David Kline

9.4

Amazing depth and clarity of fruit from nose to palate. Smells range from coffee-tar to mushroom mulch and black cherry au jus. Lovely cherry blossom notes intermingle with rose water. The tannins are big initially, but harmonize rapidly in the glass. The drying sensation in no way detracts from the fruit which is bright plum and melange of cherries including bing finishing with aloft raspberry pillow. The balance is there, the stony, schisty minerality, and the oak is perfect, allowing the wine to speak in all its elegant Chiantese! Muscle for the money!! Feed this beauty something earthy, beefy or both! — 10 years ago

with Courtney

Tom Riley

8.9

This wine is a beauty, with complex fruit and savory aromas and flavors. Sadly, and maybe it was just this bottle, but there was no real finish to speak of. Things came in beautifully but disappeared before the party was over. Glad I've got a few more bottles. It's too good not to be able to go the distance. Yeah, I'm an optimist. — 11 years ago

Peter Heidt

9.1

...out with the guys from Ft. Lauderdale on the water at... Well, I have no idea, but the view rocks... $19 wine on the menu for $48... Actually not bad at all... Shelly has a tie on that looks like he is about to go hunting... The horror, but I love Shelly... Awesome watching him speak to Katerina the Milanese model... Ralph looks on approvingly... — 11 years ago

Michael Collins

8.9

Rich nose with a smooth berry flavor. No tannins to speak of. — 10 years ago

Scott Kirkpatrick

8.9

I thought this was beautiful. The vineyard is in the NW corner of MSD. A little tight, but opened up nicely with a light decanting. Focused and clean. No Brett to speak of. — 10 years ago

Alex Hill

9.1

Bright acid and dark berry fruit with whole cluster spice and no oak to speak of. Refreshingly textbook Barbera. — 11 years ago

with Michell

Bertran Long

9.1

No Cocoa but very ripe fruit no tannin to speak of but really enjoyable. — 12 years ago

Bram Wessel

9.4

Many other Beaujolais I've had smell like bubble-yum or bananas and have some weird, flatness, like club soda. Not burnt, but just, I don't know, like you're tasting the carbon. This is clean and direct. It's tart and sour-cherry, but mysteriously has almost no aftertaste. There's no oak flavor to speak of, (it's vinified in large-format neutral oak) but (once you let it develop) it still seems to have depth and richness like a wine that sees new oak. It needs about an hour of air for the acidity to calm down. — 10 years ago

Carl Steefel

8.9

Had this five years ago, where it was not ready for prime time but this one was if anything past prime. Still, fragrant aromas of tar, balsamico, dark cherry, no residual tannins to speak of. Just missing that edge and palate impact that the earlier bottle had. — 11 years ago

Vik

9.0

Very smooth, very drinkable. Very light. No tannins to speak of. — 11 years ago