Erik Longabardi

9.7

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

Chris

9.7

Really liked this IPA — 9 years ago

Ron R

9.3

We are very impressed with this tonight.
Bright exotic fruits on the nose. Pineapples and passion fruit overwhelm the senses. Palette is consistent, with citrus fruits coming along for the ride. Superb tension on the mid palette between the acid and minerals. This just keeps evolving and becomes more vibrant every time we go back to the well - we are officially converted! — 9 years ago

with Anne-marie

Katie Kean

9.0

A little sweet — 10 years ago

Courtney Cochran

Sommelier/Host hiptastes.com

9.5

Button down the hatches folks, we're going for a ride - destination Montilla-hey-o! Distilled peanuts, racy pineapple pith, pear and pencil shavings. The acidity cuts through, well, everything, sashaying forth with pronouncements long on macadamia and happiness. Also: Salt lick that you like. Marcona almonds. Caselvetrano olives. Respect. — 10 years ago

Deb Desarmeaux

9.5

Italy bike ride — 10 years ago

Max Reichwage

9.4

This wine is alive, a roller coaster ride of aromas from poopy, to floral, perfumed, to gamey and umami. — 10 years ago

Bryant Bickel

9.1

Gritty Tannin Dusty cherry she's big for her britches but don't that deter ya boy, saddle up and ride! You could even ride her when she is a bit older in 5yrs and the experience she would gather I reckon would be worth it.
Dark plum cassis and black bush berries, fill out the light sagey spiced nosed, great weight. I still think it is the best thing they do. — 10 years ago

Richard Fleming

10

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

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

Merritt Santino Raül Gilé

9.1

Had this back-to-back with the 02 CCB. Bouncing from the Franc to the Sauvignon was kind of like getting off a crazy MV Augusta test ride and back on to your reliable, familiar, well worn BMW R. You love that R. But my god the MV.... — 9 years ago

with Alison

Stephen Becker

8.9

Pearls, vintage Chris Craft, night time ride across the lake, low moon flashes behind the trees, underwear in your pocket this time. The green flash of the aurora borealis comes out of nowhere, a slow serpentine sine-wave pulsing across the Milky Way. — 9 years ago

Dock Hooks

9.0

Dark fruit balanced through old oak showing light spice on the nose encouraging thought to nail a specific note but is remaining a bit of an enigma in my rock rattled head after a good day enhanced by 75 MPH Harley induced wind and the brilliance of Bose and an iPhone. Ok, back to the wine, it touches, lightly grabs spreading its dark berry mini-burst in a layered earth touched tannin slow ride making magic with some of Chapel Hill's Bin 54's straight up amazing goodness (in this case very rare filet mignon, garlic tinged green beans and almond slivers; my go to steak spot in NC). Damn, this is all so right-on! Cheers! — 10 years ago

Maggie Harrison

9.0

a wild ride this time around. misty then rose petal then perfumey then meaty. must decant and take your time for the evolution. Really enjoyed but probably better in a few years — 10 years ago

Austin Ferrari

Wine Director Hillside Supper Club

8.9

Not bad for a tuesday ride! — 10 years ago

Richard Steinberg

9.6

I apologize to the wine making team for our lack of patience. Oh well, it was worth it! Buckle up and enjoy the ride. — 10 years ago

Brett Pallesen

9.0

Not the best year for Lenoir. 04 was COLD. This still could use a couple years. Still always a fun ride with Lenoir — 11 years ago

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

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

S W

9.0

2012 was better — 9 years ago

Kaitlin Gaska

9.0

It thrusts in my glass/Chunky boy on the moped/Ladies ride this stache🍷 — 9 years ago

with Derek and Anthony

Jay Beaman

Wine Buyer Firefly Restaurant

10

2014 - wild green apple sparkle town acid ride. Makes my face squish and my heart sing. — 10 years ago

Shana Wall

9.4

#2005 #LaGeynale #Cornas #RobertMichel My favorite grape, #Syrah from my favorite region, #NorthernRhone ❤️ The Deep, dark purple/red color seduces you before your lips even touch the glass. "You had me at Hello..." (is what I may have said out loud actually) 😊. This wine is like a tall, sexy, brooding man with all the right moves😗😘. Once you taste it there's really no turning back... Savory, lightly spicy, rustic yet refined at the same time... This is a very unique and gorgeous bottle of wine. Unlike any other Cornas I have tried. Touch of funk dancing gracefully with the big tannins and perfectly round dark fruit... Such a smooth ride. I feel sorry for any other wine trying to win you over on the same night as him... & he will only get better with age👌😉 #Betony restaurant #ThirstyThursday #HappyGirl #Cheers 🍴🍷 — 10 years ago

Floyden Mugford

10

Cold outside makes me super e trip warm sugary blanket inside blasted by delicious for a full palette roller coaster ride — 10 years ago

Scott Cunningham

Owner/Importer Bottleneck Wines

9.8

Reminds me of a Mountain Bike ride during the fall in Park City. Decaying Forrest floor, dried leaves, lavender, violets. Red and blue fruits, allspice, beautiful (yet) heavy integration of oak, persistent finish. Best wine I've tasted this year (Feb 21, '14) — 11 years ago