Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.3

Warriors game in the backyard with friends. Hoping for an early celebration with the Billecart Rose. Go Warriors! 🏀

All my many Previous notes apply.

Cheers to a good weekend everyone! — 7 years ago

Mike Saviage

9.2

Paired with 96 and 85 LB for fun. Dark, opaque and purple. Over the top with its fruit and teeth chattering tannins. Great to see what these start like and where they go in 20-40 years. — 8 years ago

Mark Osmers

8.9

Justin is a flavorful cab with a delightful and surprising finish. Not too sweet. Justin would be my every day "go to" if it wasn't $23 a bottle — 9 years ago

Austin Blackwell

9.4

Rich dark berries and black cherry with signature Santa Rita Hills spice dominate the aroma profile and offer great complexity to compliment the multidimensional palate. Wonderful textures and flavors of stewed strawberries, cherries, and sandalwood offer a lovely experience. This is drinking very very well now and will be great for another 5 years easy. — 9 years ago

with Josh

Mindy McVey Galbraith

9.5

Fresh crisp citrusy flavor, my next go to if I can't find my number one. — 9 years ago

Crystal Hunt

8.9

Yum yum yum. Perfect easy drinking - balanced juicy and dry. Definitely a go to! — 10 years ago

Bob Pratt

9.0

Still very young. Strong and powerful, has a long way to go. Sunny met the owner Melanie Tesseron at a wine event sponsored by ASC here in Shanghai. 2010 vintage. — 11 years ago

David McNally

9.1

Delicious. Very fresh and ready to go — 11 years ago

with Matt

Jeff Bellato

9.5

Go to Pinot Noir. Cherry & Strawberry full pallet pleasure. Full bodied Pinot with out being overbearing. Smooooooth! — 12 years ago

Bryan Fuerst

10

My "go to" Malbec — 13 years ago

Dr. Owen Bargreen

9.3

Taken from what was generally a tough vintage in the Northern Rhone, the 1997 ‘La Chapelle’ Hermitage is a striking rendition at more than twenty years of age. Bulls blood, iodine, red cherry puree and crushed mint flavors provide some serious refinement. Silky throughout, this will continue to evolve over the next five to ten years — but is marvelous right now. Drink 2019-2025- 93 — 7 years ago

Angel Aponte

9.2

Great wine, if a port is to sweet, go with this full body, dark red wine, a hint of pepper, with a mix of Zinfandel, merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon blend. 2016 — 7 years ago

Christian Bronstein

9.2

A long way to go to reach its full potential, but promising and enjoyable all the same — 8 years ago

Julie Sawyer

9.0

Love this juicy cab. Great go-to bottle for home or hostess gifting. — 9 years ago

Tom Kobylarz

9.1

Of the 2 Bordeaux drinking the best tonight, but long term the Brane-Cantenac 2005 will outlive this wine by 10 years easy. While very complex, a fine touch a green is traceable.

A classic currant and forest floor nose, fall leaves abound with a spike of spice and a barely there green that while subtle is apparent.

The pleasure here is higher for its more mature tasted and feel, while the brawny 2005 is a better wine it was not as enjoyable to me and feel it will be another notch enter in 3 years, and likely 2 notches better in 5.

The elegance and feel on this wine is ready to go and will easily go another 5+ years. — 9 years ago

Bryan Lopuck

10

This is our go to wine we had on one of our first dates in SF — 10 years ago

with Heath

Bobbie Cole

9.1

My go to after work wine. Great and great price. — 11 years ago

Julie Gallick

9.0

For $10, I use this as our go-to every day wine and for big parties. All my guests love it and think it's a $20-$30 bottle — 11 years ago

Shaelyn Hill

10

My go to wine at the grocery store. Chocolatey red blend (Zinfandel, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Petite Sirah). — 11 years ago

Michele Key

9.6

Clean, crisp and smooth. My favorite "go-to" celebratory champagne. — 13 years ago

Sam Scarpari

9.3

I continue to go back to this wine as... its comfort Chardonnay. — 7 years ago

Kay Borst

10

Very good - go to Costco — 7 years ago

Bret Barker

9.4

Big Tig fan. Hard to go wrong with this wine. Tannins are more subtle and it is more elegant. Usually young tignanello are straight forward super Tuscan powerhouses but this has a lot going on with cherry, spice , a little cedar with mineral at the end. — 8 years ago

Akiko Koide

9.2

Go with both fish and meat. Slightly fizzled and light initially and evolved to complex with depth. — 9 years ago

Michael Greene

9.1

Past peak but still some nice cassis fruit and acid in there to go along with smokey forest floor notes. Clear quality as elegance. — 9 years ago

Austin Ferrari

Wine Director Hillside Supper Club

9.5

Drinking so fresh and young. When mom comes to town, we go big — 10 years ago

Michele Dowis

9.0

One of my "go to" wines — 11 years ago

Robert Klimkiewicz Jr.

9.0

An easy to drink go-to weekend wine for less than $10 — 11 years ago

Julie Kang

10

Such a great "go to" wine. Crowd pleaser from the new wine drinker to the experienced Somm. Delish summer white! — 11 years ago

Sam Bilbro

Owner/Vineyardist Idlewild Wines

9.0

Great go to... Probably infanticide but was curious. Seems like a touch more oak on the normale than in past years. — 13 years ago