Sylvain Rhainds

9.1

2015. Direct du producteur. Un Riesling très différent des normes. — 8 years ago

Polly Marie

9.2

Very good. Very reasonably priced. Nice flavor but not overwhelming at all. Perfect for sipping at home or an easy gift to a host — 8 years ago

Holly Richardson

9.0

Very nice- at Highlander — 8 years ago

Nicole Johnson

8.9

Good zin! Yummy! — 9 years ago

Kevin M

9.0

The 2006 Rusty Shed Chardonnay is a blend of four blocks of Chardonnay on the Flat Rock Property. Grapes are hand picked and hand sorted before whole bunch pressing takes place. It was then cold settled in stainless steel, 100% barrel fermented and left on the lees for 10 months. Wild and commercial yeasts were used for primary fermentation, followed by malolactic fermentation to soften the natural acidity. The result?
Beautiful example of a mid to full bodied Chardonnay with butter, vanilla, apples and light spice on the palate. A lot of flavour and elegance at this price point. Sampled this 2006 in 2017 but this should sit well and perhaps develop more for a few more years. Best part? It's from Niagara! Loved it!
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— 9 years ago

Lisa Hart

10

Everything you asked for and more. — 9 years ago

Matt Beyard

9.0

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

Carlos Chiti

9.3

18/AGO/2015 — 11 years ago

Jacob Rodriguez

9.0

Juicy, bright sangio. — 11 years ago

Michael Siciliano

9.6

Canadian Juice — 12 years ago

Anthony Labatt

9.9

Delicious Riesling — 13 years ago

Nichole Herman

10

Nichole really enjoyed this one! — 8 years ago

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.3

Fruits started more mid dark, even after a 40 minutes in decanter. Showed a fair amount of spice and smoke (Sonoma fires). However, after a couple hours decanter, the fruits really brighter up and shined beautifully. Ripe, cherries, strawberries, cranberries, dry cranberries, soft chalkiness and bright red florals for days with a well balanced beautiful rich, polished finish. — 8 years ago

Paco Suro

8.9

Pizza dough yeast aromatics. Nice bubbles. — 8 years ago

Paul Weil

8.9

Another above-the-fold headline scoop from "Superman's Pal"! This is a dense, jammy blend with slimy smooth body. The rich dark cherry, red raspberry, and black currant flavors balance nicely. It works well as an after-dinner digestive wine. — 9 years ago

Zack Raucher

9.2

Great blackberry and vanilla flavor! — 9 years ago

Kelley Panaro

9.5

Very good. Delicious fruity finish — 9 years ago

Conrad Green

9.0

From magnum. A fair bit of oxidation with noticeable wood and sour apple notes. Past its prime but actually improved over the evening. — 10 years ago

with Naoko and Larry

Carlos Chiti

9.2

19/AGO/2015 — 11 years ago

Patrick Ayotte

9.0

Translucid ruby color. Nose of red berries, spices, earth with a leafy / tree scent. On the palate, nice fruit profile, small earthy and mineral bitterness, good acidity and fresh, spicy finish. French style Pinot. Very good (90)

Made of Pinot Noir coming from 15 different parcels from Flat Rock vineyards. Aged for about 8 months in oak barrels. Alcohol level of 12,5% — 11 years ago

Vanessa Steingard

9.5

Fair trade and wonderful — 12 years ago

Molly Duke

9.4

George Galey, American estates wines inc — 13 years ago

Alishia Odom

9.0

Alishia had this 8 years ago

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.3

I bought my first vintage from this producer & terroir beginning with the 2010 vintage and what a vintage to start. I bought four bottles for right around $50 or a little less. They were so amazing, I drank through them in no time at all. For those of you that read my posts, that’s not normally what I do. I like to drink one & age the rest. Since then, I have looked & looked for more. I’d finally given up hopes of finding more until recently I struck gold. I should have bought all nine bottles but a calmer head prevailed. It’s definitely changed since having it fresh. On the nose, the fruits are slightly macerated. Heather honey, beeswax, golden & green apple, pineapple upside down cake, slight orange citrus blend, mango, glazed nuts, soft, delicate, chalky minerals, a touch of jasmine & yellow lilies. The body is much rounder & thicker than when it was young. Waxy. So, beautifully layered across the palate. Much of the palate matches the nose. Heather honey, beeswax, golden & green apple, apricots, peach, pineapple upside down cake, slight orange citrus blend, mango, slight molasses character & glazed nuts with citrus blossoms, yellow lilies & jasmine. The minerals are much more grippy & bold as they cut across and set on the palate. The acidity round & phat. The texture is amazing as is the length, balance & beautiful, rich, long finish that lasts two-minutes plus. So glad I found more of this wine! Hubert Lamy seriously over deliver the terroir & the price point by a country mile. If you are not buying this wine on pre-arrival, you are missing great wine and excellent value. Can’t say enough good things about it. Especially, the 2010. I expect the 15 to hold similar quality. Photos of; Olivier Lamy, Olivier working in this vineyard, barrel room and their Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet Vineyard. Producer notes and history...There have been Lamy’ s growing vines in St-Aubin since 1640, today it is run by Olivier Lamy. Olivier is a new breed of Burgundian grower keen to progress. He trained Méo-Camuzet & made a number of vintages before taking over in 1996 from his father Hubert. Hubert Lamy used to sell fruit to négociants, but that stopped in 1997. He grubbed up and sold off peripheral vines, keeping only the best and oldest sites. Currently he is experimenting with different planting densities in a quest to capture even greater expression of terroir. The Domaine produces both reds and whites and now has 16.5 hectares of vineyards, mostly in St-Aubin but also own a few parcels in Chassagne-Montrachet and a tiny plot in the Grand Cru Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet. Yields are kept low and recent innovations have been introduced with selection tables in the cuverie to ensure that only the healthiest and ripest grapes are used. His more recent move to reduce the amount of new oak with the introduction of demi-muids 300-600 liter barrels have also helped to improve the wines. Vinification is traditional and the wines are matured with only 20-30% new oak for 12 months before minimal filtration and then bottling. The quality is very high and is often superior to many wines from much more prominent villages that sell at twice the price or more. — 8 years ago

Mark Flesher

9.6

What a wine!!! Mayacamas fruit, at 2640 elevation. 275 case offering. Poured a purple color in the glass with a dense youthful blackberry pie nose. The entry shows youthful chalkiness. Dense and thick. Beautiful now, expressing rather early on the palate but probably more of my kind of wine in a couple of years when this wine integrates a bit more. Finishes with lighter black pepper (provoked with pot roast). Youthful oak barrel tannin. QUITE enjoyable. QPR is quite nice as I don't think this one was north of 50 bucks. — 9 years ago

Matthew Beckman

9.6

Gdamn...my wine so not fair but hard not to say this was not WOTN....so young — 9 years ago

Grant Everett

9.4

Dense wine. Fair amount of sediment when decanted. Fruit trended towards plum. Lots of damp earth. Mushroom. Well integrated tannins. Solid if unspectacular finish. Nice stuff, just didn't quite meet expectations. — 10 years ago

with Ashleigh

Debbie Shing

8.9

Thanks @eugene_vin for this bottle! Fleshy, rich Chardonnay, very Meursault-like in style w toasty nuts, floral & spice complexity. The intensity & ripe nature of the fruit flavours (vs subtlety) being one of its only signs of New World-ness. Yummy. — 11 years ago

Gordon Walker

9.1

Bright cherry color, red fruit, cranberries, currants, herbal notes, hint of EA/VA, pretty decent structure for something so light in color. Good stuff from the VQA wines — 11 years ago

Brenna Gray

9.8

Mellow and smooth. Smokey plums. — 12 years ago