Julie

9.8

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

Kelly McLain

9.0

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

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

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

Julie

8.9

Bright, courageous, a bit even bold but fruity and quirky at the same time. Loved it by it self after half hour aeration. Dumplings had to be eaten all by themselves. Good stuff nontheless 2014 vintage — 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

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

Julie

9.8

Thick, fruity, aromatic and silky. — 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. — 10 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

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

Chris Goetz

9.3

Favorite of the Matrix so far! Delicious and complex, just the right kind of fruit. — 9 years ago

with Ellen and Theresa

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