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

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

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