Matt Sterr

9.0

Dry and earthy. — 8 years ago

with Alex

Marc vanholst

9.4

Swiss wine which has very much of a Northern Rhône identity. Great value wine which should age well. Very good. — 8 years ago

Bret Kelly

9.0

Great for a stolen bottle. — 9 years ago

Bob McDonald

9.7

Dark ruby - almost Opaque. Colour of an Aussie Shiraz. Lovely perfume. Powerful palate with incredible depth and intensity. Ripe fruit. Everything there for a long life. Much surprise when the identity was revealed as a Charmes with many thinking it was the Dugat Py Mazis. — 9 years ago

Raul Silva

10

Great wine!!! Syrah, Touriga Nacional and Petit Verdot! Oak enough tô vê elegant but not overpowering the grape identity! Very well balanced! I can pair it With almost anything!!! — 9 years ago

Zach Cherry

Account Manager Worldwide Wine & Spirits

8.9

What? Happy canyon SB? I don't know if it has any identity, as I have nothing to judge it against. But it's all sorts of green melon, pomelo, and maybe some oak? Wasn't expecting it, but there might be some barrel here. Worth a try. — 9 years ago

Jeff Shapiro

9.2

Powerful, big, bold and jammy. @Jennifer Beloz has stolen my heart..... Again! — 9 years ago

Bob McDonald

9.7

At last, most people’s favourite commune, Vosne Romanee with 6 Grand Crus. To repeat - we taste blind knowing the identities but not the serving order. Therefore we knew La Tache and Romanee Conti were in the lineup. My notes for this Wine - “Some sappiness - no violets. Deep red fruits. Gorgeous flavours and textures. That’s where your $1000s go. Good intro to this bracket. “ So when revealed Prince Wine Store have done what they did last year and started with the Big Gun first. Probably would have added another point or 2 had I known its identity but still gave it 97. Jancis says Drinking Window is 2035 - 2050!Postscript: Prices of this wine are getting out of hand and out of reach! — 8 years ago

LM Segal

9.7

Top 2-3 Napa Cabs I've ever had. Magical nose, cassis, cocoa, red flowers. Rich but nicely aged mid-palate, spreading into a wide swathe of candied red and black fruit, soft but powerful. Secondary stuff in spades. Then - an explosion at the back-end of cedary fruit and fig, tobacco, dark chocolate that lasted for >60 seconds. Just a monumental wine, sadly a solo.
This is note #500 for me, grateful to so many Delectable contributors who take the time to educate and expand my wine perspectives (or, in the case of @Bill Bender...other stuff, too!). Thanks to @Anthony Lombardi @Kimberly Anderson @Jörgen Lindström Carlvik @Jeff Savigny@Ron R@Shawn R @Richard Steinberg @Martin G Rivard (who is living the dream), @Greg Gregory among so many others, not to mention @Roman Sukley with magical reach to inaccessible, iconic SQNs (and the will to pop them) and frank open perspectives from legendary winemakers like @Mike Smith and @Cathy Corison, you all make this a neat community of which I try to be a small contributor.
Finally - a renewed plea to @Antonio Galloni to return "trending" to this community, as it was stolen by the bean counters! I'm no social media expert (I do have 2 teenagers!) but I'm pretty sure that "trending" speaks to the integrity and will to contribute of an entire community...take a look! — 9 years ago

with Melissa

Jean Kim

9.0

Sour, cloudy, kombucha having an identity crisis. Love it. — 9 years ago

Matthew Walsh

9.1

Brut non vintage bought in Caves de Forum, Reims for €26 This was a really dry, focused champagne (brut nature zero dosage) appealing bright, rich and fruity. Vinous without losing it's champagne identity. Proof that accurate champagne can be produced in the marls of the Aube. — 9 years ago

Harrison Westwater

9.5

It's the best kind of Zin... Stolen! Thanks Tommy!! — 10 years ago

with Tommy

Fredrik Finn

9.2

Surprinsgly good, fresh and elegant, with a good complexity, showing a mix of fresh and dried red fruit, the tell tale soubouis and mineral notes gives this wine its well deserved identity. A nice development in the glass. Good balance and structure. At five years of age the wine drinks very well and is not in need of any further aging — 8 years ago

Mark Flesher

9.5

Found this one behind another one in storage. All I can say is....DAMN. This drinks like a Sangiovese that I paid 3x the amount for. Dense cedar and a little sweet blackberry. Smooth operator on the front and finish. A part of me is very sad this one was bought out by Kendall Jackson but I hope they kept their identity intact. Lilac and pepper finish. Immense. LOVED this wine. Almost gave it 95 but not quite there. I wish I had another case of this one! — 8 years ago

Ari Newman

8.9

A bit of of a mixed identity Sagrantino - good dry earth tones but also youthful fruit - more time? — 9 years ago

Coltin Short

9.2

Nice malbec. Not usually a fan of bigger wines but this was pretty tasty. — 9 years ago

Zoë Annette

9.0

2016. Light, easy drinking. Now what I would expect from an Aussie Riesling! Loved it. — 9 years ago

Zach Cherry

Account Manager Worldwide Wine & Spirits

9.0

Solid, and truly great for Cali SB. I always felt CA SB didn't have a sense of place...still kind of feel that way. This is great, but where would I place this? It's lost in the complete lack of identity, not by it's own fault. — 9 years ago

Amanda Burton

9.0

Was time to drink this, but it was still good. — 9 years ago

George Chen

9.0

This blend was balanced but lacked single terroir identity so like drinking fine Cognac rather than Almagnac...enjoyable nonetheless. — 10 years ago