Beachin Wino

9.3

Like Baby Blue the blueberry aromas jump right out of the glass. First glass, honestly didn't seem any better than the Baby Blue. One hour later with filet mignon the wine had opened up considerably and WOW! This is one to pair with a juicy steak🍷. — 9 years ago

with Fred

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.1

Dark cassis and purple corals on the nose. Beautiful rich ripe blackberries, blueberries, black pepper, dark dry earth, crushed dry rocks, some black licorice, ambers, hint of grilled meats, still big chewy tannins with a nice round full big rich fruit finish. Medium plus tannins and medium acidity. — 9 years ago

John Lenart

9.2

Fresh dark berries, cola, dry lavender nose. Flavors of surprisingly fresh fruit, great acid and silk tannin. This still has a decade. — 10 years ago

Kyle Groombridge

9.1

Fantastic chard. The picture of balance in a white wine - creamy and buttery with some butterscotch, mango, pineapple, and yet a lovely acidity drawing you into another sip.. Drank the whole bottle and kinda want some more... Very good QPR. — 10 years ago

Dave Chambers

9.1

So @Heather Leatham went down to the cellar tonight to match our dinner with a bottle and decided on the Flat Rock Cellars 2009 Gravity Pinot Noir. A first impression of the nose is a slightly barnyard earthiness with cherries in the background. The color is a brick red, good clarity. The flavours are full of ripe red fruits, a hint of tannins and good balancing acidity. The finish is medium with the cherries and a hint of spice at the end. — 11 years ago

with Heather

John Skupny - Lang & Reed Wine Company

9.4

2004 - lots of things going on with this lovely wine - seems just right at 10 y.o. But had enough stuffing for another five or more — 11 years ago

Michelle Moser

9.5

Sophisticated summer in a bottle... Lovely bouquet of flowers, peaches, vanilla, carmel and almonds- reminded me of peach cobbler. I was grateful for the long clean finish as I did not want it to end. Lovely! — 12 years ago

Merritt Santino Raül Gilé

8.9

Pretty crisp. Granny smith apple and maybe a hint of melon and pear. Limestone. Mineraly. If that's a word. — 9 years ago

with Alison

Jean-Francois Pelletier

9.4

Deep color. Intense nose of white chocolate, red cherries, some blue fruit and vanilla. Full body, beautiful balance and long finish. So good. — 9 years ago

with Chris and Michael

Marilyn Barry

9.9

Soft and full of berries. — 10 years ago

Chris Lawson

9.9

Don knocked it out of the park with this vintage!! — 10 years ago

Bret Thompson

9.3

At the lake with Jaice — 10 years ago

Henrik Poulsen

9.2

A great example of true varietal character matched with the perfect amount of oak.
I absolutely LOVE this and can't recommend it enough.
— 11 years ago

Jessica Doyle

8.9

Chill it & kill it! — 11 years ago

with Brendan

Tom Kobylarz

9.8

If there were ever an archetypical Syrah, Jamet's Cote-Rotie would be a strong candidate. To me this is a pure expression of a classic Northern Rhone Syrah. It is not a single site, but a blend of terroirs, encompassing over 20 sites mostly from hard rock schist bedrock with little to no topsoil. There is NO Viognier in this wine like one might expect from most Cote-Rotie that might have 1-5% co-fermented.

Importantly, there is also a lot less of the oak character that can dominate and overwhelm many Northern Rhone wines. The oak maturation, while not short at 22 months, only uses 15% new oak with no trace of it on the palate as it is perfectly integrated. Grape bunches are whole cluster fermented and macerated for up to 3 weeks.

The 2007 we have here was drinking superbly for a young wine, showing lively and racy layers of peppercorn spice, roast beef, and warm blackberry and currant fruit from the hot 2007 vintage. While from a warm vintage, not a hair is out of place. Density and purity exude from the nose and hint at what a brilliant future this wine has. Perfect acidity and fleshy ripe tannin provide the backbone structure for father time to peel back the layers of this beauty. I will be chceking back in 5 years at the earliest. — 9 years ago

Michael Meyer

9.1

Dark blue fruit, mocha, and spice on a taut frame that spins out to a long minerally finish. This should improve considerably with a few more years of bottle age. — 9 years ago

Mark Maruszak

9.3

Crazy awesome. Tons of black pepper, smoke, tobacco and bacon fat. Luscious dark fruits. Very fruit forward palate. Waaaaaay too young. — 10 years ago

Chris MacLean

9.2

I didn't love this at first but it really grew on me over the course of a few hours. — 11 years ago

with Alessandro and Eli

Katherine Hansil

9.3

One of my all time favorites. Great balance. Great body. Elegant. — 11 years ago

Andrew Lampasone

Owner Wine Watch Selections

9.2

Ken Kahn is the owner nick goldschmidt is the consulting winemaker from all estate fruit 80 acres of vines the young vines go into this cuvée. — 12 years ago