Michele Weyland

9.0

Very good smooth light red. — 7 years ago

Billy L.

9.5

PNP
Tastes Great! All P/N should be this deep &
concentrated! No green stem or weak fruit profile here. Big time wine from Gary Pisoni’s
Santa Lucia Highlands Vineyard. If California had Grand Cru designations, the Pisoni Vineyard would be tagged! This 2011 Roar Pisoni is still a Baby 👶; with a long finish and great depth. Color “Cherry Cola” Nose intense!
If you haven’t had a Pisoni P/N, time to start!
“Bob Jr.” -Jeb Dunnuck Review here from his Wine Advocate stint: Cheers 🍇🍷👍🏻👏🏻
“The most sweetly fruited and approachable, the 2011 Pinot Noir Pisoni Vineyard has sweet strawberry, kirsch, underbrush, spice box and licorice aromas and flavors all soaring from the glass.” (JD) (8/2013) — 7 years ago

Isaac Pirolo

9.7

The flagship from Domaine Saint Préfert, and my first Charles Giraud. Préfert’s Charles Giraud has been a perennial high-scorer with multiple triple digit scores from Robert Parker. The 2015 is one of only four Chateauneufs to receive 99 points from Wine Spectator (none have received 100 points) and one of the other four is the 2010 Charles Giraud. This is epic juice. 60% Grenache, 40% Mourvèdre. Soaring aromatics. Incense, kirsch, lavender, fig, stone, meat, plum, Provençal herbs and exotic spice. Plush and silky, with an all-consuming intensity. Pair with Jeff Buckley. — 7 years ago

Chris Leon

9.3

Soaring red fruit that is undeniably true Sonoma coast. East ridge shows a touch more energy then San Andreas fault Imo — 9 years ago

with Cristina

Michael Knisley

9.1

acústic gives me wings... — 9 years ago

Robert Cunningham

Wine Educator DeVinimus, Wine Workshop

9.5

Big and rich. Solid tannin core with soaring fruit in the palate. Great nose and palate and finish. Lovely and complex. Number 2 wine of the night. A great success. — 9 years ago

Ron Siegel

9.8

Mouton Vertical dinner. This was one of the best 86 Moutons that I have tried and certainly worthy of its Perfect rating. Deep dark color with its soaring nose of red and black fruits, sweet cassis and Asian spice, cedar, mint and vanilla, a monster of a wine but tonight very complex and aromatic, almost sexy showing great intensity on the palate. — 10 years ago

Ron Siegel

9.5

Black cherry, soaring aromatics with Asian spice, dried herbs and underbrush love the tension and grip surprising for the vintage as this is showing young but very open, — 10 years ago

Christanna Honer

9.4

Nectarine, apricot and pear, evolves into spring flowers and sea salt. Palate is surprisingly complex, fruit is balanced, acidity soaring, and that bit of white pepper hits on the finish w a pleasant touch of almondy bitterness. — 11 years ago

Ben Aneff

Managing Partner Tribeca Wine Merchants

9.5

Awesome. Soaring aromatics, shocked it's drinking so well so young. — 11 years ago

Alina Ferguson

10

Hello weekend. And happy #grenache day! — 12 years ago

Ron Siegel

9.3

Beautiful drinking vintage that has black cherry, soaring Vosne Romanee spices, game, orange peel & mineral. — 7 years ago

Ron Siegel

9.5

Amazing wine that never disappoints with soaring aromatics of dark red fruits, licorice, soy, smoke, tar, leather, cedar & cigar box. Both floral & elegant that should hold for another 10 years. — 7 years ago

Kenta Hayashi

9.2

Some reduction in the beginning. Starts off like a Puligny and closes like a Meursault. Very clean citrus nose with lots of minterality. Soaring aromatics of grapefruit, lemon, and perhaps flint? Hard to pinpoint a particular aroma. Certainly complex for a village level. Acidity is present but not piercing and is beautifully coupled with the fruit. — 7 years ago

Kyle Groombridge

9.5

Finally getting around to rating this. Honestly, this wine will last in my memory for multiple reasons - it's soaring aromatics and gobsmacking density and richness are second to none. And the company and conversation were even better. Thanks to @David E for being so kind to open this bottle after we'd already killed two other gems. It'll be my goal to track more of this stuff down as this bottle will live in infamy as the bottle that started my obsession with Syrah. — 8 years ago

Martin G Rivard

9.3

@David A Lentine @Gina Sabean @Christine You know that you are drinking GREAT wines when you can say that a Realm Beckstoffer To Kalon came in last. I love this producer beyond measure!! Every wine they make is a hit. Everyone tonight agreed that drank by itself it would have been amazing. However, it still needs a few years to open up and spread its wings!! All of my bottles were decanted for 8 hours today, I began formulating thus rodeo of a lineup around 11am. The Realm had huge dark fruit but too many rough edges in comparison to the others. In all honesty, these are so good that we are splitting hairs but alas they must be ranked and that is how the Cookie Crumbled this evening. — 9 years ago

with Christine and Gina

Eric Guido

9.4

Tonight, the '06 Lagier Meredith Syrah, is showing like a top-shelf Cote Rotie. The nose is displaying intense, rich dark fruits, soaring floral aromatics, sweet spice & herbs, moist earth and crushed stone. On the palate, a mix of crushed blackberries, raisins, licorice and plum saturated the senses complemented by sweet herbs, and hints of citrus. As intense a display as it is, the textures remain refined and fresh. The finish is long with bitter dark fruit and remnants of fine tannin. Although ripe, it shows tremendous depth and energy. — 9 years ago

Erica Orr

9.0

Delish w crispy chicken wings — 10 years ago

V VanZanten

9.3

Would unquestionably be better in five years. But after five hours in a decanter? Notes of freshly opened plastic water wings and freshly killed game. #creepybutdelicious #littlekidnightmare — 11 years ago

Jeff Hackmeister

9.0

Very aromatic, earthy and floral — 11 years ago

Miranda Williams

9.7

This wine goes extraordinarily well with medium flavored wings from Buffalo Wild Wings. Really brings out the taste of sage. — 11 years ago

Bill Bender

9.6

From Mag with bone-in NY prime. This is finally in an approachable drinking window. An hour decant gave this wings. As “Bordeaux” an Insignia I’ve had in a while. I know it’s a Bordeaux blend but it’s never really performed that way for me. Great strength here, silky lines and some legit nuance. — 7 years ago

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.3

I’ve had at least two cases of the 97 over the last eight years or more. Our friends Jeff & Hedy brought this bottle of 97 to dinner tonight. It’s the best bottle of this wine I’ve had. We drank our last bottle roughly two years ago. The wine continues to improve. Tonight it’s so lush, ruby, elegant with blue & dark & mid red fruits. Great balance of fruit & earth. So beautiful & easy to drink. The 97 vintage was one no one wanted to buy as it was critically panned. I have said this many times, “in every difficult vintage, there are always producers that make good wine.” In the case of the Potensac, it took 15+ years to fully spread its wings and it continues to improve with another 10 years left ahead. No critic would have told you in 98 & 99 when the initial reviews came out to buy this wine. Potensac is made by the same technical team as Leoville Las Cases. Always follow good producers, even in difficult years. K&L bought 5,000 cases of this wine 10+ years after the fact. They are Masters in Bordeaux wines for this kind of value. Clyde took the shipments in two blocks of 2500 cases and sold through them in about a year or less at $24.99 a bottle. It remains the bargain of a lifetime! @Shay A This is the wine you want to buy to keep you from opening your 09’s & 10’s too early. So delicious tonight!!! Photos of; Potensac, concrete tanks, fruit near harvest and their barrel room. — 7 years ago

Christine Havens

9.5

As stately as I expected it to be (can one really expect anything less of a wine as legendary as Cristal in one of Champagne's most celebrated vintages?) glinting pale gold, the color of a freshly-minted coin. The 2002 Champagne Cristal Brut Millésimé is imbued with soaring notes of pear and smoke, brioche and chalk. Disgorged in 2009, this is a precise wine—it has a sort of crystalline weightless density, with fruit buoyed by a fine mousse, and edgy saline-tinged minerality emerging at the close. 10 grams dosage.

"You must be as precise as a Swiss watchmaker, I tell my team," our host, M. Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon, Chef de Caves at Roederer stressed. Precision in spades. — 9 years ago

Kim Stanbro

8.9

Great as a base for cioppino. Also great to drink alongside it! — 9 years ago

with Dave

Luis Arteaga

10

I love this wine. Discovered it while living in Omaha and went to the winery. Excellent flavor and easy to drink — 9 years ago

Kyle Schlachter

Writer Colorado Wine Press

9.2

Cherries, dried strawberries, balsamic reduction and dried rose petals. Tannins still grippy and acid still soaring. — 10 years ago

Andrew Fortgang

10

Drinking great! Mucho secondary biz with cooked fruit hiding behind. Glad to have 05 and 06 waiting in the wings. #alittlebretisagoodthing — 11 years ago

Brad Desmond

10

The secret ingredient is butterfly wings. — 11 years ago

with Nathan and Claire

s sashihara

9.6

soaring complexity in the nose; raisins dark plum acidity with background structure — 12 years ago