's hitting all the rights spots right now. Nice acidity, ethereal, and yet has a masculine fruity undertone. Nice and herbal. It has hit that tipping point where the secondary flavors are very enjoyable. — 10 years ago

Château des Jacques

Moulin-A-Vent Gamay 1997

Lovely Gamay. Showing no age. Light tobacco and heavy black cherry aromatics. Well-balanced. Not overly complex but not a thing to fault — 10 years ago

Carla, Frank and 8 others liked this

Château Rauzan-Gassies

Deuxieme Cru Classé Margaux Red Bordeaux Blend 1961

Donald Patz
9.0

Our fault - sediment in suspension made this look really weird but it tasted great. — 10 years ago

Sung Park
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Keith, Chris and 3 others liked this

Vignobles de Gascogne

Reserve des Tuguets Madiran Tannat Blend 2012

£6 from tesco. Hard to fault at that price. Will enjoy with cheese shortly 🧀🍷 — 11 years ago

Andreas Huber - Az. Agr. Pacherhof

Kerner

Honey and... Well, almost a slate/flint nose. Beautifully smooth and balanced. Medium acidity... Trying to find a fault... But with the apricot and grapefruit/blood orange background hints... Result: perfection and sex in a bottle — 11 years ago

Domaine Lucien Lardy

Cote Du Py Morgon Gamay 2005

Nothing to fault here. — 12 years ago

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Intense and airy, agreed

Ginestet

Tour de Mandelotte Bordeaux Blanc Moelleux 2017

There is a fault! It is Delhaize Group wine!!
Bordeaux blanc moelleux 2017, grapes Semillon-Sauvignon, it's a sweet wihe, with a notes of skme exotic fruits. Very nice if accompanied by cheese or dessert.
— 7 years ago

Two Jakes of Diamonds

Lake County Merlot 2011

On pop & pour, nose is a mix of older red fruit, earth, tobacco. It's transitioning to a mature wine, in spite of being stored in a back bedroom for 5 years.

7 min in glass, and the entry is warm, earthy, and gritty at first. Very high mid palate. Super long finish. Longer than I would expect of a merlot. Picking up some green notes, like stems of rosemary or thyme. But not piney!

I think this is getting better with age. Probably in its prime right now.
— 8 years ago

Domaine Gourt de Mautens (Jérôme Bressy)

Vaucluse Red Rhone Blend 2015

What an amazing bouquet on the 2015 Gourt de Mautens, @jebdunnuck seriously called it here. This Rhone blend was seductive from the onset, showing a mix of ripe blackberry, black raspberry, crushed violet candies, lavender, stone dust and a hint of animal muskiness. On the palate, textures like liquid silk wrapped around the senses as a display of remarkably fresh yet saturating red and black berry fruit seemed to hover, dispersing violet florals, licorice, minerals and hints of grippy herbal tea-like tannin across all that they touched. Balanced to the core, with brisk acidity making light of the wines amazing textural depth and resulting in a finish that was both impossibly long, amazing fresh, yet structured all the same. I can still taste the purple inner floral and dark fruit tones, having lost track of how long the finish has been going. It’s hard to fault the 2015 Gourt de Mautens for anything, and incredibly easy to become lost in it. #rhone #gourtdemautens #rasteau — 8 years ago

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"Odedi"

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Nice review

Bodegas Volver

Tarima Monastrell

Can't fault the value for money offered by this wine. Thoroughly enjoyable for a Tuesday night. — 8 years ago

Iranzo Fields

Albero Organic Spanish Tempranillo 2015

Solid - much milder than expected. Pleasant tangy acidity. A little hot on the throat (but that may be my dinner's fault) and a little sweet on the finish. — 10 years ago

Mac Forbes

Yarra Valley Pinot Noir 2014

Nothing really to fault here. Finding a lot more spice notes coming through this time around. A touch of clove shows itself. Still very red fruited with a tinge of strawberry coming through too this time. — 10 years ago

Brewer-Clifton

Sta. Rita Hills Pinot Noir 2012

A little too "come hither" for me but a really delicious wine. Hard to fault it. — 11 years ago

Domaine des Enfants

Tabula Rasa IGP Côtes Catalanes Grenache Blanc Blend 2012

A quirky absence of fruit but don't freak out! It's replaced with the most unusual touch of almond and maybe a slight fault that adds some great interest. Exciting, unusual, refreshingly different! — 12 years ago

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Vezer Family Vineyard

Jakes Cellar Master Select Red Blend

Great bottle of wine with my friend Daisy — 12 years ago