Mark Davidson

Education Director Wine Australia

9.5

Damn near perfect example of why Coonawarra is a supreme Cabernet region. Blackberry, mint and cedar. Beautifully balanced tannins w a spine of lively acid. Textbook stuff — 10 years ago

with Abbe

Richard Steinberg

9.8

Fantastic. Enough said. Forest floor, great Grenache fruit. Awesomely me acidity. Regal. — 10 years ago

with Mitchell, Drew and 2 others

Alex Krause

9.1

Lovely floral lifted loght and powerful pink with the Regal structure of Mourvèdre closing the deal and giving length and run (and the calcaire doesn't hurt) — 11 years ago

Pax Mahle

Owner/Winemaker Wind Gap Wines, Agharta & Pax

9.8

This doesn't happen often... Gorgeous rich supple regal...amazing wine really — 11 years ago

Gae Saccoccio - NdC

9.2

"Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty." This well-known quote by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa' s The Leopard, sum up in few words who's the true enemie in aging wine and waiting too much before you die: the time! Arianna's SP68 white - she's a sicilian native as the writer of The Leopard - is here to remind us first of all that life is too short to collect so many wines without knock them back sooner mainly when they're pleasant fresh and fragrant; therefore that her wine more than others, is a flame of supreme love, though, we must drink up before it turns into ashes! — 10 years ago

Christine Havens

9.2

Beautifully evolved nose of leather, mulberry, brambly red berries, clove and dried mint. Medium-bodied with a regal countenance—there is still tons of structure, with mouth-coating fine grain tannin in abundance. Truly, this wine could go on and on and on in the cellar. The 1989 Château Montrose is not terribly fruit-driven, rather it's interior space is occupied by notes of dusty, clayey soil, cedar, black tea and spice. That wonderful impression of clove is on the finish, too. — 11 years ago

Thomas Pastuszak

Sommelier/Wine Director The NoMad

10

Supreme Sherry! — 11 years ago

Flavio Menezes

9.3

Regal, aristocratic, one day this will open up, but still a few years from maturity. — 10 years ago

Alex Powell

9.3

The clos des papes was so pristine and pure, no wood, but it was massive in the mouth and very finessed at once, bursting with baskets of cherry raspberry and blackberry in dried thyme and wet rocks, couldn't smell alcohol at all and fruit smelled so pure, palate was mega concentrated with a herb and mineral finish, and waves of fresh fruit, felt the alcohol 15.5%!! A bit in the back end, Tannins were very fine and regal, no astringency at all but plenty of grip. A blockbuster but still carried itself with freshness, balance and purity, a fantastic wine that shouldnt be touched for at least 5 more years and for sure will age well for another 15-20. A relative value at $119, and very burgundian in its purity and lacey texture. 2011 vintage. — 10 years ago

Morgan Harris

Head Sommelier Aureole New York

9.6

German '10 are so supreme. But I haven't met a wine that I thought had too much acid. Great expression of the region, classic structure and lively salt-and-peaches nose. — 11 years ago