Robyn Grahn

9.6

Dark chocolate smell. Had the skeleton and the muscle. :) — 6 years ago

Keith Herrick

9.6

Pure but mature. The skeleton of the wine stood out, but nothing oxidized about I️t. Truly delicious — 7 years ago

Lance E. Farman

9.2

Tannins are a bit intense. Skeleton is there. Time is what the doc wants. — 7 years ago

Sasha Agapov

8.9

2015 barrel tasting. Rusty, irony and already classic village Gevrey. Tightly packed with ripe cranberry, cherry and red currant, metallic tannins, seriously firm skeleton and pleasant finish you wish could last for days. — 7 years ago

Jeroen Koenen

9.0

Read the worrisome note from Ms. Larner in TWA#211 today. Decided to pop a bottle and I was happy to conclude that this wine wasn't "tight and astringent" nor "a skeleton of wood". Sure, the nose is slightly rustic showing cinnamon spice, iron, grilled meat and dried flower potpourri. On the palate there's still sufficient juicy plummy fruit and vanilla cream. Dark notes of ash, fur, chestnuts and leather provide depth and interest. It's a good Brunello, with modernistic concentration. Prime drinking for those who like their wines mature. Drink now or within 3 years, I'd say. — 8 years ago

Sherrie Gulmahamad

9.0

$11 for a liter of delicious easy drinking red?! — 8 years ago

Chris DeBarr

9.0

Corey's white Cab Franc supplies the meat of this grape's pungent flavors, like a red wine, but the skeleton reveals delicate bones of structure & acidity. Unique, fun, mind-twisting vino! — 9 years ago

with Thomas

Michele Guimond

9.0

Good bouquet. Will buy again — 10 years ago

Jae Cho

9.1

Dark horse performance leading from the very beginning to win the gold on the skeleton! Didn't know Koreans could slide — 6 years ago

with Diana

Eric

9.6

Dig it. All the trademark Buccella traits like plush candied oak with a Rhone skeleton of wild game and pepper. Cool neon purple too. Looks like they got a new winemaker in -15? Fingers crossed. — 7 years ago

Rachel Umbreit

9.0

Tasty, even though it is not as crisp as I was expecting for a Gruner Vetliner — 7 years ago

Brent Mayeaux

Production Burn Cottage Vineyard

8.9

Not sweet. It says "sec" on the label. Under 5 g/L RS. Loads of acid. Super energetic. Pinot Gris skeleton consisting of some of the spice and green/sap you often find, but it goes somewhere else. Ripe crunchy apple, bruised flowers, saline and nutty at times. Not sure how to say it, but it was just good. My body wanted it in me. — 8 years ago

Tom Casagrande

9.3

Beautiful Zin that keeps evolving in the glass. Perfumey nose of ripe, tangy mixed berries and warm gravel, with notes of fresh mint and dried tobacco leaves. Compact and intense in the mouth. Dense, lively dark berries, with a mineral streak. Good acids, full body/alc., and lots of tannin provide a solid skeleton. Tremendous length. This is great now and will age well for several years. $35 from wtso.com. — 8 years ago

Chris DeBarr

9.2

Redolent of plums and white pepper, but transparent with a decade of age. Lively, even prickly, the subdued fruit reveals a playful skeleton still frisky. Yeah, 10 yr old Dolcetto for ten bucks. What a steal!! — 9 years ago

Peter Wassam

9.6

Superb. This is why I like wine. Like walking into a vegetable garden when you stick ya nose in. Herbaceous and minerally with leaping currant fruit and juicy raspberries. Oak provides an oozing finish. Just a bit of funk but in a tactful manner like Mark Ronson. Acidity gives nice skeleton. — 9 years ago

Doreen May

9.7

Excellent Malbec. Very smooth. — 12 years ago

Ned Gray Creed

9.6

Olympics and Nebbiolo. Skeleton luge and boneless chicken. Swish. — 6 years ago

with Mark

Mark Hoffman

9.0

Actually petit Verdot — 7 years ago

Henrik Poulsen

9.4

Bottle no. 04760 (of 22512).

You need to enjoy this with an open mind.
Most would probably say this is over the hill but personally I enjoy the "skeleton" of aged CA Chardonnays.
At age 22 there's naturally no baby fat, oak or alcohol to distract your palate but just the framework of a super solid and balanced wine. — 7 years ago

with Kathleen, Laura and 2 others

jason carey DipWSET

9.1

Well this is a rather dramatic departure from the style of the last 10 vintages as I remember them. I could misremember way back but don't think so. The DCV is usually the "regular" (as opposed to Enfante Terrible) Zin that is most always ready to go right upon release. This vintage the wine is structure forward as opposed to fruit. The fruit is there and not over ripe or jammy, but underneath the skeleton. Did you guys change some of the vineyard sources for this wine? Doesn't look like it from your website. Anyhow I would give this a two day decant or 3-4 more years.
Great wine but not the usual early drinker. — 8 years ago

with Cynthia

Will Meinberg

Sales Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant

9.2

A brilliant clarity of expression. A velvety softness envelopes a wiry skeleton. This shit tastes good. It'll get better. — 8 years ago

Anthony Lombardi

9.1

@Delectable Wine - this is the 2011 Southard Stonetree Zinfandel. Zinfandel in Washington just doesn't happen all that often. Wines like this make one question why. Great density & complexity. Fruit driven to be sure, but enough of a skeleton to manage that power. Makes me excited about the possibility of Washington Zin. Hope more producers jump on it. — 9 years ago

Ben Cane

Head Winemaker, Westwood Wines, Sonoma CA

9.1

Serious mineral plushness. Fleshy and round with elegant yet fun acid skeleton . Great Chablis! — 9 years ago

Eric Hiatt

9.0

Ripe. Black pepper skeleton. — 11 years ago