Brendan Baker

9.6

Exuberant, floral nose, red and black fruits, medium bodied with silky resolved tannins, some meat and olive brine, layered and powerful. Spectacular showing 🤩 — a day ago

romo

9.3

On point. Lithe but dense. Black tar compote. — a day ago

Nate Wall

Winemaker at Troon Vineyard

9.1

What you want out of Northern Rhône — 6 days ago

Karita Troberg

9.3

It’s a very balanced, rich and pleasant wine. No suprises, but perfect delivery. — 8 days ago

Ron Siegel

9.4

This had dark cherry, berry, graphite, licorice, spice, mineral, meat, pepper, olive & violet — 8 days ago

romo

9.4

Sweet and savory. Dense and sparse. Nothing and everything. — 17 hours ago

Joe DAscoli

9.5

2 hour decant. Shredded cork. Filtered the wine.

Wow. This was just gorgeous and smooth. Tannins very well integrated and the fruit was excellent.

One of my favorite vintages with some age — 5 hours ago

Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

9.5

2005 vintage. Decanted and tasted immediately and over the course of 4 hours. Medium body with a continually morphing nose. Super-impressive bouquet throughout the night. Overt fruit fallen off the framework and replaced with secondary attributes/complexities. @Bill Bender remarked twice about a lack of “heat”since the usual CDP ABV range seemed underwhelming One might think that would present issues but, rest assured, it did not. Great wine possibly at its’ zenith/top of the bell curve and living its’ best life now. Backed up the hype and then some. Tied for WOTN along with the 2006 Krug Clos du Mesnil Champagne (missed a picture for that one) for both myself and @Shay A 09.21.25. — 14 days ago

with Shay and Bill

Joe DAscoli

9.2

Used the Durand on the cork - soaked to the edge. Decanted for 2 hours.

This wine had some gaminess. Smooth. Fruit was a bit wild and overpowered by the savory flavors.

Paired well with the chicken skewers and onions. Needed complex flavors in the food to pair well.

Good but quite a bit below the Beaucastel — 5 hours ago

Peter van den Besselaar

9.3

Vintage 2010 | a treat — 12 days ago