Ely Cohn

9.2

Tete d’Ange is about as good Chenin as I can find for under $25. It’s intense at 13.5%, but wonderfully balanced and full of peaches, apricots, and baked apples. I break my rule with this wine and buy it repeatedly, or as often as I can find it - so it goes with all the good value Chenin I can get my hands on. I adore this grape. — 6 years ago

Duilio Ramallo

9.3

ground rule double — 7 years ago

Amy Baker

9.1

The cab franc really stands out. It is deep and smokey. Pairs well with turmeric ginger chocolate. — 8 years ago

Norah Gustafson

9.0

Def needs to breathe, but I'm into it. — 9 years ago

Eric

9.4

And so it begins. The holiday of @Martin G Rivard. This is a serious Cab. Big smokey nose with black cherry, spice box, and I don't know what. Fruit and oak rule the palate through the long finish. Tannins way in check. Yes please! — 9 years ago

Joel Stevens

9.0

Ok, on to the second bottle. Dried fruit and even mushrooms on the nose. Strong Black fruit, light leather and plenty of tannins rule the day - delicious with Osso Bucco! — 10 years ago

with Jennifer

Jarrod Mclendon

10

Dry Rieslings rule!! — 10 years ago

with Ramy

David Shaw

8.9

Arizona GSM, 40/20/40 blend, 14% alc/vol. Purple-red, moderate pigment extraction. Butter floral and red fruit aromas. Cherry, berry, cola and black currant flavors, slight seed bitterness and skin astringency on finish. A solid interpretation, not overly ripe vs other similar wines from the same origin. — 6 years ago

Shay A

9.2

@Benjamin Keator had his hosting at the CC tonight and it was absolutely incredible. What a night of gorgeous wines! All wines are guessed blind.

My guess here was ‘04-06 French champagne. I couldn’t guess a house, but I was able to rule out what it wasn’t (PH, Dom, Krug). This wasn’t reductive enough to be west coast. Balanced sweetness and yeastiness well. — 7 years ago

with Benjamin, Weston and 1 other

Alessandro Dalle Carbonare

9.2

To be a Priorat I found it quite fresh and elegant. Vintage seemed to be cool ripening... The last glass was really good, toward 93pts for sure. It may have been better with a longer oxygen contact. Unfortunately this is restaurant rule..
— 8 years ago

matt buchly

9.3

Another tasty exception to my rule of not usually enjoying sauvignon blancs. Not all the way dry, plenty of wet stones, white flowers, passionfruit, clementine and kind of a classic Austrian aromatic quality that i always get, which makes me think of a foggy spring morning with wet concrete all around. — 9 years ago

CS

Sales Amy Atwood Imports

9.0

She's temperamental. And expressive. It ain't no a Billy Joel Song; it's a Soings en Sologne, sung by the son of a son of a viticulture (well maybe only the cousin). Very fucking cool wine. Unique for this region. Kind of Sebastian Riffault-like in his rule breaking to Sancerre, but perhaps more... tame. Oxidative for this vintage, maybe that's consistent? Tastes like there's some skin contact on the romorantin, a roller coaster of acidity and sapidity across the tongue, and Menu Pineau, I can find it if I look. If you don't like oxidative wine, you probably won't appreciate this. But I judge a wine whether it's empty or not, and this one didn't stand a chance. Tastes better when it's warmed up and breathed for an hour. vintage is technically 2012 -not on label. Wife (New Zealander) Heidi Kuka makes the eye-catchingly, ornate almost Maori-like tribal tattoos for the labels. Julien Courtois is able to knock it out of the park on occasion, but mostly, he makes very good, expressive and interesting, but most importantly drinkable wine from the western Loire. — 9 years ago

Said Medina

10

My 1st one, a perfect 10! One must only imagine the expression. It was transcendental. And one of the rare few exceptions to the Blanc de Blancs rule. These lovely bubbles...100% Pinot Blanc😌 FTW (forgive my geeking, my tasting credits are young). — 10 years ago

Douglas Braun

9.0

61%-Paderewski Vineyard 31%-Catapult Vineyard - then Varietal wise 53% -Syrah 26%-Mouvedre 13 - Grenache 5%-Tempranillo 3% - Zinfandel (whew)on the nose seems like the Syrah and Mouvedre rule -very new World- black fruit ,spice, big tannins little higher on Alcohol (15.1%) — 7 years ago

Michael Meyer

9.6

Broke my rule about drinking under-10 Cornas, yet somehow I won the lottery. Incredible showing for such a young Reynard. Concentration, aromatics, minerality, body, finish...everything in spades. This bottle went quickly once it emerged from its hiding place. — 7 years ago

Akwasi Taha

9.5

I don't like Orange wines as a rule. Well rules were made to be broken. Thank you Mario Cantone for introducing this beautiful, lasting and yummy wine to me. — 8 years ago

with Mario

Aron Green

9.2

Top 3 Chianti's I've had. What else would you expect me to drink ? New rule, I only drink Chianti in Tuscany. — 9 years ago

ADAM STROMFELD

9.1

Bright fruit on the nose earthy and black fruit on the front palate. — 9 years ago

with Kevin and Frank

Christy Frank

9.5

Domaine Lucci Gris Blanc 2015: Pinot Gris. Pinot Grigio. Same grape, right? Yes, but not yes. "Gris" typically indicates a wine made in a fleshier, more complex style than your basic striped down "crisp white wine." And this one is no exception to that loose rule. It's definteily not stipped down version of anything. It's the saignee (bled off) white juice of the crazy pink Gris Gris above, fermented in a combination of ceramic and oak. It's fleshy and textured and almost opulent, but with an underlying minerality that's there if you look for it. Dare we say it's sexy? Yes, we dare. — 10 years ago

Roman Sukley

9.0

Virtually nothing like that fabulous 03 I tasted several months ago. Dead nose. Muted mid-palate. Clipped finish. Me thinks that 03 was the exception not the rule. My recommendation: Marcassin Blue Slides - drink 'em young. — 10 years ago