Simon Lowzy

8.9

Needs a good breathe. After an hour of carafe starts showing orchard fruit blossom, savory honeycomb, wax paper, crunchy pear and pollen. Precise and lean attack. Long finish with wet steal, wet wool, and finishes nutty. Carrot juice and sweet potato on the early finish. Was really disappointed upon opening. Glad I gave it some time to open up. — 7 years ago

Ted

9.0

Nice easy drinker from a paper cup. This is killing time at a swim meet in Holland MI. — 7 years ago

Hasan Mannan

9.0

A lot of earth, tobacco and mushroom! Great smell old news paper. Taste was deep but not long. Great price for a good bottle. — 8 years ago

Lea Verou

9.0

Chilling after paper deadline. I'm a free person again! — 8 years ago

with Chris

Josh Bernitt

8.9

Nose of dry fruit, similar to a port. Very smooth, continues with the dried fruit flavors in the taste. Dry. This is a very fun and unique Pinot. — 8 years ago

Clark Mollenhoff

9.2

Tastes like the paint we used in art class in third grade. The big glops you would squeeze out onto paper plates for mixing. Delicious!!! — 8 years ago

Gabriel

9.3

Paper anniversary. This wine is so good — 9 years ago

Nicholas Livingston

9.2

Interesting to sip a Pouilly Fumé Cuvée Silice from one of the most trusted values in the region at such an age. While she's in the repose of her twilight years she's not merely a beauty of a bygone time but instead lively and lovely whose company rewards whoever has a chance afternoon with her. Who would ever credit Sauvignon Blanc even one of this crystalline emerald variety as a wine that might take an age in a cool cellar? 13 years! Even through the crazing crows' feet these eyes shine brightly and despite how cray paper skin drapes over the cheek bones of Sauvignon Blanc, this is still nimble and pulses with lives yet to live -not merely memories to regale its audience of how things once were, what she once was or could have been. Honeycomb, lemon curd, nettles wilting in grassy green olive oil, and then the lime leaves...so familiar and yet always exotic of distant shores and climates so far from this northern land of four resolute seasons. As to ratings: how can any of us quantify sensual pleasures really. This was a joy no matter how you cut it and yet given my surprise at Sauvignon Blanc at 13 years on still having so much to say I cannot speak highly enough. The Blanchets do it again! — 9 years ago

Anne Zmuda

8.9

Has an almost carbonated taste. Very fruity — 9 years ago

Alexa Rose

9.3

Cutting paper. — 10 years ago

with Glen and Jim

Chas Worley

9.9

Opens on the nose with Mother Earth and a taste of licorice. Then ends with a wisp of blackberry. After 30 minutes it planes out to a very smooth and enjoyable offering with a nice long finish. — 11 years ago

David Kline

9.4

Raspberry, dried blackberry and cedar form a distinct potpourri when considered with the dried rose petal and orange bitters. There is a fleeting fruitiness that approaches strawberries dropped into a coniferous fire. Lovely, if firm tannins support a whale of a wine. Amazing depth with Roobios tea leafs, tobacco, graphite, bay leaf, bing cherry, dried black cherry and black currants on carbon paper and campfire ash, driven deep into a charred wormwood and dusty schist. This is an incredible Nebbiolo that over-delivers in every sense! #piedmontesewines #nebbiolo #nebbiololover #nebbiololife #nebbiolodalba #alba #Demarie #piedmont #babybarolo #italianred #Italianwine — 7 years ago

with Courtney

Conrad Green

9.1

On the nose bell paper and tangy red fruit. Lovely fresh fruit on the palate. Good acidity and a punch of green. Long. Young but fun. — 8 years ago

with Gregg

Yuriy Roman

9.6

Will become a great proctologist. Congrats Dr. Hunt on our first Science paper!! — 8 years ago

April Wang

9.1

Medium lemon. Lemon, menthol, mint, bruised apple, paper pulp, beeswax. Medium plus acidity, medium minus sugar, medium alcohol — 8 years ago

Stephen Howell

Cellarbrations at Cottesloe Western Australia, Certified Specialist of Wine (CSW)

9.5

The colour is still youthful, power aplenty and the typical spicy/musky tones aren't hiding away. The fruit flavour is just spectacularly rich and still fresh, it travels seamlessly into a super long finish that....... I don't know.... But this is a wine to muse over. Outstanding short term rewards for little $$
This paper work wasn't so dull after all. :) — 8 years ago

Greg Ballington

Co-Founder of Millennial Drinkers Wine Blog

9.1

Dark, opaque brick red. Clear. Moderate plus intensity in the color, compact rim, and no sediment. Wine breathed in bottle for 3 hrs. Very interesting nose, never would have guessed a Bordeaux Blend. Starts off with chocolate filled with alcohol. Lots of black cherries, vanilla, baking spices and dried fruit. A little savory on the palate and drying. A tad sweet too. Moderate body with moderate tannins (6/10). Texture is kind of like sand paper. Long finish. Nose was a little of putting for me. Would love to try this with more air time. — 8 years ago

with Sean

Gary Fenstra

9.0

The 2012 is not the Trader Joe's version mentioned in 2009 reviews. We are loving the balance between the fruit and butterscotch finish, which comes through in a Hampton Inn paper cup. — 9 years ago

Adam Stokes

8.9

Dark ruby colour. Aromas of red berry, maybe blackberry, cigar box and paper. Low (though more than some) residual sugar. Medium fruits and acid, relatively high tannin. Full bodied red that is well balanced with a bit of a punch and reasonable length. — 9 years ago

Cleora Campbell

Manager K&L Wine Merchants

9.3

Cleora had this 10 years ago

Cynthia Selzer

9.3

Pick up on vacation to Sawmill Creek Resort A sweet Riesling but not to sweet l — 11 years ago

Gary Westby

Champagne & Sherry buyer K&L Wines

9.6

Patrick Arnould passed over 2009 & 2010, but decided to make this 2011- a strange decision on paper. This all old-vine Pinot blanc de noir has it where it counts- in the bottle. Only 60 bottles for the USA, now 59. This seems lighter than past vintages, but still has that Nutella like hazelnut character that screams Verzenay. I will wait a year or two to have my next bottle for sure... But this long wine sure did go down easy last night! — 7 years ago

with Jim

David Kline

9.2

Dusty creek basin, dried raspberries, cranberries and rainier cherry contrast with sliced red plum, crepe paper, sunflower petal. Incredible depth and texture, with stony plum, dried black cherry, fig skin, powdery raspberry, dried violets, and a baked, black olive and red saffron aura. This is a fine burgundy, and at a price that makes you smile! — 7 years ago

with Courtney

Alexandra Clint

9.8

Jet planes, islands, tigers on a gold leash-- we don't care... — 8 years ago

with Anthony

Meg

9.1

Each week, my 2.5yr old twins have "homework" which requires picking household items that start with a given letter. This week is "I" (there's no "I" in team, or kicking off many household items that would fit in a paper bag and don't melt!). Anywho, It Inspired me to pop this reasonably priced late harvest (Icewine), which Is sweet, refreshing, and even elegant for a very reasonable price. I also included a DVD of Ice Castles - who doesn't love that movie?!?! That and Splendor in the Grass - they get me every. single. time. — 8 years ago

Mark K

10

Spectacular wine. Perfect in every way. Great nose perfect body perfect finish. Everything a chateauneuf du paper can be. — 8 years ago

Keith Levenberg

9.5

I've been hesitant to open this because the Tre Stelle was so challenging and this is supposedly the more structured of the two, but I shouldn't have been, as this is a wonderful and phenomenally easy-to-drink wine, about as friendly as young nebbiolo ever gets. If it is indeed more tannic than the Tre Stelle, that is only the case on paper as the structure is smoothed over by rich, very polished fruit that still has the gloss of youthfulness but whose flavors are well past the primary into savory and earthy territory with a sticky grip. It opens with a dazzlingly complex aromatic punch of herbs and a succulent meatiness, which quiets down soon enough but the wine never shuts down. The fruit is in crimson tones, plummy at first and then more towards apple skin hours later as it backs down from that initial generosity, but throughout the bottle it is full and plump, finishing with stony earth. I'm slightly tempted to call it autumnal just on account of the complexion but that doesn't seem to work because there is a very clear sense of freshness here. No leatheriness or other badges of oxidative aging that surface fairly often even in nebbiolos that I *like*: this bottle captured everything in pristine condition, making an exceptionally delicious wine with a robust inner core but a flawless veneer with no rough edges, brimming with generous, richly constituted nebbiolo goodness. — 9 years ago

Elliot Rosen

9.0

An easy drinker with flavors of ripe cherry and raisins and those sugar dots on paper (that I ate like crack as a kid). — 9 years ago

Steve Anderson

9.0

beautiful hand-blown bottle, handmade paper label, beeswax capsule. The good news is that the wine is every bit as nice as the bottle. A little reductive on the nose to start, but came around nicely. Lighter bodied, with spice and a bit of earth. — 10 years ago

Cynthia Selzer

9.6

Pick up on trip to sawmill creek vacation. Sweet, grape flavor w just a small bit — 11 years ago