Nate Miles

9.1

Stoney stream water. — 9 years ago

Neil Cornish

9.0

Salivating stoney minerality. Fairly subdued fruit. Lean, Chablis like profile. — 9 years ago

with ed, Jon and 1 other

Matt Beyard

9.0

A delicious Syrah. Matured from the wine I drank at the winery. Opened nicely and drank smoothly. — 10 years ago

Benjamin Hickey

8.9

Super fresh all stainless. Round fruit. — 11 years ago

M

9.3

Stoney. Woodsy. Herby. Tannic. Nice! — 11 years ago

Brittany Barber

9.5

Great alone or with grapes and cheese — 11 years ago

Matteo Burani

8.9

Complex, tropical, intense, stoney; long flavors. Nice! — 13 years ago

with Wayne

TheSkip

9.2

Well then. Still on the WA train!

If there were some magical continuum of wine, this is immediately to the left of hyper extracted Pinot Noir. I don't know that it would be accurate to call it a Pinot-lovers Syrah, but I'll go with that anyway. — 9 years ago

Tony Chapman

9.1

Fresh aromatic beautiful wine. — 10 years ago

Chris Morrison

9.0

Raspberries and sour cherry. Lots of fruit and depth. — 10 years ago

with Jaclyn

Glen Hayley

9.1

Vibrant red fruits and lead, spice and licorice. Very very dry from the tannin and high acid but once it settles in it was real tasty. Stoney finish. — 11 years ago

Gretchen Rogers

9.4

Long stoney slate nose. Light floral. Layers upon layers of stone and river rock on the pallet. Unending and long finish. Relishing this one at Mattie's Tavern in Los Olivos. The food is outrageous. Grilled Avocado, ponzu, wasabi. Done. — 11 years ago

Tim O'Rourke

9.2

A completely different experience than '10, rounder, but much lighter than the '09. Tons of mint and a beautiful texture with the classic Vatan stoney minerality. Won't last as long as '08-'10 but really good for early drinking. — 13 years ago

Christopher Losa

Owner/Wine Director Bar Bambino

8.9

Lovely honeydew melon and fragrant jasmine. Big and unctuous with clean, stoney acid to finish. — 9 years ago

Lee James

9.2

Smoky enough but in balance -really enjoyed this one — 9 years ago

Big Wave Dave

9.3

Beautiful big funky, herbal, plummy nose - a bit of wet hay? Fine tannins fully integrated into round ripe black fruit. Add lots of provencale herb, farmyard, cut grass, and leather. Really good. — 10 years ago

with Rocket

Matté

Manager The Wine Cellars

9.3

Weighty, meaty, smoky, mineral nose with underripe pineapple skin and green mango, burnt golden syrup, grilled pineapple & plantain or sugar cain.
Palate has a real bottom heavy weight, this is wine with a lot of mineral intensity and stoney depth along aniseed infused Asian pear, stony mineral finish, long with great depth — 11 years ago

Bryant Bickel

9.0

It was born as a heavy weight Jurassic indeed, tidal waves of flavor stoney fruit as hell, fresh young white peach pith, with clarified butter accents , quince paste texture, baked golden apple skins! Lemon chiffon cake dry backside, it lures me in paired well w/
Ahi , but might pair better with cake or lighter fish barramundi or tilefish — 11 years ago

Matt Howard

9.5

Stoney, chalky, flinty and fantastic Sancerre. — 12 years ago

Brody Goodman

9.1

Amazing cherries — 13 years ago