Andy Mc Nees

9.3

Take all the exotic dark fruits and bbq them and pour the meat drippings over it. No signs of fading at all at 14 years young. Crazy. $25 auction crusher — 9 years ago

Chris Scanlan

Sales Amy Atwood Imports

9.0

am I biased? no. not so much. Robinot makes some of the most mind-altering Chenin and pineau d'aunis in the world. if you see his wines on a list, then you are lucky to have opportunity to drink them. tho, they may take 5 days to open up to you. just saying. — 10 years ago

Laissez Fare

9.0

Els Jelipins 2009 (a very kind gift from, and shared with, @J_A_A). Made by Gloria and Berta Garriga in the hills Penedès. Based around the Sumoll grape, with a slightly different blend each year (depending on which rows of vineyards they decide to take fruit from). The fruit is hand-picked over a number of sessions — always early in the morning and in small cases. It ferments with the natural yeasts, without temperature control, fining, or filtration and only a touch of sulfur added right before bottling. Open-top barrel fermentation and some wax-lined oval amphorae are used, along with lengthy aging in big barrels. Each bottle is painted by hand – the design is different each year, but always includes the symbolic heart.
This has to be one of the most distinctive, intriguing and confounding red wines I've ever tasted. The first thing you notice is the cloudy ruby color. A mysterious scent leads to strong flavors of green herbs (almost medicinal) on the palate: is it tarragon or dill, or both? Elderflower perhaps? Maybe fresh olive too. Underlying this is an ever-changing red fruit core (cranberry, tart cherry), with the odd streak of wet rocks and a zippy freshness. Totally raw and wild. Impossible to pin down and paradoxical.
Ultimately, this wine was indomitable. We paired it with a full-flavored Iranian stew (ghormeh-sabzi), then with vegetarian Indian curry. The wine went remarkably well with both, though I wouldn't say it 'paired' well. You could always taste the distinct flavors of the wine, and it didn't interfere with the food, but they didn't really enhance each other either. Essentially, even robust food flavors could not tame this cloudy, 'little-looking' red wine.
After all of this, I will not say that I am gagging to try this wine again, as I'm not really sure I love the flavor profile overall … but it did grow on me over the four days we had it open. And the wine was possibly even better on Day 4 than it was on Day 1. I would definitely be happy to try it again, though, as there is no doubt it would challenge palates, ideologies and spark conversation. This is a 'real' wine, with no pretense and oodles of individuality. — 10 years ago

Jody Scharf

9.1

Alright guys. Not expensive. No known name. This proves to me what you spend is not whether a wine is good. Delicious. Rich dark berries. Some vanilla. Buy it. Enjoy. The ratings are based on snob appeal. Take a blind taste test. Then we'll talk. Shalom. — 9 years ago

Scott Rowe

8.9

Wine option no. 3
Knocked this one out of the park!
Take me back to Tuscany. — 10 years ago

Anthony Lombardi

9.3

2005 is amazing. No surprise. This is an elegant Pinot with unbelievably pure fruit & a firm backbone. Paired w/our take on the Zuni Cafe roast chicken because Monday. — 10 years ago

jerod peitsmeyer

10

take your cab and shove it... I ain't drinking that no more. — 11 years ago

Tom Riley

9.2

Received this two years ago from the no-longer-extant Empire Wine Cellars club. This is a delicious, balanced, well made, structured wine. At $28 it's a complete steal. Damp earth and dark fruit along with velvety textures and lip-smacking fruit concentration. If you like cab franc, you need to take a peek at Onabay. — 9 years ago

Nicholas Livingston

9.2

Interesting to sip a Pouilly Fumé Cuvée Silice from one of the most trusted values in the region at such an age. While she's in the repose of her twilight years she's not merely a beauty of a bygone time but instead lively and lovely whose company rewards whoever has a chance afternoon with her. Who would ever credit Sauvignon Blanc even one of this crystalline emerald variety as a wine that might take an age in a cool cellar? 13 years! Even through the crazing crows' feet these eyes shine brightly and despite how cray paper skin drapes over the cheek bones of Sauvignon Blanc, this is still nimble and pulses with lives yet to live -not merely memories to regale its audience of how things once were, what she once was or could have been. Honeycomb, lemon curd, nettles wilting in grassy green olive oil, and then the lime leaves...so familiar and yet always exotic of distant shores and climates so far from this northern land of four resolute seasons. As to ratings: how can any of us quantify sensual pleasures really. This was a joy no matter how you cut it and yet given my surprise at Sauvignon Blanc at 13 years on still having so much to say I cannot speak highly enough. The Blanchets do it again! — 10 years ago

Lobo Di Noccento

10

This again is clearly not a wine it is however one of the best premier Russian Vodkas around by the way this product is from
St. Petersburg Russia

This Product is rightfully entitled
Russian Standard as it is derived from only the finest products found in Russia those being their Winter Harvest Wheat, from the Russian Steppes, The Glacial Waters of Lake Ladoga are used and Advanced Distillation Technology is used in the making of this product.

This is all done to ensure only the highest standards when making this Vodka the version I have posted here is the platinum version which by no means was cheap
However, it was still relatively reasonably priced.

On the bottle it is listed as being silver filtered I just take this to mean that it has been filtered numerous times to the point of a very high quality which would more than adequately explain its smoothness as there are to my knowledge at least two other versions of this Vodka there is a Regular Version, a Gold version and the Platinum Version I have listed here.

This Vodka is of Remarkable taste and amazing clarity. In all other ways that truly matter when crafting a great vodka this is one of the ones that is truly uncompromising which is what
has allowed this product to reach
its peak degree of greatness. — 11 years ago