Greg Helmer

9.2

From the case we brought home from 2016 vacation. Since we’re skipping Europe during the Pandemic, we’re reliving a vacation from a glass. Fine light aroma bright citrus forward and finishes smooth and sophisticated. Definitely going back to Portugal again when this is over. — 5 years ago

Ellen Clifford

9.4

This is spectacular. This receives my highest accolades. Not just for being a good Viognier but for being a spectacular wine all over. Melons and grass and white peach sprinkled with dreamy flowers. This has heft at the same moment as making me feel light and happy and conjuring visions of skipping through dewy lawns. Power and a svelte physique. As I‘d aspire for but drinking this wine is a grand facsimile. — 6 years ago

Gregory Fulchiero

9.4

Super fat and rich. Loaded with butter notes and well balanced oak. A Limestone vein throughout keeps it interesting. Skipping the chenin the next time drawn butter is on the menu — 6 years ago

with David

Edmond Bordelon

9.5

Wow, what a treat! Lucked into a glass of this at the end of the night and it made up for skipping dessert! Ripe prunes for the first sip, that went to ripe raisin and cocoa the second sip. Super velvety and lush. Sweet without the sugar rush. — 7 years ago

with Katherine and Beth

Lindsey King

9.0

Wasn't totally in love with it and I can't figure out why.... EDIT: I tried this a second time and the first bottle must have been off. Tart and ripe red fruit, violet, a little mud but not much. Drinking this and skipping around the place. — 8 years ago

Jack Bender

9.3

Skipping on down the coast — 8 years ago

Mo Salem

9.3

This merlot is lovely. I'm skipping the note because the food is great. You'll just have to trust me!! — 8 years ago

Ellen Clifford

9.1

There is a sweet grapefruit acid high richness. As it was with many of the Carapeços wines I kept accidentally (by which I mean on purpose) skipping the spit bucket. Too good. — 6 years ago

Kartiga Thavaraj

10

Skipping STONE — 6 years ago

Matthew Cohen

9.4

Plummy with some spice. Maybe some faint blueberries. Very mouth coating. Deep with licorice on the finish. Not sure I would guess Syrah blind. More like a dark pinot. Not huge acid but sparkly on the palate.

That’s the great thing about Ziereisen. He makes some of his wines from foreign grapes and they taste great but unlike anything you’ve had.

I thought that this was corked but the aromatics are fine after 45 minutes. So if you smell some mist it’s not corked. Chill out and it will blow off. Nose has some lovely spice.

Bought from Fass selections.

.... ok as this opens more it’s getting whack. Internal aromatics are explosive. Deep dense plums. Intense spice that literally cluster bomb all over your palate. Wow. A German just outsyrahed 95% of the Rhône. I may just bail on life and live next to Hanspeter. All hail hanspeter. — 6 years ago

with Lyle

Paul T HB

9.6

I let this age in the box for a couple hours, its ready to go now!
Better than the 15 almost as big as the 14.
14..4 Abv, can smell the dirt & meat as you pour. Learned my lesson this time & bought extra over my allotment
Just saw the wait till July to drink at the bottom of the page🤷‍♂️ oh well, still enjoyable.
Drinking the wine, skipping the Norco. — 7 years ago

Susan Barbour

9.5

After a decade of stalking this man’s chasselas I was so thrilled to see he does a crémant. Musk, white peach, honey, and funk on the nose and palate, crisp with a long mineral and earthy finish. What’s not to love? At $27 I am really going to be skipping the champers and reaching for this more often. — 8 years ago

with Rob

Greg Gibson ✔

9.0

Great dry Rose for a Summers day. It reminds me of a young beautiful woman letting her sun dress slip daintily off of her shoulder in the way the bubbles and dry fruit characteristics dance around the tongue - skipping all around as gaily as could be — 8 years ago

jesus g

Hospitality Schramsberg Vineyards

10

This vertical was Spott on... lol
All textbook Cabernets (Bordeaux blends) operating at a very high level. The wines appropriately represented their region, as well as their vintage. It was like worlds sharpest conductor instructing his/her orchestra never skipping a beat. The 12 Spottswoode was soft, juicy and deliciously ripe. The 13 Continuum a bit dry with firm tannin and a commanding presence at the dinner table. The 14 J. Davies- Jamie was calm, collected and fragile with silky integrated tannins, and long uplifting finish. And of course two grilled 16 ounce bone in ribeyes with a classic hollandaise sauce and baked potato. — 6 years ago

MaJ CappS

9.0

Wow! A great nose of those classical twigs and branch berries.

This continues on into the palette with some ripe strawberry and herb. Tinges of that Cali fruit full and bold in the glass. The ripe fruit is very well tempered by this crafted Pinot. Tea tannins wrap this up into one of those lingering fruit finishes, skipping rope with lowquat like acidity.
Another great gift from @Les Doss
Thanks Les! — 6 years ago

Sarah Rudolph

9.0

Wild flowers, skipping stones, ricotta cheese from the farm Kitchen stores and lemon zest — 7 years ago

Sarah Rudolph

9.0

tastes like when you first get to a summer bbq and there’s smoke in the yard and the grass is squishy, green peppers and skipping stones. Color was a beautiful light red/magenta. Early summer at its finest. — 7 years ago

Lindsey King

9.2

Your friend comes back from Hawaii and they bring you a lava rock which they’re not supposed to because it’s bad, bad, very bad luck but you always had a thing for risking the superstitious odds and not sending along chain emails, so you’re into this bad luck rock. They also bring you a lei with less flowers than you’ve seen on leis at the dollar store but you put it on and crack your best pseudo smile for them because dammit they love you and they did what they could, short of bringing you on their romantic vacation. Honestly if they did bring you, you know you’d get into one of your “moods” and not only would you be a hard third wheel, you’d also be named the pity party hostess of the year. Cherries, ash, dried flowers, tannic structure like a good skipping stone. — 7 years ago

Jeffrey Lew

9.3

Skipping a beat on a normally stellar bottle — 8 years ago

erto l

9.0

step one- buy rosetta stone - French, 1-5.
step two- save a lot of money step three move to bourguiel and make breton wines. cannot recall the last 12% that wasn't a trocken. global warming skipping the loire? maybe just some folks out there working to make good wine still. :-) — 8 years ago