Adam Smith

9.0

Took 30’ to get good started slow then developed black cherry and even a hint of current 2015 vintage — 6 years ago

Josh Spurling

9.5

There’s so much sneaky complexity in this wine. There’s the urge to just chug due to its beautiful purity of fruit, but resist that urge. There’s so much more behind that glorious veil..... — 8 years ago

Tom Casagrande

9.0

I just love this utterly classic style. Gorgeous crystalline sappy, bright cherry fruit with lovely gravelly minerality. Pure and balanced in the mouth, with nice acidity and a thin veil of soft tannin. Not opulent or super-concentrated, but totally at ease with itself. This is a dinner wine. — 8 years ago

Randy Fuller

9.2

Aromas of blackberry and black cherry dominate the nose, with an earthy veil that is the hallmark of the vineyard. The palate is beautiful, with a cheery acidity and firm tannic structure - but not too firm. The dark fruit flavors are tinged with a hint of peppery orange peel, with minerals in plain sight. You can put this on the holiday table without a worry, but it will pair just as nicely with a baguette and some cheese. — 9 years ago

Lauren Vance

Buyer Whole Foods Market Oakland

9.0

Very pleasant nose full of red fruit and spice. Tart cranberry dominates with cherry, black tea leaves, and black pepper shining through. Palate shows elegance and earth. Soft velvety tannins and a firm veil of acidity, the finish is long lasting. Excellent Pinot, although still a little pricey for what you get. — 9 years ago

Roel van der Burg

Sommelier at Restaurant Entrepot

9.4

Château Châlon light. Powerfull on the sous voile characteristics (curry, nuts and cheese, it has been aged under a veil for 2,5years) but surprisingly easy and light on the palate. Wine of great finesse! Wonderful. Big part of the cuvée is made out of Chardonnay. It was hard to get my hands on one, but it was worth the wait. Thanks @Jiri Brandt for swapping a bottle. — 10 years ago

with Niek

Mike Blom

9.3

1990 Cooke Vineyard. Peat and blackberry and French plum make the initial assault on your palate. Continues through the Flavors with integrated earthiness and black stone fruit with loads of depth and still a veil of tannins to provide structure. — 10 years ago

Todd Trzaskos

9.0

A bit edgy and green upon opening but more wow with some air. Petrichor and savory herb aromatic, veil of red fruit wrapped around salt and stone in the teeth. — 10 years ago

Wojciech Bońkowski

Bloger bonkowshi.me

9.6

Awesome. Savagnin sous voile (gently oxidised under a yeast veil) is the world’s most distinctive wine (barring sherry). Gr8 value too. — 11 years ago

Julia Weinberg

9.5

omg, I think I'm about to start a love affair with obscure Australians. Beautiful confusion for the senses. Skin-contact verdelho-semillion from the Hunter. — 13 years ago

Amit Kumar

10

Trader Joes. Smooth, easy rider. Nice with pasta. — 7 years ago

Delectable Wine

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9.2

A faint veil of yeast parts to reveal scents of fresh Bartlett pear and zesty lime that go on to inform an infectiously juicy, polished palate. Utmost delicacy from a mere 7.5 percent alcohol is allied with 55 grams of residual sugar that are supportive but not at all overbearing, and the sugar-acid tension in this bottling’s long, vibratory finish is both literally and metaphorically fruitful. Like the best Weiser-Künstler wines, dry or sweet, this displays a remarkable sense of transparency to myriad mineral nuances. (Whereas this wine has typically been raised in tank, this year there is a contribution from cask.) (David Schildknecht, Vinous, June 2017) — 7 years ago

GrapeXplorer

9.6

Yellow apple, soft tropical notes, wrapped in a veil of light oak. A special treat and why I enjoy #burgundy — 9 years ago

with Margie

Benjamin Hickey

9.1

Sav Blanc 2015 one year on flor. Jura style, nice start then delicious mid pallet. — 9 years ago

Sam Decker

9.5

Through a veil of transparent berry fruit and delicate dried flowers the secondaries become the primaries: damp earth, mushroom tea, tomato leaves. Fine acidic structure. — 10 years ago

David Hendrickson

9.6

A thin veil can't cover up this beauty. Pure chard core, delicately wrapped. Dynamite for the price. Need more to tuck away. — 10 years ago

Tiffany Sams Cox

9.3

Where is that place where richness and precision collide? Where barely ripe tropical fruits flirt with a lacy veil of mineral sensation and just a tickle of late summer roll in the hay gets caught in my hair...That place? Oh, it's the Sonoma Coast squeezed and bottled with the Rivers-Marie label. — 10 years ago

Diedra West

9.1

Diedra had this 10 years ago

Christian Broder

GM/Sommelier The Social Wine Company

8.9

Med plus body with base of fresh yellow apple and Meyer lemon all underneath a ripe tropical veil. — 11 years ago

Bryant Bickel

9.3

I'm into this gem, like Alsace kabinett in style. Fun white. — 12 years ago

Ellen Clifford

9.0

Oh heavy and deep and it’s someone who gets into my head and body and soul. As Mourvèdre/monastrell/mataro does. It is in my body because it is balanced: alcohol acid and body seem to waltz whilst NOT waiting for the unbalanced part: the onslaught of flavor. Those parts are moshing(body): leather and funky high toned but aggro tobacco orange peel all sorts of sour red and black things and an umeboshi plum are the sharp acidic cinnamon veil over all so my soul is here thinking and... — 7 years ago

Chrissy Smith

9.2

100% Tibouren, "Cru Classe," 60+ year oldest vines. Fun & funky wine out of Provence--Between an orange wine and a rosé. Aged under fleurette (a thin veil of yeast). Perfumed lychee, quince, floral, peach, apricot, round palate, bright but gentle acidity, herb, saline, nutty. — 8 years ago

Anthony Marocco

9.0

Deep ruby red - medium full bodied - toasted oak and peppery aromas with a white pepper veil cloaking dried red fruit that shows off after opening up a bit. A bit hot - peppery tannins and a bustling palate of baking spice and toasty oak — 9 years ago

Lauren Vance

Buyer Whole Foods Market Oakland

9.0

One of the best $10 & under rosés on the market. Nose is subdued and approachable, showing red berries and a veil of minerality. With a slight effervescence and a touch of RS, this reminds me of fresh raspberry lemonade on a hot day. Accompanied with great mouthfeel and youthful acidity, this is rosé far outshines it's price tag. — 9 years ago

Tom Casagrande

8.9

Classic Sancerre PN, meaning the fruit takes a back seat to the intense minerality sucked out of the limestone soil. Mostly uber-clean chalky minerality on the nose with a veil of pure cherry/strawberry fruit. Very refreshing and food-flexible. — 10 years ago

with Lyle

Gobindjit S. Dhaliwal

10

Very much alive after 50+ years with aromas reminiscent of cherries, dried plums, licorice, orange peel, cedar akin to an old wooden cabinet, old leather, tobacco, earthiness, minute hints of celery and fennel, a slight veil of oxidation that adds to a slightly spicy beef broth undertone. Amazing dense oily texture to the wine but it still remains quite light, sour red fruit flavors as it enters the mouth with some blackberries, the midpalate reveals some savory beef broth notes mixed with balsamic notes that continue on to the long lasting spicy finish with discrete creamy notes. — 10 years ago

Eric Hwang

9.3

Bold black fruits with a floral veil. Rich, chocolatey, and chewy. — 10 years ago

Mary Miller

9.1

Nice sweet taste — 11 years ago

Scott Reiner

9.1

Under veil for a short time. Clean and racy. Yes! — 12 years ago

Garrett Pierce

Sales Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant

9.1

5 years under veil. Bottled direct from cask in April. Unfined, unfiltered. As close as you can get from trying Sherry from the cask. — 12 years ago