Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

A stunning showing and 16 might be the best vintage ever at Walter. Nose is late season cherries, some framing oak, spice, tobacco, stunning minerality and just endless depth. So floral and complex. I could smell this all day. Smells like elite NSG right now. Palate is just amazing. Ridiculous dark cherry fruit that is so crunchy, fresh and concentrated. Wow this is so precise and succulent. Insane balance and hidden power. What depth and length. Amazing stuff in that it’s so silky and juicy and sweet and the oak is already so well integrated on the palate. This has sexy, velvety tannins and an amazingly long finish. 9.5 now but this will go higher. — 3 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Just an awesome nose. Stunning purity. Cherries galore. Mid to late season and it’s got a lipstick like intensity. Just gorgeous. What clarity. Girard killed 2019. The fruit is so deep and Girard is a fruit master. Unreal spice and beautiful subtle earthiness. Terrific palate. Fleshy and so pure. Sappy and sweet. But also a wonderful sweet/sour edge. Amazingly purity. This is so nimble and elegant. Nose gets more complex by the minute. The sous bois is cranking. So elegant. Velvety sweet tannins of very high quality. Unreal purity and depth. This is stunning. So close to a 9.5. — 5 years ago

Sipping Fine Wine

8.9

Fall is here and it’s the season I love to drink port. Dow, producing Ports for over 2 centuries. One of the first to establish its own vineyards, acquiring Senhora da Ribeira, in the remote Upper Douro, in 1890 & Bomfim, in the heart of Alto Douro, in 1896. Aromas of ripe fruits, fragrant spices and sweet notes. On the palate flavors of candied apple and jammy blackberries with cacao and honey. Firm dusty tannins, good balance, long finish. Perfect now. — 5 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.2

Village burgs with some age rock. Gorgeous wide open nose. Spice, herbs, big mid to late season cherry fruit. Super bright and high toned. Tangy black cherry and red cherry fruit. Great freshness and energy. Really good acids and tons of length. What a value. Showing serious complexity on the palate. Wonderful elegance and serious structure and sap. Great stuff. — 5 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

Smoking nose of bright tangy mid to late season red cherries. Ethereal, confectionary and gorgeous. Really bright and lifted. Expansive and deeply aromatic. Layered and full of nuance. Really terrific nose. 9.6. Just stunning. Palate is sweet, silky, gamey and just flat out gorgeous with a very expressive hit of delicate and elegant minerality. This is mindblowing. Did not expect this to be that great. Beautiful light and translucent color as well. Such fine tannins. Hit of licorice develops on the nose. Really wonderful sweetness but also terrific depth and such finesse. Usually Beaune is more bigger and brawny but this one. Blind I’d say Volnay. Very impressive. — 5 years ago

Emily Kresie-Harrington

9.1

2016 vintage. Always a favorite of the season. Lemon flesh and peel, white cranberry, rose water, dried lavender. Creaminess comes out more as it warms up. — 9 years ago

MH

Marketing/Public Relations, Joseph Phelps Vineyards

9.0

Fresh berries, stone fruit and citrus peel. First 2016 Rose of the season. #arnotroberts — 10 years ago

Michael "Bucky" Buckelew

Sommelier Ristorante del Lago at The Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs

9.6

Killer rosé for the end of the season! — 10 years ago

Peter Isacksen

8.9

Dry and delish. Nice way to start the rose season. — 10 years ago

GaryWEdwards

9.0

Best value find of the summer rosé season. Makes me miss Provence. Soft strawberry cream — 11 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

Been two plus years and wow wow wow is this the best bottle yet. Stunning nose of chestnut, soaring minerality, deep mid season cherries but smothered with wet leaves. Also amazing fireplace aromas. The palate is a marvel. Beats the sh*t out of sooooo many Barolo and Barbaresco at much higher price points. Omg the earthy sweetness on this is insanely magical. Perfect balance and elite elite finesse. Insane inner mouth aromas. What velvety texture and insane juiciness. Perfect fruit/tannin delivery balance. Just so so incredibly epic. This estate is magic. — 3 years ago

Matthew Cohen

9.4

On open nose is cold smoke and pine.

Palate is perfect supple mid season cherries. Flashing cherry spice. Some sweet wood. Gorgeous old rose internal aromatics. What you expect from old Nebbiolo.

2 hours in nose is more gun smoke.

Palate is sweet cherry. Gorgeous. So elegant. So fresh. Interlaced sweet old wood. Wow. What you want.

Day 2 nose is a bit of tomato. Some cold smoke. Still elegant. Savory. Fresh. Grippy. Cherry flower rose. Still good. Long grippy finish. Still has 5-10 years to go. — 4 years ago

Paul T, Missing My Beautiful Wife 24/7

9.5

Not the team’s I wanted to see, so I’ll just stick to the basics. Went well with some A5 coffee crusted New York Strip, the steak 🥩 is so rich you don’t want to waste it on a fruity wine

The 2010 is a blend of 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc, and 4% Petit Verdot. The vineyard is situated on deep gravel deposits in the Macau and Ludon villages of the appellation and has 9,600 vines per hectare.

Vinious 93 The 2010 Cantemerle is vigorous and open on the nose, a mixture of red and black fruit with cedar and humidor scents. I admire the focus and detail. The palate is rounded in texture on the entry. This is a plumper, richer, more fruit-driven 2010 with a lush finish on the context of the growing season. You could broach this now, although I would prefer to leave it another three or four years. This is another excellent wine and candidate for most over-performing cru this vintage. Tasted blind at Farr Vintners 10-Year On Bordeaux horizontal. — 5 years ago

Daron Watson

9.7

Season 17|18 Blend No. 17

citrus hard candies and citrus blossoms ~ ginger and cheese rinds ~ sour, tart, creamy yet electric ~ LOVE IT! — 5 years ago

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.2

More holiday nighttime fun with the iPhone 12 Max Pro.

Happy Holiday Season! 🎄🎅 ❄️ ⛄️ 🎁 🌟

Many reviews of the Ruinart Rosé will work for tonight.

From 375ml. — 6 years ago

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.3

Are you decorated and ready for holiday guests? We are! Wishing you all a Happy Holiday season. ☃️🦌🎄🎁🎅🤶❄️ Cheers! 🥂

This bottle so good tonight almost a 9.4.

@Paul Treadway Huntington Beacher Bum A shout out & thanks to Paul for finding this on sale and sending it my way so I could stock up. Seeing as Jeff Bezos wouldn’t do the normal Whole Foods Wine sale in mid November. I guess short on cash this Q4? 🤷‍♂️ — 8 years ago

with Christina and James

Madilyn Dillen

10

Perfect juicy fresh, early season strawberry notes. Love to death — 10 years ago

R. S. Douglass

9.0

Yum! I love the rose season. This is a clean, crisp rose... I would drink it anytime from April thru September. It reminds us of our trip thru the Loire Valley. — 10 years ago

Sasha Verhage

Winemaker/Owner Eno Wines

8.9

Let rosé season begin! 2014 — 11 years ago

Jenna Congdon

Sales Wine Wise/The Vienna Wine Co.

10

fave pink of the season so far — 12 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

Haven’t had in a little over 2 years. Wowza nose. Soppy mid season cherries. Amazing limestone. Some herbs and black and red flowers. So so aromatic. Like a fresh soup of Pinot Noir. Wow. Palate has ripe cherries and is showing much younger than the nose. Lack a skoche of focus but has startling purity, freshness and vivid red cherry fruit slathered in limestone. Awesome length and lovely cherry fruit skin character. Needs a few hours to come together and it will. Will be back. — 4 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Boussey killed 19. All the wines. Gorgeous cherry. Mid season and just perfect ripeness. Some spice and an intense minerality. The purity and vividness of the fruit cannot be contained. Palate is gorgeous. Awesome pure and deep fruit. Round and rich with awesome energy. So sappy and pure. This is killer and so well made. — 4 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

Wow. This nose slays. Gorgeous mid to late season cherries. Unreal minerals. Sappy, so clean and so pure. 19 has such dazzling purity. Wow what a palate. So precise and focused. Acid etched with a laser. Sumptuous yet so refined with just awesome cherry concentrated fruit and such fine tannins. Sweet but also excessively mineral and that finish. Wow, what a finish. Unreal purity and length. Blown away. Sadly all sold out at the estate. — 5 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

Wow this has gotten glorious and turned the corner. Deep ripe mid to late season cherries. Spice. Violets, raspberry cake. The nose is elite and expressive. Wow. Citrus as well. More like tangelo zest. Acid is fierce as this is 2010 and this is amazingly fresh and has lovely sweetness and grip. Perfect balance and terrific purity. Awesome. This is really showing well. This has a decade to go. Just wonderful. — 5 years ago

Hanibal

8.9

First rose of the season. Opened it with tuna tataki on the grill. Nice dose of acidity and a nose of rose petals and strawberry. It is a rose so was not expecting to be blown away. The bottle was finished in a blink of an eye. — 7 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

What a nose. Spice, ripe and overflowing mid season cherries, pine resin and sap. Wow. Huge sweetness as well. Smells like 1er Cru Côte de Nuits. Stunning. Palate is nervy and engaging with huge mid season semi sweet cherry fruit. Juicy and prickly acids with wonderful juicy and ripe tannins with a citrus twang on the finish. In the zone right now. So elegant and yet so flavorful. — 7 years ago

Chad Bowman

Sales LDF Sales

9.2

First rosé of the season and she's a beaut!!! #strawberrydiesel — 10 years ago

Kevin Woods

9.2

Rosé season is back — 10 years ago

with Ali

MH

Marketing/Public Relations, Joseph Phelps Vineyards

9.0

2015 Rose season begins. The latest #lorenza bottling has plenty of citrus and nicely balanced acidity. — 11 years ago

Julien Fayard

Owner/Winemaker Azur Wines, Winemaker Purlieu

9.3

Knights valley gem!
— 12 years ago