Oskar Brauer

9.4

Vintage 2001 caramel flavors and taste — 3 years ago

Rob Brobst III

10

PERFECTION!
A beautiful split of 50% Syrah and 32% Graciano and 18% Grenache all from the James Berry Vineyard. This full-bodied wine was fermented with whole clusters and barrel aged for two years in 50% new French oak. Deep blackberry fruit, rich and layered flavors of cassis and licorice with a subtle background meatiness. Drinking nicely on release, yet will evolve gracefully for over a decade.
— 4 years ago

Jay Kline

9.2

Tasted alongside the 2015 vintage. Both wines were opened about eight hours in advanced and allowed to slow-ox at cellar temp (51°F). Comparatively, this was more open for business. Dark cherry, gym sock, dried herbs, leather, and tomato leaf on the nose. On the palate, dusty cherry fruit with black tea and dried herbs. Rustic. Quite an old school charmer! Towards the end of the bottle, this started to tighten back up a bit but it was still my favorite of the two vintages tonight. I expect this to enjoy a long life. — 4 years ago

Eric Godin

9.6

Opening up like a Pinot, started off with potpourri and lemon zest, floated off to sandalwood, cigar tobacco, white and yellow flowers, blackberry, and leather and bee pollen. Flavors swing from bright, lemon-fresh berries and somehow flow through a gammut of berries and grapes into a dark, cocoa, flinty rock. A single, elegant cascade through flavors that lasts over a minute. A slow ride that ends so sweetly and softly you forget how much you're looking to sip again. Astonishing how bright this wine still is. — 6 years ago

speedy duncan

9.0

A toast to Mr. Benson — 7 years ago

Nicole

8.9

I snuck aboard the space station and made my way to the holding cell where I was told the princess was being held. Upon breaking down the door, I was confronted by a short person in a diaper and odd headdress who said "I'm sorry, but the princess is in another death star".

About that time all the alarms in the space station started going off.

After some brief firefights I found myself cornered, my only escape to done down a shoot into a garbage compactor. So I did. Once in the trash compactor I met a friendly monster called a Dianoga. We shared a lovely bottle of Slow Press while the walls of the compactor slowly closed in on us.

Fortunately for me, I'm the hero of this tale and, as such, made a timely escape, rescued the princess (eventually), and managed to do it all without realizing I had spilled wine on myself. — 8 years ago

Jae Cho

9.2

Layers of generous cherries, cranberry, rose hip and cooling spearmint. Slow ox 4 hours and drank over 2 hours. — 3 years ago

Severn Goodwin

9.3

Nose has neverending crushing of flint/granite, warm lemon curd, salted yellow apple slice, cool Asian pear and old, crystalline cheddar.

Palate has ripe pineapple, over-ripe yellow apple, moist chalk/limestone, dried coconut shreds, faint butter notes, table salt with medium acidity. A great wine, slow oxidation for 2H then decanted 3H, so many years in front of this amazing bottle. Drink this 2026-2030 from proper storage.

Pre-birthday dinner for our dear COVID bubble friend; we've only allowed one of our close friends into the house for almost the past year, tonight we're celebrating that he's one year older than me. 😉 — 4 years ago

Bob McDonald

9.5

Consistent notes from February 2019. Molasses Caramel etc and ultra smooth. A top quality rum from Nicaragua. Great minerality from all the old lava flows in that country where the sugar cane grows. 18 years old. — 5 years ago

Steve Williams

9.3

“When a lovely flame dies, smoke gets in your wine...”apologies to the Platters. My goodness, the smoke is up front, setting up for warm plum, and dried cherry. A long, slow, dry finish. An enjoyable wine from beginning to end. “When your heart’s on fire, you must realize, smoke gets in your wine.” Shared by Mayor Bob. With Hall, Joanna. After a visit to Moose & Virginia Mack’s. — 7 years ago

Raff

9.1

Fun! Super sweetheart (not cloying) ripe melon, ripe apricot, finishes on light Jolly ranchers. — 7 years ago

Justin Wittkopf

9.0

Slow O for 10 hrs. Pretty Cabernet nose and delicate, elegant palate. Nice balance but feels really light. Almost no tannin. Not what I expect in a Kap GV. Vintage specific, I suppose, but the 2011 Roberta’s from last night had much more tannin. Very food friendly wine. — 7 years ago

Eric Egan

9.4

What a beautifully graceful wine! A bit muted on the nose (slow ox for three hours - perhaps I should have decanted) but one of the most amazingly expressive palates I have experienced for a very long time. All the elements in perfect equilibrium; one of the rare times that I would actually apply the term 'smooth' to a wine. Tannins still lightly peppery, poised acidity, and an insanely long velvety finish that kept revealing hidden layers of complexity. Like a Burgundian peacock's tail that keeps expanding, adding new layers of graceful shades and patterns to the rolling tapestry of flavour. — 8 years ago

Aravind A

9.5

Gave this 45 min slow ox to really open. On the nose: peach, soft ginger, limestone, orange, just so intensely aromatic. On the palate: fantastic acidity, good salinity, mulberry leaf, limestone, peach...wow, love that density paired with the zip. Another absolutely stunning showing. — 4 years ago

David Vielhauer

9.3

Turtle Rock has some killer wines — 4 years ago

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9.5

Deep, lurid ruby. Powerful, smoke-accented aromas of black currant, cherry liqueur, vanilla and candied licorice; a suave floral nuance builds in the glass. Alluringly sweet and broad on the palate, offering deeply concentrated black and blue fruit, mocha and floral pastille flavors and a touch of spicecake. Shows excellent delineation and solid punch on an impressively long, dark berry-driven finish framed by slow-building, harmonious tannins. (Josh Raynolds, Vinous, February 2021)
— 4 years ago

Kirk F

9.2

3 of these disappeared in the matter of an hour #pasorevisited — 6 years ago

Justin Wittkopf

9.5

Slow O for 6 hr prior to drinking. This really great. Seems perfectly proportioned to my tastes. Not too sweet. Great frame. Not hot. Seems a bit more open than previous Greer bottlings I have had. Likely from the blend of the two clones previously split for the Pott Arsenal and Greer, but maybe vintage, too. Whatever the case, I like it. — 7 years ago

Michał Ptaszek

9.5

Slow post-18.4 Saturday. First day without K (Utah spring break) — 7 years ago

Devin Bray

9.7

A truly poised, beautiful, wine that's just wild and unpredictable enough to make its many transformations satisfying over a night of slow, contemplative drinking. Green bell pepper, jalapeño, puréed strawberry fruit and some barnyardy notes lead to a finish of red licorice and hay. Rustic and gorgeous, if still a bit young. Orange peel, wood spice, and tons of fleeting but beautiful earthy complexity. — 8 years ago