Stephen Mandy

9.5

36 year old Palmer- smoky tobacco and cedar nose, delicate juicy fruit flavor, soft subtle tannins - a ballerina! Fabulous wine. — 6 years ago

Fredrik Finn

9.6

Just as baffled as every time when stripping down a bottle of Miani; how the heck is this possible…!? ’15 Chardonnay; Big, bold and broad shouldered but with a vibrant and linear freshness to it, with its trade mark electric minerality, both on the nose and the palate. Hitting all the clusters with full power in complete balance thanks to the sharp and vibrant mineral backbone . The 14.5 (!) % abv is barely being noticed, more than acting as a supporting role in the unity by providing even further structure throughout the finish. A powerlifter that is out-dancing the ballerina. Rating is conservative... — 7 years ago

Riccardo L.

9.1

Nice and light, dances gracefully around the tongue like a ballerina. Love it! — 8 years ago

Ira Schwartz

9.2

A reticent nose giving just enough to keep you from being disappointed that you opened this way to early. A tightly wound palate that needed time to unwind. Slowly revealed itself to be a ballerina, very lithe and sexy. It's all there, the only question is when will she decide to dance. — 9 years ago

with Jason and Richard

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.1

I love her style. Ballerina style St. Joseph. Ripe dark fruits, some game, some blackberry, camphor and dried flowers. Gorgeous and evocative nose. So juicy and silky with terrific silky tannins and great depth. 13's are in a great place now. Much fuller than on release. Good balance and purity and terrific concentration and freshness. — 9 years ago

Erik Longabardi

9.2

Soft like a ballerina on stage. Slender, sleek and sexy all the way around — 9 years ago

Lee Lightfoot

9.1

Like a tubby ballerina, with excellent spanx. Fabulous rich honey and fruit that never struck me as out of balance. Oak not fully integrated yet, needed another couple years maybe. — 9 years ago

Aaron Tan

9.6

Ah! The prima ballerina of Rheinhessen. The precise footwork, elegant gait, and undeniable presence. Usually, she takes centre stage, but tonight, the queen of Nierstein has decided to make a forceful announcement during her grand performance - "I will dance instead, and you will love it!" :)

We thought that drinking the 17' Hipping first was a good idea. In hindsight, I'm not even sure why, especially given how the Abtserde was totally eclipsed by it. Nevertheless, the 14' Abtserde was still a great expression of riesling

For me, Absterde is usually the most filigreed and electric of KP's vineyards, but this time, it was showing a more breadth than the typically weightier Hipping. Very powerful with exotic fruits dominating, set on a backdrop of herbs and spice. Concentrated, but in the same vein as the 17' Hipping - new KP in my eyes. I can see why some would prefer KP's older vintages compared to this, which are seemingly more extracted. There's a mineral drive and acidity which really dances on the palate. Admittedly, this finishes a touch hot but nothing to detract from the sheer energy of this wine. It needs time to bring it more balance and finesse I feel. — 6 years ago

Ellen Clifford

9.4

Dragonette is bae and don’t you forget it. It jumps into your mouth like a clutzy ballerina. You feel the elegance but this ballerina has some muscle. Some...pepper. Some spice. This ballerina would kick your ass with more training but in this iteration she’s still an elegant fluid being flowing into your mouth and tempting to beat you up but not quite. I love this dancer. Simply? A red cherry and black plum compote with a bunch of green herbs and black pepper and maybe the teensiest pinch of cinnamon and anise tossed together and puréed to their purest form. Elegance and brute force. Damn I love Dragonette. — 8 years ago

Ira Schwartz

9.6

I will start by saying I am prejudice when it comes to ‘98 M-C . Almost every wine they made that vintage has brought me happiness. This might be the best one yet. You name the fruit and this nose has it , papaya, orange,peaches and apricots. In the mouth it’s the definition of balance. Packed with huge flavors it is an elephant in ballerina slippers. Reverberates in your mouth! — 8 years ago

Joel Pennington #❤️🐢🍷

Owner/Winemaker Slow Turtle Vineyard

8.9

"Like a ballerina dancing on your tongue" - Rod Walker / Melbourne — 9 years ago

with Rod

Stephen Mandy

9.2

Classic 83 Margaux- Cedar nose with soft elegant tannins, joyous fruit and ballerina style. Long finish, with at least a decade or more left. — 9 years ago

Mason Balistreri

Sommelier, International Wine Guild; Balistreri Vineyard; Sales, Joy Wine and Spirits

9.5

Winemaker Alex Sanchez is about as nice of a guy as I could imagine. So nice in fact, he brought this amazing decade old Cru Barolo from his personal cellar to share with us... Yet again, like all of his wine, the age hardly shows. Confident and elegant, there's so much dance in this wine. It's athletic and full of finesse, but feminine and timeless. If I knew anything about ballet, I would make a ridiculous comparison to a famous ballerina...good thing I don't. — 10 years ago

with Raymond

Aaron Rankin

9.2

Singing right now, or dancing? An elephant ballerina. — 7 years ago

Ellen Clifford

9.3

Oh hey! Leave it to @Paul Treadway Huntington Beacher Bum to get me into a Scotch. This is delectable. My usual quibble with scotch is the smoke and this one has a whisper of it but it only serves to ballast the vanilla, honey and...marmalade? Of the rest of this. Tried neat and on a big cube o’ ice in a chilled glass and definitely recommend the latter. It is an evenings worth of delicate sipping. A ballerina. A delicate scotch. I’m a fan. I eat my anti-scotch words this one is for me. — 7 years ago

Lance E. Farman

9.2

Nice little ballerina on the pallet. For the PC crowd I mean there is a gender involved. — 8 years ago

Veronica Castro

9.6

You know in Pulp Fiction, when Ms. Mia Wallace is doing whatever illicit drug she's doing in the bathroom, and then says, "I said God damn!" -- well, this is my Ms. Mia Wallace moment. From the Nahe, this is the 2015 Schafer-Frohlich Riesling Vulkangestein Trocken. Coming from 30-40 year old vines in Felsenberg and Stromberg, the Estate's volcanic soil grand crus. For me, this encapsulates everything 2015 was meant to be... gorgeous, lush fruit, rocking acidity, beautiful balance, vivid aromatics, and laser-beam precision and tension. Damn. This is total prima ballerina dancing on your tongue. Nose/palate: lemon blossoms, orange blossoms, grapefruit, kiwi, passionfruit, so lively, and in-your-face minerality. Brilliant. — 8 years ago

Jeremy Shanker

Sommelier at RN74

9.3

A ballerina. Light and elegant. In 10 this will be magical. — 9 years ago

with Eddy

Kleopatra Bright

9.0

Clear
Star bright
Very pale salmon
"Ballerina pink"

Clean
Med intensity
Grapefruit
Lime
Peach
Stone fruit
White flower

Dry
High acidity
Lemon
Floral
High alcohol

13.5
Light body
Medium finish — 9 years ago

Jody Roberts

9.3

It's almost like a song. Beautiful as a ballerina! — 10 years ago