Erin Hollrah

9.2

Marcel Lapierre Morgon… I smell it in the breeze, the warm kind that makes my head float above the leaves and just flutter down to the ground below — no matter if that ground be sand, snow, concrete or dirt. It doesn’t matter, for this wine personifies my favourite wine descriptor: high toned.

Medium garnet in colour, a generous nose of fully ripened strawberries; red and dark cherries; and warm, granite-rich earth leaves room for no other aroma to interfere. For a daydreaming stint, I become sweet sixteen. Everything is deep pink and love is such an easy red. Life is silky and breezy and good. I could live forever in the slipsteam.

The wine is dry but its fruits are gushingly sweet. A soothing mouthfeel and supple tannins offer too lovely an experience. It is so tempting to bite into the bitter little seeds inside the berries, but instead Marcel Lapierre Morgon begs you to roll with the black cherry skin and enjoy the simplicity before harsh aspects of life are unavoidable. The cover of YM magazine will never be interesting again, so why not enjoy it while it lasts?

Alas, the heartier-skinned wines and those unbathed in hippie funk; the awkward intrigues as well as dangerous lusts inevitably called my attention. Life may never be that raw and pristine again, but the beauty I can always recapture in this unforgettable bottle.

— 10 years ago

Please Dont Sell My Data

9.7

Please had this 11 years ago

BurgundyFan

9.5

Leclapart L'Apôtre is amazing...15000 bts only, its clear, fresh, mineral, with multi layers of flavors and with an acidity to join any aperitiv or any kind of food. Produced from vines planted in 1946 by David's grandfather, its really something these bubbles. — 11 years ago

Jeffrey Lew

9.5

I guess the new Wednesday label! This lasted about 20min.. Great fruit, structure and balance. My kind of California. — 11 years ago

Charlie Beatty

Buyer wineworksonline.com

9.9

2008 at its finest! Refined elegant loaded with Fabulous dark fruits. PE of a kind! With Penfolds great winemakers team. — 12 years ago

Chris Sussman

9.2

It's that kind of night! — 12 years ago

with Debbie

Tony Capone

9.3

Great Syrah, Spicy, with smokey notes, great with big flavor foods — 10 years ago

Greg Smith

9.4

My first kiwi wine (as far as I can remember) and very good, mostly my kind of wine, I like a tad more power but it's got plenty of flavour, I'd buy again! — 10 years ago

with Bev

Julie Habiger

9.0

I have some "go to" Pinots and this is one of them. If you saw the press in WS in July, it appears a lot of Americans agree. I found it interesting that it is referred to as a sweeter red. That's not my impression at all. It's just an all around drinkable and friendly Pinot. The kind you pour sitting out on the back deck with friends on a cool, autumn evening next to a campfire. Don't ask more than that and toast a few marshmallows. Yum. — 11 years ago

David Musser

Sommelier The Little Nell

9.5

This wine was $25 bucks. I don't know if I could find a wine I enjoy drinking more with this kind of value. Barnyard, earth, funk, dried red fruit. This is a great bottle of wine. — 11 years ago

with Chris

Sasha Smith

Wine Blogger Spin the Bottle NY

10

#Laterdelect from #ChristiesBYOB earlier this week. Kind of a revelation, can't stop thinking about it. Harmonious. Sui generis. — 11 years ago

with Richard, Per and 1 other

Greg Sorensen

9.6

One of a kind. — 12 years ago

S Parker

9.9

Visited w winemaker on napa — 13 years ago

Keith Levenberg

9.6

Opens up with busy, detailed aromatics though also with quite a beastly amount of tannin that puts this probably about a decade away from primetime, for my tastes. Even so, it delivers quite an engaging and dynamic performance today. It has deep, black-pitched flavors with a touch of cedar and gravel, but not so much like the famous 'lead pencil' of the northern end of Pauillac - for some reason this feels almost more like a St.-Julien to me, kind of reminiscent of a Leoville-Barton with a bit more sinewy muscle. And then, about three hours in, it announces, "Hey, by the way, this is what a first growth can do," and those muscular tannins almost in an instant turn exquisitely refined, liquid cashmere. — 10 years ago

Erin Toth

Senior Wine Sales Associate Granville Liquor Store

9.4

Well isn't this just a lovely little tannin bomb. Sweet cherries and earth and a kick in the teeth of the best kind. — 11 years ago

with Shirley

Scott Stewart

9.4

In a spectacular place right now (I need to buy six pack kind of place). Toasty, with great definition... — 11 years ago

Marc Stubblefield

Wine Sales at Vino Carta and Kogod Wine Merchant

9.0

Hell yes. Crisp, refreshing, chuggable - 1L seems about the right serving size per person. Why aren't we getting these kind of food friendly table wines out of every domestic AVA? @Steve Matthiasson is a treasure. — 11 years ago

Michelle Raspanti

9.1

This wine is inexpensive, kind of sweet, and good for unwinding. I was happily surprised! — 12 years ago

Morgan Harris

Head Sommelier Aureole New York

9.3

Kind of a dark star right now. It's pulling in on itself, shedding its youthful, pretty fruitiness for its secondary stage, but boy is there a lot of stuffing here. — 12 years ago

Peter Bui

9.6

First of this kind that I have had. For the price, younger barolos are more complex with longer finishes — 13 years ago