Brian S

8.9

Banana brûlée — 7 years ago

Jason McLaren

9.2

Good fruit. Solid Pinot — 7 years ago

Carson

9.3

Full disclosure: before last night, I wasn't a sparkler kind of guy. After last night, I feel as if I've been unplugged from The Matrix. This vintage was full of notes of pear, vanilla, and rose. Just an amazing bottle. — 8 years ago

Julie

9.8

Reserve. Great as always. Great vintage. Independently great wine with no need of add ins! — 8 years ago

with Igor

Olivius Maximus

9.4

The Sheriff is a matrix of complexity with medium to full voluptuousness combined with vanilla, spice, tannins, and every dark Halle Berry mustered off the vine. Drink this with marathon pace or you will promptly become the village drunkard. Cowboy Up Sooner 💃🔫 😉! — 8 years ago

Chris Goetz

9.3

Favorite of the Matrix so far! Delicious and complex, just the right kind of fruit. — 8 years ago

with Ellen and Theresa

Mayuka Yatomi

9.3

"Half-each Chardonnay and Pinot, Marguet’s NV Brut Reserve Disg. 10/2012 is utterly fascinating in its pungent and savory evocations of bruised apple skin and lemon rind; oyster liquor and kelp, toasted nuts and blond tobacco; sourdough yeasts and singed buckwheat batter. There are white peach and apple to lend a juicy, fruity matrix to the mix on a palate at once creamy and vivacious. This finishes with subtle tartness, persistent pungency, pleasantly sour invigoration, and mouthwatering salinity. It will no doubt be too outrageously out of the mainstream for many wine lovers, but I highly recommend putting some of it to use at your table over the next couple of years. " — 9 years ago

JohnQ Boxler

Sales Berkeley Wine Company

9.0

Medium dark robe, good tension between Maranges stank, floral notes, brambly fruit, and mineral tang. Acid/fruit/earth/tannin matrix spot-on. Perfect with pan-roasted pork chop, Brussels sprouts, buttermilk mashed potatoes. Absolute re-buy. — 9 years ago

Mark Jacques

10

Great wine alone or with lamb!! — 10 years ago

Alejandro Martinez

9.6

Just incredible. Another 5 years and would be even better. — 11 years ago

with Sue and Christie

Ron Yates

9.0

Really big Pinot that is a bit higher in alcohol than I normally like, but the flavors are glorious. Lots of oak right away with some creamy cherry and cotton candy on the finish. Almost Zin like. — 7 years ago

Sean McDonald

8.9

Picked up case of Matrix assorted Zinfandel at 50% discount. — 8 years ago

with Liz

German L

9.0

Good friend. — 8 years ago

with KAtie

Julie

9.4

Sweet, fruity, delicious, velvety/leathery taste. Yummy on its own. — 8 years ago

with Igor

Renwood Winery

Marketing Director, Renwood Winery

10

The fruit produced from the 90 year old D'Agostini Vineyard is elegantly robust. A bouquet of jammy blackberry and bright raspberry, immediately capture your senses. A multi layered matrix of densely packed dark fruit, blueberry and smoked meat dominate the palate, giving way to a core of velvet smooth tannins. The lingering component of dark chocolate and sweet vanilla is captivating. Drink now through 2020

95% Zinfandel 5% Petite Sirah — 8 years ago

Julie

9.5

The best of Matrix and Moshin coming together. Pungent earthy smell gives way to deep, luscious floral notes. Well balanced bouguet on the sweeter side. Just a hint of spiciness upfront. Beautiful wine! — 9 years ago

with Igor

Kelly McLain

9.0

Explodes with sheer delight in your taste palate and not so heavy/jammy that it requires meat or strong cheese — 9 years ago

Wolfgang Weber

9.0

Swallow the blue pill and bend the matrix. Captivating aromatics, depth and an entirely singular sensibility. — 9 years ago

C M

9.6

Alderlea, Vancouver island. — 10 years ago

Sean Lynch

10

First draft script, first rate Pinot! — 11 years ago

Nicholas Brooks

9.6

Colgin Tasting - 2006. While it's a Parker 100 wine it wasn't the pick on the day. Still lovely with a velvety well integrated tannin blanket giving the dark fruit a superb base to bind itself to. Excellent length. Now, I've heard people bang on about this wine - 2012, but I know there are mixed reviews. While the diehard Napa peeps have no issue paying big money for this, I wonder if they are buying into the label more than the wine. It's said to be a superb vintage over all. In the glass it was your typical sweeter Bordeaux-esque wine. I'd suggest a little too warm. 2013 (66% Cab, 25% Merlot, and the rest of its friends). Great wine. Time will tell if the discussion of 2013 being better than 2012 will be true in general. But I did enjoyed this a little more than '12. Great length and the same great tannin matrix. Young and chewy, but you know where it's going. She's a keeper. — 7 years ago

Martin Johnson

9.5

Very good Zin. — 8 years ago

Todd Trzaskos

9.1

#Roussillon red has so many other colors in its matrix. Profound red fruit, dried purple skin scaffold, blue black haze surrounds, hints of green leaf and herb here and there.
Liked previous label better — 8 years ago

Renwood Winery

Marketing Director, Renwood Winery

10

The 2012 Timberline is eccentric and full, definitely a delight for the senses. The nose explodes with dark fruits and meatiness, laced with white pepper and hints of cotton candy. In the mouth, fruit abounds and is complemented by a matrix of black pepper and firm tannins with a surprising note of coconut jelly beans. This ever-evolving wine is approachable now and will be enjoyable over the next five years.

91.5% Zinfandel, 6.6% Petite Sirah,
.7% Barbera, .5% Primitivo, .5% Mourvedre. — 8 years ago

Will Kerner

9.0

Lovely floral, kerosene, mineral, and stone fruit aroma matrix. Nice and firm, good length — 8 years ago

Kelly McLain

9.0

Amazing pinot...velvety and long finish — 9 years ago

Julie

9.8

Thick, fruity, aromatic and silky. — 9 years ago

Chrissy Teixeira

9.0

Fruit forward, balanced, dry — 9 years ago

Neal Frankel

9.3

Outstanding fruit — 10 years ago

JohnQ Boxler

Sales Berkeley Wine Company

8.9

With roasted chicken and duck fat roasted potatoes. Better showing than six months ago. Fruit, floral, earth matrix more aligned, if primary. Rebuy. — 11 years ago