Evan Bienstock

9.4

Double decanted and still needed an hr of swirling before letting us in. A puzzle still... This wine begs to be aged. — 6 years ago

jackie Hoff

9.0

Smooth mellow tasting wine with equal front and back end chill..... no bitterness or spicy notes noted... extremely mellow... great for a cold day and a puzzle — 7 years ago

Martin G Rivard

9.8

It’s in a gorgeous place right now. It’s drinking perfectly @Ted Mandes I found a pic of our missing wine puzzle piece!
lol!! What a night! — 7 years ago

with Kirk and Ted

David Kline

9.4

Brett is informing a ridiculously clean pickled apricot that is ethereal at best. But what an entry!l. Like basil in a box on a rainy day. Puzzle pieces. The palate pushes back with immediacy! Lemon grass. Lemon peel, jalapeño jellybean, pepper overwhelming orange, micro-orange, teardrop tomato, creamy pine with a fleur de sel touch. Indelible as a profound thought! #funkytown #bretty #brettomyces #farmstead #lime #dankbeer — 8 years ago

with Courtney

Katie Higgs

9.5

Purchased from Winc. We loved this wine. It went well with Thai food and politically charged discussions. — 9 years ago

Robin Cumine

9.0

A just reward for a day of strategic thinking and then puzzle solving at e escape. Beautiful wine and some incredible tapas. Cheers — 10 years ago

with Karen

Antoine Pin

Wine Buyer Kroger/QFC

9.1

Meaty and massive. Drinking VERY well. Perfect with a jigsaw puzzle. — 10 years ago

Scott Haywood

9.3

Great birthday dinner — 10 years ago

with Megan

Giampiero Nadali

Wine Blogger Aristide

9.2

Another tile of the #Lugana puzzle, this Zenato's selection extracts more concentration and elegant acidity and light sweetness. Awesome. — 11 years ago

Jameson Fink

Host Wine Without Worry podcast

9.0

Funky fun. A puzzle with constantly changing pieces. Unique. — 11 years ago

Jeff Hasmann

9.4

Beautiful! Like a complex jigsaw puzzle where all the pieces fit perfectly. Blackberry, cassis, Asian spice, and a touch of oak with a silky smooth palate. Perfectly integrated. The 2016 vintage was a bit riper than usual for the Shiraz, so this is drinking well now with a 2 hr decant,or cellar and revisit in 5 years. It’s good - really good! 2016 vintage on Jan 1, 2019 — 6 years ago

Joel Pennington #❤️🐢🍷

Owner/Winemaker Slow Turtle Vineyard

9.5

When you drink this @twoshepherdswine critically, you can see that William has mastered the art of balance - everything fits together like in a puzzle. It’s a thrill to have access to his wines, always a memorable experience. — 7 years ago

SV

9.0

Third bottle, continues to drink like a puzzle box, but in a good way. Starts difficult and frustrating, a little fizzy and definitely weird. After a couple of hours, and then hours more, the funk fades to the background and notes of violet and deeper tones of black pepper, black fruit and a gravely quality come through. A good example of a project wine that you may not want to take to dinner with friends, but instead enjoy by yourself over the course of a weekend. — 7 years ago

with Kelly

Dane Hoyt

9.1

Good sip while working a puzzle — 8 years ago

with Alan

Mike Madigan

9.2

A puzzle that demands you solve it... and you want to with its depth and dark, haunting disposition. This bottle is a reflection of love, of California's caress of wine life, growth-- texture and tannin with fearless fruit delivery. Plan around this offering, a dish with climates of flavor and charisma that match this Bordeaux vixen. — 8 years ago

Nancy Sabino

10

Excellent dark cherry, full body. — 9 years ago

Chris DeBarr

9.2

Bold maneuver by Joe Swick of co-fermenting Pinot Gris & Noir results in a pleasurable puzzle of a wine, like listening to Ornette Coleman get rid of chord changes, this wines interacts w perceptions at a radical pace. The Pinot Gris actually supplies more tannic chew that buzzes on the palate while the Noir presents a folk melody structure to wrap your mind around. The collision is rather haunting, and I can't wait to understand how it goes with food in surprising ways. I'm gonna glass this sucker at Americano! — 10 years ago

with Joseph

Alex Evans

9.4

Waaaay too young. Instead of decanting, waited a few days and by days 3/4 it was beautiful. — 10 years ago

Jamie Lee

10

Girls birthday dinner and puzzle night. Wine, cheese and bread. The whole shibang. Loved this wine! Fruity but not too sweet. It was very refreshing! — 11 years ago

with Sharon

Tiffany Bozovich

9.8

A née favorite! — 12 years ago

David Shaw

8.9

Stumbled on this at an Arizona wine festival when visiting Phoenix. Winegrowers aren’t sure if Arizona is a good locale for this variety, but God bless them they are trying to get the viticulture right. Pale white, excellent clarity. Citrus notes in nose with a hint of vegetal or green pepper. Rounded mouthfeel, orange, orange peel and melon flavors with minerality. Dry, lemon peel, lime and slight astringency in finish. Decent stuff. 192 cases made — 7 years ago

Emily Ward

9.1

Fizzy pink...in a can. Fizz disappears pretty quickly, but very picnic, beach or cloudy afternoon puzzle day worthy. Nice blend, dry, fruity, pretty and darn tasty. — 7 years ago

Peggy Hadley

8.9

In kalispell,MT. It’s truly a puzzle finding the right wine to fit every moment. — 7 years ago

with Jim

Roman Sukley

9.2

2001 Red Car “The Dreaming Detective” California Red Wine. “Unable to crack a tough case, the detective dreamed he fell out of a high window. He floated past a string of pearls, a jigsaw puzzle, a glass key. He drifted past a woman whose hair was ablaze with red rosebuds. She smiled, handed him a cracked mirror and said “pay attention to what you don’t see.” The next day he went to the crime scene and found the missing clue. He never told anyone about the dream.” I seem to recall that there were a series of these, but this chapter was hiding all by it’s lonesome in the back of the cellar. If anyone has the rest of the story, please report. The wine itself is pretty darn tasty. Glass staining garnet hues with some long legs. A nose of fresh baked cherry pie. On the palate, more cherries, nutmeg and some toasty oak. Decent finish. Pretty darn tasty actually, and a nice start to a long Holiday weekend. My guess is that there will be a few more bottles. — 8 years ago

Brandon Byrd

9.0

Paired this with some Tacos and 4 hrs of puzzle time. Smooth and good, but didn't get the hint of chocolate aromas. — 9 years ago

Chris DeBarr

8.9

The Grolleau supplies the phat, round, warm spice embrace while the Cab Franc gives angularity & Tellicherry pepper, so the pieces of the surprising jigsaw puzzle fit together just so! — 10 years ago

Matt Wilson

9.4

Electric. Streamlined fruit and laser focused acidity. This wine is vibrant and alive. By no means a puzzle. She speaks, and she says "drink me!".. Everything I love about wine is in this bottle — 10 years ago

Roberto A Rojas

9.4

Heavenly. As good as quarter-century old wine will taste. Classic Pauillac nose, still some fruit but mostly other interesting pieces to this bouquet puzzle. A mouthful and lingering for a minute or more. This is the stuff. — 10 years ago

Philip Carpenter

Founder/Educator santabarbarawinetalk.com

9.6

Purposely taken with a Jaffurs glass. The salesman at Oxford Wine Co. said this is the closest we'd get to Condrieu in the £17/bottle range. This made me zoom back to Santa Barbara after one sniff. Everything Craig Jaffurs talked about snapped into place like a puzzle. Licorice, chive, pepper, honeysuckle and other white flowers. Some orange marmalade on nose and palate...completely consistent. Med+ bodied, silky smooth...heavenly. Speaking of Heaven, Morgan, this is your dear friend, correct? — 11 years ago

Latasha Parker

9.8

PuzzlePieces, White, California 5/8 Chardonnay, 1/4 Riesling, 1/8 white field blend of Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Viognier, & Riesling. Taste like a fruit cocktail. It goes well with ethnic foods. — 12 years ago