Chris Grimm

9.2

Lavender. This is so amazingly delicious. — 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

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

Tom Kobylarz

9.4

85% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Cabernet Franc
A little closed up, but that's to be expected from such a young wine built for aging. Air helps to unfold the layers buried within. While 2014 was a cooler year, the weather played well to the style of Sassicaia as its target is 12.5-13% abv every vintage, so the conditions here were less of an issue. The acidity and density are here to last for some time, probably more than you think and should go the distance just fine. Elegant, yet powerful, with pure red currants and cassis, a touch of bright blueberry fruit, with a savory and spicy edge from the Cabernet Franc, then graphite and lavender florals appear, this is a beautiful young and fresh Sassicaia. Rocks and stone on the nose hint at minerality. Elegant and persistent on the medium+ palate, gorgeously pure and distinct with firm medium+ grain tannin. A long, dense, tightly wound finish that is fresh and persistent, entirely to young but with loads of potential. — 8 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

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

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! — 13 years ago

Bill Bender

9.5

Birth year wines are a tricky thing. We all want them to show well because we are opening them for an occasion. ‘81 North Coast is not a vaunted vintage but this is the the 3rd year in a row I’ve shared a birthday bottle with one of my all time favorite females....and each and every time the ‘81s deliver. Fully mature and delicious. The fruit is still going strong, ripe plum, tobacco, sandalwood and blackberry. Lots of length and silk on silk. — 6 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

Jenny Hemmer

9.2

Nice structure, soft acidity, peaches, lavender. — 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

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

Ron Siegel

9.5

Wow! So Burgundian like as this is one of my favorite vintages, very underrated by the critics.
This showed the classic Rayas nose of strawberry, cherry, rhubarb and kirsch with lavender, very floral with rose petals notes. This was all about finesse & elegance. — 10 years ago

Ron McCracken

9.1

From Row 11 dinner last night. — 11 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

Kimberly Anderson

9.3

Now I get what the Odette hype is about. Wow! Heavy dark chocolate when we pulled the cork. Morphed into Aromas of lilac and lavender. Cherries, plum and spice. Lush and plush. Amazing with rhubarb pie a la mode. 2012 Vintage — 7 years ago

with Chad

Neal Ferry

9.0

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

Regina Martin

9.3

Good! O's special — 8 years ago

John Zuzek

9.3

Cru Beaujolais can be amazing! This one is. Meat, forest floor, mushrooms, cranberries, plums, lavender. Lots of layers. Finely nuanced wine. — 9 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

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

Ezra Chomak

10

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