Perrine M Ryan

10

An absolute dream. It smells like it wants to go to a campfire. — 6 years ago

James Muntz

9.0

Good but unfortunately didn’t wow me the way I hoped? I was looking for a complex mix of the selling descriptors i.e. Rosemary, lavender etc. I got some red fruits but it seemed loose not as tight knit or cohesive as I hoped. Maybe opened too soon (2013 in 2018 NYE)? Have a bottle left - we’ll see about that one in a bit. — 6 years ago

DLynn

Penfolds Ambassador

9.5

I have never smelled so much lavender in my life......in anything... apart from being there. — 7 years ago

with Sergio

Eric

9.1

Awesome wine for the 💵. Best attribute is its balance. Drinks best in its youth while the tannins can tame the fruit. Posting all of these wines in a row is making my hangover worse 😂 — 7 years ago

Matt

9.4

A little hot on the nose and palate but still freaking delicious. Nose carries through with red fruit compote, licorice whips, leather, balsam, lavender, roasted herbs, moss, funk, and meat. Palate plays more on compote, licorice, and balsam with kicks of spice and leather. There's that savoriness coming through on the palate as well. Despite some alc. poking out this is really beginning to show well. Expecting more organic earth, black tea, and umami notes in the future but still a brilliant perfume right now. Tannin still has a little edge that keeps the wine balanced. Humbled to try wines like this when I can. 375 ml — 9 years ago

Marit Wangstad

8.9

Even with some age on this Cab, it is still very robust. On the nose, violet, lavender, jammy strawberry, and raspberry notes. On the palate, sour cherry, dusty earth, green bell pepper, smoke, and a leather finish. #lifeisacabernet #winepuns #winelife #bigredwines — 9 years ago

Masayo Kaneko

10

Simply the best cider I've ever tasted. The combination of lavender and black currant are just perfect! — 10 years ago

Alyssa

9.3

I've never had the 2009, but the smokey 2008 is sitting in my closet waiting for a special occasion.❤️ — 10 years ago

Jeremy Pollard

9.1

Juicy. Plump and juicy. Delicious fruit nose and palate. Some spicy vanilla and pepper to round things out. Yummy. — 10 years ago

Paul Meidinger

8.9

Very smooth. Yum! — 12 years ago

Chris Grimm

9.2

Lavender. This is so amazingly delicious. — 6 years ago

Matt

9.5

This is gorgeous tonight. Continue to find that Mas de Boislauzon is consistently one of the best value CNDP around, true to place and terroir driven on all fronts, from traditional cuvée to their prestige offerings. I think the hearty amount of Mourvedre and plenty of holdings in sandy dominated soils of the N/NE part of the appellation make for a remarkably dense, balanced and textural wine. I feel like some 07’s have hit their mark in the last couple years and this is in a sweet spot to me. Nose is meaty, lifted with smoke, hot stones, porcini, truffle, espresso bean, plum marmalade, lavender pastille. Palate is more kirsch, compote, cinnamon, licorice whip, candied bacon, woodsmoke, and stones again. Structurally theres a great interplay of moderate but present acid and granular tannin. Perfect foil for a bacon and mushroom cheeseburger 🤤 — 6 years ago

Gobindjit S. Dhaliwal

9.4

Elegant and extremely perfumed, a nice juicy red fruit core featuring ripe cherries, raspberries, and strawberries, followed by dried lavender, meaty beef jus, orange peel, undergrowth, sweet tobacco, charcoal, and intense black pepper. Delicious sweet red fruit flavors on entry with some dried apricots that lead to a umami rich midpalate filled with meaty notes, iron, and a slightly saline minerality that intermingles with intense peppery notes that linger for some time. Incredible silky mouth feel on this midbodied red, very light in structure but intense in flavors. — 7 years ago

Neal Ferry

9.0

Breath....Breath...,open up please — 8 years ago

Regina Martin

9.3

Good! O's special — 8 years ago

Greg Ballington

Co-Founder of Millennial Drinkers Wine Blog

8.9

This was the first of the three Chardonnays we got from Flora Springs Winery for #ChardonnayDay. Beautiful moderate intensity yellow, completely clear. Definitely a little tight with some slight creamed butter and corn. Later that evening it developed a more complex nose, with a little nuttiness, wet grass, freshly broken twigs and a slightly perfumed undertone. Moderate acidity (6.5/10) with lots of citrus notes. A little sharp to start but definitely smoothed out and became more rounded with more citrus and light oak influences. Slight tanginess, with a medium body and long finish. Needed the time to balance out and was worth the wait. Drink till 2020. — 9 years ago

Yianni Stone

9.0

Carbonic blueberry lavender — 9 years ago

with Haley

Alex Younger

8.9

Fruity start with a dry finish. Delicious! I'd buy again for $18! — 10 years ago

Holly Constants

9.0

Paired nicely with cheese — 10 years ago

with Maddy

Ezra Chomak

10

Astounding. Like sitting front row at a symphony orchestra. — 11 years ago

Shay A

9.5

Finally getting around to posting Day 5 in Napa, our final day. 5 years in a row visiting...hope to make it 6 next year!

A wonderful wine, with room for score improvement over the next few years. Signature SLD to me. Mocha, dark cocoa, blackberry pie and a streak of ripe/rich red fruit down the middle. Dusty. Cinnamon and baking spice finish. Very good. — 6 years ago

Lauren Atkins

9.0

Wow. Doesn’t taste like a Pinot!! Great spicy notes, easy to drink but complex — 7 years ago

Karyn Fricke

9.1

Cherry berry very nice. A little on the hot side but good. — 7 years ago

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9.4

A deep, inky wine, the 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon is endowed with serious depth. Here the flavors are unusually dark and intense, with plenty of blue and black stone fruits. Graphite, cloves and licorice contribute to an overall impression of gravitas. Far from an easygoing wine, the 2013 Napa Valley Cabernet needs time in bottle to truly shine. Hints of violet, lavender and plum add the final shades of nuance. All of the signatures of the vintage come through beautifully. The translucent, mineral-laced finish is especially appealing. Frankly, it's hard to put the glass down. (Antonio Galloni, Vinous, Oct 2015) — 8 years ago

Sean Herriott

9.0

Love this stuff! Unabashed big bright fruit along with big toasty oak! — 9 years ago

Young Bock Lee

9.8

Fantastic, intense and complex aromas of rose pedal and red cherry, mushroom and black olive juice on the nose. med body, med plus acid, med plus intensity, tons of black olive juice on the palate,bit of stiff tannin and structure follows. long lingering finish of lavender and 홍차 on the end. need simple fiorentina steak on this one. Amazing deal, quality always. — 9 years ago

Young Bock Lee

9.4

deep, dense perfume of violet, lavender. dried cherries, hint of muddy soil. balanced among fruitness, acidity(med plus), structure. med plus tannin. lovely! — 10 years ago

Jimmy Smith

Director, West and North London Wine School

9.2

2011: all varieties. Meaty, lavender, garden herbs, smoky, but still very vibrant red fruit. Lovely vibrancy of red fruit and all Mouvedre and Grenache aromatics. Sweet fruit, juicy acidity, hot indian spice and liquorice. Plum, cherry, spiced. Quite ready now. — 10 years ago

Wendy Ahn

9.2

Lavender, pepper & kirsch, and black fruits. Great length and complexity. I could drink this all day — 10 years ago

with michelle and Karen

Ron McCracken

9.1

From Row 11 dinner last night. — 11 years ago