Ryan Vento

9.8

Cristal dinner at the Four Seasons. Hors d’oeuvres, a 5-course dinner, and 6 different vintages.

This was the rockstar of the evening. Paired with seared diver scallop, Ossetra caviar, green pea purée, and pea tendrils. — 6 years ago

Eric Guido

9.2

The nose showed intense minerality with crushed stone, lime, and sweet florals. On the palate, I found soft textures with peach, apple and hints of lemon, sweet inner florals and refreshing acidity. It finished clean with lasting ripe peach and hints of citrus rind. — 7 years ago

Tim Herrmann

9.3

Seriously so good, this almost drinks like juice. Lemon, lime, grapefruit, apple, pear, peach, with an electric balance of acid and sugar. My favorite style of Riesling. — 8 years ago

Shones

9.3

Served slightly chilled at tasting, surprisingly versatile and complex enough in taste for me. Yum. "Grenache-Syrah blend, mostly made of fruit from the esteemed Pic St Loup, is an easy-going rouge for all seasons. Red fruit and a touch of spice give way to a particularly clean stony quality on the finish." DW $13 — 8 years ago

Gae Saccoccio - NdC

9.6

Really complicated on these so suspect days, expose themselves with concepts such as: tradition, terroir, identity without falling into the most sinister rhetoric if not sounds just trite and hypocritical as the counterfeit currency with which even large-scale industries - supported by marketing - pays back its inattentive mass audience riding the wave of the country of origin or protected typicality. A diabolical mechanism this one for which even the most noble ideas probably the right practices and good experiences completed in the scale of centuries to human measure and not on massive industrial scale, are trivialized by sleazy slogan, emptied of meaning to be more or less surreptitious thanks to barbaric persuasion techniques and brain-washing propaganda.
Yet with the Valentini's Trebbiano you may not groped to summarize in words if not by drawing on terms so appropriate to express it. Now concerning this iconic label we've got behind it a local grape variety, a real family and a great wine that collect in a bottle the past and present story of a side of Abruzzo who claims to defeats victories and sacrifices to dominate the abuses (on and of) nature, miseries and splendours of agricultural seasons. Places, people, vision, wines such as Valentini are here to remind us how each bottle stay so proudly standing as non-reproducible beauty and fermented goodness expressing all its artisanal uniqueness and authenticity which are just that suspect to industrial wine production in manufacturing chains on standardized quantities; wines that are all equal to themselves even though wine itself is not much left at the end of the day/cycle. Trebbiano d'Abruzzo Valentini 1998 is what we have to rate right now: rusticity with class; style, purity and glory of a local grape recognized by many admirers from all over the world: act local think global this is another slogan-cliché which in this specific Valentini's wine exemple could sounds a little less false and more effective. — 8 years ago

with Alberto and Giovanni

Nicholas Livingston

9.2

Interesting to sip a Pouilly Fumé Cuvée Silice from one of the most trusted values in the region at such an age. While she's in the repose of her twilight years she's not merely a beauty of a bygone time but instead lively and lovely whose company rewards whoever has a chance afternoon with her. Who would ever credit Sauvignon Blanc even one of this crystalline emerald variety as a wine that might take an age in a cool cellar? 13 years! Even through the crazing crows' feet these eyes shine brightly and despite how cray paper skin drapes over the cheek bones of Sauvignon Blanc, this is still nimble and pulses with lives yet to live -not merely memories to regale its audience of how things once were, what she once was or could have been. Honeycomb, lemon curd, nettles wilting in grassy green olive oil, and then the lime leaves...so familiar and yet always exotic of distant shores and climates so far from this northern land of four resolute seasons. As to ratings: how can any of us quantify sensual pleasures really. This was a joy no matter how you cut it and yet given my surprise at Sauvignon Blanc at 13 years on still having so much to say I cannot speak highly enough. The Blanchets do it again! — 9 years ago

Scott Barton

9.5

Bright, lively, and floral, but with a touch of old world funk! Jumps out of the glass in both nose and palate, full of flavor but not weighty. This wine will be versatile in both food pairings and seasons - YUM :-) — 9 years ago

with Jennifer

Marika Reuling

Vintner/Partner Reuling Vineyard

10

Reuling Vineyard 2012 pinot noir.
Following one of the most perfect growing seasons we’ve ever seen, the grapes were harvested on September 27, 2012.

On the nose, subtle aromas of lavender oil, hibiscus, marionberry, chinese 5 spice, and rose petals.




— 10 years ago

Michael Paparo

10

An excellent rosé with great fruit and mouthfeel. One of four roses tasted at The Inn of the Seasons Wine Wednesday. — 11 years ago

Pete Turley

9.2

Crisp and delicious.. Limes, citrus and a great amount of acid. — 6 years ago

Kristen Grimes

9.5

2013. Big jammy nose, almost like a cherry pie with a hint of vanilla. Definite spiciness on the palate with that jammy berry flavor coming through, but it's the spice that lingers. Medium/low acid and very smooth. Yum! Flight at Seasons 52. — 6 years ago

Jeroen Koenen

9.3

Pale straw colour, big Mosel nose of apple, pear, minerals and a big gob of rich lemoncream/-curd. On the palate also very truetotype, piquant, smoky mid-palate, soft and refreshing acidity. Quite concentrated and ripe fruit notes, in the white, yellow and red spectrum. Long cleansing and vibrant finish. Legally trocken, but not bonedry. A marvelous example of how good Dry Mosel Riesling can get nowadays. — 7 years ago

Kate Rutkowski

9.3

Cheap at new seasons and great! "Some of the best I've ever had" - D Ray — 8 years ago

Dan Hess

9.2

Delicate right off the bat -- I mean this is a bottle that, based on harvesting seasons, is older than one of the people who drank it... So our sommelier had to Ah-so it open and decant due to sediment but the resulting #wine was clean and clear... But that was just the start.

The beauty of this wine is that it started off highlighting the obvious things -- some ripe fruit and some earth, not quite integrated but just you wait, just you wait... And we did... We hung out with this wine for 2 hours and I swear, every 20 mins or so we found ourselves discovering a new element in the glass.

The moderate plus acidity suddenly blended in well with the fruit that resembled a creamy raspberry and strawberry texture that combined with a chalkiness of a forest floor covered in dried leaves and rocks.

It kept going...at times bumping up the pepper and then shrinking back into a light, rose petal-y drinker that made me happy. Needless to say, this thing ended pairing well with anything we had -- duck, charred octopus w molé (especially this), a funky version of spaghetti carbonara. Its age gave it versatility that it never realized it had.

Overall it's like a Grenache-based blend that managed to not only settle in and play well with its friends but also unexpectedly invited new kids to join in but only for a few minutes until they had to go back home. — 8 years ago

with Sarah

Brad Wiese

9.6

Great wine paired it with Halibut topped with fresh peach salsa, saffron rice and citrus butter. https://m.facebook.com/pages/Inn-of-The-Seasons/113854661979177 — 9 years ago

John Kanellopoulos

9.2

Great left bank Bordeaux for the wonderful newbie hood of st Julian — 9 years ago

Cole Boozer

9.1

One of my firsts, the wine that got me hooked into tasting and trying wine. Went great with the jambalaya I served it with, even without letting the bottle breath for long. Tart but had sweet notes at the front of it. Really a great table red wine!! — 9 years ago

Mattias kroon

9.0

Julian Courtois, Ancestral '09. Côt and Gamay Loire, a belle with strong rose perfume, touch of volatile but not angry, clean dance but long lingering. €18 retail — 9 years ago

Shanti Christensen

9.6

A journey of berries and seasons. — 10 years ago

Shawn Londo

9.5

Best of Laithwaites' The Seasons Reds collection. £8.29 per bottle. — 11 years ago

Kristen Grimes

9.0

2015. Luscious red fruits on the nose, some leather/tobacco, medium body with a good amount of acidity while staying smooth. I usually don't go for Italian reds, so wow. Flight at Seasons 52. — 6 years ago

Diana Sabo

10

Enjoying one of my favorites from St Julian on January 27, 2018! — 6 years ago

Erik Nordman

9.2

Man, these Julian Haart '16s are awesome from what I've tasted thus far. Electric, juicy, mineral Rieslings with more verve and tension than you can shake a stick at. Very young and a little too reductive on opening right now so splash it in a decanter for a bit and better yet, wait for a few years. Pours a pale gold hue. Medium (+) concentration of aromatics of some slightly funky crushed slate minerality, slightly underripe white peach, honeydew melon, some lees influence that is coming across as aged, hard cheese rind and a slight lager-esque character, and there's some sugar snap pea character as well. There's some of that struck match reduction aroma upon opening as well, but it blows off with a bit of air. On the palate, there's more crushed slate, white peach (ripe rather than underripe like on the nose), honeydew melon, hard cheese rind leesiness, and a bit of beeswax character that was absent on the nose. Nice length on the palate as well. Juicy, intense high acidity, lean, light body, just the slightest bit off-dry. Really nice stuff! Julian's studied under some pretty impressive names (Egon Müller included amongst them) and it definitely shows. Excited to see what he does in the future. — 7 years ago

with Cassie

Lee Sammels

8.9

Delicious tastes of raisins and honey — 8 years ago

Sam Brenner

8.9

Whats funny about this wine is it will always remind me of such a great night out on vacation at The Four Seasons in SB. So, I don't remember specifics, j just know I liked it and what it contributed to such a nice dinner. — 9 years ago

Zachary Price

9.0

Another Rioja, this one picked up from Whole Foods and drank last week. This one is 100% Tempranillo and comes from the Alta region of the La Rioja DOC. The Alta region is on the western edge of the DOC with a higher elevation then the other sub-regions of La Rioja. This yields shorter growing seasons, which typically produces big bright flavors.~30$ | #rioja #tempranillo #wholefoods

On the eyes: Deep inky purple with a nice brightness. Light stain and medium tears. No gas/floc.

On the nose: An oaky spiciness that overpowers thin black fruit aromas is rounded out with a nice barnyard mustiness. Medium alcohol.

On the tongue: Medium + acid, medium alcohol, medium + tannins. Thin jammy overripe plum fades into smokey barnyard notes, grass, hay, and earth. Nice complexity with a medium finish. Drink for the next 3 years.
— 9 years ago

Douglas Braun

8.9

Peach/apricot aromas with slight minerality and small amount of residual sugar — 9 years ago

Jan Corum

10

Grown in cool climate, a refreshing Reisling! It is crisp and light with intense flavors of peach, mango, and lemon zest! Winner of many awards and "Top 100 BestBuys" Wine and Spirit Magazine. — 9 years ago

Brad Wiese

9.3

Inn of the seasons perfect pairing http://www.innoftheseasons.com/pdf/MenuPro%20perfectpair.pdf — 10 years ago

Horst Mueller

9.9

Wow...this is probably one of the best Ciders I tasted - clean, crisp, not sweet - just a great overall taste. — 11 years ago