Rodolfo Alvarado

8.9

First of all, the bouquet is layered with muddled dark fruit. Second, the body is complex in all the right reasons. It's concentrated, intense, fresh, elegant and carries the sweetness of the fruit. Raspberries and blackberries on the tongue, with a beautiful dark purple color. Medium body, medium acidity and ripe tannins round out this seductive wine. — 11 years ago

Larry Maguire

9.0

Classic Chablis mineral. Medium weight and nice breadth on the palate. Downgraded slightly because the finish is slightly muddled and more up front than I prefer. — 11 years ago

Bryant Bickel

9.2

Second day stunner! It's got a Campari note going with a underripe blackberry, ferns, muddled cocktail cherry, light twizzler accents, acidity is like a no wake zone compared to yesterday but I can still tell it had dual volvo pentas. — 12 years ago

Lucy Huffman

9.0

Ripe vintage, lots of cranberry, currents, muddled red fruit. Blinded as French, lovely rough edges and funk. — 11 years ago

Justin Hansohn

9.0

Perfect amount of substance here for the category. Muddled psychedelic splash of beaune colour and fun. Concentration is on point and balanced as well, not a single bad thing I can say about this. — 11 years ago

Jeroen Koenen

9.1

Have this bottle open for a week now, and it's still holding up very nicely. A tad shy and muddled on the first day. Elegant and fragrant, pretty aromatics of toffee, cherry, cocoapowder dust, hint of cappuccino and a minty leafy character that I like. Starting to show tawny-like now: hot honey glazed nuts and dried figs in spades. — 11 years ago

Rob Lateiner

9.0

Great purity, just a bit taut right now. Should resolve nicely. There are some deep, leafy, earthy aromatics. Oak is judged well. This has nice freshness to it. Definitely on the rustic side. Jenna thinks it's "dirty and dusty like licking the floor of a primitive structure." It is very hot to her as well, both nasally and to drink. The wine Polaner calls blood orange on this bottling and Camus' other VV Savigny bottling. He is completely right we both agree. 85 year old vines. A solid value for the cellar. Jenna says the quality of this is like unfiltered Honest Tea to clean and bright Steaz. This is a touch more muddled at the moment with a bit of bitterness but I am confident this will clarify and integrate nicely with time. Old school for purists. Jenna says it's "minty and herbal, fennel or anise." Definitely anise/fennel. Some balsamicky older barrel aromas and also nuttier newer oak aromas, too. Good balance. This really does have some soil aromas to it. A touch hot (alcohol) right but I imagine it will cool down with some time in bottle. — 12 years ago

Jay Svoboda

8.9

Wine from Colorado - Denver, to be precise - who'da thunk it? Big nose of boysenberry, blackberry and blueberry. Also hints of menthol, saddle leather, graham cracker, a touch of cola or root beer, and smoked meat. Although a dense purple in color - not surprising for a Petite Sirah - the palette comes across fairly light bodied. Dark berries, muddled and stewed a bit - the tannins definitely grip and hold, but not without a decent punch of acidity. Light earth and subtle oak are also of note. Not to knock the Colorado wine scene (which I know very little about), but this is surprisingly good. — 11 years ago

Larry Maguire

8.9

Medium weight, refreshing acidity, floral components reminiscent of top line Sancerre. Slightly muddled finish. Would have been nice if there was mored clarity of flavor in the aftertaste. — 11 years ago

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Evan Bloom

9.0

Excellent merlot. Good structure and complexity of dark fruits, but not muddled. Great to accompany a nice cut of red meat.-2011 — 12 years ago