Beth Hamilton

9.0

Tastes better and more expensive than your average prosecco — 5 months ago

Abbas Zand

9.0

Dark red color with a copper tinge. Aromas of dark red fruit. Medium body. Entry has a hint of sweetness. Dry with dark cherry, tobacco, little coffee notes. Very bright acidity for such an old wine brings it to a perfect balance. Tannins are there, but well balanced. Excellent wine.
$25 — 7 months ago

Keith Richardson

9.0

Bright juicy fun. For the price point, must buy! — 8 months ago

Sipping Fine Wine

9.0

Deep Ruby with aromas of sweet dried berry fruits and pepper spice. On the palate ripe blackberry, currants and sweet black cherry with complex spice. Well balanced with acidity and alcohol, full-body with soft tannins on long finish. — 10 months ago

Joe Rego

9.1

A great Italian red, made by the same people as Barolo. Shhh, it’s a secret! — 2 years ago

Amier

9.0

Drank w/ Francis and family — 4 years ago

Meghan German

9.1

Dry fruit, peppery, purchased at Astor- we both like — 5 years ago

with Ryan

Jennifer Lamb

9.5

Fruitier than most dry Proseccos with hints of bergamot & other florals. — 7 years ago

with Alan

Lev Lavrichtchev

9.1

Fruit bomb, weak aftertaste — 8 years ago

Logan Hooper

9.5

A robust dash of fruit notes with a dry toasty oak finish. Amazing — 10 years ago

Sam Rubin

10

Excellent. Fruity explosion at BOKA in Chicago — 6 months ago

Andrew Cullimore

9.0

Quite light garnet , wide terracotta rim . Quite a lot of smoky sous bois, with some light red fruits, sweet dry spices , touch of hickory . On the palate this is pretty evolved and has started to dry out slightly , with some some sweet red currant , dried spices, salty acidity and resolved tannin . Ok , slate tinged finish . Drink now , and probably would have been better a few years ago . — 7 months ago

Vanessa

9.4

This is the 2013 Ar.Pe.Pe Valtellina Superiore Sassella Riserva ‘Nuova Regina’. It’s 100% Chiavennasca and aged 39 months in cask.

It is PALE ruby in color with pronounced aromas and flavors of red and black cherry, bright raspberry, mulberry, pomegranate, purple fig, stewed strawberry rhubarb, rose, potpourri, black licorice, black tea, anise seed, fennel, tri-colored peppercorns, peat, vanilla, cardamom, nutmeg, forest floor, and mushroom.

On the palate, this wine is dry, w/ medium (+) acidity, a medium body, medium alcohol (13% ABV), & medium (+) tannins that are smooth and velveteen; it has a lingering finish.

It’s an outstanding wine, incredibly fresh now with runway to age & gain complexity in the bottle. — 8 months ago

with Deked1

Tom Casagrande

9.0

Another big boi from this producer. Obviously uses at least a significant proportion of partially dried grapes. Fairly saturated color. Nose is rather subdued, reluctantly giving up scents of leather, underbrush, crushed rock, and dark cherry underneath all of that non-fruit stuff. In the mouth, it’s big, with initial slightly bitter, extracted notes. Tannic. Dissimilar from straight Valpos in its size and austerity. Dissimilar from Ripasso-style Valpos in that the fruit is not especially ripe or sweetish. It will go well with our stuffed shells in red sauce, but is a little challenging on its own. It occurs to me that this might fit in well in a tasting of 2017s from the left bank in Bordeaux. In other words, very atypical for a Valpo. Still, it’s pretty good, as long as you don’t harbor any expectations of typicity.

UPDATE: two nights later (using a vacuum closure), this has actually improved. Kind of amazing for a Valpo of this age. The fruit has moved closer to front-and-center, and it seem a bit more Calpo-like, though it’s still pretty large-framed. Upping score from 8.8 to 9.0. — 10 months ago

vin vin

9.3

Great ripasso — 4 years ago

Sahil Parikh

9.3

Best chianti, favorite so far. Had with local pizza in poconos but tastes good with any tomato base. — 5 years ago

Nicholas Sutherland

9.3

Blue hill, 2010
— 7 years ago

Matt Waring

9.2

Wonderful acidity, well balanced fruit, a firm finish. This is top shelf Barbera and a real delight. Bravo. — 9 years ago

with Christine

Nena Madonia

9.3

I'm surprised by pro rating because I really enjoyed the wine after waiting it breathe. Great price too — 10 years ago

Stephanie Hui

9.0

Quite nice for the price - refreshing — 8 months ago

Benjamin Hickey

9.2

Dry but lots of fruit. 1988 — 6 months ago

Mark Eastom

8.9

2021. Cherry, orange peel, fruit roll up, iodine, dried herbs, slight tar and nice acid. — 7 months ago

Henry Fuseler

9.0

2/2025. Bold and flavorful. Good finish. Paired well with the Prime Rib at Hall’s Chophouse. — 8 months ago

David Dranit

9.0

Nice tannins. Medium body. — a year ago

Mike Miller

9.2

Dark floral most certainly — 2 years ago

Peter Wassam

9.3

Rutabaga and charcoal and hen of the woods and cherry garcia. Yeah there is a little VA but it’s not intrusive. Maybe more wild than some of their other stuff but still that mountain freshness — 5 years ago

Eric Amsler

9.2

Great, big wine...at Filomena's in DC...with great company! — 6 years ago

hugo lemos

8.9

soft, just a bit acidic, refreshing and so pleasant — 7 years ago

Olivia Lam

9.0

A nice full bodied wine ! — 9 years ago

Nick Duckwiler

8.9

Nebbiolo blended with Merlot. This 2009 is just starting to mature...pubescent wine? Very bright red fruits followed by something smoky and interesting Happy #valentines — 11 years ago

with Julie