Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.3

Happy birthday to my beautiful wife. I am so lucky.

Thoughts on notes tomorrow. It’s a special day and dinner! Cheers! 🍾 🥂 — 6 years ago

Seth Morgen Long

Broker • Arterberry Maresh / Winemaker • Morgen Long

9.5

Tasted blind chez Roulot, and of course it is an 04. Vibrant acidity, unfurling now past a tight reduction into an open, maturing mix of rich citrus, tea, spice, stone. Lovely and lucky — 7 years ago

Jen Ring

9.0

Just the right Amount of dry. — 8 years ago

Rob Moose

9.5

Was lucky enough to share this bottle with only its owner over the course of a long dinner. It evolved beautifully in the decanter, taking about an hour to round out its tannins and another 90 minutes or so until a layer of red fruit emerged (along with blood, graphite and pepper). Hope we meet again! — 8 years ago

with Dan

Michael Miller

9.2

It's alive!! Another amazing Pineau d'Aunis! I do feel Lucky to be drinking it! Raspberry, burnt orange, roses, oh my! — 9 years ago

Fernando Fernandez

9.7

Amazing, lucky to have been invited to try this.....first time.... The nose in this 2002 was really amazing, super complex...still the px way out of range and particularly my budget!!!! — 9 years ago

Amy Monroe

9.3

Pierre Lurton dropped by the shop today with this bottle (among others - lucky me)! Fresh and vivacious. 53% Cab Franc & 47% Merlot. Cool green Franc character really shines without occupying the field. Fine, elegant tannins lend beautiful bone structure. I'm sure this will age forever, but I thought it was drinking spectacularly well today. — 9 years ago

E & K G

9.3

Need to give it some air for it to really open up and unleash all the flavors it packs. Lucky enough to have great friends that share such greatness with us! — 6 years ago

Matt Sterr

9.1

32 Winds Lucky Well PN Barrel Sample. 91-93 Points. — 7 years ago

Michael Piaker

9.1

10 August 2017. The Four Horsemen, Brooklyn, NY. — 8 years ago

Mary Ellen Bonisteel

9.0

Different half oak and steel! Will buy. — 8 years ago

D.J.

8.9

celebrating some news from another lucky country! fruity, a little spice, and balanced for a shiraz — 9 years ago

Robert May

10

Lagunitas crushed it with this Red. Before I got into IPAs, ambers were my thing. This one is off the charts good. If you are a big Fat Tire fan, you may not appreciate the higher IBUs and ABV. If you are someone who likes both IPAs and Ambers, you're going to friggin love this. Makes me teary eyed to think this is a limited release and yet Buttweiper continues to exist. — 9 years ago

James Lake

9.3

From 2000. Vary lucky to be able to try this. A regular just opened bottle of it in for us to try. — 9 years ago

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9.5

The 1961 Brane-Cantenac is a wine that I have been lucky enough to taste three or four times before. It’s a wonderful 1961 that comes racing out of the blocks, displaying vestiges of red fruit, autumn leaves, mint, chlorophyll and blood orange on the nose. It just feels multifaceted and more complex than the 1959, even if it does not quite reveal the same vigor. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin and impressive concentration. It is maybe a little rustic in style but certainly shows more depth and concentration than the 1961 Rauzan-Sègla that I tasted a month earlier. There is a touch of Earl Grey and tobacco lingering on the finish. Maybe this is in gradual decline, since it does not match the stellar bottle tasted back in 2010, yet it remains a great Margaux. Tasted at the Brane-Cantenac vertical at the château. (Neal Martin, Vinous, January 2019) — 6 years ago

Ned Gray Creed

9.2

In game, with curry. Such a fortunate one to drink a bottle of this every year. Even if it is only one bottle, considering myself lucky. — 7 years ago

Phil Castellano

9.0

Pretty amazing. Great PQR. Italian varietals + Syrah, all grown in Oregon. Definitely an evolution in blending. — 8 years ago

Michael Miller

9.2

This one never gets old! Delicious Pineau d'Aunis from Loire. — 8 years ago

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.6

First, a person has to pause and realize how lucky they are to drink this wine from 3L. Thanks Clyde for opening. This is in a perfect stage. Such evolution, length, balance, structure. Love the lower 80's alcohol levels. It's rich, lush and near perfect. Dark cassis; ripe and resolved blackberries, dark cherries, black plum w/skin, mixed berry liqueur, tobacco leaf, leather so soft you would wish it as a pillow cover, dry pebbles, dark rich earth, perfect acidity and a rich, elegant, ripe dark fruit finish. In 3L, this wine still has 10-15 years. — 9 years ago

Joe Conti

9.5

I've liked all the Arista pinots and chardonnay I've had. This is no exception. Full body. Strawberries. Lush. These drink really well young. Not sure how they will do as they age. — 9 years ago

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