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Hospitality Schramsberg Vineyards

10

Pours this wine for everyone in the cave jumping for joy yelling “Merry Christmas!!” — 7 years ago

JFS

8.9

Great Cabernet Sauvignon.... — 8 years ago

Jack Cranley, Backroads Wine Club & Cascadia Premium Wines

9.4

2013 vintage tasted Jan. 2018.

Lovely ruby violet color. Aromas are jumping out of the bottle immediately upon opening.

Nose is provocative and complex. Rich black and blue fruits with savory notes. Very fresh and pure. Would have pegged it as a new world wine if tasted blind.

Rich flavors, mouth coating, dry but gentle tannins. Really quite impressive and pleasurable. — 8 years ago

Ryan Leary

9.4

It really gives the essence of jumping into a lake on a hot day. Refreshingly smooth and easy to drink — 9 years ago

Scott Rowe

9.3

Still unreleased but already jumping hurdles and winning medals. — 9 years ago

Meln

9.2

Wonderful paired with Kangaroo pie in a reduction sauce. — 10 years ago

Michael Housewright

Writer/Photographer Wine Enthusiast Magazine

8.9

Only the 2nd vintage of this wine, and it has held up well. Not nearly as face crushing as most Aussie cab, this is an elegant example of this grape grown down under — 10 years ago

Mark Calkin

9.2

#humblegrape 2012 Semillon — 10 years ago

with Claudine

Ian Brennan

9.3

2001 vintage lovely dense plumbs, currants, violets and spice on the nose. Rich and warm, headily inviting, with the perfume jumping out of the glass capturing and demanding attention. Tightly packed mouthful as well, surprisingly medium bodied, good fruit and tannin, but closed and needing time. Good aftertaste, probably needs 3 to 5 years before opening up to its best. — 11 years ago

Jonathan Roth

9.1

2012 vintage! Bubbles jumping out of the glass! 90% Maizac,10% Chardonnay — 11 years ago

Zac Robinson

9.4

Stanthorpe show bottle #2 — 13 years ago

MaJ CappS

8.9

Perfect nose of great and subtle fruit.
Like the first whiff of my grocery store fruit aisle.

Dark berry skin, dark fruit, no sugars, yet full of dark flavor. Acidity and tannin playing very well with one another, like two kids jumping rope.

Winery, worth looking into.
— 7 years ago

Matt Trader

9.6

Right behind the Rurig in this tasting event, and almost just as equally my favorite!

Before I get too far ahead here, I want to thank Matt, the VP from Torbreck for an awesome presentation, and @Kyle Groombridge, TWP for orchestrating this extremely last minute tasting event of some AMAZING shiraz. Truly a special event to kick off this new year!

The Descendent is also a co-fermented Shiraz/Viognier in style of Hermitage. Compared to RunRig, much more lean and slightly muscular in the glass - lean muscle like a kangaroo. Also, very dark in the glass, if not more dark purple notes than any other of their wines. Burnt ends from beef brisket, lavender syrup, black plum, hickory smoke, black and green peppercorns, silver dollar eucalyptus, and blackberry jam. Again, lean structure and grippy tannin.. meaty, which I absolutely like - rhubarb, anise, baked black plums, herb de Provence, crushed rock dust, fresh picked cherries, and a gripping finish, yet completely elegant and silky tannin.

The Torbreck team spends a lot of time working in Rhone, often times getting to work with amazing producers such as Jean-Louis Chave and Guigal, so if you can imagine they have high standards and most certainly perform at their level and higher. They also pay homage to Rhone with an engraved crest on the bottle such as CDP or Lirac; a tribute to the Torbreck Forrest. — 8 years ago

John Zuzek

9.0

Lots of dark fruit flavors with herbs and wild mushrooms. Holding up well from the "kangaroo" vintage. — 9 years ago

Pooneet K

9.1

A nice, slightly more restrained style of CDP. Lighter red in the glass, not a ton of fruit jumping from the nose. But a nice pretty silky wine, especially at this age. Versatile pairer. — 9 years ago

Scott Taddeo

9.0

Draws you in from the get go, such attractive fresh, perfumed nose of blue fruits, plum, tarragon, pastry, white pepper, aniseed & Vietnamese mint. If the length wasn't so dismal this would be one of the best value wines going around. — 10 years ago

Robert Scruggs

9.2

Nice red ripe berry fruit and delicious upon opening. Probably needs decanting, but I'm jumping in! — 10 years ago

with James and Peter

Dock Hooks

8.9

It's Holiday Season here in Morehead City, NC , and I'm at one of my favorite hangs (Promise' Land Market where the vibe is tres local, coastal, grooviness + Christmas) digging some amazing cheeses, olives, almonds and wine.
Firstly, I posted this wine previously, so this is a double tap with some space in between. Remembering my last experience, I decided to aerate pour into a decanter and on-and-off turbo-twirl for a half hour before jumping jumping in for the swim. That was proper, for sure, as doing so moves this wine up a bit, in my mind, mellowing this front-end tannin bomb , eliminating the raspberry and showing its better blue side, plus adding a little finish. My guess is that the cab franc vintage was less than ideal blurring the merlot and unfortunately squelching what could have maybe been St Emi GC elegance. The rest is my previous post: This GC is maybe a little past it's better time (odd). That written, its Merlot centric main grape charged by a cab franc splash and tempered by what seems to me to be plenty of time luxuriating in classic French oak expressing blueberry & vanilla on the nose contrasted by rabbit tobacco (earth connection complimenting country elegance) seems classic St Emi GC.
After that initial nose-hit of earth, spice, blue fruit and vanilla, it starts to slip, as the tannins grab somewhat roughly (perhaps a death grip) in one's front mouth cutting things short and masking the expectation of a rather brilliant nose turning what starts as blueberry and spice to a tannic squeezing raspberry mouth with zero finish - a shame. On t — 10 years ago

Christy Frank

9.5

A lovely little Lucci. Anton van Klopper makes the wine natural style. Daughter Lucy makes the labels. This is a kitchen sink blend that's tasty, charming, gulp able, just a wee bit funky. Proof that there is more to Australian wine than kangaroo juice and massive extractions. — 12 years ago

CJ Shank

9.2

I don't drink this often enough, the viscosity and tannins remind me of jumping into leaf piles. — 13 years ago

Mark

9.0

More MED than full body. Smooth. Missing the bite I expected. Nice fruit and aroma. Not jumping out of my shoes on this one, but good. — 8 years ago

Sam Zimman

9.2

Delightful clementine peel turmeric tonic. Master cleanse. Jumping in the ocean then taking a warm shower. Nom nom — 8 years ago

Ted

9.3

Iced up in snow and getting nicer as it warms up. This is going to be very tasty with my Cajun shrimp dish that I am concocting. Still to cold since it’s been outside for most of the day but a little lemon drop is jumping out. Yum!! — 8 years ago

with Jeni

Severn G

9.3

1500ml
Closed and stinky on cork pop, 3+ hours later had lucious strawberry jam jumping out of the glass from 12" away, amazing! I've been buying this in mag. since '10 ($60) and never been disappointed...Patience aways wins, this bottle is ready! — 8 years ago

Claire Gabaldon

Wine Club and Social Media Manager Spring Mountain Vineyard

9.6

Delicious Cab from the awesome 2013 vintage, a beautiful example of what Oakville terroir can produce in expert hands. Soft, feminine, elegant, notes of dark cherry, raspberry and cocoa powder with lingering tannins. Worth jumping through hoops for! ;) — 10 years ago

with Kevin

Stephen Becker

9.0

Sex-Ed stock footage: trains rushing into tunnels; flowers opening; Saturn V rocket launch; snake-charmed cobra from a wicker-basket; jack-in-the-box; General Lee jumping across a wet, wet river; banjo-solo; slow-motion luge; mosh-pits. — 10 years ago

Brandon Carneiro

Co-founder & CEO SommSelect.com

9.4

This wine greatly over-delivers for its price. Crushed rocks and lemon jumping from the glass. — 10 years ago

Douglas Braun

9.0

Ripe quince fresh herbs really nice -I know I rated this wine before - love coming back - had at room temp and the aromatics are jumping out — 11 years ago

Justin Hansohn

9.4

Some smoky flint and poultry jumping out of the glass, the initial off-gas as this bloomed beautifully. The bottle only lasted about 45 minutes out on our table and in that time it settled nicely into a canvas of concentrated minerals white flowers perfect ripeness the right acidity. Lean and muscular, no fat, no human hands present here. Highly recommended. Iroulewhat?! Who would've known? Thanks kermit. Fried food for the win. — 11 years ago

with Blaine

Brad Miller

9.2

Smell of olives — 12 years ago