Chris Buggy

9.0

Perfect for a seafood feast. Crisp, lean and mean 🐟 🦀 🦐. A special edition, just for this establishment — 10 months ago

with Jennifer

Mike Beltran

9.3

Stunning quality from a stellar Napa producer. This Cabernet flows with bright dark berries and medium toast oak. It continued to reveal complex flavors throughout the evening. Under 14%ABV and still quite young on the palate. Classic Napa Cabernet. 🍷🍷🍷 — 5 years ago

Brad Jensen

9.5

Wow, really tasty with a delicate nose of wet rocks, and white stone fruits. The palate is bold, with a slight salty undercurrent, a nice acidity, and slightly tart fruit flavors of cantaloupe, apricot, and slightly fizzy on the finish, petering out into a delicate minerality. Great pairing for savory chicken dishes and best drank with a light chill! — 5 years ago

Ron Siegel

9.3

Great drinking vintage that is fully mature showing the classic Margaux style with red & black fruits, plum, earth, tobacco, dried herbs & flowers. — 8 years ago

George Chen

8.9

Didn’t have that weight of this classic Château — 9 years ago

Robert Cunningham

Wine Educator DeVinimus, Wine Workshop

9.2

Needs 2 hours. Lovely balance and softness. Not at the Lalande level but really nice. Classic in style. Moderate finish. — 9 years ago

Diengo Chou

8.9

Very classic style, already a little tired and enjoyable. Always an honor to visit his wine. — 10 years ago

Colin Cahoon

9.7

Classic Gran Reserva. Nose is leather and oak. Complex in the mouth with leather, oak, clove, cinnamon, tobacco, fig and a hint of blue cheese. It finishes with more oak, medium acid and chewy tannins. A lovely dark, blood red color to boot. At a meal, this is the main course. Me gusta. — 10 years ago

with Susan

Mike Mentesana

9.5

Classic Olga and Can Franc. Balanced with a hint of blackberry. — 11 years ago

Greg Sorensen

9.2

Such a great Ardanza. Fruit acidity and all the classic tertiary magic. I wonder if today's Ardanza's will age with such grace. I miss the old school label too. — 12 years ago

Daniel Sullivan

9.6

Classic:)
Won’t peak for another 10-20 years. — 10 months ago

Paul H

9.4

When they say bring your A game you can think of this bottle. This is an amazing glass of wine. It benefits from decanting for a good bit. Upon opening I thought of dusty plum and cedar on the nose. Tasting brought plum, currant, blackberries, vintage leather plus an array of other items indicative of this style of big wine. There is a good mix of tannins and acid that makes this a classic great glass of wine. I want to try it again in a few years to see how much better it may get. — 5 years ago

Anthony Cammarata Jr.

9.0

Takes a while to open but when it does, classic Opus. Less tannin than other years with lots of dark berry flavors. — 6 years ago

with Daniel and Michael

Paul B.

9.2

Straw bright yellow. Crisp pear and yellow fruit then honeysuckle with an almost grapefruit like end. Surprising complexity and definitely clean. This acidity was off the charts good. Huge crowd pleaser and it just became my go-to non-beach white. Great before dinner and great w the Thai we made. — 7 years ago

Chris B.

9.1

Not sure why this is rated relatively low, as the 2014 vintage was exceptional (and ranked in the top 50 of Wine Spectator’s Best of 2016 list). Big aromas of cigar box and hard candy, mouth-watering tastes of strawberry jam, cedar and caramel... and most astonishingly, it retails for $15. Get some - now! — 8 years ago

Chris Klebba

9.6

Curranty wet classic napa cab mild tannic finish — 9 years ago

Matt Duncan

9.6

Classic Napa Cabernet from a great vintage! Aging so gracefully. Oak finding aromatic and tannic place. Still a lot of life left! — 10 years ago

Martin.Wang

9.5

Amazing 2009. Very Classic and clean. — 10 years ago

Oscar More

9.1

Vino con mucho sabor, acido, seco y limpio final. — 11 years ago

Alex Ruzich

9.0

Classic Napa Cad from a great vintage. Not particularly memorable but a pleasure to drink. — 12 years ago

Alberto Lorenzi

9.2

Classic Champagne, great vintage, drank in 2008 vs Puro bianco for graduation celebration. Traditionalists enjoyed Champagne the most. Me, Puro since I'm an innovator ! — 13 years ago

Amy

9.0

50th anniversary winemakers blend — 2 years ago

David Nicewicz

9.7

Birth year vintages are a roll of the dice but luckily I landed on a pretty solid classic - 1978. So for my birthday this year, we opened an LLC and wow was this perfect. The sommelier was surgical in removing the cork which split in half but he managed to extract it. The nose on this wine was a 10 - loads of cassis, licorice, dusty library and leather. Palate was extracted cassis, leather and great acidity and liveliness, just like my 44 year old self. It’s just pure magic when bottles this old perform - happy Friday everyone. — 4 years ago

Stef Carotenuto

9.2

Fry, even, end tang — 6 years ago

keke mollari

9.0

Hyvää kamaa. — 7 years ago

Molly Karle

9.0

Crisp, nice acidity fresh green apple dominates also lemon notes — 8 years ago

David Moline

8.9

Excellent Gascogne Ugni/Colombard blend. Super fresh, with lemon, tangerine, & floral accents. Great for a warm SoCal "fall" night. — 9 years ago

Tom Kobylarz

9.8

If there were ever an archetypical Syrah, Jamet's Cote-Rotie would be a strong candidate. To me this is a pure expression of a classic Northern Rhone Syrah. It is not a single site, but a blend of terroirs, encompassing over 20 sites mostly from hard rock schist bedrock with little to no topsoil. There is NO Viognier in this wine like one might expect from most Cote-Rotie that might have 1-5% co-fermented.

Importantly, there is also a lot less of the oak character that can dominate and overwhelm many Northern Rhone wines. The oak maturation, while not short at 22 months, only uses 15% new oak with no trace of it on the palate as it is perfectly integrated. Grape bunches are whole cluster fermented and macerated for up to 3 weeks.

The 2007 we have here was drinking superbly for a young wine, showing lively and racy layers of peppercorn spice, roast beef, and warm blackberry and currant fruit from the hot 2007 vintage. While from a warm vintage, not a hair is out of place. Density and purity exude from the nose and hint at what a brilliant future this wine has. Perfect acidity and fleshy ripe tannin provide the backbone structure for father time to peel back the layers of this beauty. I will be chceking back in 5 years at the earliest. — 10 years ago

Jörgen Lindström Carlvik

Owner, Brix Wine Consultants

9.6

1989 vintage. A near perfect bottle with loads of ripe dark fruit flavors and classic Rutherford dust additions. Sweet tannins still providing structure and grip, and it's American oak treatment nicely integrated. Long, satisfying finish, where fruit, acidity and minerality comes in waves. Very, very impressive and behaving 10 years younger than it actually is. — 11 years ago

Keith Studdard

9.1

Throwback Classic Rioja. Good oak. Complex fruits. — 12 years ago

with Chris and Olivia