Loved this wine!! Drank it with the Tasting Menu with Roddy, Anna and John at Arzak in San Sebastian — 7 years ago
Drank in San Sebastian, Restaurant Akelare!! Well integrated barrique, peaches, buttery. Perfect wine for seafood and seafish!! — 8 years ago
San Sebastian — 8 years ago
Untypical Rioja from color to nose and palate - but all in a good way: darker, less and well-integrated oak, and a delicious fruit-forward (albeit high-alcohol) finish. Had with paella at Voksepp's who bought the wine in San Sebastian. Great! — 9 years ago
Let it chill and it takes in a wonderful warmth, else very bitter. — 10 years ago
Best Port there is available — 11 years ago
Is a 2008 Merlot Sebastian excellent with poultry dishes with a great body flavor very inexpensive to share with company ($18) bottle from sonoma county. Try with sharp cheese and fresh fruit. — 11 years ago
Wonderful tang and zesty flavors on the front palate. Light and refreshing, worth having again and again. — 7 years ago
She's temperamental. And expressive. It ain't no a Billy Joel Song; it's a Soings en Sologne, sung by the son of a son of a viticulture (well maybe only the cousin). Very fucking cool wine. Unique for this region. Kind of Sebastian Riffault-like in his rule breaking to Sancerre, but perhaps more... tame. Oxidative for this vintage, maybe that's consistent? Tastes like there's some skin contact on the romorantin, a roller coaster of acidity and sapidity across the tongue, and Menu Pineau, I can find it if I look. If you don't like oxidative wine, you probably won't appreciate this. But I judge a wine whether it's empty or not, and this one didn't stand a chance. Tastes better when it's warmed up and breathed for an hour. vintage is technically 2012 -not on label. Wife (New Zealander) Heidi Kuka makes the eye-catchingly, ornate almost Maori-like tribal tattoos for the labels. Julien Courtois is able to knock it out of the park on occasion, but mostly, he makes very good, expressive and interesting, but most importantly drinkable wine from the western Loire. — 8 years ago
So great! Bright cherry soft tannins nice acidity a little chalky minerality. Had at so many pixtos bars in San Sebastian. Great Crianza! A fav! — 8 years ago
One of my favorites from Florida. — 9 years ago
I'm not a white wine kind of person but this premium white wine from St. Augustine's San Sebastián Winery is so light and refreshing, perfect on a hot summer evening by the pool — 9 years ago
Fantastic biodynamic Chenin Blanc from Saumur. Another great recommendation from Sebastian at Alpine Lounge. Great acidity, well balanced oak. Rich and mouthwatering. — 11 years ago
Merci Jean-Luc et Rabi! J'aurai du oser :-) — 11 years ago
Amazing... An 82 with Paul at El Museo del Whisky San Sebastian costo/beneficio 9.5 de 10 — 12 years ago
This dessert wine is to die for! — 7 years ago
Not sure which vintage but John had this glass and it was also good and lively! Had it at Granderia in San Sebastian. — 7 years ago
Precis såhär vill jag ha min cider! Köpt i San Sebastian. — 8 years ago
Our last night out in Rome at La Matriciana. Very nice waiter, Sebastian, from Sardegna, took good care of us — 8 years ago
This was how we opened our amazing meal at Akelare (San Sebastian) A fantastic start to one of the best meals of my life. — 9 years ago
Sparkling wine. Perfect for Mimosas. — 11 years ago
Our first Ribera del Duero in Basque Country... Reliable crianza for our not so light lunch in Hondarribia on the coast. Sebastian Restaurant. — 11 years ago
Kristen Schott
Velvety and ripe with fruit and a mix of earthy minerals. Mmm. — 7 years ago