Olive Brook

Paul Jaboulet Aîné

Domaine de Thalabert Crozes-Hermitage Syrah 2009

Fab Crozes Hermitage @ £37 & best I’ve had in this Yum year - superb value right here 👏 Better straight from bottle 👍

🍷 Deep opaque ruby

👃 Rich spiced & smoked dark berry, black cherry & raspberry w/ a light sweet oak tone, gravel, violet, minerals, olive tapenade & earthy red liquorice

👄 Med+ bodied jammy dark fruits w/ raspberry/strawberry liquorice peppery kick

🎯 Med+ touch dry dark fruit & red spiced liquorice

Great buy 👍
— 8 years ago

Chris, Eric and 29 others liked this

Paul Jaboulet Aîné

La Chapelle Hermitage Syrah 1996

Incredible. Jaboulet family apparently inconsistent in final years of ownership, but this one had everything. So dense still, with lots of kalamata olive, olive brine, cherry, blackberry, black pepper, leather, cured meat, earth. Savory, sweet, powerful, elegant, hit every end of the taste spectrum. Super long. In magnum — 9 years ago

Domaine du Pegau

Cuvée Réservé Châteauneuf-du-Pape Red Rhone Blend 2004

V complex but elegant nose- kirsch, herbs and olive with loads of meaty dark flavours. let down only by the high alcohol — 10 years ago

Saltram

Mamre Brook Cabernet Sauvignon 2012

Chalky, tannic cab. Oak is nicely integrated, body med plus. — 11 years ago

Shob Brook Wines

Romanee Tuff by Tommy Ruff Syrah

Unfined, unfiltered 2014 vintage.
Chamaleontic, funky drop.
Nose dominated by black olives in brine, preserved plum, soy sauce, balsamic, black forest fruits, cinnamon, clove, bay leaf.
Elegant palate, tannin in place and refreshing acidity with a good length.
Barossa meets the Rhone.
Amusing, intriguing and delicious.
— 11 years ago

Alain Graillot

La Guiraude Crozes-Hermitage Syrah

Olive, smoke, beautiful older Syrah aromas, seamless on palate, just wonderful wine!! — 12 years ago

Mark and Dan liked this
Doug Powers

Doug Powers

It's the 1989.

The Wild Olive

Old Vines Chenin Blanc 2016

Super good. Needs to be super cold. Buy this again and he label is sooo cute — 8 years ago

Robert Piazza
with Robert
Robert liked this
Robert Piazza

Robert Piazza

Good for a white. Terrible as a red.

Domaine Jean-Louis Chave

Offerus Saint-Joseph Syrah 2010

Really tannic (the hard stemmy type), dark, olive, lavender, rather dense. Either needs more time in bottle or less stems in the cuve — 10 years ago

Cayuse Vineyards

En Chamberlin Vineyard Syrah 2011

John Osborne
9.0

Lovely cool vintage St.-Joseph-ish style; black olive, sage & lavender layered over blueberries and bitter cherries. Bright and fresh, but you can find just as good for way less in the northern Rhône. — 10 years ago

Domaine Vincent Paris

Granit 60 Vieilles Vignes Cornas Syrah 2013

Intensely peppery, black fruit, olive, game. — 11 years ago

Tim liked this

Château La Mission Haut-Brion

Pessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend 1966

Classic and great vintage of La Mish. Deep dark color, very aromatic nose of black fruits, with smoky, tarry, tobacco, leather, black olive, basalmic, soy, cedar and saddle leather. Still drinking young and long finish reaching full maturity. Just an amazing wine! — 11 years ago

Jesse and John liked this

Rene Rostaing

Ampodium Côte-Rôtie Syrah 2010

Black pepper green olive gorgeous syrah — 12 years ago

Diana and Mo liked this

Castello del Poggio

Provincia di Pavia Moscato

At home. Great Moscato. Served at Olive Garden. Sweet and refreshing. A go-to favorite. — 13 years ago

Domaine Alain Voge

Les Chailles Cornas Syrah 2012

Showing very young & primary with black cherry, meat & olive. — 9 years ago

Andres, Adam and 4 others liked this

Shob Brook Wines

Poolside by Tommy Ruff Syrah

13 June 2017. The Ten Bells, New York, NY. — 9 years ago

Opus One

Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Blend

2005 vintage. Blackberry, black cherry, earth, mushroom, black olive. M acid and body. M+ intensity, round tannin, finish and complexity. — 10 years ago

Domaine Jamet

Côte-Rôtie Syrah 1988

What? So good. All the olive and pepper and leather that you would expect and plenty of game and mushroom as well. I don't suppose I'll have another chance to taste this, so I'll have to rely on memory of something so delicious. — 11 years ago

David, jesus and 10 others liked this

Patrick Jasmin

Côte-Rôtie Syrah

Pascaline Lepeltier, MS
9.2

Nori and black olive and more nori — 11 years ago

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Bernard Levet

La Chavaroche Côte-Rôtie Syrah

Justin Timsit, MS
9.2

Smoke, olive. Truffle, blackberry. Completely secondary. Gorgeous. — 11 years ago

Eric liked this

Wallace Brook Cellars

Willamette Valley Pinot Noir 2011

Drinking at black cat with Eva Mendez and Ryan gosling — 13 years ago