Romain Fitoussi

9.0

Gourmet south wine. Original modern blend, with mediterranean grapes: Touriga national, Nebbiolo, Grenache, very easy to drink, built on cherry and blackcurrant. Medium to medium plus bodied and beautiful freshness.

Vin gourmand du Sud. Mélange moderne original, avec des cépages méditerranéens: Touriga national, Nebbiolo, Grenache, très facile à boire, sur la cerise et le cassis. Moyen à moyen plus et belle fraîcheur. — 4 years ago

Christine Turner

9.0

Mom loves this one! Light with strong cherry notes. — 6 years ago

Christy

9.2

St. Croix vineyard MN. Art & Wine Festival. Very good. Taste vanilla. Cherry & blackberry — 6 years ago

Daniel P. Drake

8.9

Happy National Pinot Noir Day! I am celebrating by opening the 2011 Benton-Lane Estate Grown Pinot Noir Willamette Valley.

On the nose there is nice red fruit, cherry, strawberry, cranberry, menthol, cola and a touch of funk.

The palate shows the red fruit that is on the nose, tart strawberry, cherry, cranberry, cola, clove, wet leaves and a bit of dry soil.

This is a light bodied wine with medium to + acidity and medium fine luscious tannins that coat the tongue which leads to a nice medium to long fruit filled finish. I hope everyone is enjoying Pinot Noir Day as I am and please as always be safe. Nostrovia! 🍷🍷🍷🍷 — 7 years ago

Shay A

9.2

National Rosé day, so might as well enjoy the blistering TX heat with a TX rosé from @Ron Yates !

@Delectable Wine : This is the Ron Yates Grenache rosé, not the Sangiovese.

Similar in color to the RY Cinsault rosé. Smells of rhubarb tart, red and orange fruit skins, and an herbal spice which I find typical of Grenache rosés. Nice acidity, more so than the Cinsault. Floral on the palate with bing cherry & cantaloupe. — 7 years ago

Ray Vanderhoff

9.3

Great Portuguese Red Blend of three grapes: Touriga National, Aragones (Tempranillo) and Alicante Bouschet. Dark cherry and wood on the nose. Big round flavors of dark cherry, tobacco and cola. Beautiful balance and smooth tannins. Fabulous. — 8 years ago

with John

Robin Collins

10

Sampled at the cherry blossom festival — 9 years ago

Brenda Terzich-Garland

9.5

Another favorite on mine! Color - a purplish red magenta. Nose - Blue fruit, crushed rock and vanilla burst in scent from the glass—a stewed meat, spice, cedar menthol lingers. Taste - dark blueberry fruit with a dark tart cherry following. A silky feel as it coats the mouth—cream brûlée notes float giving the wine a subtle sweetness. At the mid-pallet pepper dry herbs and cedar-spice give it a long dry finish. A great evening to celebrate national wine and cheese day—yum yum. — 5 years ago

with Karin and Jill

Tobin Trevarthen

9.2

Masterful. Aged to a nicely smooth black cherry festival. Waves of red and black fruit. — 6 years ago

Shauna Jones

10

Excellently balanced cherry wine. — 7 years ago

Severn G

9.0

On the Lawn at Tanglewood this afternoon with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Our conductor Andris Nelsons is leading MENDELSSOHN (Symphony No. 4, Italian), BEETHOVEN (Piano Concerto No. 1) with Yuja Wang on piano and BERNSTEIN (Chichester Psalms) accompanied by the Tanglewood Festival Chorus.

Lime-Cherry-Strawberry, Cherry-Lime-Strawberry, Strawberry-Cherry-Lime... Take your pick all notes apply to nose and palate. Good, but still not as good as '16. Plenty more to go, so maybe in a year this will be better? See my prior notes. — 7 years ago

Daniel M

9.0

An overwhelming cherry festival. The nose is cherry and earth. The palate is a model of balance with a nice acid backbone and cherry all over the place. The wine is quite ample too. No real tannins to speak of and a long finish with ... cherry. Superb beaujolais — 8 years ago

Elizabeth Rice

9.6

It's not everyday that one gets to party 8 hours at the most incredible music festival hearing nostalgic greats such as Tom Petty, House of Pain and Michael Franti and then arrive home to drink their birth year of Vintage Port. Alcohol is strong but dried sour cherry fruits and lilacs balance out this well aged but can last another 40 years wine. (Or am I hoping that I last another 40 years???) #bottlerock #warres #birthyearwine — 8 years ago

with Pierre

Robin Collins

9.5

Cherry Blossom Festival — 9 years ago

Jake Hajer

9.1

Bright and upfront in the nose. Fried-salted chili, toasted rice, light game (light as in, pheasant). Exotic blend of grapes, but somehow...tastes just like a blend of them, savory cherry of Syrah, leather-earth tannins of Mourvèdre, with a gush of funky blackberry fruit ala touriga national. Balanced. Have no idea how it will age, but I’d be interested to see. — 5 years ago

Tom Garland

9.3

Cheers! National drink wine day(Feb 18) so we must imbibe!!!!
3 hour decant (some chunky/cloudy sediment). A deep dark garnet color. On the nose: cherry, crushed rock, blackberry, floral, ending with creme brulee. Taste: Rich with round tannins, black fruit, licorice, tar, and a chocolate graphite medium plus finish......drinking well but it could use just a few more years to fully come together. — 6 years ago

with Brenda

James Forsyth

9.0

Crystal cherry and in inner sweetness. Quite good, I think. But served way too warm that it wasn’t a pleasant experience. At the National Arts Club in NYC. — 7 years ago

Karyn Fricke

9.2

This vintage is classic Pinot Noir, pretty light red color, cherry and strawberry fruit and just a touch earthy. Had to have it on National Pinot Noir Day! — 7 years ago

Shay A

9.1

Brief tasting notes from the annual Fort Worth Food & Wine Festival. Whites knocked it out of the park this year.

Nice surprise running in to @Ron Yates at the festival tonight! @Shawn R , we spoke about you!

A very unique blend...Tempranillo, graciano, merlot, Cabernet. Nose is very fruit focused with bing cherry and blackberries, but the palate is quite Bordeaux like. Picked up some herbal nuances, leather, and lighter than I expected. I’ve heard Ron makes great wine so this was my first intro...looking forward to trying more! — 8 years ago

with Ron

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.2

Happy National Wine Day! This producer was of interest to me after seeing Carla's post a couple of weeks ago. I don't find many good Pinot's out of Germany. Especially, out of Mosel. I've never understood why they persist in growing Pinot in a very marginal climate in blue slate when it prefers limestone. After researching this Baden producer, I purchased a bottle through the app. I like to support them from time to time. In reading about Enderle & Moll, I found that the winery is really only the two of them that make a very small production of wines. Basically, two Grand Cru Pinots and this is one of them. They also produce some small amounts of; Müller-Thurgau, Auxerrois, Weissburgunder and Grauburgunder. They only have a few hectares of vines but are already getting a lot of attention in Germany and now the International stage. A number of German's consider them the best producers of Pinot Noir made in Germany. The Enderle & Moll Pinot vines are amongst the oldest in Baden. They also get their barrels from Dujac in Burgundy that are from 1-5 years in age. On the nose, sweet dark cherries with a little touch of sourness. Strawberries, dark raspberries, dry cranberries, black cherry licorice/cola, light presence of dark spices, dry brown earth with a touch of black earth and bright red florals. The body starts light, fresh and thickens as the M tannins and earth take hold. Ripe, bright fruits of; dark cherries, strawberries, dry cranberries, dark raspberries & pomegranate. Black cherry cola/licorice, light dark spices with some heat, powdery sticky chalkiness, soft yet grippy minerals, powder of dry crushed rocks, dark moist earth & bright red & pink florals. The wine is lean, fresh, clean and quite nice with high acidity. While I had slightly higher expectations from my research, this is still a very nice Pinot and certainly one of the better ones I've had out of Germany. Photos of, one of their Baden vineyards, Sven Enderle and Florian Moll, their very small cellar and a example of Bunter sandstone similar to what's in their Buntsandstein Vineyard. — 8 years ago