At last the sun shines in a cloudless sky and drinking today is reserved with Nicolas. At Bottega and we talk on the patio there and choose a Flowers Pinot Noir brought and opened by Massimo the sommelier . We drink that quickly and then choose a Bovio Barolo from La Morra in 2007. The Bovio tastes like how it feels to listen to Nicolas describe his most recent work in Emola Amity. We drink this slowly. It has been made sturdy. It has a taste of work done. The flavor of August to November. Working with Oregon Pinot for four solid months straight through, Nicolas explains, morning to morning, healthy doing all the work , every big and little thing, widely working all the grapes along to a 2015 wine. It tastes like that but only in 2007 in La Morra. Strengthened.
To me it tastes like talking about my lovely wife. And to say I wish I had the money to buy some good land to build her a home closer to the sea. It tastes like what it would do to me to see her there in that hand built home, very healthy and very alive and perfectly situated, at ease, contented in her place, made.
Fulfilled with the taste of maturity and youth together, us together. A wine bent off the vine by two people only.
The Bovio was in a perfect mood, like a friend listening and sharing his life with me. Life in the sun on the patio. The only two there is except for Massimo. These things can taste like that. — 10 years ago
Juicy mineral thirst quencher, lemon pear white peach pie in the sky. — 10 years ago
Nebbiolo up in the sky...so pretty and light — 11 years ago
Domaine Costal #Chablis “Truffières” (fr #KermitLynch): explosion of grass (& lemon) before explosions in the sky - #July4 — 9 years ago
Old bottle found in pantry. — 9 years ago
Naturalish Xinomavro that'll take you from the earth and put you in the sky — 9 years ago
The nose made me smile. This wine is floral reminds me of a spring day when all of flowers are in bloom and the sky is filled with wonder. I enjoy Torrentes but this one has to be one of my favorites until I taste another that evokes the same sensation. — 10 years ago
Peter Michael Chardonnay Ma Belle-Fille 2007: a voyage on Complexity Airlines, with a Chardonnay-based crew serving up a first-class trip through peaches, chamomile, and toasty oak. A best-in-fleet wide-body Cali Chard, with ample creaminess counterbalanced by citric snap, finishing with a sky-wide vapor trail of spice. — 10 years ago
Confetti in the sky!!!! — 11 years ago
Kaffir lime leaves, the dashing of rocks against the Saar river, and just a whiff of a sunflower floret. This honest wine from Erich Weber in the Mosel is the liquid equivalent of 'Blue Sky'. Take that Walter and Jesse. -DM — 12 years ago
Delicious Chardonnay we had at Lotus Pad in Big Sky, MT. Gore great with Thai food. — 9 years ago
The perfect perfume from a hybrid of flower and fungi. A strawberry cyborg with meaty core. Stones comprised of smoky dust. These embody the dichotomies of good Pinot. In it come together the disparate physics of the ethereal. There is citrus in the red plum and guava. Copper in the pine bark. Icebergs in the sweltering river. The body is nuanced, quick as live blood, with mineral weight. Cranberry with mint that turns to thyme, to orange, to feldspar. Star anise that becomes a tart strawberry and raspberry interplay. This is a beauty playing the perfect hostess to terroir and desire. A fine bedside wine. The fruits resonate with seemingly endless vibrations between tart and citric, ripe and decomposing. Chalky earth, nitric sky and briny ocean. — 10 years ago
Had in Big Sky with the family — 10 years ago
Very good mead. I enjoyed this bottle with a salad, the fruits in the salad complemented the mead. — 10 years ago
I've never had mead before, as I usually don't care for white wines unless I'm cooking with them. But I came across this gem, and I found myself unable to put it down. It provides an opulent honey flavor that isn't uncomfortably sweet. It accents most flavorful stir-fries, such as Chinese or Thai, and can even be enjoyed without being accompanied by any foods at all. I intend to have a case of this in stock at all times, and I recommend this to any red or white wine lover. — 12 years ago
Shawn R

Part of an Ambassador event we hosted with Three Sticks here in Texas. This bottle was opened for two hours before serving. Tremendous amount of flavors on the nose-pear, fig and apricot. First sip those same flavors carry through with a touch of oak and earth. Lovely wine! — 9 years ago