Benjamin Keator

9.8

Give it 2 hours and then look out, here comes the black pepper. Reminds me of an aged LaLa — 7 years ago

with Eric and Ryan

Sipping Fine Wine

9.5

Ooo-LaLa! Found another 2001! Deep Ruby with sweet black and red fruit aromas with a pleasant gentle oak notes. A 100% Tempranillo, from 100-Year Old vines, aged for 24 months in French oak barrels. The palate puts forth flavors of ripe red cherries, dried fruit, cacao and tobacco. The wine showed plenty of acidity and round tannins, giving the wine good structure. This full-bodied wine had a long finish leaving with some oak and earthy mineral ending. A Pleasure! — 7 years ago

Sipping Fine Wine

9.4

Ooo-LaLa!! Went to a private equity tasting where money is not an issue. Intense aromas of red/blue and dark berries, with a distinctive graphite nose. Shows full fruit flavors of cherries, plums and blackberries with sweet cacao and smoky cedar. Well developed, rich, delicate and soft tannins with balanced alcohol and acidity. The finish was complex, elegant and enjoyable, giving mineral nuances with good length. Perfect! Tasting Sample! — 8 years ago

Bobby Gilbane

9.4

Holy smokes! Made in the same style as a LaLa with a dollop of viognier for aromatics...and it pulls it off flawlessly. Gorgeous wine. — 8 years ago

Marcio Morelli

9.2

VDP Suisse
"Roude de lá" — 9 years ago

Bill Bender

9.5

Perhaps the most restrained SQN Syrah I've had since E-raised. This drank like an incredibly balanced, nuanced mid 90s LaLa. Perfectly on the right edge of extreme extraction. Restraint but power in spades. — 9 years ago

Fred Molz

9.1

Enjoyed a great bottle with Lala on our 23rd anniversary — 10 years ago

Alexandre Calvi

9.2

1985 ooh lala! — 10 years ago

Darlene Dinsmore

9.1

Enjoyed quite a few bottles with LaLa! — 11 years ago

Gilles de Chambure

Master Sommelier & Educator

10

firdt vintage 95 blend of vineyards next to single vnyd LaLa 2009 for me a great discovery and amazing from the Viara vnyd the steepest vnyd in cote rotie. 50% or 120 % — 12 years ago

Brendan OConnell

9.2

Nice, well-balanced Pinot. — 7 years ago

Adam Kincaid

9.3

Oooo lala. Lovely, and 2012 was a hot year. Sour cherry and dried plums/dark fruits. Some great leather and tobacco that gives it a depth and linger that help it finish strong. — 7 years ago

Diêgo Martins

10

Nunca tinha tomado um vinho com quase 20 anos... Nem sei o que dizer. Excelentemente elegante e marcante. Sei lá. Que doidera foi. — 8 years ago

Stephanie Reitano

9.1

Oh. You touched my trah-lala. Silky smooth. I love this wine. So southern. — 8 years ago

with Christine

Bodil Martin

10

Oh lala.. Me so happy!!🍷🍷😍👍🏻🇺🇸🍁🍂🇺🇸😮🍷🍷😍 — 9 years ago

Benjamin Keator

9.8

Tasted blind. I would hve bet my first six kids this was a high end cote Rotie (not quite LaLa level). The black pepper was off the chart. Never had an American terroir put off this much earth. Put it on your buy list — 9 years ago

Michael Meyer

9.3

Amazing silky texture. Fig, cassis, and dark cherry fruit - intense yet lovely, plus smoked meats, and thin veneers of mineral and tobacco. A poor man's LaLa to be sure, but far from a poor effort. — 9 years ago

Bill Bender

9.7

This is my 4th check in on this wine and it is truly in full stride. A very lala type flavor profile, perhaps more so than any SQN rhone varietal I've had. Grilled meats, charred cedar and bay leaf mixed with a ripe Alban-esque stewed tomato back end (in a good way)....but a bit more restraint and polish than the Alban. This got about an hour in the decanter and I would suggest triple that. As expected each taste of the night in glass was better than the last. A 3 hour decant and just the right food pairing and this could be +/- 100 point wine. — 10 years ago

Roman Sukley

10

Typical funk on the nose. Sour dark cherries on the palate. Tremendous structure. Rhone's best for a fraction of the cost. LaLa? I'll go with Christophe. I'm a BIG Cayuse fan. — 11 years ago

Cesar Oliveira

9.2

Lá pasta giala — 13 years ago

Bill Bender

9.4

The last several years I’ve either opened a Royal City, Charles Smith Skull or Behrens Family Thanksgiving Cab (with the skeleton family on the label) on Halloween night. This is far and away the best showing for the Royal City I’ve ever had. 10 years in bottle seems to be the sweet spot for this wine. Blackberry compote, black olive tapenade, smoke, grainy tannins and a dash of herbaceous goodness. Not at all like Cayuse—there is no fox fur funk—rather it compares favorably to a higher end Northern Rhône but without the classy heft and long finish of a LaLa. Enjoyed it immensely. — 7 years ago

Keith Browning

9.3

Great wine from my friend Jim — 8 years ago

Cody Short

9.2

It’s always a treat to drink a LaLa. This was simply too young and too much oak present to be great at this time. Hopefully a few more years will bring out the greatness — 8 years ago

Aske Munck

9.0

Ooh lala... moussamousette it is! — 9 years ago

Bodil Martin

9.7

Oolah lala..😄😄😄🍷🍷🍷👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 — 9 years ago

John Van Trijp

9.8

Blind in the glas. What a nose! Oh man. My guess was a LaLa of Guigal. Languedoc it is.....how many of you know this wine? Very very impressed! 2nd time blind, 2nd time 98/100 — 9 years ago

Ashlee Linck

9.1

Brilliant bubbles with Patrick and Lala! — 10 years ago

Erika Turner

9.7

Ooh Lala. Smooth creamy dreamy. — 10 years ago

with See

Lino Nascimento

8.9

O que dizer de um vinho, do Novo Mundo, com 19 anos de vida? Bora lá experimentar, já que esse ainda se mantém vivo e elegante, tal e qual um europeu. — 11 years ago

Thad Ziegler

9.7

At Lala and Papa's house — 12 years ago