Deborah M

9.4

Day started with a 52 mile ride and ended with this lovely one to celebrate my birthday. Tobacco, dark berries, wood, licorice. Big full bodied Napa Cab. Embodies that classic Cab that doesn’t need a whole lot of extra to be memorable. — 5 years ago

Daniel M

9.1

Hay, leather, cherry, earth, a bit of a cola and candy cane too. Boy what a ride! The palate is perfectly drawn : superb acid backbone, extremely ripe cherry all along, some width, some weight, a bit of tannins this time (oh complexity), some grip and a bit of salt and meat along with a radiant cherry in a very long finish. As always this is grand 🍷 — 6 years ago

Michał Ptaszek

9.0

After oly, 17 mile bike ride and a short run! — 8 years ago

Richard Fleming

10

Like a fresh and relaxing bicycle ride around the Nieusiedler Zee. — 8 years ago

Bobby Gilbane

9.3

Long train ride. This is a damn tonic. I love this stuff. — 8 years ago

Beau Carufel

Winemaker/Owner Random Wine Company

9.4

Sweet fruit then bright acidity, sweet fruit then right acidity. See-sawed back and forth, what a ride! So purely Chenin. — 9 years ago

Sam Lee

9.0

Luv its tropical on aroma, all citrus lemon butter curd 🍋🍊 with sweety apple on top 🍎🍏 brings a summer into comprehensive fun and brightful joy a nightside
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Minerals along the ride
✨ — 5 years ago

Jodi M

9.0

This wine is Payton and Jones Wild Ride orange verdelho. Very funky! — 6 years ago

Gil Krakowsky

9.3

Just a really enjoyable wine that is both hearty and even “ big” but still refreshing.
Clearly some Brett and some effervescent feel like may hint at VA, but I find both to be well integrated and enjoyable. A deep darker-side-of-red fruit profile: red and damson plum, dried red cherry, Black licorice, olive. Has a floral sense to it, and some exotic woody undertones as well earth - like a forest after the rain . A full bodied and almost lush wine that might recall the mouthfeel if a Napa cab, but with much more refreshing a acidity coming through - never the least bit cloying or overwrought. Simply a great wine with a broad food pairing potential. That said, I do wonder if it would taste dramatically different at the source. With zero sulphur amidst a long boat ride, life in distributor warehouses, a wine shop and ultimately my euro cave, whether the original intent is preserved in its entirety. Drinking fantastically but also wondering if peak drinking is 2-3 years ahead. Again, the sulphur thing... — 6 years ago

Erik Longabardi

9.7

Baby is big this vintage. How big? Bigger then your highest expectations. Enjoy the ride. — 8 years ago

Antoine Pin

Wine Buyer Kroger/QFC

9.1

Solid. Great PB nose followed up by a perfectly balanced Porter, coffee, peanut butter taste. Winner — 8 years ago

Erik Rupinski

9.5

First ride with a Pichon Baron. Tasted fresh, loads of dark fruit, very aromatic and nice acidity. Awesome stuff and plenty of life. — 8 years ago

Ron R

9.5

Visually, this is as dark as the night is black. The perfume is equally intense with mulberries, brambles, blackberries and kirsch.
The palette is perfectly delineated with black cherries, black olives, a hint of cloves and anise. Absent is the peppery signature that typically comes along for the ride. It is seamlessly woven, with polished tannins that are already well integrated. 15.8% abv which is not apparent at all. This is a top-shelf syrah that should not be missed.
No cash-box aesthetics here, just exceptional winemaking and a sense of place. Remarkable. — 9 years ago

with Anne-marie

Gina

9.9

Took this chilled on a Long bike ride to have with lunch. Loved the crispness and the grapefruit flavor was really refreshing. — 5 years ago

Natalie Talaga

9.7

Peppery start, then a smooth ride with leather and fruit. Delicious! — 5 years ago

Jackson Swearer

9.2

Very dry. Excellent wine. Best with food. — 6 years ago

David Kline

9.0

Earthy, herbaceous aromas of Brown, river mud and clay, cattails, plantain, fungus and peach, with matchsticks and ripe grapefruit. Medium-creamy texture sharpens into bright lemon citrus and Granny Smith morphing into crabapples. Green table grapes, sage, peppercorn, grapefruit and orchid textures shoot to clean river and trout bones. Racy, with twists and turns, a real ride down the rapids #chardonnay #chard #espino #chile #williamfèvre #mountainwine #maipoandes #maipo #SanJuandePirque #pirque — 7 years ago

with Courtney

Kai Wright

9.4

Earthy and meaty from jump. The pretty fruit lurks pretty far under but comes strong on the finish and as I keep sipping, along with a big herbal dose. It's a fun ride! And here I thought everything in Madrid was gray and dull. 🙄 — 8 years ago

with Jedd

Isaac Pirolo

9.3

By the end of night one the cerebral roller coaster ride left me bewildered. Despite being guilty of infanticide, the wine was not necessarily closed for business. Rather, it was like tasting four or five different wines over a few hours. A darker than usual kirsch provides a canvas for the swirling plethora of flowers, herbs, meat, and earth, with a distinctly saline minerality (which might be the only constant here). By night two it reached its destination of charmingly pleasurable and no longer required as much thought, thankfully. — 8 years ago

Sabrina Schatz

10

Two glasses of this from a magnum and then he let me take his Aston Martin for a ride... I'll remember this wine forever!!! — 9 years ago