Matt Harrelson

9.6

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Bob McDonald

9.1

Similar notes to 118 weeks ago. A dirty mid Orange/Tangerine in colour - a little cloudy. Aromas of apricot and mouldy orange. Skinnsy apricot flavours with mild acid. A skins contact white wine fermented in clay amphora in the ground. We visited there a few years ago in Sicily. Finishes with a trace of bitterness from the skins. Natural wines - when they get them right they can be quite good but having just done a week of vintage in Coonawarra at Bellwether - you need to take risks with natural wine. — 5 years ago

Jody Scharf

9.2

Grape skins. — 6 years ago

Chip Hughes

9.1

Baked bones, popcorn, pure Chardonnay flavors. Well structured and quite remarkable in its restraint, given the blazing hot growing season. — 7 years ago

Paul Masson

9.0

Deceptive bones — 7 years ago

Michael T McAlhaney

8.9

A mammoth wine with dark berries and ripe bramble fruit. — 8 years ago

Daniel McGeough

9.2

Aussie Skin Contact Savagnin! — 8 years ago

Jake Rubash

9.1

Tart finish that I actually really like — 9 years ago

David Kline

9.2

Dark, nearly black from all points, with brick just visible near the shallows. Nose bursts with cedar, oak, coffee, mushroom, composted roses, cardamom, tarragon, fig and prune, plum and sweet potato skins. Drinks well for vintage, showing laser of mint and baker’s chocolate, just-sweet mocha tobacco, espresso, cinnamon, clove and bark; expansive and complex, tannins still grainy. Bran and buckwheat, graphite, salted, dried plum. Grilled caramel, cedar from aforementioned grill, dried cranberry and black cherries. A pleasant surprise.

#pauillac #bordeaux #grandcruclassé #grandcruclasséen1855 #pontetcanet #chateaupontetcanet — 4 years ago

Matt Sterr

9.2

Amphora. Aged on skins under Flor. Beer-like. Almost hoppy. Notes of beeswax 🐝 — 5 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

Always a treat to open this Charmes. Nose has loads of baking spices, green apple skins, huge clear minerality, like smelling fresh air, gorgeous hint of florals, zero sense of woods unreal purity on this, palate is superbly complex, linear with great energy and a sappy intense mineral driven structure. Such a lean Charmes! Love it. That opulence and richness one can get from Charmes is there but man is this chiseled. Gorgeous. Insane complexity already. Chewy and structured and gets richer with air but the chisel stays as is. — 7 years ago

Tom Casagrande

9.2

I LOVE this wine. It is so old school. So much like the better CDRs and CDRVs I used to drink/sell in the early 80s. Very earthy, funky, aged meaty nose. Peppery, roasted green herbs, iodine-tinged flavors. There’s spicy blackberry skins too, but that takes a back seat to farmy garrigue. Clingy and damn good. Cambie may have have Ginger-ized most of the southern Rhône, but it is really nice to find that Mary Ann is still in the house. — 7 years ago

romo

9.3

Full-bodied vermentino con skins. — 8 years ago

Aaron Rankin

9.2

Massive, perfumed nose of 100 scents. Full mouthfeel with some tannin, so I get the joy of the fermentation happening on skins. Beautiful and begging for food. — 8 years ago

Reda Pilybaite

9.0

Lovely easy to drink orange vino! — 5 years ago

Vanessa

9.0

Cheers to this Pinot Grigio from Slovenia! 🇸🇮

It has a beautiful, pale, rosy-orange tint due to extended time on the skins, which gives it a lovely texture. 👁 The mouthfeel has some weight to it. Yet it’s refreshing and has a lot of food-pairing potential. If you’re a rosé lover, like me, this would be a fun alternative to try. 👌

This wine is dry, youthful, and offers medium intensity in aromas and flavor notes. 👃👄 Notes include white peach, pear, lemon pith, grapefruit rind, and wet slate. Acidity, alcohol, and body are medium. The finish is also medium.

Pullus, Pinot Grigio, 2019, ABV 13%. Picked this up at @thewinepeople for $15.99, which sure seems like a great value. — 5 years ago

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Chip Hughes

9.2

More balanced and precise than the ‘17. Apple-blossom, baked bones...along with a concentration and complexity that suggests Pouilly-Fuissé way more than Mâcon. — 7 years ago

Bob McDonald

8.9

An interesting varietal - Saperavi is an ancient Georgian varietal which is known to be long living in the former Soviet republics where it is grown extensively. Has bobbed up here in Queensland at Ballandean Estate. Very dense ruby in colour. Aromas of plum skins and dark berry fruits extending to the palate with a savoury twist. A core of fruit which will carry this through for some years. Great experiment. Saperavi has s good future in Ballandean. — 7 years ago

October Cleveland

9.2

Tomato nose, forest floor, my kinda boy. — 7 years ago

Ira Schwartz

9.2

Citrus and fading oak on the nose. In the mouth it reminded me of sushi as this bottle was all about texture. Sat in your mouth but then started to build like a firecracker with a long fuse. Slowly citrus flavors and nut flavors are joined by apple skins and sets up camp on your tongue. Squats there but never explodes . — 8 years ago