Klinker Brick
Brick House
Ribbon Ridge Gamay Noir
I usually tend toward Pinot Noir, but when I want something just a bit bolder, Gamay hits the spot. I have really been enjoying this 2015 vintage. — 6 years ago
Caymus Vineyards
Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
Birth year bottle for our first born daughter, Haley. Celebrating her graduation from Iowa State this weekend and her achieving gainful employment one week from tomorrow. The cork was stubborn but eventually cooperated, and we decanted and filtered the wine. Tart cherry the first sip, wondering if we needed a backup. Beautifully brick coloring and the sharp edges are rounding out and now we’re getting a smooth mid palate of dark berries and spice leading to a bright finish. And a bright future! 👍🏻🍷👩🎓. Cheers! — 6 years ago
Château Pape Clément
Pessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend 1995
Incredibly underrated @ £69 & drinking just lovely now @ peak 😍 Fab buy 👍
🍷 Opaque garnet ruby w/ brick edge
👃 Gorgeous soggy earth & leaves, soaked smokey oak, flinty crushed rock minerals, leather, herbs, liquorice, mocha, blackcurrant & dark plum
👄 Med body of creamy smooth earthy blackcurrant & dark plum in liquorice infused mocha w/ minerals, all beautifully balanced
🎯 Long earthy mocha liquorice mineral dark fruit seduction
😍 My kind of wine 😎 — 6 years ago
Brick House
Les Dijonnais Ribbon Ridge Pinot Noir 2014
MSix Wines
Brick & Mortar La Perla Vineyard Pinot Noir 2013
The only Pinot Noir made with Napa fruit better than Brick and Mortar's Cougar Rock Pinot is this wine right here. complex, beguiling, nuanced and mysterious are some of the endless descriptors that can be used to describe this beautiful Spring Mountain Pinot. Can't wait to taste this in another 5 years or so, as it is destined for greatness. — 8 years ago
Klinker Brick
1850° Lodi Zinfandel Blend 2012
Very dark in color, dark chocolate, solid wine. Cabernet, petite Sirah and Zinfandel. — 9 years ago
Brick House
Year of the Dragon Ribbon Ridge Gamay 2012
La Rioja Alta
Gran Reserva 904 Rioja Tempranillo Graciano 2004
My 28th/29th/30th & 31st bottles of the beautiful 04 & @ £40 & they are still superb value for a stunning old world Rioja 👍 & keep getting better & better 😁
🍷 Garnet w/ brick edge
👃 Old world Seduction of soft smokey oak, leather, plum, spiced cherry, vanilla, red berry & fig jam w/ a balsamic prune tone
👄 Med body of silky creamy red cherry/berry driven earthy & oaky mashed fruits with cocoa, fig & thick balsamic
🎯 Long soft smooth oaky rich cherry fruit linger with earthy cocoa & balsamic
— 6 years ago
Klinker Brick
Lodi Albariño 2015
Dry and great with our Italian sausage carbonara — 7 years ago
Rockwell Brown
Red Mountain Red Blend 2007
Second of the four year vertical we are trying out for #WAWineMonth. We had the 05, 07, 08 and 09.
Medium to deep garnet with brick edges. Quite a bit of oak on the nose with notes of cigar boxes, dark spices, dried fruits and woody. Medium tannins (6/10) and medium plus bodied. Well integrated with quite a bit of earthiness compared to the other three vintages. Very dark throughout with notes of cocoa, herbs and some black cherries. Medium plus to long finish. Showed better on day two. Drink till 2022.
Made up of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23.5% Merlot, 3.5% Petit Verdot and 3% Cabernet Franc. — 7 years ago
Domaine des Lambrays
Clos des Lambrays Grand Cru Pinot Noir 2001
Mature drinker. Starting to head towards the bottom of the bell curve, lots of secondary and tertiary flavors emerging. Brick, clay, bruised red fruits, maybe a little VA as well. Maybe this would have showed better if it weren't next to a 02 Vogüé. — 8 years ago
Warre's
Vintage Porto Port Blend 1997
Deep brick. M+ intensity. Cherry, kirsch, blackberry, rhubarb, bramble, savory and saline. Lots of fruit for the age of this wine. M+ acid, sweet,long finish and complex. — 9 years ago
Joseph Phelps Vineyards
Insignia Estate Grown Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Blend 1987
Well on to red brick color, but still shows fruit. Better than I expected it to be. — 11 years ago
Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste
Pauillac Red Bordeaux Blend 2001
Fab GPL reaching peak drinking window @ £75-£90 always a lovely wine 👍
📍 Chateau Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2001
🏵 92-93 points
🍇 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 28% Merlot & 2% Cabernet Franc
🍷 Deep alight garnet ruby w/ brick edge
👃 Heady smokey oak through black currant & berry loaded with minerals, pencil lead & flint stone w/ dark plum, red berry, leather & damp cellar
👄 Med body of smooth touch dry mineral infused black berry fruits w/ a touch of red berry & cocoa
🎯 Long slight dry black fruit mineral bomb w/ a mocha liquorice kick — 5 years ago
R. López de Heredia
Viña Tondonia Gran Reserva Rioja Tempranillo Blend
(aged in American oak barrels for nine years and then in bottle for a minimum of eight more years) Faded brick-red. Aromas of red berries, dried rose, cedar and tobacco show outstanding delineation and pick up woodsmoke and herb nuances as the wine opens up. Sweet and seamless in texture, offering mineral-accented red currant, cherry and blood orange flavors that spread out steadily on the back half. The extremely long, tannin-free finish shows compelling sweetness, lingering florality and an echo of smoky oak. (Josh Raynolds, Vinous, May 2017) — 6 years ago
Torbreck Vintners
The Steading Barossa Valley Grenache Blend 2012
The Steading definitely won most interesting wine of the night. It is a GSM blend, in fashion of Chateauneuf-du-pape. Oldest wine on the tasting list, from 2012, and it had a gorgeous brick red, slightly opaque color. Boy did this have a fantastic fragrance - strawberry, cranberry, saddle leather, decayed violets, pipe tobacco, dried eucalyptus leaf, and soy. If the nose wasn't the most enticing thing about the wine, it was equally matched on the pallet which was lush, elegant, and dainty compared to the sort of brash character of most of Torbreck's wines - red plum, bruised red apple, duck fat, braised and charred meat, luxardo cherry, dried rosemary, dried sage, graphite, hickory charcoal, and a juicy, lingering finish. What an absolute treat.. it is on its 5th year of age, but sadly it may only really have 3-5 more years of plateau to enjoy. Not meant for extensive age, but surely amazing value from Torbreck; not all wines are meant to be aged long! — 6 years ago
Klinker Brick
Lodi Zinfandel Rosé Blend 2014
Lovely rose gold color, with a clean and fresh nose. Fruit, minerals, flowers.. Everything I would want in a rose. Plenty of strawberry, tart cherry, watermelon, white and red rose petals and dried herbs. Fruit shines on the palate with plenty of acidity to carry you to a pleasant finish. Sitting perfectly at 13.5, the ABV is not a detracting component. — 8 years ago
Château Pichon-Longueville Baron
Baron de Pichon-Longueville Pauillac Red Bordeaux Blend 1978
Smoking good and a big surprise as most Bordeaux in the late 70s was not good. The color was mature, but not nearly as brick as I would have expected. The nose I could smell all day and all night. Lots of perfumed red fruits, subtle spice and tertiary leathers and dried flowers. The palate was just as good and followed on from the nose, if anything a little less complex than the nose. — 8 years ago
Château Lynch-Bages
Grand Cru Classé Pauillac Cabernet Sauvignon Blend 2011
I love the Echo label made by Lynch, and this was a power house of a Bordeaux. Brick wall of tannin even 4 hours later and after 60, yes, 60 hours of decanting, the flavors being masked by high acidity and tannin of a young wine finally had their 15 seconds of fame. Dark rich flavors of creme-de-casis and blackberry tart, and gravelly minerality, with a toasty oak undertone and still finishing with a firm tannin but just more enjoyable than right out of the bottle. — 9 years ago
Cave des Vignerons de Mancey
Rosé de Guinguette Cremant de Bourgogne Demi-Sec Rosé Blend
2014/3/6@Brick — 10 years ago
Brick House
Boulder Block Ribbon Ridge Pinot Noir 2010
Stems deliciousness and hitting the balls out of the park! Oh yeah brickhouse! — 12 years ago
John Willison
Lemon zest, mineral, almonds...burgundy-esque. — 5 years ago