Chris Pham

10

refreshing, buttery, low acidity, smooth finish, crisp, light notes of critic fruits, favorite Chardonnay to date. — 8 years ago

Ryan Carey

Founder Wine Confidential

9.3

Pleasantly surprised by the 2013 Sequoia Grove Cabernet. I like this wine quite a bit more than the average critic score of ~91 pts. Not a typical in-you-face Napa cab, but an extremely well balanced wine that showcases what Napa is capable of - even at a reasonable price. Score: 93 points — 8 years ago

Isaac Pirolo

9.6

Second bottle this week. Extraordinary. Vivid. Mouthwatering. Perfumed nose of campfire grilled meats, plum backed up with bramble fruit, freshly grated ginger, and toasted sesame oil. Structured, showing beautiful balance with sweet tannin and a long savory finish. This is the bottle that makes me happy that the wine drinking public still doesn't know Syrah or Washington. If they did, this wine would cost two to three times as much. Even elicited a "This IS good" from my father, the world's most unimpressed wine critic (shoulder shrug = 93 points). — 9 years ago

with Don

Josh Hampshire

9.8

Delicious and funky. Co-fermentation gives it a lovely combined feeling with a delicious richness full mouth feel and lightly bitter critic acidity. I had it with a pork and it was 10/10 — 10 years ago

Paul Cheyne

10

If anybody at delectable is listening...
I really enjoy storing photos of labels here and occasionally prefer to comment on a wine. I mean do I get saddle of dressage horse leather or new car smell? These things matter. What I deeply dislike about delectable is I have to score a wine to comment. Scores are occasionally useful but ultimately a limiting way to quantify taste. So many of us here are quick to add our scores. While at the same time deservedly hate on yelp and the inherent limitations of critic 100 point systems. Delectable help people like me. — 10 years ago

David

8.9

I generally like RM and was a little disappointed by the 2013 occidental ridge. It was okay but just not a great bottle. I tend to splurge on great Pinot so I am a tough critic. — 10 years ago

Bob McDonald

8.9

This is the 2nd wine of the Grand Cru NZ Pinot producer, Ata Rangi from Martinborough. Lovely aromatics and typically lush palate albeit with a fair dollop of tannin. Needs cellaring. The main AR 2013 Pinot was described as a masterpiece by one prominent critic 17- — 10 years ago

Molly Brooks

9.1

My mom is my favorite wine critic; "There's a whole lot of.flavors in there!...I can't name any of them, but they're all there!"
I got you covered, mom.
Black pepper, lean brambly red and black fruit, hints of jerky. — 10 years ago

Loni Goetz

9.1

One of the better wine's for under 25 dollars that I have tasted. Very smooth. My wife even likes it and she is a tough critic. Great wine. — 11 years ago

Troy Tregilles

9.1

Cracking Light & Bright Young Chardonnay — 12 years ago

Isaac Pirolo

9.2

World's End is the Napa project of Jonathan Maltus. He's better known for his work on the Right Bank of Bordeaux as the owner of Château Teyssier and creating Le Dôme. The 2013 Against The Wind was sufficiently beaten up by more than one critic, but I was still surprised when I fished it out of a discount bin for $9... he's made a wine that Robert Parker scored 100... I think I'll take the risk... Juicy plum with blueberry are the focus, followed by some Hershey's cocoa powder and roasted red pepper, with some tertiary molasses and dried violet. — 8 years ago

Drink Organic

9.3

This wine holds a special place in my heart. Made by the 3 Momtazi sisters. I myself am 1 of 3 sisters! #Biodynamic Oregon Pinot, 100% estate fruit, featured in wine critic Eric Asimov’s NYT column several vintages in a row. Bright tart cherry core, silky smooth tannins, and sweet earth. Solid and soulful. — 8 years ago

Brian Maddux

9.0

classic. I have always like Clos du Val, while never a huge critic fav, to me I love the balance. Glad to have drank this 1997 on 12/25/15. — 9 years ago

Dorit Handrus

8.9

I totally believe the other critic could've had an off bottle (it is jenny/Francois after all)...this bottle is superfresh and vibrant. Bitter, charry finish, surprising structure and definition from an inexpensive grenache — 10 years ago

Paul Cheyne

10

If anybody at delectable is listening...
I really enjoy storing photos of labels here and occasionally prefer to comment on a wine. These things matter. What I deeply dislike about delectable is I have to score a wine to comment. Scores are occasionally useful but ultimately a limiting way to quantify taste. So many of us here are quick to add our scores. While at the same time deservedly hate on yelp and the inherent limitations of critic 100 point systems. Delectable help people like me. — 10 years ago

Jack Cranley, Backroads Wine Club & Cascadia Premium Wines

9.5

Cracked a bottle of the 2012 to celebrate good news. It's a stunner.

Seductive dark red fruits and a deep rich kalamata olive jump out of the glass. Underneath there's a potpourri of spice and exotic wood with perhaps a hint of vanilla bean from the barrel.

A very full, round mouthfeel carries evocative flavors of Bing cherry and fleshy plum with a long meaty mid palate, finishing with a wisp of smoke and herbs. Utterly complex and pleasure inducing.

This bottle is worthy of even the most discerning critic and appropriate for any momentous occasion. Savor with a cherished friend or lover! — 10 years ago

Eric Grasser

9.2

Impressive, especially since one major wine critic said this wine should be old at this point. This drank alive, healthy and well. Could be drank on its own without food as it's very Savoy (sexy fruit) throughout. — 10 years ago

Vin Zering

9.5

Delicious wine from a tough vintage. After 4 hrs of decanting the fruit is coming out while the oak is settling. Look forward to another 3-5 years to enjoy another bottle. I think this vintage will surprise many common and critic. — 10 years ago

Chris Bolzenius

9.3

"Smooth & silky Shiraz, savoured every drop" Kat — 11 years ago

Paco Suro

9.7

That's right. Not enough happy faces. As the toughest wine critic I know says "Delicious". Good luck finding it in the US. K&L carries some of their other great juice but not this 80 Grenache 20 Cinsault beauty. 16 euro at the winery. Cannot get any better. Our favorite from the Languedoc (12 wineries in 2 weeks). My wine of the year for 2013!!! — 12 years ago

Henrik Poulsen

9.2

Tasted blind I certainly enjoyed it but being a BIG fan of Blankiet I was still somewhat underwhelmed. Nothing screamed Napa (to me) here.

Tough to be critic of a 2nd label but...
Hopefully just my tastebuds being off here/now. — 8 years ago

with Kurt-Inge and Leo

Ross Vick

9.5

This dusty old dame was opened on a lark and was the Belle of the Ball. Fruit, velvet finish with grip on the end. A really fine and easy wine. Easily in my top 10 for the year so far. It has all of the complexity to satisfy the snobbiest wine critic and the simplicity to make a novice want to become an snob. — 8 years ago

Dave Harris

9.0

Solid IPA following a good symposium, but more importantly, a sighting of the American Mr. Creosote, who apparently is a Pittsburgian food critic. — 9 years ago

Z Fo

9.0

Mellow cab. My problem is I enjoy all my wines so I'm not that great a critic. — 9 years ago

Paul Cheyne

10

A repost but trying to make delectable a better place. So If anybody at delectable is listening...
I really enjoy storing photos of labels here and occasionally prefer to comment on a wine. I mean do I get dried cranberries, C berries from the bogs of Nantucket or Ocean Spray?
These things matter. What I deeply dislike about delectable is I have to score a wine to comment. Scores are occasionally useful but ultimately a limiting way to quantify taste. So many of us here are quick to add our scores. While at the same time deservedly hate on yelp and the inherent limitations of critic 100 point systems. Delectable help people like me. — 10 years ago

Paul Cheyne

10

If anybody at delectable is listening...
I really enjoy storing photos of labels here and occasionally prefer to comment on a wine. I mean do I get saddle of dressage horse leather or new car smell? These things matter. What I deeply dislike about delectable is I have to score a wine to comment. Scores are occasionally useful but ultimately a limiting way to quantify taste. So many of us here are quick to add our scores. While at the same time deservedly hate on yelp and the inherent limitations of critic 100 point systems. Delectable help people like me. Actually this one I rate at a full 😋 — 10 years ago

Marshal White

9.0

Embodying why/how 2010 is an interesting vintage. Ripeness, really high acidity, texture that hits the sweet spot between delicacy/finesse and the phenolic nature of Riesling, developing characteristics, and both ripe orchard and tart critic fruit. Really nice qba. — 10 years ago

Vas

9.5

I'm no wine critic but, this is what I think of when I think of wine. — 10 years ago

Alder Yarrow

Wine Blogger Vinography

9.4

I understand why this got a gazillion point rating from every critic on earth. Astonishingly concentrated but with fantastic lightness. — 10 years ago

Ross Williams

9.1

This is a very rare wine made from a single 40 hectare vineyard Italian grape called "ruche." A well-known Italian critic gave this and the previous, 2011 vintage 99 points and declared it Italy's best red wine. I don't know about all that, but it's a very good wine. If give it 94 points. Unusual combination of flowers, earth, smoke, and red fruits on the nose and palate. A very good wine. Excellent with food as well. — 11 years ago