Matt

9.0

This definitely tastes like a serious effort; focused, lots of textural and phenolic character, racy acid. I dig it a lot especially on day 2. The Burgundian approach appears to show well here and the wine offers more non-fruit character/intrigue. Crisp yellow apple, orchard blossom, tea leaf, green herb, saline, crushed white rock. Slight aldehydic note coming through on the finish that I don’t find offensive, I think it’s adding something. Curious how this will unwind given how coiled the palate is right now — 7 years ago

James Forsyth

9.3

Vaucluse is Michael White's Upper East Side French restaurant with a slight American twist. And so it is the wine list. Large sections of French wine are bookended by their US equivalents. Two pages of Burgundy are followed by a handful of Sonoma and Oregon Pinots. We stayed Old School and went for a Bordeaux. Red fruit, tar, leather, somewhat advanced beyond its decade of life. A tasty mid weight wine that was lovely with the rack of lamb and establishment atmosphere. — 8 years ago

with Cara

Todd Abrams

9.3

2014. Concentrated dark fruit that's never heavy on the palate, with ripe tannins on the finish and a final twist of freshness at the close. Above the elegant textures are a grocery basket of sumptuous aromatics: blueberry and red currants, moist earth, and the Languedoc shrubland (garrigue) that comes across as just the slightest hint of rosemary. — 9 years ago

with Steve

Bob McDonald

9.0

One of the best quaffers I have seen in a while. Obviously a product of a warm climate displaying ripe fruit flavours yet with a savoury twist. Also quite sweet on the palate. Very much a crowd pleaser which will sell dozens. 2013 vintage. — 9 years ago

October Cleveland

8.9

Slight whiff of burned plastic (or am I just having more strokes?) Savory Cherry Vanilla Coke with an iron rhubarb twist. Williamsburg the Wine. — 9 years ago

Dock Hooks

9.7

A near perfect rosé at a great price. I prefer this soft fruit tempered by a light floral note all properly and proportionately positioned against a mineral intensive rocky bottom as swift waters twist and turn their way downstream leaving one's palate clean and refreshed but laced with the memory of the moment😎🌀 - buy the magnum at my favorite local Morehead City, NC hang - Promise Land Market (thx sweet Janeen and Daniel for spinning some crazy sweet tunage!)! Find this place in all its realness, and drink this wine! — 10 years ago

Patrick Ayotte

8.9

Young gold color, with green hue. Fine and note that expressive nose were lime and a salty twist blend together. On the palate, great acidity, nice fruit, an enjoyable minerality and a tight finish. Tasted blind, I was surprised to see how young the wine felt and quite glad it did! Happy for the bottles of Clos from other vintages I have in the cellar. Very good.

Made of Chardonnay. Bottled after 10 months of ageing in oak barrels. Alcohol level of 13% — 10 years ago

Emile Bierlair

9.0

Flavors of raspberry and strawberry with a lite citrus twist. Has a nice long finish. Great with our lobster lunch! — 10 years ago

Ken Rogers

9.0

Delicious as usual, some unneeded residual sugar this year--an interesting twist. Strawberries and light cherries, very tasty. — 11 years ago

Bob McDonald

9.0

Mid crimson in colour. Nose of cherry and other red fruits. On the palate barely medium weight. More red fruits on the palate with a savoury twist. Fresh and juicy texture with supple fine Tannins. No need for further cellaring. 60% Nero d’Avola, 40% Frappato. Made for food. — 7 years ago

Jeffrey Lew

9.2

Double Blind, hit this as 09/10 Peter Michael Belle Cote. These chards gave a distinctive acidic grapefruit twist to them that's very noticeable. Great nose of buttered popcorn after it opened up. Very nice. — 8 years ago

Aaron Tan

9.5

Happy New Year, everyone! What a delicious wine to end the year with. Bordeaux with a Mediterranean twist. Truly a wine of place.

Still so fresh. Dare I say, a pretty clean Musar! Balanced, good amount of acid. Brooding red and black fruits on the nose, with some of orange peel. Well-integrated oak, vanilla and cedar. The palate was like opening a spice box, five spice powder comes to mind, blueberry pie, stewed cherries, leather, meat, forest floor, blood, smoke, marzipan, chocolate. Long long finish, velvety texture. A great wine! — 9 years ago

Tom Wood

9.2

Really floral again and very jubey, like a lot of the range. Blackcurrant lifesavers, potpourri, black tea, meats cooked in anise and cumin, caramel tobacco, spiced plums, goji berries. Palates concentration revolves around the spiced plum that sits right in the mid palate and finishes with a licorice and fennel like twist — 9 years ago

Sasha Agapov

9.4

Needed to quite a bit of time, but it was worth it. Very interesting, leaner style, but with a magical twist to it, i love David's wines and it surprises me every damn time — always new and always fun. Kind of reminds of Musar in that way — it's never the same, yet every bottle is charmingly delicious. — 9 years ago

Kirk Sutherland

9.1

Speaking of good wine from Long Island. This is full on delightful. Earthy, crunchy, spicy. — 10 years ago

Jörgen Lindström Carlvik

Owner, Brix Wine Consultants

9.2

Wonderful, expressive and ripe with spicy pear flavors, round and inviting, showing traces of vanilla, mineral accents and an herbaceous twist on the mature finish. It may lack structure for the long haul, but this is lip smacking good right now. — 10 years ago

Andreas

9.4

Nice and big. Kind of classic with a twist. — 10 years ago

Ben Palos

9.1

A nice twist to mix up the range of California wine I drank over the Thanksgiving holiday. — 11 years ago

Jörgen Lindström Carlvik

Owner, Brix Wine Consultants

9.2

Gorgeous aromas here; melting licorice, ripe cherries, Swiss dark chocolates and tell-tale herbacious twist. On the palate, truly sexy fruit, lush and round, with sweet tannins and lowish acidity. More approachable than usual at this stage, but in many one of their finest versions to date. — 11 years ago

Tanya Koob

9.1

Good flavor. — 7 years ago

Dmitri

9.5

A delicious twist, after a light sulfur nose it opens up into Lipari fruits: apricots obvs lemons you silly goat and rosemary as well as a whiff of stromboli from a far far away. — 8 years ago

Kenny Baldridge

9.2

Seriously delicious. — 9 years ago

Elizabeth Nettleton

10

Velvety texture with notes of mocha, toffee, and espresso, with a black walnut twist. — 9 years ago

Ben Walker / Caravin

9.0

Really had no idea what to expect from this, but it's super delicious. Bright, juicy Grenache with bite. Bit of a spritz and a twist of VA, medicinal, almost figgy fruit. Proper med tropical juice. Good. — 9 years ago

Corinne Alex

9.3

This is divine served warm with a fat twist of orange. It's a favorite after dinner treat. — 9 years ago

Jimmy Smith

Director, West and North London Wine School

9.0

2013: good typicity; black pepper, cloves and violets. More of a black fruited style, blackberry, currant. Medium to light bodied, fresh Livy acid, hardly any tannin. A supple easy drinker, with decent Syrah aromatics. Smoky, black peppery length, with some twist of exotic spice (cardamon) — 10 years ago

Jörgen Lindström Carlvik

Owner, Brix Wine Consultants

9.0

Sappy red berries, an herbaceous twist, hints of minerality and juicy, naked acidity, elegantly framed by gentle yet youthful, grippy tannins. Positively "natural". — 10 years ago

Robbie Ward

9.0

Fun filled, juicy but with a nice twist of funk. Lovely fragrance to it. Could drink a lot of it. Delicious — 10 years ago

Sara Bangert

8.9

A medium red with soft tannins and black bramble fruit flavours. In a blind tasting you could be forgiven for thinking it was French due to a rustic twist in the middle of the palate. — 11 years ago

Filippo Cosatto

10

I've never had too high an opinion of wines that come in a twist-off bottle (and I still don't) but this one is a nice exception. Fresh and light, it's quickly become one of my favorites on the table. — 12 years ago