Chris England

9.0

I’m a fan of A.F. Gros Richebourg but at £500+ it’s out of reach these days so this cheaper £44 easy drinking younger number will have to do 😉 Good on it’s own but would pair with Lamb or Duck perfectly 😁 3-5 years will reward to 👍

📍 Domaine A.F. Gros Vosne Romanée Aux Réas 2014

🏵 90 points

🍇 Pinot Noir

🍷 Clear cherry ruby w/ pink brown edge

👃 Smokey cherry & bacon cola in blackberry foam w/ a deep soggy earthy backbone, ash, herbs, red berries & leaves

👄 Med body of smooth red cherry & berry, blackberry cordial & touch tart earthy strawberry undertones in med acidity

🎯 Med earthy red cherry, blackberry & strawberry clean touch dry finale & a blackberry & green stalky linger
— 7 years ago

Jessica Voelker

9.0

Easy drinking, slightly dry rosé with strawberry and flowers. Good to drink as is, or with food. A fragrant and well balanced wine, AIX's hypnotising salmon pink colour reveals a fruity freshness and premium rosé. Created using 30% of rosé bleeding and 70% direct pressing, a hint of Carignan was added to the classical Provence blend of Grenache, Syrah and Cinsault. AIX stands for, "AIX Galericulata" a bread of duck. — 8 years ago

Howard Yang

9.4

This is a very elegant and fragrant champagne, pale pink/orange color, smells of aged hard cheese, brioche, boiled salty duck egg yolk, and pink flower bouquet, excellent mousse with lively acidity, light to medium body, tastes of lime zest, bitter lemon, pink grapefruit and watermelon, long and delicate finish, a rose petal fragrance lasting thought, mesmerizing. — 9 years ago

Kaitlyn Soroka

9.1

Actually really good! I wasn't impressed by another wine by this brand but this is very sweet and very drinkable. — 9 years ago

Diane Withrow

9.0

Smoky, berries, slow and easy. Red not purple- blue not black ink. Red ink? Not pink. This is not a silly wine but nor is it overly serious. Glad I grabbed several bottles at the tasting. I'll enjoy this again- sipping or with goat cheese ......duck- don't get me started. Thin, white pizza with Kalmata olives and wild mushrooms. — 10 years ago

Alex Mallon

9.2

Scent of pink roses with a lavender aftertaste. Very unique wine I was lucky to come across — 10 years ago

Michael Washabaugh

9.2

This paired very well with a light smoked salmon appetizer and a duck confit blended with cognac appetizer. It was on the dryer side of sweet. Pink bubbles. — 11 years ago

Sarah Franklin

8.9

Delicious with pink roast duck breasts and confit leg. — 11 years ago

Angela Douglas

9.5

Very fruity — 12 years ago

Caitlin Davis

10

Didn't like it as much as lucky duck, but it was good too — 13 years ago

Kristi Paulson

9.1

Wow! Delicious. Love the rich pink color. Tart, tasty and no bitter after taste. This is a Rose I can drink over and over! — 7 years ago

Matt Trader

9.2

What an interesting wine! I've been wanting to try wines from Arbois, and I can't say I am left hanging. Cerebral.. lemon oil and rosemary, fresh ginger, brioche, and a faint hint of flint. Zippy and lemony on the pallet, but with a creamy/oily texture -pink Himalayan salt?- raw almond, honeydew, and a supple finish. Can't wait to try the desert styles:)
Paired well with my dinner choice tonight - Noodle Bowl with Soy-Glazed Duck, Mushrooms & Winter Greens. — 8 years ago

Larry Wood

8.9

To decant or not to decant this is the question! 2012 Napa. Too good to drink daily but not a grand Sunday bottle for the father-in-law either..... or so I thought. I opened the bottle and had an immediate glass. Lovely. I then let it breath for another 40mins whilst supper was made. With breathing it became very very nice indeed. Smooth, not dry, low in tanning aftertaste. Going to say rosemary and marzipan (and trying not to sound like I'm making this up - it really does!)
We ate pink duck and avocado salad and it was as good a combination I can remember. I bought 4 bottles from my merchant and I'll take time to decant at next drinking. Some wines just won't wait but I'm learning some need a little time to show their true colours! Who doesn't like to find out something new?! — 9 years ago

Danielle Flint

9.1

You can't beat this at $4 a bottle — 9 years ago

Luke Blanch

9.4

Lucky Duck! Filtered but brut natural, made of Braeburn apples - absolutely delicious! — 10 years ago

Tom Wood

9.2

Absolutely divine little blend of Gewurztraminer, Chardonnay and Pinot Gris sourced from the ever so promising Basket Range. One of the more smashable drops you will have for the year. Cloudy and Juicy in appearance. Prominent Gewurz making itself apparent early with a touch of the sweetest of spices and a big hit of Rosewater and juicy plum flesh. Crisp acidity and a slightly zippy mouth feel. The palate delivers with delicate violets, rosewater, white plums and pink lemonade, never would've picked any Gris until a tiny finish of pear. Can not go wrong in the slightest for the price if you’re lucky enough to get your hands on one. Enjoyed with some spinach gnocci — 10 years ago

Bram Wessel

8.9

Lovely nose, purple flowers and exotic spices. Silky, almost creamy with gravelly mineral undertones and pungent red fruit. Lovely with artichokes and pink peppercorn duck breast. — 11 years ago

Hermes Rivera

9.0

Excellent wine for the price. — 11 years ago

Maria Pia Vasquez-Lott

9.6

Love it! Not bitter at all! — 12 years ago

Erin Kelly

9.1

Thanksgiving cometh, and there’s no more versatile wine at the Thanksgiving table than a fresh, savory, light-bodied red: precisely the reason we chose this wine for this newsletter. In the most northerly and coolest viticultural zone of the Loire valley, Pascal Janvier farms three acres devoted to the indigenous, pale-skinned Pineau d’Aunis. The results are stunning. Medium ruby in color with beautiful orange highlights, Janvier’s Cuvée du Rosier casts fresh aromas of pink peppercorns, cranberries, strawberries and spicy cinnamon. Focused and bright on the palate, the wine fuses tangy raspberry and earthy cranberry fruit with spicy suggestions of Szechuan peppercorns, cinnamon, smoky limestone minerals and an appetizing herbal note reminiscent of agave. Fresh, crunchy and vibrant, the wine grows with aeration and finishes long, tangy and stony. This wine stuns you first with its deliciousness, and then grows and adds complexity with each successive sip. Enjoy this now and over the coming three years with roast turkey and all the trimmings, fresh chèvres, roast duck and grilled or roasted vegetables. - L&E Review — 13 years ago

Cory Fierro

9.0

Takes twenty minutes to open but once it does, goes fantastically with a charcuterie board. Underripe raspberry and red plum, star anise and clove, red flowers and wet ground.

The palate is exactly what I want from a southern Rhone red. Pink peppercorns, smoked meat and ripe raspberry and cherry with great acidity and tannic bitterness. The finish is long and the wine went great with the duck salami and prosciutto we had. — 8 years ago

with Adolfo, CJ and 2 others

Mark Seeber

9.1

Drained it. A great kickoff for Scandinavian smörgåsbord. Paired well with homemade duck prosciutto, rye crisps, habanero, Jarlsberg, and homemade gravlax with mustard sauce. — 8 years ago

with Dick and Brad

Chris England

9.2

💥 2nd wine to La Chapelle @ €71 that could be a 1st wine in its own right 👍

🍇 100% Syrah

🍷 Deep opaque ruby purple red

👃 Creamy ripe spicy warm dark cherry & black currant/berry jam in soft smokey oak w/ touch of earth, leather & violet

👄 Med body of deluxe silky smooth intense earthy deep chewy spicy blackberry & currants with light dry tannin & low acidity

🎯 Med +dark ripe berry fruit slight dry

🦆 Paired w/ seared pink duck in chestnut honey & creamy mashed potato - perfect match 😍 — 9 years ago

Cathy Corison

Owner/Winemaker Corison Winery

9.4

Steely, reduced style. Delicious. Thanks to John Kongsgaard on Thanksgiving! 2 Roulots in less than a week. Lucky duck! — 9 years ago

with William

Kuan Lim

9.3

God's nectar!!!
It is one of THE BEST white wine that will pair with the roast duck on scallion pancake at Lucky Palace !!! — 10 years ago

Cory Fierro

9.3

43% grenache, 41% syrah, 9% mourvedre, 4% counoise, 3% cinsault. 2012 vintage.

Dark ruby with a watery pink rim. Red and black fruits, some black cherry and anise and charcuterie notes which makes sense since this is primarily grenache and syrah. Santa Barbara county does amazing things with Rhone varietals in a new world way, and I am okay with it.

Tannins are super smooth but the finish doesn't suffer. I feel this would go amazingly with a duck dish with a cherry reduction. — 11 years ago

with Liz

Devon Loudon

9.0

Very Sweet — 11 years ago

Liz stavinoha

9.6

Like sugar. Yumm. — 12 years ago

Rose’s Cafe

8.9

Big bold red with lots of tannin. I like this variety and this one is great for a $2.99 grocery store wine. — 12 years ago

Sharon Martin

10

I love this Riesling — 13 years ago