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At Arugula with Ellen and Dominique. Learned: Sancerre is located on the left bank of the Loire River, in the Loire Valley, right in the center of France (some 125 miles from Paris). Overlooking the river, the vineyards of Sancerre are spread over 7200 acres of rolling hills, with perfect conditions for cultivating vines. The same chalk famous in the White Cliffs of Dover runs down through Champagne and Chablis into Sancerre, where it is cut through by a series of small valleys, each with their own microclimate and terroir. The two grape varieties used in Sancerre are Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir. The white wines are fresh, fruity, and elegant, the roses are delicate and subtle, and the reds are perfumed and smooth.
— 9 years ago

S Butterfield

Sommelier Flask Fine Wines

9.2

Funky, dirty, meaty nose, drinking stones of the earth. Purple and black fruit from some overgrown long forgotten mystic garden. Extended finish like another round of applause. — 10 years ago

Joe Carroll

Owner/Wine Director Spuyten Duyvil, Fette Sau, St. Anselm & Gotham Artisanal Provisions

9.1

From the yeast hunters at Mystic. Tons of banana and bubble gum esters. — 10 years ago

with Russ, Krystal and 1 other

Gretchen Jones

9.2

Fresh alpine air with the Bar Boulud burger. Good structure, right amount of mystic, damn fine example of Pinot from a cool, mountainous climate. 2012 vintage. — 10 years ago

Jackie Smith

9.8

Customer brought this in and was nice enough to let me taste this super elegant Nebbiolo from Oregon. Earthy and ripe red berries in the nose. A guzzler of a wine for me — 10 years ago

Matthew Plympton

Founder/Partner Revel Wine

10

Killer saison that focuses on the varying effects of yeast versus hops or malt. The latter two remain constant. — 11 years ago

Vijay Karunamurthy

9.5

From Julia: "Lighter but with a lot of substance." Sommelier: "Earthy, like the soil of freshly picked strawberries. From the red sandstone cliffs of the Main valley in Germany." — 11 years ago

with Julia

Robert Stelmachuk

9.6

Mystic. Surreal. Textural. — 11 years ago

Carla Brim

9.6

Great wine — 12 years ago

with Tim

Sarah and Jon

9.3

Smoke, earth and an ethereal lightness from the high-altitude, rocky cliffs of the Valle d'Aosta. This is a Nebbiolo to savor. — 12 years ago

ANne-Claire

9.2

In Mystic, CT — 9 years ago

Aivars Lode

10

Magnum 2013 taste the med air and the limestone cliffs overshadowing the winery — 9 years ago

with Aivars

Catherine Hojnacki

9.5

The best kind of Riesling. Not too sweet but has floral notes. And I like the twist cap so it stays fresher. — 10 years ago

Ludovic Anacleto

9.7

This is the Beerenauslese. Had the Spat 76 as well and the difference is sticking alto ugh there is a similar profile and backbone. A very intriguing and mystic tea like nose, melted with quince jam, cinnamon and confit orange peel. A lifetime experience — 10 years ago

heath y

9.0

Really nice. — 10 years ago

Kristy Pawlik

9.0

Opened for xmas dinner at cliffs. Rec from specs. Very good! — 10 years ago

Burt Jibson

9.0

Delightful 16 cliffs — 11 years ago

Karen Bergquist

9.5

Wonderful but $42. Dried cherries and herb flavored, smooth, a little dry, good for 5 year shelf life, goes with cheeses early — 11 years ago

Caroline Gilger

9.6

Great Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc. Good balance of sweetness and acidity. — 11 years ago

Tim Brim

9.7

Date night with my love — 12 years ago

with Carla

Darlene Parker

9.1

Family dinner @DanielPacker Mystic CT, thank you for top champagne, great food, ambiance, and family! — 9 years ago

Eric Egan

9.5

The colour of golden saffron suspended in lightly heated cane-sugar water; a nose of candied blood-orange rind, apricot blossoms, dehydrated sweet white onions, German asparagus sautéed in unsalted butter, and sweaty dandelions; a gloriously ambivalent palette - it shuttles back and forth between a frantically ebullient acidity and a warming fur coat of alcohol and sweetness, with just a hint of sea salt at the very end. An amazing wine. Like drinking in large and perfectly sculpted waves crashing over craggy and desolate cliffs, whilst watching an enduring and fathomless sunset. — 10 years ago

Chris DeBarr

9.4

My favorite Minervois vignerons deliver a wonderful, spicy, blackberries buffeted by the silence of limestone cliffs & just a hint of oceanic austerity at the clean finish. I always think of the royal purple seashells when I drink this wine... — 10 years ago

Blaine Verde

9.2

2009 Cinque Terrre Sciacchetra. 80.15.5 Bosco.Albarola.Vermentino. Passito style from eastern Liguria. Grown in sea mist on jagged cliffs. Rich, viscous, nutty, candied orange peel, dried fig, apricot. Mature, complex, meditative, special, scarce, fun, engaging. From a vanishing culture of less than twenty producers. 500 cases made 15 to SF. — 10 years ago

Filippo Calabresi

Winemaker Tenimenti d'Alessandro

9.6

Spices, orange peel, herbs. a mystic texture recalling mystic grapes — 2007 vintage — 10 years ago

Gae Saccoccio - NdC

9.4

By the first time since I saw Cerretalto the vineyard with my eyes, I felt in love with the wine: a mystic core which pour out from that ferrous almost mulberry soil brushed by a gentle breeze that blow through the hills of Val d'Orcia; sober, clear, severe, tidy wine a generous and enduring expression of that certain land. — 10 years ago

Wulf Losee

9.4

Bordeaux grapes make this a Bordeaux style wine, but the terroir of the Columbia River Valley make this fuller than most Bordeauxs -- lovely wine, indeed! — 11 years ago

Jeremy Tremblay

9.7

A unique salty note, from vines grown on cliffs 500 feet above sea level — 11 years ago

Kim Gillin

9.7

Wine in the room of the Mystic Hotel in SF. Paige and I bought package at an auction. Two night stay with dinner at Burritt Tavern — 12 years ago

Dirk Pettigrew (Pirate)

Sales Pirate Cru Wines

9.9

Biodynamic original from Mosel, exceptional minerality perhaps from the grey slate cliffs? — 12 years ago