37th Parallel

Pinot Noir 2012

Eric Walczykowski

9.6

Perfect pair with wild king salmon! Hint of cherries with silky finish. Thank you Ron Barrington. — 10 years ago

Parallel

Black Diamonds Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2009

Scott Shone

9.5

Very smooth — 10 years ago

Parallel 44 Vineyard and Winery

F2 Frontenac Foch

Ashley Nicole

9.0

Great with steaks! — 11 years ago

Parallel Forty Four

vignoles

Nicole Treder

Sweet but not too sweet — 12 years ago

Château Cheval Blanc

St. Émilion Red Bordeaux Blend 1986

Carl Steefel

9.8

Informal gathering to drink some Bordeaux varietal bottles with steak.

1986 Cheval Blanc: This one showed suspect ullage, to the point where it had been hard to flip it. And in the end, it did turn out to be a controversial wine--was the orgasm 40 days, or was it 36 days? Hard to say... An extraordinary wine, classic in its own way, with fragrant dark flower and black cassis aromas wafting from the glass, and maybe more importantly for us, exploding in the mouth. Some of the more ordinary adjectives, like "smooth" and "balanced", are accurate enough, but obviously don't do this one justice. One could do a fluid dynamical description of the time evolution of this wine in the mouth, a broad attack that gave way in about 3 seconds to a sensation of acceleration and flaring across the entire breadth of the palate as the wine detonated, an oenological version of a jet... And then a persistent finish where the inner mouth perfume resonates as it fades slowly (or simply moved off to some parallel universe). — 10 years ago