Matthew Cohen

9.6

@delectable Quarantadue means 42 in Italian. This is the 45 which is quarantacinque. There is another wine called quarantadue 42 but this is not it.

For those of you who are not drinking rattalino you are missing out big time. This is one of the more mammoth wines. Nose is black cherry tar and a hint of rose. Super complex. Palate is just starting to shift from young vibrant fruit to darker fruit with leather. Still has great balance. Long. Grippy. Great structure. A big dense wine but a balanced one. Some rose juice on the finish. Wow. Bought from fass selections. — 7 years ago

Rich Bluth

9.0

Perfect wine with Mammoth Creek trout! — 8 years ago

Igor Beron

9.1

Really tight and firm structure. Concentration is there, showing fruit, garrigue, chinoto and crushed rocks. Really interesting structure although bitterness my throw some people off. — 8 years ago

Bob McDonald

9.6

The first of 34 Grand Crus from the 2013 vintage. A mammoth task but someone has to do it. All tasted blind. First bracket of 7 whites - all pale lemon in colour. Notes of sweet citrus and trademark oyster shell. Also a touch of honey. Long. — 9 years ago

Brian Nickerson

8.9

Mammoth wine. Tannin and dark fruit that isn't chilling out after 3 hours of decanting. Impressive — 9 years ago

Matthew Cohen

9.4

Holy crap. Needs 45 minutes to open up but wow. Great fruit. Mammoth licorice aromatics. A stunning stunning wine. Will be best in 3 or so years but great now with a decant. Buy as much as you can store. — 10 years ago

mattswineworld

9.4

Floral, fruity, smoky, and very Zinfandel. Great structure to be this wine - was very surprised to see that the alcohol comes to a mammoth 15.9%. — 10 years ago

Chris Rodgers

9.0

Fruity and sweet and really refreshing — 7 years ago

Ara Aslanian

9.7

An amazing find in the village at Mammoth Lakes, nothing short of spectacular. — 7 years ago

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Aaron Means

9.2

Big, big, and did I say big? Needs a tomahawk chop to hold up to this mammoth of a wine. — 8 years ago

Ian Blackburn

9.5

The problem for this wine is that it is understated....typically sitting next to monsters of mammoth proportion this wine will not impressed you're overwhelmed pallet. And unfortunately at $2600 a bottle you want to be overwhelmed. My suggestion is you drink it next to great burgundy and champagne .... this wine has wonderful structure and wins over the hearts and minds of critics with its poise-restraint-balance-and dare I say finesse even though it has 14.8 alcohol which is higher than normal for this one. But it is a very dependable and predictable profile which I enjoy and carefully frame - but I also enjoy tasting it next to the beasts especially with great food like we enjoyed at Gwen Restaurant Best bottle dinner hosted by wineLA on 2.8.17 - The eagle was singing but definitely not screaming — 9 years ago

Ryan Mullins

9.4

big Wolly mammoth — 10 years ago

Allison Floyd

8.9

Aged in bourbon barrels. Hints of vanilla. Very good. — 10 years ago

Michael T McAlhaney

8.9

A mammoth wine with dark berries and ripe bramble fruit. — 7 years ago

Matthew Cohen

9.4

Wood has integrated. An absolute monster. Mammoth fruit minerality and acidity. Juicy as heck. Internal aromatics just go on and on. — 8 years ago

David Kline

9.0

Black as electronic death. The head spills slowly to the surface from the darkness and at the same tempo, returns like a mammoth to its tar pit. The caramel brittle releases French roast coffee between the cracks and mocha follows. Campfire pecan shells and hazelnuts shine. Easy entry malts initially coat the palate with vanilla and dark sugar, but they are tempered by iron filings and burnt coffee, chicory, nutmeg and clove and bitter almond. There is a nasty streak to the vulcanized wall of bitter chocolate burnt to a crisp. Additional sipping helps, providing sweetness, but the streak persists like the bubbly burnt remains of a truck stop decanter. Almost tannic in nature. #founders #oatmeal #stout #breakfastofchampions #truckstopbabies #chocolatebeer #coffeemalt #chocolatefountain #mamadroveatruck — 8 years ago

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David Yadegar

9.0

Drank in mammoth hannukah 2016 with Farahnik family at Westin restaurant — 9 years ago

Mark Sithi

9.0

A big hit at Mammoth. Smooth tasting. — 9 years ago

Jeremy Lipking

8.9

Probably the best IPA/DIPA I've ever had from outside of the West Coast. I'd rank it up there with Ruination, Wolf Among Weeds and Mammoth 395. — 10 years ago

Alex Powell

9.8

The red of the eve, a crushing powerhouse of aethereal elegance, a resounding testament to burgundy, nothing nowhere else is remotely like this, so furry, sweaty, delightfully stinky upon opening, father said smells like a raccoon or a woman's brazier, haha! Such a spooky, bloody irony color, just mesmerizing nose you greet with trepidation, after air a thunderbolt of sweet, dirty cranberries and pomegranates assault you, some green notes and a stifling acidity stab at the palate, but o so powerful, complex mid-palate saturation, mammoth-scaled yet no more than medium bodied, tannin resolved, its the acidity keeping it fresh and lively, great stuff. A counterpoint to the 82 cos at its Side, coolly stating that all sweet fruit isn't as complex as a myriad of ripeness levels throughout, and complexity is why we drink this wine, isn't it? — 10 years ago