Kseniya Volosnikova

9.2

A very exciting example of Campania. Tomato pasta, black earth, leather, tobacco and coal. Acidity is medium high, tannins are round, but still fully present — 7 years ago

Bill Bender

9.5

Hot tar bouquet and coal black in the glass. 4 hour decant. Rich and brawny with loads of blackberry, blueberry and dark chocolate. Bordeaux blend but domestic style. — 8 years ago

Aaron Tan

9.3

Very good. Can't say I've had much Silvaner, so I reckon I would have guessed this as a wooded chard (old oak prolly) if blinded. Excellent interplay of richness (texture, fruit, and oak) and acidity. — 8 years ago

dan boedeker

9.0

Birth year wine for me opened on Dad's 70th birthday. Double magnum. Cork intact. Great nose. Taste of coal tar, cola. Tannins totally resolved. 40 years in a bottle, opened nicely over the night. — 8 years ago

Yuriy Roman

9.5

DeRat is an amazing bar in Utrecht. Vast selection of sours. This one is quite peculiar. Get strawberry and burnt wood on the nose, then it hits you with powerful sourness that burns in the aftertaste, and finished with an interesting oak+butter taste. The guy pouring it separated the sediment, which surprisingly smells like char coal. Too many compounds here. — 9 years ago

Max Reichwage

9.0

Good Riesling, reminds me of Tasmanian coal river valley wines . Nice texture and fruit — 10 years ago

Wade Caldwell

9.2

Definitely in the top third of Barbera's I've had. Nice fruit that would have gone well with salametto and parmigiano reggiano. Instead, we were grilling flank steak and chicken and thinking about the ones who left their blood and breath on foreign soil so that we could have the freedoms we enjoy. If that doesn't put a lump in your throat, then you have some reading to do. — 10 years ago

Kseniya Volosnikova

9.0

Very dense color from ruby to violet. Nose is full of jam blueberries, tobacco, coal, fig, silicon, balsamic. Acidity is still pretty high, tannins are plenty! — 7 years ago

Bob McDonald

8.9

Medium crimson in colour. Notes of savoury oak - a trifle overdone but not unpleasant. A blend of fruit from several of Tassies Pinot regions including Derwent River, Coal River and the East Coast. A well blended Pinot showing why Tasmania is the go to area for Aussie winemakers to grow Pinot Noir. — 8 years ago

Daron Watson

9.3

Earthy funk quickly evolved into pencil & cigar box followed by cassis & a lovely faint floral perfume ~ still fairly tannic but showing solid underlying array of dark fruits ~ lovely anniversary wine enjoyed w boiled peanut & wild mushroom pate, butterbean hummus, creamy lump blue crab& artichoke dip, followed by slow roasted NC Duck and Heritage Pork Chop — 8 years ago

Chris England

9.1

Love their red wine & this £65 white is quite unique showing the unique terroir of this region 👍

🍇 80% Sauv Blanc & 20% Semillon

🍷 Golden yellow straw

👃 Smokey melon butter, smashed flint rock, charred orange zest, coal & burnt ash w/ dried pineapple, apple, citrus, banana & refined oil - quite unusual

👄 Med+ body of creamy flinty mineral & ash driven light tropical, young green fruit & citrus in med acidity

🎯 Long, touch dry, ash, flinty mineral & soft tropics, fine citrus & green fruit finale — 8 years ago

Amanda Yallop

9.0

Some of Tassie's finest fruit, a splash of botrytis with searing acidity — 9 years ago

Mark Cartland

9.0

A hint of petrol on the nose with hyacinth flowers. Dried apricots, and orange cream on the palate. Richer than 2010, but nicely balanced. — 10 years ago

Mark Oldman

9.8

if you or someone you know hates Chardonnay, as I sometimes hear, this little number - 2011 DRC #Montrachet 💥- will effect an instant conversion. It is inconvertibly beautiful and pure, with a lemon-mineral core, joined by shades of tangerine and salted caramel balanced by an invigorating citric minerality, and a golden, silky persistence that stretches out like a cheetah's paw. 🐾 🐅 Even the residue of the empty glass seduces the sniff 👃. This is a more elegant and balanced style, not the creamy honeycomb voluptuousness of 2005 or 2000 DRC Montrachet, which are also sublime. Only 3,178 bottles on Earth. Perfect with Galatorie's jumbo lump crab salad. 🦀 #Burgundy #wine
— 8 years ago

Tony Capone

9.4

Decanted, and opened nicely, lots of minerals, fruity nose, burnt wood, coal, smooth a little spice on the finish, great wine! — 8 years ago

Will Thomas

9.1

Extra 0.1 for the company, tastes great with a lump of ice! X — 8 years ago

Scott Hoffman

9.0

Beautiful minerality. The pairing with a full jumbo lump crab cake is one of the best marriages of food and wine I've ever had. — 8 years ago

Peter van den Besselaar

9.2

Vintage 2008 - amazing fine Silvaner lots of minerals pleasurewine — 9 years ago

Christanna Honer

8.9

Slightly spritzy. Could crush gallons of this! Delish (albeit like the Muller Thurgau a bit more) — 10 years ago

Gabrielle Shaffer

9.6

Classic stout without any cloying sweetness. I totally deserve this lump of coal — 12 years ago