Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

So damn good. There is so much elite wine in St. Joseph. Nose is stunning, layered and complex. Like if Sozet made St. Joseph. Olive, gamey meats, mint, dead fresh leaves. Red and black berry fruit. So complex. Deep and ethereal. Amazing fruit intensity. Lipstick like intensity. Palate is masterful. Gorgeous purity, texture and balance. So so juicy and terrific finesse. Just so loosey goosey on the palate. So juicy. Wow. Awesome velvety tannins. Showing youthful, accessible exuberance. Just so good. To be classic, old school, playful and accessible is something. So so precise. This always gets better with air. 9.5 for now. As this airs it gets more structured and the tannins become more prominent but so does the freshness. Concentrated and so so sappy. — 5 years ago

Dawn E.

9.2

This wine is really nice and represents more of an "old school" style of CS. Dark berry fruit is present but not the star! Earth and minerals mingle nicely...pencil lead..eucalyptus..leather..
Cola..Bakers chocolate..oak.& cherry compote!
90 min decant. — 6 years ago

Frank Chen

9.3

Only 2nd example of Cote route I’ve had...enticing baked fruit notes...solid concentration dark/red fruit green shah driven herbs and old school meaty undertone ...I need more!! Extremely well balanced — 7 years ago

Hernan Hernandez

9.0

Really good Zin. Went perfect with grilled food. — 8 years ago

Ron Siegel

9.3

Classic old school style CDP with red & black cherry, kirsch, smoked meats, black olive, pepper, licorice, garrigue & violets. This was ripe styled, full bodied, open & approachable. — 8 years ago

Pinotman /// Andreas

9.4

Stunning 90% Sangiovese! Not a super tuscan like many other reviews tell you! This is an awesome old school producer who bailed out of the Italian system. Hence he cannot call his wines Chianti. Very elegant and plenty of cherry 🍒 notes left. To bad it cost so much. From Max Kogod in North San Diego county. — 8 years ago

Doug Griffin

9.2

Old school in style with some age on it. Cassis, oak, dusty and some green pepper. — 5 years ago

Skip Smyser

9.2

Best of the Zion’s here — 6 years ago

Ron Siegel

9.3

A wine that I have had many times in the past few years. Classic old school Bordeaux that offers red & black fruits, cedar, leather, licorice & tobacco. No rush on well stored btls. — 6 years ago

Bradley Brown

Owner/Winemaker Big Basin Vineyards

9.4

Voluptuousness and still vibrant and alive 25 years in. Old school going strong — 8 years ago

Robert Rothfield

9.4

Beautiful old school cab.....perfectly balanced, velvety smooth — 8 years ago

Doctor No

9.1

Wow. This is young, and the nose is a bit of dark red berry suffusing a sea of resolving American Oak. The American oak is so pronounced that, had I tasted this blind, I might have taken it for Ridge... :) This has decades ahead, even if -only- a Riserva. Like La Rioja Alta 904, a fantastic value in old school Rioja... — 8 years ago

Edmond Bordelon

9.5

Philip Togni has been making wine the old school way on Spring Mountain for many years. Working the Napa / Sonoma wineries since the 60's. Lower in alcohol but very balanced. Tradition means a lot, and pride in product shows in their amazing wines. — 9 years ago

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Jeremy Shanker

Sommelier at RN74

9.1

Old school style of CDP. Reminds me of Burgundy. — 6 years ago

Dan R

8.9

One of the best BDX QPR killers, never disappoints. The 2012 isn't quite there yet, quite linear and still tight, but the cassis / blackberry backbone is there, as well as an herbal scrub midpalate and pencil lead finish. Maybe not the deepest or broadest vintage, but quite enjoyable nonetheless, and at less than €20, tough to find a better true expression of old school BDX. Give it a year or two before checking back in, this won't have the legs of a classic vintage, but should provide great pleasure relatively soon. — 6 years ago

Mike Obley

9.5

Oh yea, old school cab! — 7 years ago

Jo Anne B

9.2

It’s been so long I forgot how good this is. Also great at continuing to numb the tattoo pain in your leg. 🔪💉🔪💉 — 7 years ago

Ron Siegel

9.4

Great vintage for GL just a point or two below their 82 showing an old school styled Bordeaux with black berry, red currant, cedar, leather, damp soil, mineral, dried herbs, soy, mineral, sweet tobacco & cigar ash. — 8 years ago

Colin Nuckolls

9.4

Prototypical old school cote rotie. Drinking well. — 8 years ago

Tom Casagrande

9.0

Old school! Nose is SweeTart cherry, dry gravel, and a dried floral note. Lean and crisp in the mouth, so cleansing with food. Long pure clingy finish.

Fuck McConnell, the Human Turtle. — 8 years ago