Gregory Fulchiero

9.3

Buttered pecan, walnut liquor, raisin and mushroom. Sweeter and with less bite than other styles of sercial. A delight — 7 years ago

Allie Wiley

9.7

Velvet fruity with a buttery vanilla finish is the best way to describe this. Too bad it’s a limited batched. I’m going to buy the rest from my local liquor store. — 7 years ago

Greg Gregory

9.3

Trivia time, not that most of you don’t already know this, but this is the vintage they didn’t make the SS and its by far IMHO the best Caymus Napa ever. Found this today at a little deli/liquor store here in Palm Springs. Surprise surprise still drinking beautifully. — 7 years ago

Nancy Luxon

8.9

Yum! Nice notes of dark fruit and spice. Buy again. Good everyday. Liquor Boy. — 8 years ago

Adam Jesberger

9.1

Shocked this is still so solid. Found it upright in a random liquor store. Was sure it would be toast. Its actually great and evolved nicely. Thank you 08 for your high acid. — 8 years ago

Richard Schnitzlein

9.0

Raspberries and herbs. Anise and licorice subtext. 14% but held its liquor well. Sweet fruited and easy to like. — 9 years ago

Eric Guido

9.3

2006 may be the most highly underrated vintage of the past decade in Chateauneuf-du-Pape. This showed an intense nose of blackberry, plum sauce, charred meat and grilled herbs. On the palate, it displayed weighty textures with impeccable balance, showing blackberry, raisins, cherry liquor, and anise. It finished long on black cherry and spice. (Decanted for four hours) — 10 years ago

Núria Bassas Solà

9.5

Tres mil ampolles per un brandy sublim. De fi paladar, subtil dolçor i ampli paladar. Molt bona recomanació d'En Tomàs de Can Rosendo!! A Mataró — 10 years ago

V M

9.7

Dark opaque purple. The nose erupts from the glass with liquor like notes of sugar plums, crushed rocks, and hot tar. The palate is rich and dense with formidable but surprisingly approachable sweet tannins that absolutely envelope your entire mouth with no sharp edges. For me it's like biting into a juicy dark plum with just the right balance of acidity. Finish actually hits with multiple waves. I imagine this will get better as it all comes together in a couple years. Stunning wine — 10 years ago

Lauren Schwartz

10

Had this in a cup of espresso per the waiters recommendation. Amazing! Definitely buying for the house.. Loved the thing, sweetness of this liquor. — 12 years ago

David D

9.1

Lots of leather and tannins. Dried flowers, prune, cranberry, mineral and nicely saline. From Glass Half Full (Ptown liquor store on Commercial St.) — 7 years ago

Dawn E.

9.2

This is a gorgeous wine...violet in color with medium body and tannins. Blueberries..cherry liquor..chocolate..cedar..smoke...blackpepper..clove and vanilla! I let this decant for an hour..I am not sure but I think this is my first Merlot...What's not to like!! — 7 years ago

David D

9.1

Medium bodied, light acidity, mellow tannins, leather, currants, cherry, raspberry. From Provincetown liquor store. — 8 years ago

Matt

9.3

Captures the elegance of Grenache and the 2014s. Pure ripe and confiture fruit, almost liquor like, underpinning of minerals, garrigue, and herbs. Drank too quickly as it needed more aeration — 8 years ago

John Wehner

9.2

ABC liquor wine tasting - good with Italian food — 9 years ago

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.0

Nice sweet and sour cherries, at times liquor like, ripe blackberries, dusty limestone, slight tar quality, elegant and smooth. — 9 years ago

Sam Coturri

Winery Sixteen 600, Enterprise Vineyards and the Moon Mountain District

9.5

The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean...actually the liquor has that perfect touch of bret to make this a classic, balanced CDP. — 10 years ago

Nicole Reimers

9.3

Beautiful liquor fruit, in an old-fashioned good way. Lovely — 10 years ago

Lynda Switzer

9.7

$20 super store liquor store — 11 years ago

Cindy Spickler

9.9

Bluegrass sundowner bourbon whiskey coffee liquor — 13 years ago

Severn Goodwin

9.2

45% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Malbec, 25% Cabernet Franc & 5% Petit Verdot

Color is deep plum, like totally opaque, but a beautiful semi-translucent blackberry color at the edge of the glass.

Nose is liquor of cassis, some noticable heat from the alcohol (14.5%), plum juice, light oak.

Palate is very smooth, dusty plum, blackberry, blueberry skin, mocha, coffee bean; tannins are still grippy, finish is about 45s. Decanted about 2hrs.

Generally a very nice bottle, we bought this in March '18, just getting to it tonight finally. Very impressed by this effort, light years ahead of the entry level Balbo wines. We only ever came across this once, $35 was a solid buy, and hands down my favorite Balbo wine to date. I think this has years to go, my guess is this is peaking around 2022-2025.

24hr Update: Alcohol on the nose has dissipated, palate is a little muted today, but still can identify the same traits as yesterday. — 7 years ago

KDouglas

9.0

Smooth, clean. Gets you messed up.... — 7 years ago

David D

9.0

On the lighter side of medium bodied. Lots of juicy acid, bright cherries, cranberry, light tea, dried violets. From Provincetown liquor store. — 8 years ago

Samuli Jokipaltio

8.9

Lovely sloe berry + anis liquor. Tad sweet. — 8 years ago

Maxence Guilluy

9.0

Porto, cognac, strong (14%), caramel — 9 years ago

Bradley Brown

Owner/Winemaker Big Basin Vineyards

9.7

ethereal perfume, red fruit liquor, delicate yet awesome length and seductive fruit. — 9 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

Lovely classic and wild animal like nose. Feral. Olive and also black cherry liquor jam. Floral as well. Palate is awkward and closed and needs air. JD now. — 10 years ago

Claas Bischof

9.1

N.V. From Barbados. Coconut, vanilla, caramel and chocolate. — 10 years ago

Nick Farrell

9.5

Great for sipping or in multiple cocktails that call for a coffee liqueur. Very nice. — 11 years ago

Jeff Burrows

9.1

vacation wine thanks to the Utah State Liquor store — 11 years ago