Mark Eastom

9.0

Serious style of Barbera D’Asti. Dark fruit, cherry, chalk, fennel, mushroom, wild berry, medium body, soft-ish tannins, good acid and raspberry preserve on the finish. Love this, will be amazing after a few years plus. — 6 years ago

Ron Siegel

9.2

This was delicious showing sour cherry, red berry fruits, wild flowers & orange peel. — 6 years ago

Ryan Peterson

9.0

Great wine with a fruity blend of grape, apple, blueberry, and raspberry. — 7 years ago

Sipping Fine Wine

8.9

Takes its name from the free-spirited gentleman named Bruscone who lived in the woods of the Barbi Estate. Ruby with bright aromas of red berry fruits and wild flower notes. On the palate strawberry and cherry flavors, well balanced with avidity & fine tannins. Lingering finish ending with earthy tones. Nice value. — 8 years ago

Justin Gilman CSW, CSS

9.0

Huge value red #wine blend.

#Greneche #Monastrell mix. Dark , wild berry aromas. Opaque in the glass , shiny sheen. Palate is moderate with medium body, mild tannin and deceiving acid. More tart, dark fruit flavors. Good structure. Opened 3/23/17 — 8 years ago

Craig Stanfield

9.5

Needs to open up but already a stunner. Deep purple with wild berry on the nose. Plum, currant and melted licorice along with a savory and mineral character. Wood is present but not overwhelming. Lush with supple tannin. Probably should have given it a couple of years but couldn't wait. Some things I just have to have now! — 9 years ago

Craig Stanfield

9.3

Delicious. Bramble, dirt, wild berry, tobacco, and crushed purple flower. — 9 years ago

Jörgen Lindström Carlvik

Owner, Brix Wine Consultants

9.4

Just amazing, this Casbah-spiced-up PN holds plenty in reserve, apart from its wild berry aromas and flavors, as it also invites you to party, thanks to generous fruit interwoven with layers of chocolate. Long, seductive and rewarding finish, with the ripe vintage shining thru. Leave it to settle down for a few years. — 10 years ago

Dmitri

9.0

Smoky-gamey macerated wild strawberries with mint. On the palate, surprisingly light and fruity, riper berry concentration, medium acidity, and low tannins. DOC regulations require 85% Petit Rouge, the most widely planted grape in the region, but this is 100%. Medium licorice finish. Overall, this is a more rustic Gamay and quite pleasant.
— 11 years ago

Reinholds Zviedris

9.1

Nice and sweet Lambrusco - rich wild berry aroma. — 11 years ago

Matt

9.0

High toned, floral, spiced, loads of pepper and crunchy minerality. Fruit has lost some youthful exuberance, moving more into the background while its earth and perfumed notes come through. Tempts you with contemplation, but just so fun to drink. Wild black and red berry, bay, green and black peppercorns, peach, crushed rocks, wild herbs. Perfect foil for Moroccan rabbit and stewed veggies — 6 years ago

Blair Campomizzi

9.1

Well structured layers highlighted by currant, wild berry and gravel. — 6 years ago

with Matt

Evie Olson

9.1

Super cool! Really peppery & potpourri on the nose. Full bodied yet with balanced tannins & plenty of acidity! The earthy, peppery & wild berry flavors continue on the palate. Definitely would revisit again & again — 7 years ago

Sipping Fine Wine

9.3

Takes its name from the free-spirited gentleman named Bruscone who lived in the woods of the Barbi Estate.
Brilliant Ruby with aromas of wild berry fruits and sweet herb notes. On the palate cherry, plum and dried fruits with tobacco and cola notes, well balanced on firm tannins tightly wound, oak notes; decant. Lingering finish ending with mineral and earthy notes. Let this age a few more years. — 8 years ago

Megan Vasquez

9.1

Went really well with ham :) — 8 years ago

with Kelly

Kristin Marcou

10

Black cherry, wild berry fruit, and notes of chocolate and oak. Rich texture lingers long with a bright, fresh finish — 9 years ago

David Annis

9.5

Wow. Just wow. Cork was perfect. Black licorice on the nose, particularly the cork. Cedar and wild berry notes. Medium mouth feel. Jill thinks it's just starting its decline. She's probably right. After 23 years it's unlikely to get better, but the other way to look at "starting its decline" is that it's peaking. And on a personal note, having visited Seavey and having met the owners, it makes me happy to have enjoyed this bottle as thoroughly as we did. — 9 years ago

S Butterfield

Sommelier Flask Fine Wines

9.2

Elegant, soft and silky even at 16%! Big wine, an inky bastard. Toasty fig, dark berry, wild herbs. Steakhouse wine. Streamlined tannin. Explosive finish. Great stuff. — 10 years ago

Keith Levenberg

9.1

Old vine syrah from the wrong side of the tracks in the Cornas neighborhood, so it's appellation Cotes du Rhone, but the hope is that it's kind of Cornas-y even if it comes from the flats. At first it's super-structured and backwards but also very hearty and dense with that rich old-vine concentration. The flavors at that point might have passed for something grenache. With a bit of air it gets more civilized, though, retaining that hearty richness but the structure turning almost silky even though it builds and toughens up on the back end. How Cornas-y is it? Well, it doesn't have any of the wild meatiness or much non-fruit stuff, and the particular berry flavors still coulda fooled me on the syrah vs. grenache thing, but that dense inner core and muscled structure seems about right. — 10 years ago

JohnQ Boxler

Sales Berkeley Wine Company

9.3

This year's model. Relative to 2011 this seems more fruit-dominated. This is not say over-ripe or blowsy. There is plenty of mineral tension and loamy goodness to balance out the wild berry notes and raspberry palate. Served cool with chicken in a mustard tarragon sauce. This is just silly inexpensive-not to mention Bio-and great for a daily red. — 11 years ago

John Willison

8.9

Wild strawberry, sour citrus, herbal and berry finish. — 6 years ago

Gil Krakowsky

9.4

High toned raspberry, black cherry and wild berry fruit, leather, sandalwood, dark rose, a little bit of a sanguine note, tarragon black tea, and dominant undercurrent of musk and earth framing it all. Seems to have that halfway chambolle to Gevrey thing. Not particularly long but lots of interest.

Good big body and acidity but still with very aggressive tannins. Really only came Into its own day 2. A broad shouldered wine, and a definite hold m — 6 years ago

Chris England

9.2

Fab value Rôtie @ £37 that’s drinking great 👍 Gets better every time I try 😁 So easy to drink on it’s own or with a duck dish 😍

📍 Guigal Brune et Blonde Côte Rôtie 2011

🏵 92 points

🍇 96% Syrah & 4 % Viognier

🍷 Deep ruby

👃 Peppered bacon frazzles, spiced herby blackberry, smoked cherry cola, mocha mist, subtle oak, red berry & muddy raspberry w/ hint of liquorice, black olive & wild strawberry

👄 Med creamy smooth bodied spiced earthy blackberry & red cherry bomb in touch dry fine tannins & med acidity w/ a wild raspberry & vanilla undertone

🎯 Med+ blackberry earthy slight dry mocha vanilla 🍓💋 — 7 years ago

Erik Nordman

9.2

Rad Spätburgunder from the Pfalz; Koehler-Ruprecht never steers me wrong. Bracing and a bit rustic yet still elegant. Pours a medium (-) ruby garnet hue. Benefits from a tiny bit of air before serving but not like, necessary to decant it either. Wild raspberries and strawberries, blood orange peel, fennel seed, woodsy spice and birch bark, mushroomy, forest floor earthiness, and some floral rosehip character on the nose. The palate has more bracing, alpine red berry fruit, woodsy spice, rose floral character, and forest floor, supported by lively, medium (+) to high acid, and medium (-) tannin. Light to medium (-) body. Solid stuff. In a nice place right now, maybe would peak in a couple years but no compelling reason to hold on to it much either. — 8 years ago

George Bato

9.3

Savory, wild meat, dark berry fruit, leather, nice minerality — 8 years ago

Devin Bray

9.1

I rather enjoyed this! Fresh, juicy wild berry fruit, with prickly raspberry and blackberry tempered by crushed stone, barnyard hay, and lots of nature Loire funkiness. Great acidity. — 9 years ago

Geordie Edmiston

9.0

Full body with hints of cedar and wild berry. — 9 years ago

Justin Gilman CSW, CSS

9.5

This is spectacular! In the glass it shows Dense, opaque purple with a slight Ruby toward the edge. The edge is also delicately thin. You can smell steel shavings, wet asphalt, wild BlackBerry and faint red roses. Very light bodied, evaporating off your tongue. The minerality show through still, with finish of boysenberry, wild berry and basil. Love love love this Cornas! Opened 9/26/15 — 10 years ago

Gail Sitterson

9.0

Our go to and about the boldest red i drink. I Find it to be mild with strong berry flavors without being sweet. Wild horse is an easy bottle for hubby and me to share. — 11 years ago

Bradley Brown

Owner/Winemaker Big Basin Vineyards

9.4

Delicious, fresh, tons of tannin, sappy melange of wild berry fruit — 11 years ago