Mike the Wine Guy

9.1

Barbera is becoming one if the most popular wines in California, and this one will show you why. Beautiful ruby color, cherry & light oak, smooth with a lingering soft finish. A Great example of the definition of "Balanced". — 10 years ago

Mark Lindzy

9.4

100 year old own-rooted vines on sand dunes overlooking the Atlantic. Lots and lots of texture from 6 hours skin contact and short time in old Brazilian oak foudre, I also get sea air and pear skins. Perfect with aged cheeses and bring olives. — 10 years ago

Gae Saccoccio - NdC

8.9

From the DOC Noto Nero d'Avola (Sicily) to my parent's table in order to mitigate the legumes gloom that springs out of a winter beans soup bowl - "pasta e fagioli"- so eloquent in his humble celestiality.
Pierpaolo Messina's the producer, Marabino's name of the winery. What a pomegranates plot like! Same succulence of a "blood orange" squeezed by this red wine originated from vineyards rooted on such a white soil "terra ianca"! A fertile land cultivated with art wisdom and awareness, all qualities though, applied with energetic measures by Pierpaolo who's inspired at - both practical and theoretical - some sound principles in the biodynamic agriculture arousal. — 10 years ago

with Alberto

Christopher Olin

9.8

Really amazing, complex sparkler from one of the highest vineyards (own-rooted) in Europe. Pure liquefied stone. — 11 years ago

with Kristin and Ro

Giampiero Nadali

Wine Blogger Aristide

9.9

One of the true souls of Etna, from a centenary vineyard, grapes are Nerello Mascalese, Nerello Cappuccio, Alicante and Francisi. Iper-organic philosophy, a real masterpiece. Amazing wine! — 12 years ago

Beau Carufel

Winemaker/Owner Random Wine Company

9.3

Boom. Drinks like souls and love. — 13 years ago

Mark Lindzy

9.5

Single parcel field blend of very old own-rooted vines, on volcanic rock overlooking the Atlantic. Bruised pear skin, smoky volcanic ash, briny, wild herbs. One of 600ish bottles produced. All I need now is a few dozen oysters and some uni nigiri! — 10 years ago

Matt Sterr

9.0

Dry and minerally. 100% Bien Nacido fruit from 44 year old rooted vines. — 10 years ago

Marc Stubblefield

Wine Sales at Vino Carta and Kogod Wine Merchant

9.2

Lovely, with a richness that stays firmly rooted in Chablis. Full of ripe orchard fruit, limestone minerality, and deft use of oak. I'd drink more chardonnay if I could afford more GC Chablis. — 10 years ago

david decker

9.5

2006 So good will not share - very big and round for a Barolo, with good structure and a rooted spine through the finish — 10 years ago

Ed Merrison

9.3

Cork looked rooted so this was such a pleasant surprise. The nose shows hay, honey, baked peach and botrytis marmalade character, as well as a blue cheese and toast note. The palate is delightfully textured - medium-bodied and waxy smooth - with intense flavours of all that was on the nose, including (off-putting for some?) the blue cheese, while that hay-honey-citrus combines for a kind of sweet herbal lemon concoction. The finish is long, the acidity sneaking under the fruit and snaking it out with luscious complexity from go to woah. — 11 years ago

Cuvée Corner

9.5

#Turley #Wine Cellars rocking Lodi on the label, takes a bow w/ this shiner version of the Kirschenmann Vineyard, dry farmed, self rooted, planted in 1915 and still going strong in sandy loamy soils! Winemaker Tegan Passalacqua. This wine demonstrates what's possible in the Lodi AVA in the right hands! — 12 years ago

Adam Shaylor

9.4

Looks like moscato. Smells like moscato. Slightly effervescent like a moscato. And yet it tastes dry... good with Ottolenghi recipies and adventurous souls. — 13 years ago

Jannine Rickards

9.3

This was delicious! — 10 years ago

Tom Wood

9.3

Found this to be a real stand out. Didn't remember it too have such flow to its structure. Remembered it to be primary and grippy. Maybe that extra few months in bottle treating it well — 10 years ago

Mark Lindzy

9.4

Tiny production Ramisco (7,000 bottles) from own-rooted centurion vines on sand dunes outside Lisboa. Aged 3 years in hundred year-old Brazilian oak foudre - wha???

Beautiful wine, tart cherry, dried herbs, a little of that ol' saddle leather too. Moroccan lamb fits the bill rather well. — 10 years ago

with Josefa

Michelle Hickok

9.0

Had this with carne asada tacos, perfect match and also enjoyable on its own — 11 years ago

Roy Piper

9.2

2012 Legacy. Made solely from 45 year old own-rooted vines in Dundee by Robert Brittan, this needed an hour open to come around. When it did it had almost ethereal aromas of cherry pie and strawberry plus a hint of spearmint. Nothing like a Cali Pinot. — 11 years ago

Bruno Lorthiois

9.0

vinified in barrels , a complex Langudedoc , deep and fees. Viognier, marsanne and Chardonnay
— 11 years ago

Martin Redmond

9.0

My kinda Holy wine! — 13 years ago