Eric

9.5

Landed like a scratch behind the ear tonight. Flowers, ash, black fruit, and menthol. Terrific body and balance. — 4 years ago

Severn Goodwin

9.4

Nose has ripe plum, ripe blackberry, over-ripe strawberry, (light) anise, (light) sous-bois, dark chocolate bar, prune, year-old hay and moist leather.

Palate has chalky plum, dark chocolate, dried cherry, dried rose petals, autumn leaves, black tea, (light) cedar shavings and licorice on the very long finish. Outstanding.

Decanted ~2 hours. Purchased 30 December 2005, and carefully cellared until this day. Paired with a scratch made thick, rustic tomato sauce, sweet+hot sausage from a local, recent partial pig purchase and great campanelle pasta. Oh man, great paring, last bottle 😞.

Anyone holding this wine could until 2020+, based on the amount of tannins still present, this wine certainly has some years prior to decline. — 5 years ago

Gil Krakowsky

8.9

100% Sciaccarellu, a grape that underperforms in Italy, shows impressively in Corsica, and who’s primary characteristic is apparently to make wine nerds scratch their heads. Fresh black plumb, lavender, English breakfast tea. Also showing notes of alpine strawberry, red berries, blood orange Medium bodied, and light on its feet; refreshing but only medium acidity; with the complexity coming from nuances of fresh fruit flavors. Not Transcendent, but infinitely drinkable, unique, and tasty — 6 years ago

Ken Z

9.0

Drank 7/2/18. Another Value Costco wine at around $12. This got a 95 from Decanter. Makes me scratch my head, but it is a nice value. Nice pairing with Rigatonni with a mushroom ragu.

Nose of red and black cherry with a touch of earth and spice. Red cherry, with light earth and tar flavors backed by medium tannins. Tannins produce a drying effect on the finish, that fades to leave behind juicy red cherry flavors. I don't get a lot of oak notes, aside for some spice presence. You could easily confuse this for an Italian red.

Addendum: After vacuum sealing for a couple of days more aromas of earth and some light wood scents emerge, and the flavors seem to darken a bit. Perhaps this will improve with a couple of years in bottle. I will adjust my initial rating from an 89 to a 90.

3/22/7 +1/4/3 +50 = 90 pts — 7 years ago

Adam Nesto

9.1

Boomer, Crash, Bubba & Scratch Adams — 7 years ago

with Ben, Mason and 1 other

Erik Nordman

9.3

Really awesome Chablis. In a richer style, which is further amped up by the warm vintage, yet still has that bracing, sea-spray Chablis-ness to satisfy the itch for racy salinity that you want a good Chablis to be able to scratch. Pours a bright medium (-) gold hue. High concentration of aromatics of slightly bruised green apple, lemon curd, saline sea spray, wet stone and crushed oyster shell, dogwood floral notes, fresh brioche dough and aged cheese rind leesiness, crème fraîche, and a slight fennel spice. On the palate, there's more perfectly ripe green apple, lemon curd, saline oyster shell and wet stone minerality, aged cheese rind, and crème fraîche. High acid, bone dry, medium (-) body but with a rich oily texture. Moderate, in-balance alcohol. Great length on the palate. Wonderful complexity. Would take well to a short-to-medium term cellaring but is honestly so delicious and generous now, too. Definitely want to seek out more Chablis from the De Moors. — 8 years ago

Aaron Forel

8.9

This is a fantastic Chianti. And guess what, we had it with a home made pizza (from scratch) and it was heavenly meal. I have to get a few more bottles of this Chianti. — 5 years ago

Eric

9.3

Spiced cranberries and orange peel. Great for scratch. — 5 years ago

Jennifer Saville

9.0

Buttery Chardonnay — 6 years ago

Matthew Czechowski

10

Date night with Erik. Lemon chicken made from scratch. Yumm! — 6 years ago

SV

9.1

Rosé of niche-y Listan Negro from the Canary Islands is the most interesting rosé I’ve had all year. The nose is like blood orange and yuzu. Acidity balances against a scratch-your-head combination of nectarine, savory herbs and bitter walnut notes. Please check out a picture of these vineyards. 😱 — 7 years ago

Mark Flesher

9.3

Poured with a ruby red translucence with a little bit of dirt. The nose was minty, herbal, raspberry. A viscious swirl was a scratch and sniff. The entry of this wine was delicate, acidic. For a 2006, this one had a rather nice semi-sweet raspberry fruit profile. I even think that this one could still sit a year. The finish has nice acidity, AMPLE fruit. Kudos to Keith for a great bottle. — 7 years ago

with Dan and Keith

jesus g

Hospitality Schramsberg Vineyards

10

Next couple are from our Friendsgiving. The idea was to distribute amazing cookbooks to all the friends and choose a course and a pairing. And of course, make the food completely from scratch for everyone at the dinner table.

Sweet Potato Blini and Caviar
by The Restaurant at Meadowood — 7 years ago

Stanton

9.5

Delicious cab. Entire winery has good stuff. — 5 years ago

Karen DeLand

9.0

Delicious. Mom liked it a lot. — 5 years ago

Eric

9.3

Can’t argue the quality. Definitely opened to early IMO and I think this will get much better starting at age 10. There’s a sweetness to the 2014 vintage that I’m not a fan of, but it’s balanced nicely by earth gravel and mint. Not sure it’s worth the scratch but will be way better down the road. — 6 years ago

Matthew Cohen

9.0

Seems like old times. Big maconnaise fruit. Nice acidity. Haven’t had a Macon in a while and wanted to scratch the itch. — 6 years ago

Bob McDonald

9.2

Aromas of earth, stalks and mushroom with dark savoury cherries in the background. Whole bunch fermentation? More savoury than fruit driven. Quite Burgundian in many respects. In the restrained elegant style with good length. 6 weeks later took a bottle to an average Thai BYO on the Gold Coast served in cheap glasses. In such conditions the wine never shows well when the food is not up to scratch. — 7 years ago

Greg Ballington

Co-Founder of Millennial Drinkers Wine Blog

9.1

Third of our seven year vertical tonight....Scratch that the 2014 came out too.

Dark mix of garnet and ruby red. Lovely nose with pencil shaving, purple flowers, spices, cassis and more currants. Medium plus tannins (7/10) and medium plus to full bodied. Love the gravel on the palate, almost mountain like with tight dark berries and dark spices. Long finish. Drink till 2024. — 7 years ago

with Sean and India

James Gourley

9.2

Silky smooth mouthfeel and racy acidity. A packaging error had me questioning the fruit but the wine was enjoyable nonetheless. — 7 years ago