Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Took 3-5 hours to really get there. Dusty cherries, earth and lovely desiccated tree bark. Enveloping and so earthy and stoney. Utterly classic. So seductive. Palate is sweet and silky with nice mineral grip and the classic CDC stoniness. Elegant and nimble but lacks a bit of stuffing to be great. — 6 months ago

K Brooks

9.0

Nice with Pat’s grilled steak ($49). Dark fruit and a soft finish — a year ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

Love this wine and last 2-3 vintages are the best. Nose has delicate berries, hint of barnyard, herbals and wonderful minerality. Palate is a dream. So balanced, fresh and pure with red berry fruit, gorgeous minerals and incredible finesse. Lovey structure and stoney sweetness. Sappy and deep. Wonderful depth and length. Really the most elegant Marginale yet. Still needs time to open. As it opens it just levels up. More fruit and sap. 9.5 to 9.6. — 2 years ago

Enrico Pallazzo

9.3

Good but not for the price. Not overly smoky or or jammy. Blackberry, chocolate, and bergamot notes. — 8 months ago

Matt

9.0

Juicy, brambly, dripping with bright florals and herbs, stoney too. Always delicious — a year ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

The kid has made it big. Perfumed. Long. Stoney, elegant and sweet fruited. Really compelling. Was the star of the trio. — 2 years ago

Douglas Braun

9.1

2018 Vintage - beautiful Stoney , floral,cranberry, spice cake great balance love it — 3 years ago

Douglas Braun

9.0

2020 Vintage - from North Island Gisborne - fuller bodied than most of the wines from Marlborough - fresh herbs, grapefruit, beautiful aromatics nice medium acidity good value — a year ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

OMG nose. Great terroir cannot be fucked with. It cannot. Black opulent cherries, hint of sweet wood, floral, dark, brooding. This is the EMO vineyard of Pommard. Insane and intense minerality. What mineral lift. Stunning nose. 9.7? 9.8? I don’t know. But it’s up there. Elite. Elite. Concentrated and intense but oh so young. Faboosh complexity and juiciness. Fruit is extraordinary but also needs air to show its true self. Man what a stoney Rugiens. Nose now showing kirsch. But a black kirsch. Energetic and so delineated and what insane fruit and finesse. Super complex and light as a feather but also deep, contemplative and dense. Wow. Stunning. A tick below 19. — 2 years ago

Douglas Braun

9.1

2015 Vintage -mushroom , bottle bouquet , earth , black cherry , nice intensity , Stoney , still tight — 2 years ago