Joe Santiago

9.0

Aromas of lavender and currant, and hint of cranberry linger after. Quite yummy. — 4 years ago

Amanda Fritts

9.5

A wonderful, effervescent dry rose blend. A little funky and fruity; a great drink for warmer weather. — 5 years ago

Ron R

9.3

Boys night out. OS in the house. 16 is good to go. Previous vintages pip this, but no complaints. — 6 years ago

with Mo

David Kline

9.5

Central Standard Brewing “Contrails” wild ale w peaches. LTD Release Ale 2018
Antique gold, just-opaque with low foam and unlaced. Briny, funky, pickle-y peaches, with a pickled persimmon side hustle. Cherry pip and crabapple with old black pepper aromas. Pickled lemon, orange and lime coat the surfacing pickled peach with cloves and leek. — 6 years ago

Robert Lott

9.0

Nice Syrah... full bodied. Nice nose and lingering fruit. Good with red meat!! — 7 years ago

with Jacques, Jenny and 3 others

Jennifer Bristow

8.9

Nice drinkable red — 8 years ago

Scott Taddeo

9.4

Woah. Hit this up as a bit of a refresher on Spain but it didn't really typify Tempranillo. Thankfully it was delicious. Indian mulberry, cherry pip, spice, jasmine, raw meat and slightly sweet oak. Exotic to smell and delicious to drink, expansive with brisk acidity and grippy tannin profile. I'd drink a lot more temp if all was like this. — 9 years ago

Katie

9.0

Solid merlot — 4 years ago

Andrew Holod

National Sales Grapes of Spain

9.4

Vibrant, limpid, ruby. Initial nose of cranberry, bitter raspberry pip, irony mineral tones, tea roses. With air gains a pomegranate and slight beety note as well as some petrichor. Energetic palate with lively acidity. A good foil to salmon cakes with homemade tarragon mayo and Yukon golds persillade. — 5 years ago

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9.1

As usual, this is the one dry Hexamer wine to perpetuate the tradition of Prädikat, and that is done solely to satisfy the Norwegian importer who takes all of it. (All to one country, yes; but this has become a high-volume cuvée by estate standards.) The fruit comes from the Eisendell as well as from a site known as Grosser Stein for the huge stone that marked the boundary between the holdings of the Rheingrafen (counts) and those of the Disibodenberg monastery. Picked nearly a month earlier than was the highly-impressive 2016, this weighs-in at 11.9% alcohol, and that shows in an attractive sense of levity and spring vis-à-vis Hexamer’s other dry Rieslings of this vintage. Fresh lime, apple, piquant aromas as well as a juicy, crisp-edged and pip-tinged presence on the glossy palate serve for penetrating. Subtly bitter but cooling and stimulating notes of melon rind compound the sense of crunch and piquancy while lovely, bittersweet inner-mouth perfume adds allure. The combination of vivacity and refreshment with floral and mineral intrigue renders the buoyant, bell-clear, seriously-sustained finish next-sip compelling. (David Schildknecht, Vinous, April 2019) — 6 years ago

MaJ CappS

8.9

This nose cones on slowly, smokily..

Dark fruits here - lots of seeded - pip action. Roasted violets, crushed pomegranate, complete with rind and pith. High acid fruits slap those first fruit thoughts right out of the glass. Bing cherry and jolly rancher fruits soar with the acidity in how this ends.

Last wine smuggled back from Chile.
Santiago Wine Club.. — 7 years ago

Andrew Holod

National Sales Grapes of Spain

9.3

Deeply concentrated, quite inky color. Primary, embryonic notes of cassis, bitter apple pip, black fruits. The tannin structure is firm, chalky, long. Needs time and will improve. — 8 years ago

Joh Tang

8.9

Fruity floral on the nose. Smooth finish. Enjoyed with rib eye steak — 9 years ago

Rena karefa-johnson

10

So yummy. Dark amber and dry. Wine Colleen and Pip brought over — 5 years ago

Alexas Hills

8.9

Smooth and medium body. Plum — 5 years ago

Josh Morgenthau

9.2

Totally unique green apple pip and sea spray aromas. Grassy and mineral and salty and acidic in nice proportion with a hint of marzipan. Medium body and good concentration and a supple long finish. Not harshly acidic like the red collares I’ve tried, nor as floral as I’d expect from a Malvasia. Like a young savagnin grown on the beach. Would love to try this bottle in several years. — 6 years ago

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9.5

Lily perfume on the nose of this Hermannshöhle reminds me both of the corresponding 2016 and of this year’s Kirschheck. That is accompanied by ripe, fresh and high-toned, distillate-like notes of pear and quince. The glossy palate is lusciously fruited, billowingly perfumed, as well as seductively glossy and creamy in texture. Piquancy of pear pip and hints of anise add counterpoint, while fresh grapefruit and white peach contribute welcomed bright juiciness en route to a ravishingly-sustained, impeccably-balanced finish. The covering term “mineral” will for now have to serve the strikingly transparent finish, which becomes more intriguing the longer the wine takes on air. (David Schildknecht, Vinous, April 2019) — 6 years ago

Steve Rielly

8.9

Pale straw in colour, autumnal leaf/grass notes.
Phenolic/bitterness balances a dry palate and white stone fruit pip. Glycerol/Flabby texture from ripe/alcoholic fruit.
Medium bodied, ripe and dry style for day drinking. Delicious with Spicy Ahi Poke bowl. — 7 years ago

Paulo Faria

9.2

Love the 2008 vintage — 8 years ago

Eric Egan

9.1

Orange zest
Orange peel
Orange pip
Orange juice
Orange flower
Orange tree
— 9 years ago