Stone Cottage Cellars
Clos Saron
Stone Soup Syrah 2012
Gideon Beinstock produces some of the worlds most exciting wines and this vintage has now finally entered the plateau of pleasurable drinking. Complex and layered with smoke and tarry notes. — 7 years ago
Stone Brewing Co.
Enjoy By IPA 2017
The Captains Daughter from GreySail brewery
Heady Topper from The Alchemist
Prospect from Foley Brothers Brewery
Space Juice from Long Trail
Pliny The Elder Russian River Brewery
These may be hard to find depending on where you are.
Arianna Occhipinti
SP68 Bianco Terre Siciliane Albanello Muscat of Alexandria 2012
Floral nose, crisp with long stone fruit like finish
Very nice! — 10 years ago
Clos Saron
Heart of Stone Sierra Foothills Syrah 2009
Odd for a restaurant (with a Michelin star) to sell wine like this but not have decanters or stemware. — 11 years ago
Stone Brewing Co.
Ruination Double IPA
Surprisingly, I kinda liked this despite my aversion to overly-hopped beers. The nose is a straight up hop-bomb - floral, citrusy, piney. The palate's also full-on, with heaps of hoppy bitterness, but balanced by malty sweetness and tropical fruit notes (passionfruit and mango for me). Finishes crisp and earthy. Not bad, but not my kind of beer (not an IPA fan basically). — 6 years ago
Tyrrell's Wines
Rufus Stone Heathcote Shiraz
Cherries warmish fruit, enjoyable not overly complex — 6 years ago
Cornerstone Cellars
Stepping Stone Cabernet Franc 2013
Nice smooth. Nutmeg. Blackberry, figs. — 8 years ago
Stone the Crows
Three Twins Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2014
Tight but really good — 8 years ago
Stone Brewing Co.
Stone Delicious IPA
One of my favs...now avail in can, perfect for walking around London in the spring 😍 — 8 years ago
Burn Cottage
Central Otago Pinot Noir 2014
Tasted at NZ cellar Pinot tasting. Light, savoury with nice acidity. Ted Lemon from Littorai is the consultant winemaker. — 9 years ago
Domaine François Raveneau
Valmur Chablis Grand Cru Chardonnay 2001
Boyz Raveneau tasting. Light straw color. Honeyed nose with light fruit. Soil and stone notes in the mouth to go with lovely Chablis fruit Tight at first but really opened up nicely. — 10 years ago
Stone Cellars
California Cabernet Sauvignon
Stefs wedding — 12 years ago
Donkey & Goat
Stone Crusher Skin Ferment El Dorado Roussanne 2018
Like a flat sour beer — 6 years ago
Taittinger
Comtes de Champagne Grand Crus Brut Blanc de Blancs 1976
Minerals ,apricot stone fruits , golden raisin , caramel , nuts . Incredible depth and richness but with perfectly balanced acidity lingering notes of nougat , minerals and dried fruits . — 6 years ago
Domaine Leflaive
Les Pucelles Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Chardonnay 2000
Straw gold color. Caressing aromatic nose of lemon curd, river stone, spices and a little apricot. Really good balance of structure, fruit and acidity in the mouth. Lasting finish. Textbook white burg. — 8 years ago
Cornerstone Cellars
Stepping Stone Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
Ripe, purple lift oak — 8 years ago
Trimbach
Clos Ste. Hune Alsace Riesling 1975
At first taste- bright, crisp, rambunctious, high-toned citrus. After 20min- rounded and developed, concentrated stone fruits. Very dry, but also rich on the palate. Could go another 20yrs before the youthfulness begins to fade. — 8 years ago
Louis Roederer
Cristal Brut Champagne Chardonnay Pinot Noir Blend 2002
2002 vintage in magnum. Light lemon hue. Wonderful nose. Wet rocks and lemon-lime profile, with dough, toast and hints of nuts. Stone fruit - white peach and underripe apricot. On the palate, wonderful balance and harmony. This is a great wine - everything works here, although still very youthful. Lovely mid palate concentration, but no excess richness. There's a purity with this wine which is very Crystal. Long and elegant finish. — 10 years ago
Connor Smith
Finger. Lakes. Saperavi.
If this ain’t American winemaking in the 21st century we don’t know what is! 🇺🇸🍷🇬🇪🍇
At least, that’s what we were thinking before reading up on Standing Stone and founders Marti & Tom Macinski. They actually first planted this fascinating Georgian grape here in ***1994*** (just 3 years after Georgia left the USSR, for those keeping score at home) intended for blending.
Increasingly impressed by the quality of the grapes, they offered their first varietal Saperavi in 2010 - as “The Dark Red”, since the grape name was as yet unrecognized by the federal government. Once it was, they became the first American winery to release a wine labeled Saperavi.
Fine tuned to the cold, high mountains of Kakheti in eastern Georgia, it makes sense why it would thrive in the Finger Lakes! The name Saperavi literally means “ink”, a sensible name for a grape with pitch-dark skin AND flesh! 🖤
Marti and Tom sold the winery and retired in 2017. But their enduring legacy may just be budding. We’ve heard of Saperavi planting projects underway in New York, Virginia, and Oregon.
Saperavi’s runaway affinity for the Finger Lakes may have been a bit of a happy accident, but the Macinskis deserve every bit of credit for thinking outside the box, putting it in motion, and bringing it to fruition! 🙌🙌🙌 — 6 years ago