Sooo carbonic — 6 years ago
From CA vineyard royalty. Improves as it warms and with air time. This is a lesson in balance. Not a steely chard full of tropical flavors yet retains its minerality. Not an oak laced butter bomb but merely hints that it saw a minimal amount of oak in it's lifetime. Only 12.2% which is incredibly refreshing in a chard, especially one from a warmer climate. Tragic that 2013 was the last vintage before the chard vines were ripped out of the vineyard. — 7 years ago
A few years in bottle has served this well. Much better than my first bottle tried on release. — 8 years ago
2011 Sonoma coast Chardonnay — 9 years ago
I look forward to seeing where this goes in the next 5 years. Jammy and berries all over. — 5 years ago
This wine has so much going on. It’s like a life-form amalgam of animal/vegetable/mineral. Color is like plasma. Nose has raw grass-fed beef, liquid stones, and mentholic Ben-Gay thing, resinous herbs, lime, charcoal ash, and tangy boysenberry. Seriously. Lots of shit happening. It is mouthfilling and loaded with clingy, soft tannin, and has bloody, minerally, dark berry skin flavors for miles. Long finish and good acids. Only 13.9%, which, these days, passes for low alcohol. Terrific wine. — 6 years ago
The right way to lead out your CA wine trip 🐚🐚🐚 — 7 years ago
Drank a "12" in "16"
Excellent — 7 years ago
Good smooth and local!! — 8 years ago
Bar none, my perennial favorite. — 8 years ago
Classy smoky savory Syrah — 9 years ago
Love love love this so vibrant but smells fruity, with Jessica Kolling — 5 years ago
Blackberries and cherries... lots of fruit up front... Nuge and light, great with food. — 6 years ago
2011 vintage. Ruby-garnet color, med body. Stewed blackberry, strawberry, baking spice, vanilla, hints of floral notes. Slightly dry mouthfeel, long finish. — 7 years ago
Great wine curry fish — 8 years ago
Tastes like liquid barbecue, in a good way — 8 years ago
Nice clean Chardonnay. Apples — 8 years ago
Rick Baraff
That’s some nice drinkin’ stuff (circa 2017). Thanks to the local somm, Steve, at our Whole Foods for the recom... it was their last bottle and he sacrificed. — 5 years ago