Mark Flesher

9.4

Wonderful Merlot. Nose of wild berries and bittersweet chocolate. The entry of this wine is dark. Brambly and blackberry and baking chocolate. The middle has a chocolate covered almond character to it. Hint of herb. Finished with toasted oak and nice acidity. I am 100% sure I will not have the willpower to hold on to my other bottle of this. I can also appreciate the 95 this one scored as well. Nice, nice Columbia Valley Merlot! Rolland and merlot are an excellent combo! — 6 years ago

Bethany S

9.1

My go to cab. — 7 years ago

Jonathan Wall

9.0

Carmelized toast. Great with middle eastern lamb tagine. And it elevated my olives. — 7 years ago

Yves Padovani

9.2

Wow Sancerre style - very small winery - great opportunity to find this here in CA. Tropical nose, honeysuckle, white peach. Amazing minerality. More please... — 8 years ago

Conrad Green

9.3

A touch of sweetness. Pretty. Great weight in the middle- a ripe vintage but good acidity. Lovely — 8 years ago

with Gregg

Rebecca Turner

9.8

Tasty and subtle. Not too sweet, not too dry. — 8 years ago

Sarah Taylor

9.0

Super sweet but delicious — 8 years ago

Nicole McLendon

9.5

A little throw back Charleston Wine Festival circa 2014 with my bestie Brooke! — 9 years ago

Ryan Riley

9.3

Aroma is strawberries and cherries. Flavor is also strawberry and cherries but gives way to a black pepper spiciness in the middle as well as chocolate, oak, and a little smokiness. Solid tannins. it's a perfect every day wine like the best expression of a table wine — 9 years ago

Rob Moose

9.2

1986. Day 1 was charming out of the gate, then ultimately showed its oak and structure and a sort of pine quality. Preferred Haut-Batailley. Day 2 had sufficiently mellowed but still felt a little down the middle somehow. Cool side by side — 10 years ago

Michael Osborne

9.1

Not very sweet but not dry it's right in the middle — 11 years ago

Ron R

9.7

The man, the myth, the legend (Mike Smith, with his wife) decided to throw us a bone and grace our dinner. How cool is that?
This wine is so complete. A meal on its own. Black as the night in the glass. Nose displays maple syrup and a hint of balsam. Huge mouthfeel, with a teeth-staining extraction. So plush and sweet. Still very primary, more bottle age will take this to an even better place. Anne-Marie (my wife) in the middle. From magnum. — 6 years ago

with Mike, Anne-marie and 7 others

Patrick Derdeyn

9.1

These are just starting to loosen up. Whether its the mountain fruit, the vintage, TRBs direction or all 3 with this wine they've taken a number of years to show much. Good with a 2 hr decant and improving for several more years. — 7 years ago

David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.1

Delamonte is a sister house to Salon. This 07 has little or no Salon grapes as Salon surprisingly did make an 07 vintage champagne. In a difficult Salon vintage, Salon grapes can make it into the Delamonte. Bruised apple cider, green apple, overripe Bosc pear, pineapple rhine, citrus blend(tangerine dominated), butterscotch candy, toffee, citrus blossoms, brioche, bright acidity & wet sandy chalk/minerals and a long, long, long finish. It's 9.1 but seriously pushing 9.2. — 8 years ago

Mike Ancuta

9.1

Thomas Rivers Brown...great bottle for challenging vintage. Needs lots of air and more time. — 8 years ago

Kelsey Lindsey

9.2

A tad mossy with a hint of oak. Feels like a velvet room within a cave on feathers. Definitely would recommend. — 8 years ago

Bo Yu

9.1

Beautiful. Strong tannins to the nose, yet the middle is light and smooth, finished with a balanced, less than velvety taste. A lot of tabacco, bold after it opens up. — 8 years ago

Ben Bardell

8.9

Not a bad batch of juice. Cherry and blackberry on the nose. Currant, blueberry and smokey cranberry. Finished sweet with a light dry note. — 9 years ago

Nicolas Rezzouk

9.1

So enticing.... Herbs, tobacco, leather, savoury, meaty, cooked fruit, liqueur. Probably peaked a few years ago it goes superbly with h middle-eastern food. — 9 years ago

with Joanne

Kathryn Seifert

9.4

Really great with pasta with red sauce! Great value! Dry, fruity, hints of leather. — 10 years ago

Mark Flesher

9.4

I have quite a number of these, and thank goodness! I feel a little weird opening up one of these bottles as a 2016, but I keep telling myself to FOCUS....this bottle is victim to EXPERIMENT! Compared to previous Silver Eagles, this one IMO seems to have more of a dried floral and acai berry type of nose than the other years that really went more to a dirty raspberry. However, the entry of this wine seems to be a touch less rounded and a little less 'sweet.' The middle of this wine has incredible balance that really shines with food and becomes more delicate without. The finish of this wine has some acidity, getting more black cherry and black tea on the finish. Overall I don't get as much acidity as I had with the 16 SC PN. Definitely keeping the others in the cellar a little while longer. — 6 years ago

Billy L.

9.5

Celebrating my Sister In Law's BDAY
Cristal always a treat! — 7 years ago

James Forsyth

9.0

My sister will be serving this at her wedding in September so she and I and our third sibling road tested it over dinner at Brixton's painfully cool and appropriately named popup concept, Pop. After a couple of minutes in the glass the wine softened to become a highly attractive wine with red fruit and floral notes. This wine will be a hit at the wedding! — 7 years ago

with Sangeetha, Antonia and 3 others

Erica Fox

9.0

Good wine! Not too sweet, not too dry. Pretty good. Not my favorite wine ever, but a nice, cheap and enjoyable wine! — 8 years ago

Scott Stewart

9.3

The rating is for today only, as this will merit a higher rating in a couple of years. Beautiful in middle, but the least expressive of the wines. What you get for killing a baby, I really want to see this a few years down the road! — 8 years ago

Dan Rath

9.5

Infanticide but nuanced, opened up after an hour, not as big as anticipated, more subtle as tannins were already smooth, core of fresh black currants and blueberries, graphite in the middle and a medium long finish more subtle than the nose would suggest. — 8 years ago

Justin Smith

9.5

Lovely upfront in the middle and at the end. Definitely in the drivers seat. So much complexity with a shot of dreaminess. — 9 years ago

Angela Hurd

9.0

Had the 2014. Delish. — 9 years ago

Bri Mckoy

9.0

Surprisingly delicious for a cheap merlot. Great to sip on before dinner with a cheese plate as well. — 9 years ago

with Jer

DAL 9000

9.7

Small initial soft aroma of rick dark fruit. Dark red bubbles. Huge burst of rich dry tannins in the middle than fades beautifully. Coats your mouth with velvet smoothness of non sweet raspberries. — 10 years ago