Daron Watson

9.3

Excited as always to shock people with this wine in a tasting!

This #Chardonnay from #Burgundy always exceeds regional expectations ~ hillside vineyard choice, late harvest for extreme ripeness, lengthy fermentation and bottle aging create a wine of “unique and oft-controversial bottling due to predictable traces of residual sugar. While the wine does not drink sweet, it does have an extraordinary richness of flavor and texture along with its characteristic firm acidity and minerality.”

Green & Yellow Apples, orange blossom, lime zest, pie crust & shortbread

Marmalade & Nectars of the fruits added to the palate — 5 years ago

Tracy Swanson

9.2

Love this Champagne! Lovely hint of Girl Scout shortbread cookie flavor! Bright, brioche and complex! — 7 years ago

with Glenn

Sharon B

9.2

Beautiful dessert wine. Happy birthday to me!! 😁🎂 had a wonderful day at work. I have the best friends ever! Then dinner with my husband. Now waiting for my daughter and grand daughter to come over for cake. This wine is a beautiful golden color, shortbread on the nose and candied orange all in the mouth. I don’t drink sweet dessert wine very often but I really do enjoy it when I do. — 8 years ago

Chris England

9.6

1️⃣9️⃣9️⃣6️⃣

🗞 Mad 🐮, N64 🕹, 🐑 Clone, Pathfinder 🛰
🎵 Don’t Speak, Macarena, Killing Me Softly
🎥 ID4 👽, Twister 🌪, A Time to Kill
🗣 Show me the Money!
🌍 5.738B

My last one 😭 A Superb BdB @ £90 I wish I had more of 😍

🍷 Light straw yellow

👃 Brioche, toffee’d green apple, honey, vanilla, charred caramel & sugared shortbread citrus biscuit

👄 Med bodied fine mousse of green toffee apple, citrus, baked honey & biscuit

🎯 Long shortbread & toffee apple linger w/ a green apple & dry citrus zing — 8 years ago

Ron R

9.3

Beautiful salmon pink color in the glass. More power than finesse on the palette. This explodes on the mid-palette. Good presence which finishes with toast and shortbread. One of our faves. — 8 years ago

with Anne-marie

Chris England

9.0

Great value English vintage pink fizz @ £30 👍 Feels like it's at its peak 😎

🍇 45% Chard, 53% PN & 2% PM

🍷Rusted bronze orange pink

👃 Strawberry, raspberry & cranberry through almond shortbread biscuit, burnt toffee, red liquorice & red apples

👄 Med bodied crisp & creamy plump red berries galore, burnt red toffee apples & almond biscuit in a fine med lived bubbled mousse with med acidity

🎯 Med+ toasted red toffee apple, red currant & strawberry burnt biscuity finish — 9 years ago

Jeff Ball

9.1

Stone, spice, black cherries and shortbread in the house! Silky smooth with a beautiful garnet color, but little bouquet. Still the wine went very well with Oscar’s prime rib. — 5 years ago

Ryan Guy

9.2

Bright lemon zest, golden apple, pineapple, with secondary shortbread and guava fruit notes. Fruit forward with hints of toast and yeast. Palate hits with soft tropical citrus and orchard fruit, developing into a round mid-palate and driving acidity to finish. Length is above par and evolves. Minerality tingles on the palate. Excellent QPR from #winetext. Happy New Year!! — 6 years ago

Chris England

9.3

For £50 this is a nice vintage fizz fest from Roederer that tingles & tantalises the taste buds on a warm 🌞 day 😎

📍 Louis Roederer Brut Rose 2011

🏵 93 points w/ more potential

🍇 63% Pinot Noir & 37% Chardonnay

🍷 Rusty orange salmon peachy pink

👃 Strawberry, peach & grapefruit through rock minerals & sugared shortbread biscuit w/ vanilla cream, redcurrant, raspberry & soft yeast

👄 Med bodied very fine bubbled mousse of peach, red apple, red berry fruits & tangy grapefruit driven citrus fruits in dry cracked minerals

🎯 Long touch dry sweet red apple & sour grapefruit linger w/ dried red fruits popping all over your palate
— 7 years ago

Chris England

9.6

Bolly GA pink hits the spot & this £74 05 is no exception!

🍾 Disg’d May 15

🍇 72% PN & 28% C

🍷 Peachy salmon pink

👃 Toasted almond brioche & yeasty fresh bread, soft oak soaked peach, fallen red apples & red currant w/ pink blossom & smoke

👄 Med bodied fine bubbled creamy zesty fresh persistent mouse of red apple, sour peach, citrus zests, red currant, cherry, bread & creamy shortbread biscuit in med acidity

🎯 Med+ citrus zest, red apple & cherry dry biscuity linger w/ a touch of pink grapefruit — 8 years ago

Chris England

9.2

A great quality funky 🇬🇧 fizz @ £38 that's lovely in the ☀️ for quench questers 😎 in a beautiful bottle 😍

🍇 Pinot Noir w/ Chardonnay

🍷 Rusted orange salmon peachy pink

👃 Peaches & Strawberries w/ sweet shortbread & orange zest

👄 Med bodied fine bubbles mouse of tart wild strawberry, raspberry, sweet peach, red apple & orange hints

🎯 Med+ dry red fruits & red apple w/ sweet & sour peach

🥘 Perfect w/ Mediterranean Lamb — 8 years ago

Chris England

9.0

My best bargain find of 2017 so far!

I'm told French people don't like spending over €15 on bubbles & this €16 bottle was given to us by a fellow wine friend in Paris & I have to say in retirement it will do me 👍

🍇 60% Chard & 40% PInot Noir

🍷 Straw yellow

👃 Citrus infused shortbread sugar biscuit & fresh cut cooking apples w/ a whiff of toasted brioche

👄 Fine bubbled med body mousse of lemon curd under sweet & sour green light caramel toffee apple

🎯 Med+ sweet citrus & green apple biscuity caramel linger — 8 years ago

Noelle Harman

8.9

Croissants and vanilla shortbread aromas. Round and rich. — 9 years ago

Shay A

9.2

A few wines from last week’s 4th Friday event!

I was craving some bubbles, so I opened this. For Bollinger, I expected this to be a touch more rich and powerful. What I got was a fairly elegant and finesse driven rosé champagne. Very red berry fruit driven upfront with some strawberry cream, toasted biscuit, and sea salted rhubarb fruit. So energetic on the palate but a fine balance between blanc de noir style vs rosé. Gummy red fruits with some strawberry shortbread and some sweetness toward the finish. I think these are likely better closer to release (as opposed to their special Cuvee sibling, which can be marvelous with a touch of age). — 6 years ago

with Dan

Severn G

9.2

Confrérie de la Chaîne Des Rôtisseurs, Bailliage d'Albany; 19 May 2019 at Franklin Plaza, Troy, NY

First Course
Lobster Bisque
Thyme Shortbread Buttons - Edible Flowers — 7 years ago

Chris England

9.3

A superb 🇬🇧 sparkler that everybody thought was a good champagne blind 👍 At £38 it’s not cheap but it’s one of the best I’ve had from U.K. - thanks for the recommendation @hawkinsbros summer fruits in a glass 😎

📍 hush Heath Balfour Brut Rose 2014

🏵 93 Points

🍇 48% Chardonnay, 39% Pinot Noir & 13% Pinot Meunier

🍷 Pale peachy blossom salmon pink

👃 A field of fresh 🇬🇧 strawberries & red currants w/ a light yeasty sugared shortbread biscuit, raspberry & peach undertone

👄 Med bodied fine persistent shimmering bubbled lively mousse of strawberry, pink grapefruit, red apple & dry minerals in med acidity

🎯 Med+ touch dry grapefruit & mineral through lime citrus, strawberry & red apple — 7 years ago

Ryan Guy

9.3

Lemon rind, white flowers, golden apple, pineapple, and shortbread abound on a layered nose. Palate is acid driven, but in balance. Tart green and underripe yellow apple mix with zesty wet stone. Finish is savory and lingers. — 8 years ago

Shawn R

9.6

Flamboyant aromas of orange/honeysuckle and green drupe fruits. Light on the front of the palate yet gains steam from there. Warm shortbread with a side of macadamia nuts. Hint of tarragon and white pepper make for a minute plus finish. Decant for at least an hour. — 8 years ago

Chris England

9.4

Pre birthday drinks celebrating 3 more birthdays than I thought I'd see 👍😍

Latest Grande Annee @ £56 that is big-bolly-boom bubbletastic gorgeousness 😍

🍇 70% PN & 30% Chard

🍷 Golden straw yellow

👃 Baked apple biscuit/pie covered in toasted almond bread with citrus infusion & a toasty oak kick

👄 Refreshing persistent fine soft mousse oozing creamy caramel honey apple, teasing citrus, shortbread biscuit & baked brioche in med acidity

🎯 Long buttery caramel apple & citrus toasty happiness — 9 years ago

Lindsay Corrigan

9.5

Treat from a wine excursion to PEC 2013. A delicious Pinot Noir "Noble Rot" dessert or apertif wine. 2 days ago when opened it had an effervescent on tongue a bit distracting but apricot marmalade flavour came through. Revisted the remaining half bottle tonight and "tingle" was faded in mouth. This allowed us to truly enjoy with warm smoked garganzola and guyere shortbread cookies. Truffle notes really cameout on backend - well worth the wait! — 9 years ago