Mark Pagliaro

Winemaker Stone & Key Cellars

9.5

Beautiful velvet Cabernet paired with our Pollo Marsala tonight.! Very well balanced red fruit and smoothly silky tannins. Love Stags Leap!!! — 8 years ago

Judy

9.6

One of my favorites, smooth and full bodied, off dry — 9 years ago

Isaac Pirolo

9.2

Dark, rich, and dusty. It's hard to avoid the power of suggestion, but this really is liquid velvet. — 9 years ago

Amanda Reamer

9.4

Bright red fruit flavors with lush tannin. This wine can enjoyed on its own, with friends, on a sunny day. Or with rich duck confit and bbq'd red meats. Can't beat the price. -wine batman — 10 years ago

Erik Von Rueden

10

Great full body red. Goes great with Pork Tingas!! — 10 years ago

with Laura

Karen Salerno

10

I love this well named wine — 11 years ago

Lily Mirabelle Freedman

9.7

Chomped cigar, dried cherries, and velvet. — 11 years ago

Jon Bonné

Wine Editor San Francisco Chronicle

9.1

Grenache in mountain man guise, from the Mullineuxes. Swartland meets Amador. — 11 years ago

Yoon Ha

Master Sommelier/Wine Director Benu

9.5

Still a monster that will be angelic in 10 years. — 12 years ago

Nadea Mina

9.6

East drinking, smooth, blend, fruit and chocolate — 13 years ago

Allison Bothley

9.1

Yummy. Would drink again. Great for a glass. — 8 years ago

Thomas Lee Gurrentz

10

Liquid velvet. Probably the most drinkable wine I have had in years. — 9 years ago

Matt Perlman

9.0

Pale amber. Fresh and fruity for a skin contact wine, maybe because of carbonic. Hint of smokey peat or pine resin on the nose with toffee, plenty of zesty orange and saline on the palate. — 9 years ago

Daniel M

9.6

No orange rim in the glas. The wine is dark red with a slight sign of its age. Leather on the nose, red fruits too. Tobacco, spice. The palate is phenomenal. Multidimensional. Long with an acid frame that goes for ever. Wide with fully integrated tannins made of velvet. Strawberry, blackberry, black currant. The finish is long and remains there floating in the air like the final high note of a musical masterpiece — 10 years ago

Craig Benner

9.1

Baby Velvet Glove. Very drinkable. #troby60th — 10 years ago

with Jim

Michael Pitts

9.5

Huge. Phelps Insignia doesn't hit the ethereal heights of the best '70s Eisele's for me, but I find it more consistent. This '77 is a monster but still classic. — 11 years ago

David MacMillan

9.2

Maybe the best last call wine...... 2011 is probably the best example of MD since 05-06 — 11 years ago

with Stephen

Eric Miquelon

9.5

Big, big pinot. Monster fruit, good acidity, medium finish. Doesn't get much better in my world. — 11 years ago

Max Rieger

9.1

Insanely good for the price — 12 years ago

Erin Belz

10

I love this red wine. To me, it goes well with maybe chili or taco salad. — 14 years ago

with Patrick

Thomas Young

9.3

Mel Torme checked with Caymus before he put on his velvet outfits. — 8 years ago

Stephen Jackshaw

9.4

This is a beautiful wine. Tannins shed, drinking like velvet and pure. Berries, cherries, some leather, and a long finish. I could sit with this and a charred steak every night. — 9 years ago

Mike Saviage

9.8

Deep garnet with amber rims, almost opaque. A little darker compared to the 82 CB next to it. Great old Bordeaux nose. Black fruit, pencil lead, plus some light notes of wood. Chewy in the mouth at first but over the night this goes to a velvet and silky place. The WOTN for me. Quieted down at the end of the night but gave us huge enjoyment, clearly outshining the 47 and 82 served with it. Tasting all these blind and then side by side over 4 hours is pretty awesome. — 9 years ago

Mike Saviage

9.4

Dark and brooding tawny purple, opaque. Killer nose of smoked meat, bacon, white pepper, red plums and stone. Rich velvet texture in the mouth. Coats the palate. Performing very well right now. — 10 years ago

Sergio Licea

9.6

Black cherry pits, grape concentrate, cola, eucalyptus, graphite, bay leaf, tobacco, tar, tarragon, cedar. Excellent acid/smooth velvet tannin balance, juicy/silky texture, deceptively full bodied, long smoky/herbal slightly peppery finish. Decanting strongly recommended, texture and nose developed beautifully after 1 1/2 hours. — 10 years ago

Hezi Levy

9.3

Nice velvet nice drinking holding up pretty well pleasant — 11 years ago

Nima Khoshini

9.2

Creamy, chocolatey, yummy — 11 years ago

Dora Leblanc

10

Dora had this 11 years ago

dk bowman

9.2

Bluer fruit + currant, dark vanillin notes; massive on the palate, like a think velvet blanket; stunner in 5-7 years. — 12 years ago

Parag Lalit

9.6

Clearly one of my favourites from Bordeaux. A very under rated vintage under the shadow of 2000's. Iron fist in a velvet glove is what I think of this lovely wine. Spherical, sexy and very serious.18,5 ++/20 — 13 years ago