Wow nice wine. Very beautiful & bright dark ruby color with very nice aromas of red fruits, berries, cedar wood, and cigarette on the nose. Full-bodied and followed by full flavor of ripe plum, fresh raspberry, caramel, and spicy almond on the palate. Elegant texture, firm & smooth tannins, and reasonable & soft length at the end. Dry & a bit of complexity; like it and want to taste the real Duck Horn next time. — 8 years ago
Paired well with lemon-pepper chicken over linguine. Good counterpoint to the lemon. — 8 years ago
Oak fermented and I suspect some lees, which makes for a full body honey and white flower parfait style wine... — 8 years ago
Nice crisp chardonnay. Worth seeking out. — 8 years ago
Great table red — 9 years ago
New Block 6, this is limey and matchstick dryness with some subtle new oak. Delicious. It has surpassed my love for the Vineyard Series Chardonnay. Unbelievably 2014 — 9 years ago
Great to meet Ellen Cavalli co-owner of Tilted Shed today and hear about their journey into cider making. Loved this cider! — 9 years ago
New day, new Rosé, new job. Bubblegum Pinot Noir — 10 years ago
A nice Cab. Has character — 11 years ago
Nice easy drinking cab. No sense of place, typical duck horn style. Tasty and good on half off wine nights. — 6 years ago
Dense crimson. Slightly jammy nose. Black fruits. Medium-heavy cab of medium length. Lacks the finesse of cheribino/ xanadu et al. Fruit ladden front and mid palate. Dense tannic finish. Balanced enough and may be better in a few years but too jammy and not well enough integrated currently. D3 update: beautiful, seemless, jaminess gone. 94 (from 92-93) — 8 years ago
Saturday night...time for steak and claret as my buddy Gary Westby says. In this scenario, I envisioned the wine being equal or even better than my steak. Not to toot my horn but most everyone that's had my steak simply says meaningfully that it is the best they've had. Myself, I've only had one better the Ribcap at Bourbon Steak in SF; which sadly closed as the hotel took back the space they were in. Hopefully, soon to reopen again elsewhere in SF. However, back to the Pichon Baron. I can't say I loved it. I wanted to love it as it is one of my favorite properties in Pauillac. The wine isn't bad but it just never shined. Maybe, it's just not a good moment in it's evolution to open. It's soft, elegant but missing the beauty, flavors and complexity I've come to expect. The fruits are dry blackberry, dark cherries, black raspberries, a touch of juicy strawberries and black plum skin. Dark dry powdery minerals, saddlewood, lead pencil savings, underbrush, dry dark earth, dry pebbles. There is not much on the mid palate, it finishes a little flat and the fruits never really shined. Surprising for such a warm vintage. Hoping it improves over the years as I've got 5 more. Unusual that the wine really needed the steak more than the steak needed the wine. — 8 years ago
Reddish brown in the glass. Not quite opaque. Really good nose that exhibits graphite and briary red fruits. Good finish. Still has some tannin to shed tho. — 9 years ago
2011 vintage. Full bodied dark red color. Strong alcohol smell, berry flavor. Very smooth ending. Simple flavour. — 9 years ago
This has really grown on me, always been a Loire Franc girl. — 10 years ago
Tilted Shed Ciderworks Barred Rock barrel aged cider. — 11 years ago
Can really taste the green tea wow! — 7 years ago
Fun and easy to drink — 8 years ago
Final night in Australia and came across this gem - equally rivals those BC cab francs - yum! — 8 years ago
Developing very nicely and starting to shed some of its baby fat. Beautiful fruit and tension. The star of the #longshadows 6 pack. #washington — 9 years ago
Adelaide boys doing insane things, across the entire range! 👍👍👍 — 9 years ago
Halliday gave the '12 95pts - who am I to argue. — 9 years ago
Gorgeous, wow. An enticing salmon colour with an orange hue. Luscious mouth feel and clean finish. Nebbiolo yes please. — 9 years ago
Great cab from duck horn
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romo
New Year’s Eve sparkling. — 6 years ago