Pours a pale green yellow color with lifted apricot, almond skin, wet stone, floral and lemon aromas. On the palate it's medium-bodied, and dry with ample fruit nicely balanced with bright lemony acidity, and
apricot, white peach, lemon, and lime flavors underscored with minerality, and a lingering lip-smacking finish.
From a vineyard planted in 1963, which has a little Sylvaner interplanted in it, which the owner Pat Wirz calls by the name indigenous to California “Franken Riesling.” The wine was fermented with native yeast in a neutral oak upright tank and aged for 6 months on lees prior to bottling
According to Morgan Twain-Peterson..."More Heiligenstein than Graacher Himmelriech, more Riquevillean than Sharzhofian...not sure what all that means, but it's wonderful! — 10 years ago
Tokyo airport after PAT and Fudan. — 10 years ago
With my lovely wife Lenora and our friend Pat on New Year's Eve — 11 years ago
Yeast, sour cherries, acid. Palette cleanser. Interest+ — 11 years ago
Pat Claire and Melissa like this! 12/13 — 12 years ago
Velvety and spicy and Silky — 12 years ago
Ļoti izteikts saldens svaigi ceptas maizes garozas aromāts, garšā mazliet rūgtens, viens pats pat labāks, nekā kopā ar suši. Vērts atkārtot (laikam no Sky). — 13 years ago
Very dark fruit forward smell, bold dry forward and smooth finish that lingers... heavy, dark, dry 🍷😊 — 10 years ago
On a roll with me down under buddies. Y'all know how I feel about Pat Sullivan. Like a juicy clementine being rubbed into yer gums. Magic. I've got to go on to a tasting sesh after this with Tutto and Gergovie; already in no fit state. Updates coming up. — 10 years ago
Had it with the winemaker: a vehement and honest French ex-pat who sources grapes from a couple of plots in the much-lauded Alto Cachapoal. Without touching the acidity or manipulating the alcohol, Machalí is elegant and poised, having precise aromas and complexity, but miles away from that über-common chocolate. — 10 years ago
Dinner part ash pat. Everyone loved. Low budget high taste. — 11 years ago
Please had this 11 years ago
Pat likes it alot. I'm not impressed. — 12 years ago
Nice I really Iike this totally earthy like the equivalent of a northern brewer hop mint or Julip. — 12 years ago
Really enjoyed this one — 12 years ago
Utopium is a delicious wine from Cassata-Sonoma in the Sonoma Valley. Wonderful family owned winery producing amazing wines! Thanks Pat! — 13 years ago
Pat and I both loved this Cabernet Sauvignin. Good complexity and layers of tobacco and spice and earthiness. — 11 years ago
Pat Mc Lean discovered cannot buy unless at winery — 11 years ago
Lovely white wine from Waterkloof received as a gift from Pat and Trevor Jones. Great Chardonnay well balanced with a long buttery finish — 11 years ago
Thanks Pat and Jackie
Fall is finally in the air — 11 years ago
Deeelicious! — 12 years ago
Received as a birthday gift from Susan and Pat. From Total Wine. Comparable to Rombauer. — 13 years ago
Jim Trobaugh
This is so good! Thanks Pat for sharing! — 9 years ago