Joe Lucca

9.3

Maple syrup, viscous black fruit. Rich milk chocolate, pen ink, fresh tobacco. Bring'em young.... needs time and lots of air. — 9 years ago

with Frank, Kevin and 1 other

Ashlee Howarth

9.1

Very smooth stout. Can tell its brewed with coffee. Pretty light too. — 10 years ago

Christine Havens

9.3

The final wine in a trio of Betz wines tasted with assistant winemaker Louis Skinner, the Pére De Famille Columbia Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2012 is seamless and well-crafted. The nose is a gathering storm of blackcurrant, blueberries, milk chocolate, and violets. Structured and spectacularly dense in the mouth with saturating, tooth-staining layers of black and blue fruit, a touch of Welches grape jelly, anise, and sweet tobacco. This finish is lengthy, velvety, wonderful. 14.5% ABV | Sample — 10 years ago

Robert Branden Shine

9.5

Complexity!!!! — 11 years ago

Jake Hartmann

9.5

Rich, smokey. Fruity. At the price, brilliant. Richly flavorful, though not overly complex. The best wine I've had at the price point — 11 years ago

Daoud Sangwa

Sommelier Whole Foods Market

9.3

Thank you Scott! — 11 years ago

Veasna Sun

9.1

This is the sweetest Nigori I've come across. Goes great with most milk chocolate! — 13 years ago

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.4

This wine is a monster right now and it was opened yesterday. Inky dark cassis; blackberries, black plum, plum, black raspberries, blue fruits, hugely pronounced tannins, anise, strong leather, tobacco with ash, soft spice, vanilla, caramel, dark & milk chocolate, anise, cedar, black olive, black tea, dry crushed rocks, rich loamy dark soil, great; structure, length, balance, tension, acidity and long rich, elegant, full finish that doesn't end. Pictured...the tasting cave at Hourglass. Or, maybe it's a lounge? — 9 years ago

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.1

Salted caramel nose. Resolved blackberries, dark cherries, mulberries, cooked black plum, soft leather, sweet dark earth, star anise, light cinnamon salted milk chocolate, super elegant with a very long finish. Paired well with steak, lamb and duck due to it's long bottle evolution. Drink now as it's hit it's stride. — 10 years ago

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.4

Milk chocolate nose. Milk chocolate palate entry with bright ripe red and black fruits, savory herbs, brambly, dark earth and minerals on the finish. Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate!!! — 11 years ago

Nick Apone

9.2

2009 Vintage. Olive, leather, coconut, and dill on the nose. Soft and silky but focused. The palate gives anise, milk chocolate, coffee, cherry, vanilla & toast. Sounds crazy, but it's all there. Lighter, much more playful version of the Unico. — 11 years ago

Jeremy Hyatt

9.5

Hint of Cedar cigar box, milk chocolate, earthy, plum, spice, yummy and complex, love It — 11 years ago

Tom Riccio

8.9

Post wine tasting meal! — 13 years ago

with Tom and Ivona

ADAM STROMFELD

9.7

Yes, yes, yes!!! Big jammy nose soft elegant ripe cherries on top of creamy melted milk chocolate an absolute beauty👍🍷 — 9 years ago

with Frank, Rick and 1 other

Olivia Walters

10

Like Guinness, with a mocha aftertaste. — 9 years ago

Gary Westby

Champagne & Sherry buyer K&L Wines

9.4

My style with NY steak. Minty,
Plummy, sweet fruited, seamless, but also refreshing. I hogged the bottle a little, but at 12.5 it was as mild as mothers milk. It should have been a magnum. — 10 years ago

with Cleora

Jeffrey Long

9.5

Velvety milk chocolate with raisins, figs, and soft bourbon finish. Like a Cadbury Fruit and Nut bar with a shot of bourbon chaser. Crazy drinkable for 13.6% abv. Fantastic. — 11 years ago

with Chris

Elise Reicherter

9.2

This is one of my favorite stouts. Thick and chocolatey yet not very heavy to drink. Enjoy it all year round. It's great with pizza or steak! — 11 years ago

Cindy Cammack

9.0

Enjoyed with a lamb dish with coconut milk, almonds and cardamom. Fruit presents itself with a dry finish. — 12 years ago

Olivia Church

10

Chocolate flavored reminiscent of chocolate dipped berries with a soft velvety finish... — 13 years ago