Sipping Fine Wine

9.5

Pillars on which the 5 founding families erected a winery in 1890 built a way of living, feeling and producing wines of the highest quality that continue to evolve. Bright Ruby, complex fruit aromas, spice and oak. 90% Tempranillo & 10% Graciano, 48 mos on American oak. Ripe Berry fruits, powerful yet elegant, with spice & smoky notes on full tannins. Lingering finish, nice mouthfeel, ending with mineral earthy tones, a joy to Sip!! Tasting great, has more aging potential, try in 10+ years! Great Value! — 5 years ago

Nicholas Cole

10

Delicious! — 7 years ago

Dennis Kellison

8.9

Toasty, green apple nose, nice chard — 7 years ago

with Karen

LM Segal

9.7

Top 2-3 Napa Cabs I've ever had. Magical nose, cassis, cocoa, red flowers. Rich but nicely aged mid-palate, spreading into a wide swathe of candied red and black fruit, soft but powerful. Secondary stuff in spades. Then - an explosion at the back-end of cedary fruit and fig, tobacco, dark chocolate that lasted for >60 seconds. Just a monumental wine, sadly a solo.
This is note #500 for me, grateful to so many Delectable contributors who take the time to educate and expand my wine perspectives (or, in the case of @Bill Bender...other stuff, too!). Thanks to @Anthony Lombardi @Kimberly Anderson @Jörgen Lindström Carlvik @Jeff Savigny@Ron R@Shawn R @Richard Steinberg @Martin G Rivard (who is living the dream), @Greg Gregory among so many others, not to mention @Roman Sukley with magical reach to inaccessible, iconic SQNs (and the will to pop them) and frank open perspectives from legendary winemakers like @Mike Smith and @Cathy Corison, you all make this a neat community of which I try to be a small contributor.
Finally - a renewed plea to @Antonio Galloni to return "trending" to this community, as it was stolen by the bean counters! I'm no social media expert (I do have 2 teenagers!) but I'm pretty sure that "trending" speaks to the integrity and will to contribute of an entire community...take a look! — 7 years ago

with Melissa

Jason Booth

9.0

This is still the classiest label design in all of Bordeaux. I want to design my future living room with the greens and whites of a Ferrière bottle. And if it's a 95 with a velvet finish sexier than Scarlett Johansson's skin? Well call me Buffalo Bill and decorate my living room. That got creepy there at the end didn't it? — 8 years ago

Kate M

9.4

Very good rose. Not too sweet — 9 years ago

Paul Bradley

9.4

A real surprise packet. Organic wine with great depth and complexity. Red fruits complexed by spicy pepper characters. This was the 2011 vintage and while still present, the "grapefruit" acidity was melding beautifully with age. I only wish I had more to try in the years to come. #everydaygems #NZwine #Organic #marlborough #pinotnoir — 9 years ago

Jen Albee Bergstrom

8.9

Boise. Great wine. Delectable didn't save. Don't remember comments. :-( — 10 years ago

Karyn Shalda

9.7

Went great with zombie bread pudding! — 11 years ago

Juliana Leite

10

Happy Saturday night — 5 years ago

Caroline Stacy

10

Best cheap cab so far! — 6 years ago

David L

9.2

13'. Roots Wine Company .The barrel project Grenache. 30 months in barrel. 30 minute decanting . Truly a crowdpleaser. — 7 years ago

Brian Ptack

8.9

I still love this Pinot but the 2011 was amazing I drank at least a case. It does not have the same feel seems more heavy with darker fruit notes. — 7 years ago

Filippos Patriarchis

9.0

Great Xinomavro with sundried tomato and soil aromas!! Strong tannins with medium body! — 7 years ago

Mike Viscosi

9.6

Fruity and smooth. Nice for a dinner wine — 8 years ago

Maya Kaczorowski

9.0

Slightly sour, wonderful flavour. Light to medium bodied. Would be good with strong cheeses. — 8 years ago

John Early

9.0

Good red blend from Total Wine. — 8 years ago

Vadim T

9.2

The immense wine, red blend with Zinfandel as noted from very dark color produced by thick-skinned grapes as well as Syrah. Medium body with very smooth finish, minor tannins and nice cherry tones. Not cheap but a bargain. Do not recommend living any wine for the next day, few bitter notes appeared and beautiful cherry escaped on second night. — 9 years ago

Rick Scott

9.0

Great with spicy pizza. — 10 years ago

Jeremy Tavan

8.9

Funky, prickly, lovely fruit. Unsulfured, living wine. — 11 years ago

Davenport Edwards

9.0

Trader Joe’s. Standard Napa Pinot Noir — 5 years ago

NatalieLynn Miller

9.7

It’s not overly sweet. Perfect balance of sweet with hint of fruity tang. Would surly buy again! #its5oclocksomewhere — 6 years ago

Kevin Blix

8.9

Good wine. Almost a 9 — 7 years ago

David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.0

The Osteiner grape is a German grape variety created from crossing of Riesling and Silvaner. Despite its German roots, Rippon is perhaps the most notable producer of this variety. Nose of lemon, lime, ripe melon and white fresh florals. On the palate, fresh, clean, round and brilliant. Beautiful acidity, lemon, lime, melon, stone fruits, pear, fruit blossoms and citrus peel. Another photo of their amazing view and owner Jo Mills with my wife. Jo is such a great host with amazing passion and energy for making great wine. — 7 years ago

Kristy Truhlar

9.3

Living room. Penguin — 7 years ago

Rachel Knight

9.8

I really like this one. Very different- crisp and sweet without actual sweetness. Very cool. — 8 years ago

with Brad

Eric Egan

9.2

Super-weird bottle. Mid-shoulder, crumbly cork, and the colour of freshly pressed strawberry juice - extremely pale as slightly cloudy! The immediate scent was quite off-putting but after 30 minutes it stormed back! Scents of autumn mulch, burning vine roots, sour cherries, and raspberry compote. A weird sourness and heady acidity on the front of the palette but it still keeps together well. Clearly badly kept but still really interesting to drink! A true testament to The quality of Mouton under the stewardship of the late Baron. I wonder if this is what some of the better kept bottles might be like in 100 years' time!? — 8 years ago

Koire Rogers

9.3

Chocolate cherry dirt rootbeer float. Very tasty!! — 9 years ago

Leah InParis

9.5

A testament to a visionary winemaker surrounded by people who want to join him in living the dream. Leather and liquorice on the nose, blackberries in the mouth and a long, velvety vanilla finish. Merci, Jean-Michel Comme. — 10 years ago

Frank Anders

9.8

This is a very drinkable wine. Well – balanced. One can drink it by itself or with food. — 10 years ago