Daniil Karp

8.9

Neon yellow in color with bright flavors and high acidity. Topical fruit and pineapple flavors with a grassy green finish. — 7 years ago

Mason Balistreri

Sommelier, International Wine Guild; Balistreri Vineyard; Sales, Joy Wine and Spirits

9.0

Unfiltered and shimmering neon red! Wild, expressive and lean without the austerity. Very nice and fresh. Very natural tasting — 8 years ago

Ted

9.5

Super color almost neon purple. Fresh rich earth, cigar tobacco, maybe iron/hints of blood?? — 8 years ago

with Jeni

Martin Frowde

8.9

Dry rose, almost neon pink colour with pretty clementine (?) nose. Nice thick mouthfeel with juicy taste of raspberry and oranges that has just the right amount of acidity. Clearly benefitted from a good vintage but comes recommended and is good value. — 8 years ago

with Georgina

Nelson Fitch

9.0

Nice and neon. — 9 years ago

Diedra West

9.0

Diedra had this 9 years ago

Keith Levenberg

9.3

I went through several Barolos/Barbarescos this week and going on to this is as seamless a transition as you can imagine. The resemblance is uncanny, although there is a noticeable purely optic difference--the color of this wine is a neon-bright magenta, almost Beaujolais-like. That leads to super-pure fruit on the palate (not showing even a bit of its oak) but the main thing I find remarkable here is the textural refinement. It starts out soft and satiny even though the grape variety's typically strong tannins build up and firm up the wine on the back end. — 9 years ago

Rikki Iglesias

8.9

2014-wet-juicy-neon-yes! — 9 years ago

Amanda Crawford

President Spectrum Wine Auctions

9.4

Goddamit this is good. Focused, lazers, neon, powerful, elegant. Don't think just drink. — 9 years ago

Sam Zavari

9.2

Neon pee colour, over ripe nectarine and heaps of honey. Great length. Too good. $35 — 10 years ago

Laura Guzman

9.5

Just what I've come to expect from a really lively Rioja: drinkable on its eon but robust enough to stand up to heartier foods like a good chicken dish, pasta with meat sauce, even pizza. — 10 years ago

Bonnie Chu

9.0

Bright yellow, almost neon. Jolly rancher and a lil sulphuric. Rich honey on the palate. P&M from France. — 7 years ago

Nate Miles

9.2

Ok I may get it, now. A year ago this was all knees and elbows, tonight it was white flowers, upon opening. After an hour, the wine has blossomed into this neon melon peachy goodness. Really delicious. — 7 years ago

Christanna Honer

8.9

The color of this tickles me--a bright, almost neon pink. Nose takes me straight to strawberry-kiwi starburst. Lemon oil and gravelly mineral notes. Palate is juicy, oily, and a bit grippy. — 8 years ago

Rob McCaughey

8.9

Monday club - blue/black fruit, eucalyptus, neon — 8 years ago

Jimmy Hayes

Estate Director Mayacamas Vineyard

9.5

Disgorged 10/10/12. Super wine. Neon golden color in the glass. Beautiful fine bead. So much going on, banana, brioche, apple tart, marzipan, hazelnut. Really big, but super sharp. — 9 years ago

Mark Eastom

9.2

Neon color, Earthy/brambly fruit, boysenberry, cola, licorice, horseradish and a hint of dust on the nose. Bright tart fruit, pomegranate, fruit juice, cranberry and med to med minus tannin. Really cool wine at 12% alcohol. Wish I had some food. — 9 years ago

Matt Wilson

9.1

So clean and pure. Neon-bright, pristine red fruit. Beneath that, hay and wet pavement. Perfect acidity, to say this wine is easy-drinking would be a massive understatement. Made under the watchful eye of Alsatian guru André Ostertag with biodamically grown grapes. — 9 years ago

with Nadia

Ted

9.0

Love the color. Almost neon purple. Very tasty. Thanks Elie and Todd — 10 years ago

Alder Yarrow

Wine Blogger Vinography

8.9

Very pretty with an earthiness amidst the lemon neon. — 10 years ago

Erin Pooley

Owner/Winemaker Good Luck Wines

9.3

Colour neon like Halloween lights! — 12 years ago

with Alexis

Eric

9.6

Dig it. All the trademark Buccella traits like plush candied oak with a Rhone skeleton of wild game and pepper. Cool neon purple too. Looks like they got a new winemaker in -15? Fingers crossed. — 7 years ago

Ted

9.0

I love the color of this wine. Deep neon purple. Soft tannins and so easy to drink. You could sit on the couch all day with this while watching Jaws or The Martian. @Todd Abrams told me he thought it was great idea and would do the same. — 8 years ago

Keith Levenberg

9.2

This is so neon-bright in the glass that I could easily have taken it for Beaujolais. The magenta color is practically glowing. But once you take a whiff, we're clearly in Chinon, as you get a big smack of tobacco and funky earth scents. On the palate it combines both personalities. It's oozing with bright, primary fruit but not in that generic natural wine "fresh and juicy" fashion - while it's definitely vibrant (and needs a heavy shake to ditch its CO2), it has a rich, saucy density and the fresh fruit isn't here at the expense of the classic Chinon funk. — 8 years ago

Petter P

9.3

The colour of neon blood, it’s a powerfull and juicy wine with a deep blueberry and fig nose. The high alcohol is controlled by a backbone of tannins. Big flavours with blackberry, vanilla and dark fruit with chocolate fudge in the long finish. A julio iglesias kind of wine. — 9 years ago

Kelly Hulme

9.5

I always get a tinge of anxiety when I taste the new vintage of an old favorite. Thankfully d'Oupia is still delicious. A little more austere and bigger/bolder than a Provence rose, but this one hits all the marks for me, including its on-trend nearly neon pink color. "Drink me"!! — 9 years ago

Mason Balistreri

Sommelier, International Wine Guild; Balistreri Vineyard; Sales, Joy Wine and Spirits

9.5

Extremely impressive and opulent wine - the wine is extremely thick and almost glows with this neon purple hue. On the nose, there is plenty of creamy oak, but the wine maker has preserved some of the stress and menthol notes coming off the high altitude. The mouthfeel is as full bodied as anything, with not detectable heat. Good amounts of layered fruit and a slight touch of minerality moves into HUGE, scructured and long tannins. This wine is single vineyard and impressive. I would argue that it is better than anything Camus, Silver Oak or any of the other big name Napa guys do for the price. — 9 years ago

with Raymond

Céline Kiermeier

9.2

2007 vintage ... Juno snowstorm night ... Loads of flavor, neon green color — 9 years ago

Philip Carpenter

Founder/Educator santabarbarawinetalk.com

9.1

Beautiful neon gold. Straw, lime peel, green herbs (chive?), ripe pineapple, wet stone. A nice roundness to go with gravely acid. Rather consistent nose/palate. As it warms, weight picking up, getting waxy from roussanne. Complexity picking up. Some wet oak showing up in nose. Good stuff... — 10 years ago

Alder Yarrow

Wine Blogger Vinography

9.7

Neon apricot honeycomb explosion. — 10 years ago