Mark Eastom

8.9

2021. Cherry, orange peel, fruit roll up, iodine, dried herbs, slight tar and nice acid. — 2 months ago

Chris MacLean

9.1

2022 on par — 2 months ago

with Sarah

Stuart Pollack

9.6

Licorice and chocolate nose, bitter fruit flavor and smooth finish. Excellent Amarone. — 3 months ago

Joe Christenson

8.9

Floral, white peach, medium acidity, some chalk, and some briny/sea salt notes. Good value and interesting wine. — 3 months ago

Jody Wycech

9.7

So tasty!!!! Boldly aromatic with lots of fruit like cherry, plum, loads or chocolate and tobacco. Full bodied with strong tannins balanced by a cleansing fruity acidity. Love this wine but getting to taste an older vintage is special. — 4 months ago

with Ethan, Peter and 1 other

Alvaro Bustillos

9.3

Cena com david diego benito y victor c en la cocineroa boda de andrea — 6 months ago

romo

8.9

Called Amarone or Aussie Shiraz. Volatility blew off still high alc. — 7 months ago

Keith Richardson

9.0

Magnum, vertical tasting. Deep red fruits, vanilla, leather and delicious — 2 months ago

Joe Rego

9.0

A lovely complement to spaghetti and meatballs with Fra Diavolo sauce. Soft mouth feel and dark ruby color. After decanting and breathing for an hour the dark cherry and chocolate really pop. — 2 months ago

Kathy Berardi

9.0

Saw this wine At Ricardo’s — 3 months ago

Henry Fuseler

9.0

1/2025. A good wine. Bold and full bodied. Good fruit and nice finish. Enjoyed. — 4 months ago

Bettina Read

9.7

Lovely. Soft and drinkable. Almost finished the bottle in one sitting. — 4 months ago

Samuel Tyndall

9.2

Think it’s a little young?? Idk, very good. Think it could enrich in time. Coal, oak, smoky, but a little too red fruity on after taste. However after a glass that acidity is very nice. Maybe it just needed to open up. — 5 months ago

Taft Morgan

9.3

Blew me away, perfectly balanced with notes of dark fruit, underlying tones of some floral notes.  — 6 months ago

with Ginette

Gilbert Van Hassel

9.5

Very hot and dry weather. A lot is structure. Plum, tar, confit cherries. Very balanced almost a desert in a glace — 2 months ago

Christopher sorgie

9.0

Yummy, especially well-paired with my roasted duck. — 3 months ago

Kathy Berardi

9.0

Our server’s favorite Amorite at Ricardo’s — 3 months ago

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. — 4 months ago

Sipping Fine Wine

9.0

Made from Garganega grapes, pale lemon yellow color with aromas of tropical fruits and floral notes. On the palate flavors of apple, melon and lemon citrus with nutty notes and lively acidity. Smooth finish ending with fruit and mineral notes. Nice value! — 5 months ago

Henry Fuseler

9.3

11/2024. Oh lord!! — 6 months ago