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

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

9.1

Cherry notes with some dust and spice. Medium bodied at best yet ripe fruit with traces of spice on palate. Marg River Shiraz from the north does not have a definitive identity. Shiraz seems to do better in the south ie Voyager, Cape Mentelle and Leeuwin Estate. — 10 years ago

Anisa Domi

9.0

Short shift for andreanna followed by little date at my place with stolen wine bottle — 10 years ago

EmM

9.2

Granny Smith apples, hints of toast balanced with good acidity and clean finish . A grower champagne with true identity. — 10 years ago

Giampiero Nadali

Wine Blogger Aristide

9.2

2014 - San Martino della Battaglia is one of the smallest DOC in Italy, that counts 30K bottles for 8 producers. This white is based on Tuchì grapes (actual name for Tocai), it represents a bold move to reaffirm its past identity and visibility to the market niche of Tocai/Tuchì aficionados. An amazing small jewel to discover on the southern shores of Lake Garda. — 10 years ago

Nate Axline

9.0

Yes you're reading that correctly and yes that's the wine at the bottom. Grenache straight to press and full malo. Great fruit, great structure and acid. Best Identity Crisis yet! — 10 years ago

with Rachelle and Onjolee

Sanjuana Hodges

9.0

Sanjuana had this 12 years ago

Michael Wangbickler CWE DipWSET

President Drink Local Wine Inc, Educator Discover Wine & Spirits Academy

9.0

Fruity and refreshing. — 12 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

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

Keith Crump

8.9

Floral notes delicate — 10 years ago

Tom Kobylarz

9.4

From different vines than the Pingus, so don't call this a second wine as it strives for its own identity and does a Damn good job trying. Less inky and concentrated than Pingus, but pretty to me a complete wine today, but here still.it could use another 3-5 years to settle down that stiff tannin. — 10 years ago

Shana Wall

9.9

#2006 #Ornellaia #Masseto A Powerhouse. 👏👏👏 Dark fruit, spice, tar & red rose petals, savory, strong acidity, seamless tannins... Endless layers of goodness! This wine has LOTS of life left in it💃. I could go on and on about this wine... This sexy guy has stolen my heart!!😍❤️❤️❤ ️#Tuscany — 10 years ago

Alex Powell

9.0

From taste: some butter and cocoa on entry, ripe dark berries, tapenade and lilac. Seems a quasi-modern take, plenty of fruit and tame. Dense and meaty palate, olive and fine acidity, creamy texture from wood, supple tannin. Tame indeed without losing its pure french syrah identity. Good concentration, and fine for the $47. A cornas to introduce folk to. — 10 years ago

Yohanna

9.3

Great aromatics with lovely dry finish thats unexpected given the fruit and floral characteristics on the nose — 10 years ago

Charlie Beatty

Buyer wineworksonline.com

9.8

Impressive Pinot Noir Peirson Meyer has had a Identity Crisis. In years past they operated with 2 different labels. The other being L'Angevin !! That label is now on the back label!!! — 11 years ago

Andrew Lampasone

Owner Wine Watch Selections

9.4

Southern Rhine blend Mourvèdre dominant 56, Syrah 38, 6% Grenache made by James mantone, syncline winemaker, fermented in concrete has a good amount of blackberry huckleberry fruit with notes of animal, Dark spices. This has a bit of estate fruit which is third leaf from the stolen fruit incident. Black licorice spice 1.5 tons stolen- around 50 cases. Dark spices and pretty floral notes very pretty this needs a rack of lamb still has that dusty mineral notes. Big and chewy with rich decadent fruit and bright acidity cleaning things up with pretty floral notes only 220 cases produced. Finish 45+ dusty mineral notes through the finish. Excellent+ — 12 years ago

Jean Kim

9.0

Sour, cloudy, kombucha having an identity crisis. Love 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

Gae Saccoccio - NdC

9.6

Really complicated on these so suspect days, expose themselves with concepts such as: tradition, terroir, identity without falling into the most sinister rhetoric if not sounds just trite and hypocritical as the counterfeit currency with which even large-scale industries - supported by marketing - pays back its inattentive mass audience riding the wave of the country of origin or protected typicality. A diabolical mechanism this one for which even the most noble ideas probably the right practices and good experiences completed in the scale of centuries to human measure and not on massive industrial scale, are trivialized by sleazy slogan, emptied of meaning to be more or less surreptitious thanks to barbaric persuasion techniques and brain-washing propaganda.
Yet with the Valentini's Trebbiano you may not groped to summarize in words if not by drawing on terms so appropriate to express it. Now concerning this iconic label we've got behind it a local grape variety, a real family and a great wine that collect in a bottle the past and present story of a side of Abruzzo who claims to defeats victories and sacrifices to dominate the abuses (on and of) nature, miseries and splendours of agricultural seasons. Places, people, vision, wines such as Valentini are here to remind us how each bottle stay so proudly standing as non-reproducible beauty and fermented goodness expressing all its artisanal uniqueness and authenticity which are just that suspect to industrial wine production in manufacturing chains on standardized quantities; wines that are all equal to themselves even though wine itself is not much left at the end of the day/cycle. Trebbiano d'Abruzzo Valentini 1998 is what we have to rate right now: rusticity with class; style, purity and glory of a local grape recognized by many admirers from all over the world: act local think global this is another slogan-cliché which in this specific Valentini's wine exemple could sounds a little less false and more effective. — 10 years ago

with Alberto and Giovanni

Dongming Yin

9.2

Excellent complexity. Roast Sumatra coffee texture and literally its scent. 2hour decanting is necessary to bring out the most of its dormant complexity. The only thing that bothers me is its geographical identity. If blindly tasted, I would undoubtedly say this is typical Margaux grand cru classe. The wine maker really has a lot to do with Margaux and Saint julien. Anyway, it's a great wine. — 10 years ago

Nate Miles

9.0

Cases of mistaken identity. Thought I was buying a Sauvignon Blanc. Nope. Then, thought I was drinking a Chenin Blanc. Nope. In the end, a pretty profound wine, bit oxidative and with a whiff of apple cider. Good stuff. — 10 years ago

Benjamin Parniuk

9.3

Beaujolais has stolen my heart away from St. Joseph. This just adds to the list. — 10 years ago

Michael Wangbickler CWE DipWSET

President Drink Local Wine Inc, Educator Discover Wine & Spirits Academy

9.1

Best merlot I've had in a while. — 12 years ago

Jesse Doebereiner

9.7

Good. Expensive stolen — 13 years ago