Courtney Walker

9.5

A heavy charcuterie silver platter is served with baked honey ham, cured Spanish jamon, blood red chorizo, and smoked maple bacon. Hints of cinnamon, sweet paprika, basil leaf, gunpowder pepper, and cloves simmer on moist tobacco coloring zesty notes of ruby grapefruit, mandarin orange peel, soft kiwi hair, and peach fuzzed suede ~ buttered leather and flint coos as baby's breath on your nose.
Sandalwood and cedar patina the long legs of this elegant Blue Crane of a wine as it slowly grazes the river waters of the Indian Ocean. Nursed and balanced by the terroir of South African trade winds this purple warrior has flawless camouflage. Formal enough to serve the Master of War yet humble enough to grace the tongue of seraphim. The glass illuminates a select spectrum of mollusk purples and violets that have to be seen with the naked eye alone. Sublime in deed and grape. — 10 years ago

Rebecca Hopkins

PR Folio Fine Wine Partners

9.6

2.2% alcohol deeply ibtense aromas deeply intense pure wildflower honey high tone patina & incredibly long finish. — 10 years ago

Nicholas Livingston

9.4

This vintage is nothing to scoff at. Red Wing boots patina SO well -wabisabi lives on! All that aside: even a twelve year old Alsatian Pinot Gris is stunning with chamomile, apricots and poached pears and wildflower honey... — 12 years ago

Ben de Vin

9.1

Patina - light to medium body, plenty of fruit, perfect oak - 7 years age seems about right. Delicious. — 11 years ago

Joseph LaPanna

9.9

This was one of those OMG wine moments. Dude, this wine abides. Dude, this wine really pulls the room together. This wine is the DUDE! Inky black, cork stained to the core; I could sign my name with it. Explosive aromas of dried flowers, roasted plums and smoked meat followed by a mouthful of dark chocolate covered cherries, cinnamon and a woodsy patina. Finishes with gobs of bacon fat and silky tannins! — 11 years ago