Joe Kaiser

9.4

This Champagne was disgorged 10-1013. The Bollinger Granda Année never disappoints! She is the quite beauty in the black dress with the grey pearls, intriguing, complex, soft. Has a lovely floral, pair, green apple nose, the mousse is fine, precise, the flavors posses same complexity as the nose, it is crisp, far from austere finish. — 9 years ago

Joe Kaiser

9.3

Had a chance to decant this 09 for hour in restaurant, still very young, however after hour decant started showing the lovely long legged lady with the long black dress in black pearls! Pure subduction ! — 9 years ago

Berg

9.2

Because champagne makes a really long day better. Big pearls that dissipate quickly, orange pith, red apple, white peach, toasty butterscotch starting to show, nice steely acidity...will follow up tomorrow too and see what it does overnight — 10 years ago

Peter Wassam

9.6

Pure Apple. A hint of spice. Pears and pearls. Don't want it to be gone. Lasts for infinity. Slight tartness. — 10 years ago

Michael Delacruz

9.9

Katoukichibee Shouten Brewery Born 38 Special Junmai Daiginjo sake. Rice grain milled away to 50%, no brewer's alcohol added. Floral on the nose with jasmine and white linen. Delicate and ethereal with an unexpected spicy finish. Served with a teriyaki of Wagyu beef tenderloin, pumpkin, asparagus and onigiri rice. Followed by a dessert of poached white summer peach, Japan pearls, Suntory dry gin espuma, exotic sorbet, and petit fours. — 10 years ago

Christine Havens

9.2

My favorite Champagne of the night at #PBFW, the Michel Gonet Brut Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru NV offers layered complexity on the nose and palate. Heady aromas of brioche, graham cracker, poached pear, and apple pie. The bead is quite fine, like seed pearls embroidered on golden-threaded brocade. It's sappy and intense, with a singular cord of acidity giving lift to quince and dried fig notes along with penetrating flavors of smoke and sea salt on a protracted finish. 12.5% ABV | Sample — 11 years ago

Frieda Lloyd

9.1

Beautiful light salmon colour with fine pearls and fresh taste. — 11 years ago

Vinny Eng

10

[6/10] many swoons for this pink garland of pearls @ScribeWine. Liquid elegance, brightest lumens. #IndianSummer @18Reasons — 11 years ago

Vinny Eng

9.7

Pink pearls @StVincentSF — 12 years ago

Giampiero Nadali

Wine Blogger Aristide

9.0

Vernaccia Nera Is a rare grape coming from Serrapetrona, Marche. It needs 2 months of drying to be ready to press, the result is a charming deep red wine, with some smoky hints. It is one of most "black pearls" we have in Italy. Very good. — 12 years ago

Daniel Gordon

9.4

Great tempranillo @ Pineapple and Pearls — 9 years ago

Thomas Brenner

9.0

A hue that seems to find itself on the cusp of turning golden like only autumn may ordinarily bring about. Apricot pit with liliputanesque and simultaneously uproarious bubble-pearls in this Magnum. Toasty and nutty, like grandma knitting by the fire place. — 9 years ago

Vinny Eng

9.3

Classic - beautiful garland of pearls: strawberries, shortcake, petals, love. — 10 years ago

Stephen Becker

8.9

Pearls, vintage Chris Craft, night time ride across the lake, low moon flashes behind the trees, underwear in your pocket this time. The green flash of the aurora borealis comes out of nowhere, a slow serpentine sine-wave pulsing across the Milky Way. — 10 years ago

Bill Beck

8.9

No fancy shmancy review. Had it with an interesting beef curry and bulgogi fusion dinner and it up to the challenge of bridging the strong diverse flavors of the meal. Did I mention the homemade bread and butter pickles with clove, the pickled beets, and steamed rice that accompanied the beef? This Malbec tied them together like stringed pearls. — 10 years ago

Lily Davis

French Wine Specialist at Ottorink Weinbar

9.4

Magnum. Rachel Kerswell's pearls photobombing — 11 years ago

Kurt Schuster

9.1

You're that open-minded hipster girl that wears flannel, but can surprise you in heels and pearls when you get to know her. Don't smile at me like that, I'm only a mortal man. — 11 years ago

Justin Werle

9.2

Good example of a champagne that has gone through it's proper time with the lees. Butter and bread notes. Very fine pearls. — 11 years ago

Jeroen Koenen

9.6

Deg. 151012; Liquid gold in colour, broad and seductive nose of smoke, truffles, peat, guave, orange rind, hint of oxidation. Very soft and focussed in the mouth, Tiny pearls, hardly noticeable on the palet. A very delectable bubble. 96/100 — 12 years ago

Diedra West

9.5

Diedra had this 13 years ago

Christine Havens

9.3

Vilmart is one of my favorite producers and this bottle, a favorite memory, from a profoundly enjoyable luncheon at Hôtel Restaurant Les Avisés, owned by Anselme Selosse and his wife. Everything about that day was perfect, including the wine. The 2010 Cuvée Grand Cellier d' Or Brut is a sunbeam in a glass, with bubbles like seed pearls embroidered on golden-threaded brocade. Transporting aromas of lemon pudding, dewy pear, white flowers, honeycomb and dried mint lead into a wine that is as poised as it is precise. It crescendos on a spicy note that gradually subsides to a clean, lilting finish. — 9 years ago

Berg

9.2

Split. #214026. Gorgeous toast, red apple, huge pearls, screaming acidic streak. Down to a case and a half of splits, need to restock, ha! #kruglife #but1stchampagne @David White — 9 years ago

with Theresa

John Scherer

9.0

Nice light sake — 10 years ago

Amanda Crawford

President Spectrum Wine Auctions

9.5

Stunning. Perfectly balanced, stone fruits and tons of mineral. Think silex with a rounder body and a string of pearls — 10 years ago

Tobias Pirrung

9.0

Spumante :) dry but fruity and good pearls — 11 years ago

Vinny Eng

9.0

Moncuit. Disgorged 5/21/14. Jagged little pearls, persistent in its approach. @grandcruselect — 11 years ago

with Wolfgang and Eric

Peter van den Besselaar

9.3

Eclipse 2005 is definitely one of the pearls of my cellar — 11 years ago

John Trinidad

Wine Blogger SFWineBlog

8.9

Mother of pearls! — 11 years ago

Stephen Becker

9.3

Cherry-red pearls lie under lace; violet sky slinks past window glass. — 12 years ago

Ivaylo Ninov

9.5

Ethereal and delicate, with tiny pearls of bubbles. Fresh and alive, full of subtle red fruit and peach. Delicious! — 12 years ago