Sébastien F

9.2

Yess! Une petite bombe de fruits! — 9 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.2

Wet wool, green apple and minerals. Smells rich. Palate is ripe, rich and racy. Green apple skins and awesome minerality and richness. Like a chardonnay drop in your mouth. So good. Pure and vibrant and also some fat. Great showing. — 2 years ago

Robert Stackowiak

8.9

A nice Gamay that pairs well with chili. Consistent with earlier vintage previously posted. November 2022. — 2 years ago

Ben Christen

9.6

Delicious. Tasted like more. Great blue fruit coolness. — 3 years ago

with Ellen

E & K G

9.2

Great nose of dried red flowers and red fruit. Juicy yet elegant fruit on the palate with an undertone of earthiness. LOVE! — 4 years ago

Martin Bergo

9.0

Has kept acid levels and vivacity well. Have tried about one per year from this vintage since released and this was the best one yet. I love the Chalonnaise!! — 5 years ago

romo

9.3

Perfectly chilled right here right now. — 9 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Big deep grapey nose. Tons of granite and blackberry but also red berries as well. A very evocative and encompassing nose. Some pepper, spice and herbs as well. Complex and inviting. Palate is soft and structured with an intense pepperiness. Supple and melty with gorgeous red fruits and also blackberry. Very pure and perfectly balanced with really nice tannins. Excellent wine. — 2 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

Super floral and confectionary. Smells like an elite candy store. But also delicate and nimble. Really almost psychedelic nose. Super. Palate is super juicy and tropical but it’s all in check and framed by terrific acid and freshness. Energy for days. Long finish. Superb showing. — 2 years ago

Cecilia Barry

9.2

🙌 yes, salty creamy fresh and crisp. Wonderful. — 3 years ago

Ben Christen

9.2

Yummy natural Syrah. Great nose, pepper, some light VA that integrates nicely. Inky. Delicious. — 4 years ago

with Ellen

Matt

9.0

Quite intriguing, not a style of winemaking I reach for often, but an example of it done well. Minimal extraction and no SO2 with the allure and charm this has can be quite difficult. It’s a little skanky upon first opening, but after a night in the bottle it cleaned up considerably, the brett and VA melted into the wine a little more and its muddled melange of red fruit and earth became apparent. Crushed rainer cherry, decaying strawberries, rhubarb compote, white pepper, sweaty brett. I like blurring the lines between light red and rosé, and the wine worked well with roast chicken w/ spices and poblano mashers night one and fared well with tomato/avocado salad and grilled sardines the next night. That versatility at the table was impressive. — 5 years ago

Severn Goodwin

9.2

Picking up a juiced pear on the nose today, but otherwise prior notes still apply:

Nose has ripe yellow apple, lightly oxidized green apple peel, baked phyllo dough, partially aromatic white flowers and damp rocks. I always get a natural wine vibe here, without the vinegar-like profile, but it seems alive!

Palate has baked green and yellow apple pastry, crisp acidity yet dense, candle wax begins on the finish and ends with dry granite. Great balance, very lengthy finish, clean and not cumbersome, superb vintage, long life ahead. We love you Jean-Jacques. — 5 years ago

Russ W

8.9

Here’s an herbal feller — 2 years ago

Kaito Kikuchi

9.2

Very juicy, fragrant, and nice! My only regret is that I didn't finish it the first night and by the next day it had turned unpalatable. — 2 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.2

Dinner white. Nose has granite and gras. Some exotic fruits and so vivid. Hint of reduction. Palate is so engaging. Granitic intensity, so pure and clean and just shimmering. Simple but so well made. Maybe some complexity will develop with air. Solid 9.2 for now. — 2 years ago

Ely Cohn

9.1

Pick this for something approachable and detailed. Pours a definite Syrah and Syrah being particularly idiosyncratic in many profiles, this happens to be a good one. One I like. Fruity and welcoming and just fine before dinner alongside cheese and olives.

Pours slowly - velvet ribbons in crimson purple. Soft and chewy. Singing...songs of raspberry, blackberry, cedar, cinnamon, and spends some time in metallic mineral corner of the periodic table. — 3 years ago

Brendan Baker

9.1

Dark florals, red and black fruits, cracked black pepper, pure, slightly natty 👌 — 4 years ago

romo

9.1

More a traditional white blend than the other cuvées. Still some skins but in the background. Halibut tacos. NV — 5 years ago

Matt

9.3

Sandy, decomposed granite soils. Richly textured with a firm, tannic backbone support its dense fruit. Ripe, pushing soaked, black fruit, roasted meat, garrigue, talcum, menthol, violet, leather, and loads of pepper. There’s a firm thread of granite and sanguine throughout. This is wound up, I love the texture though, grainy and raw. It needs some time to harmonize its finish. Baby Hermitage! — 5 years ago