Larry Benowski

9.4

Beautiful, taste soft tannin, nice acid , fruit is unripe pear and apricot, citrus taste that goes on, paired with digby scallops done with Bombay gin and lemon zest — 6 years ago

Justin Wade

8.9

A pretty good Petit Verdot. Nose is light if white pepper. Taste of a good Petit, light tannins but still good acidity. — 7 years ago

Nathan Ellis

9.5

Perfect with steak and salad eaten outdoors on a sunny day in the northwest. Downright refreshing. — 8 years ago

Andrea Phillips

9.3

Delicious!! This is an incredibly unique wine that runs the gambit of stone fruit flavors without being overtly fruity. If this is available, you should be drinking it! — 9 years ago

Andy Hall

9.6

Okay, call me a baby killer if you want but I needed to crack one of these open so that I could monitor its progression. Another phenomenal Knight's Valley Cab. This will be better tomorrow as it opens and the other 11 will sit in the cellar for at least another 5 years. Just Terrific. Great nose, inky purple color but not overly complex nor contrived, just plain good from start to finish. — 9 years ago

Lance Williams

9.2

I tasted at the Linked Vineyards release party, the 2012 vintage is drinking well now but will continue to improve over the next 10+ years. This is a fabulous example of Knight's Valley Cabernet. — 10 years ago

Jim Sikes

9.1

A real winner. Good fruit and solid soft structure. Full mouth and lingering finish. Likely the best Knight's Valley from Beringer. — 10 years ago

Jeremy Shanker

Sommelier at RN74

8.9

Still kicking! Glad the secret isn’t out yet on older Cali merlot. — 6 years ago

David Lee

9.1

Light gold appearance. Fig, apricot, rose water Brie on the nose. Silky, with bright fruit, not much acidity. Slightly sweet like a white Bordeaux. With 9 years it has enough structure and length to be interesting. — 7 years ago

Isaac Pirolo

9.4

In physics, the Coriolis force is an inertial force that acts on objects that are in motion relative to a rotating reference frame.
In wine, Coriolis is a Willamette Valley Pinot Noir from Maggie Harrison's Antica Terra.
The back label says "The mathematical expression for the Coriolis force appeared in an 1835 paper by French scientist Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, in connection with the theory of water wheels. This wine takes the name Coriolis and with it the symbol of the water wheel: a manifestation of the conversion of free-flowing energy into useful forms of power. One hundred percent of the profits from the sale of this wine are donated to charity. In this way this wine supports the conversion of ideas into powerful actions that serve a greater good."
One of those charities is Phil Knight's Cancer Challenge, so I guess you could say this wine is helping to cure cancer. If that's not reason enough to drink it, the wine is drop dead gorgeous. Opens with wild fruit purity of cherry, red currant and even then pushes towards raspberry, which leads into a salty minerality that plays really well off its subtle floral and citrus tones. While it's loaded with tart fruit and even citrus acidity, it finishes with length and exceptional silkiness, a testament to its balance. Beautiful. — 8 years ago

Matt

9.2

A weighty and earth-laden wine that ran the gambit. I was taken back by the texture and sense of mineral the wine had. Complex and cerebral — 9 years ago

Ryan Mayes

9.0

Big Napa Meritage. Lot of horsepower, not very much finesse. I don't drink a ton of Beringer but from memory would characterize this as a more highly concentrated, structured, rounder version of the Knight's Valley cab without the balance or precision of the Reserve. A solid buy at Costco's $33 price point but wouldn't buy at full retail, which I believe is double. At that price point, would go with the Cinq Cepages bottling from another Treasury Wine Estate producer on the west side of the ridge, Chateau St. Jean. — 10 years ago

Francis Huicq

9.2

From the southeastern edge of Greece, Rhodes is well known as a gifted corner of the Mediterranean in term of viticulture. This "Knight's Island" is a blend of Athiri, Assyrtiko and Sauvignon Blanc. 11.5% Vol, this wine combines a floral and fruity profile with apricot and a touch of lemon. The balance is right as the SB doesn't over-powering but leave the other grapes to express themselves. Versatile in style, intriguing at first but very satisfying. Try if you find any as well as their Sparkling, Muscat or Cabernet Sauvignon. — 10 years ago

Carter White

9.5

Great wine. Big and powerful, favoring acidity but balanced. Complex with a range of flavor, running the gambit of red and black fruit, some candied, some tart, along with spice, especially black pepper. Crazy value for $19. — 6 years ago

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9.2

This smells intensely of sage and sage flowers, along with passion fruit, grapefruit and elder flower. (“I am Scheurebe, hear me roar!”) Given such a resounding opening gambit, the wine proves (relatively!) discreet on the polished palate, turning in a coolingly minty and melony direction while preserving such luscious fruit as well as herbal pungency as the aromas promised. The terrifically-sustained finish is infectiously juicy, exhibiting overt but perfectly-integrated and supportive sweetness. Sage, grapefruit zest and smoky black tea accents serve for invigorating counterpoint. On occasion, the Rumpfs have demonstrated that these vines in the Dautenpflänzer can yield Scheurebe capable of playing in the Pfeffingen or Müller-Catoir league – and this is one of those delicious occasions. (On the heels of this beauty – on November 2, 2018 – I tasted a dry 2018 Scheurebe trocken, from fruit harvested in mid-September, that was already improbably delicious; but the Dautenpflänzer Scheurebe grapes from 2018 had been picked only a few days before I visited!) (David Schildknecht, Vinous, April 2019) — 7 years ago

Janet Ross

9.5

This is my Hurricane Harvey wine. After being housebound by flooding for 6 days I decided to open this gem from Morlet which shows all the classic Knight's Valley character I love. It is a treasure of cassis, black currants, incense and sandalwood, tar and menthol. Black pepper and spice box. The palate is a layered as is the nose, with a succulentdark fruit core framed with understated, fine,, mouthcoating tannins. 15.0% alcohol — 9 years ago

Aaron Caiazza

9.0

63% Pommard Estate — 10 years ago

@DrinkingKC

9.4

Knight's Valley and reasonable price. Yum. — 10 years ago

V M

9.6

Gorgeous bouquet of blackberries and honeysuckle. Palate is fruit forward spanning the gambit of dark blue fruit cut by cedar and smoke laced tannins. Approachable now but very age able. Terrific value vs Bryant"s "first growth". — 10 years ago

Mike Pliss

9.3

Fruity and spicy; warms the mind and heart on a chilly February eve. — 11 years ago