Joe Lucca

9.6

I’m thinking about starting a Grateful Journal. I’ve heard that writing down things you’re thankful for 5-10 mins before sleep helps you actually get the most from your sleep and also helps you wake up more energized. Tonight, my journal will note how thankful I am for friends who share great wine. @Frank this young beauty is sultry. Like making love on a hot summer’s night with the windows open. Opens with a pleasant earthy musk, meaty and gamey notes, and some fresh herbs, garrigue. Luscious and thicky-thick on the palate (see: Nelly). The red and blue fruits sing in wonderful harmony with the earthy, unadulterated tension just below the surface. Spicy, mineral, savory, and clean fruit all at once. Many years ahead. Perfect way to get in the Christmas spirit! — 6 years ago

with Frank and ADAM

Sarah Prince

9.2

Just got home from work, about to dig into Elvish. Windows open, dogs outside, Mike at a work happy hour. March 2018. — 7 years ago

Jordan Shapiro

9.1

My second bottle. Interesting and cheap. Lighter body than expected. Tastes like driving slowly through winding mountain roads with the windows open. — 7 years ago

Lindsey King

9.4

How do I even begin to comment on the privilege of lapping up the last drops of a life's work? Puffeney's 52nd vintage, his final potion. The wine that made me aware of the Jura, that first sparked sensation of time and place, a wine that exists equally in bottle as it does in brain. When you find yourself paused mid-step on the walk home, paralyzed by the distant sound of a youthful pianist stretching their hands across blessed white and black keys. Recognizing the tension that folds over their shoulders in tandem with the all encompassing lightness of body that accompanies practice. There is something so real about the way they are playing, without too much fluidity, they stop and start again and somehow that's better than an unstopping song. There is no performance here. What is it about the walls, windows and air between you that deliver these wafts of sound in such a pleasurable way? How does the space aid the aesthetic? You keep standing there, basking in this auditory coat, and for a sliver of time you want nothing. You want no one. You have everything. This pianist will never meet you, nor you them, yet there is partnership, a unity, an offer and reception. An electrical circuit you have both worked to complete. You want to cling tightly to this moment and you find yourself searching for evidence to make you present. The sky was blue, the pavement was wet, I was just about there, I was happy. But all of this is already phrased in the past tense, the moment has already slid away from you. You pick up your forgotten step and continue forward, dizzy from experience, left with only a stamp in your mind that you can picture but never fully revisit. Little death. — 7 years ago

Martina

10

With Emily at pool :-) — 9 years ago

Turd Ferguson

9.3

Dusty like driving down a gravel road with the windows open. Acid keeping it super fresh. Complex. Finish for days. Best bottle of the four I had, wish I had another case. Outstanding. — 9 years ago

Bryant Bickel

8.9

It's really good, could use more acidity to seperate it from their c/s, as the yeast or process they use leave a deep finger print that can't be ignored through all varietals, and I know you just redid the label but can we talk? Cause it is still needing an update. Windows 95NT — 10 years ago

Courtney Cochran

Sommelier/Host hiptastes.com

9.5

I'm not in the mood to apologize. Because sometimes the secret you don't want to get out is that big Chards are the bees knees, the slap on the back you need to get to get that skip back in your step, the rock ballad you blast at full volume (windows up, natch)...And really, what's not to like in this crushed cashew-laid-over -candied-lemon-peel pleaser, this fleshy white peach-riddled hothouse flower, this pineapple custard cutie?? But in all seriousness, there is straight-up respectable structure here, pert-enough acidity to be fresh-ish, and a lingering finish with just enough soupçon of minerality to be decent. In short, what's not to like? ***Don't be haters, yo*** — 10 years ago

Rubychick

9.0

Lunchtime work Mousseux Chenin Blanc with huge bubbles but super lemon zesty on the palate. Funk to start and big back palate spritz to finish. — 11 years ago

Martijn

9.7

1999 vintage on 11.5.18
From a 375bottle. Semi transparant and very clear, pure red purple. Fantastic nose, leather, cinnamon, vannila, smoked wood, tar, 5 spices. Words cannot express it but I’ll give it a try: lush, Christmas, fire on a beach, steamy windows, the best steak you ever had.....
Did I mention my wife and I got married in 1999. So guess tonight we are gonna party like it is..... — 7 years ago

Marissa A. Ross

Wine Editor, Bon Appétit

8.9

On the nose, this Malvasia di Candia blend from Emilia-Romagna smells like driving into Palm Springs from Highway 111 with the windows down—an intoxicating breeze of squishy peaches, lemon, hot asphalt, and freshly watered lawns.
Sipping on “Ageno” tastes similarly warm, with notes of apricot, navel oranges, leather, and sweat you accidentally licked off your own face. It’s bold but with balanced acidity and finishes with sandy tannins that feel just swept off a dune. — 7 years ago

Casey Curbow

Sales Associate Windsor Wine Merchants

9.1

Brush, stems and earth. Wilting flowers. Still vibrant fruit. Meatiness veers towards jerky in small windows. Good as ever spot to open. Let it blow off for 20 or so minutes and it plays a tune. — 7 years ago

with Gerald

Bobby Gilbane

9.5

Love it when people talk about drinking windows. This wine breaks your drinking window. How you like that? 1975 to the face with authority. This only gained strength the longer it was exposed to air. Wait a second, what happens to wine when you drink it on the moon? Does it even oxidize? GET TO THE CHOPPAHHHHH. — 8 years ago

Peter 0'Neill

9.3

Drinking beautifully with notes of crunchy red fruits and plenty of earthiness and soft tannins. An object lesson in Brunello drinking windows and encouragement to leave my 06 and 07s to sleep in storage a while longer. — 8 years ago

Rubychick

8.9

Today I needed this beautiful Chardonnay, smacked myself in the face in the winery at work and broke my nose. The only answer was Windows Chardonnay. So beautiful, so nurturing and sold out. Medicine. — 9 years ago

Lachlan McMurdo

9.4

Crisp and dry with strong lime and green apple and subtle mandarin. Perfect for a humid summers night. — 9 years ago

Ellen Weaver

9.1

Excellent, crisp Pinot Noir Rose. Drank this at Noble Rot in Portland on a warm evening with the windows open and the fresh air flowing. Paired perfectly with salmon. — 10 years ago

Chris Grimm

8.9

Delicious nose, finish is very slight. Passion fruit. — 10 years ago

David Saenz

9.8

Best dry Riesling I have ever had. Went great with a chicken dish. — 11 years ago

with Megan

Emily Wilson

9.5

Punchy, funky, and softly bubbly. Strong notes of tropical fruits. Exactly what you want to be drinking while standing at the bar of a handsome bistro at golden hour, when the pink sun is shining through the windows. You can pretend for a second that there’s sand in between your toes but really it’s still winter in New York, and that’s okay because this wine is in you glass. — 7 years ago

David Kline

9.0

Loose, frothy, hoary, blonde dome built on big bubbles. Navel orange, lemon dough, tangerine, and ruby grapefruit with a sweet side to the bouquet. Texturally perfect with a zesty pizzazz. Yellow grapefruit and lemon prevail here on the citrus flip side. All aboard, because every car of this train strains under the weight of these fruits, and goes on as far as the palate can see! There is a softer, lime interplay, and an interesting wheat germ moment that races by the windows of this Shinkansen. The lacing has devolved to pterodactyl heirlglyphs with dance moves painted by Dubuffet. Finally, after acclimation to the break-neck speeds of the time travel train, we arrive in the land of the lemon poppy eaters! Doest the Dust? Linger on! #elysianbrewing #spacedust #ipa #hoptillyoudrop #spacedustipa #indiapaleale — 7 years ago

Chris England

9.4

1️⃣9️⃣8️⃣5️⃣

🗞 New Coke, .com, Windows 1
🎵 Say You Say Me, Take on Me, Careless 🤫
🎥 The Color Purple, Mad Max
🗣 You built a time machine.. out of a DeLorean
🌍 4.81B

Superb @ £113

🍷 Garnet ruby w/ brick edge

👃 Seductive soft smokey aromas of gravel, chimney soot, wet forest, black berries, minerals, mocha & liquorice

👄 Med body of silky smooth earthy dark berries & plump plums oozing minerals w/ mocha & liquorice tones

🎯 Long dark berry & plummy earthy mineral liquorice w/ creamy cocoa stain — 7 years ago

Katie Bickel

8.9

Drinking this wine tastes like driving on the country roads of my home state of Wisconsin with the windows rolled down; the grainy dust and the sweet smell of manure in the air. Yes-- the sweet smell of manure :) — 8 years ago

Armini

9.3

In restaurant Kitchen Windows in Jeffrey's Bay. — 8 years ago

Martina

10

Gareth, Nick, Canaan, Marc — 9 years ago

Christine Havens

9.4

Walnut skins, curling yellow parchment paper, roasted yellow apples, poached pear, and honeysuckle. Larmandier-Bernier's Vieille Vigne de Cramant Grand Cru 2006 always feels autumnal to me and masterfully constructed. Subtle oxidation, ultra-fine mousse and quarried vinosity on the finish makes this a somewhat austere Champagne. One feels compelled to study it, the graceful lines and branching sexpartite ribs, transverse arches, and dappled, dusty sunlight filtered through clerestory windows, its weightless, timeless charm. 12.5% ABV — 9 years ago

Elizabeth Pearson

9.3

Slightly musty in a good way, soft fruits. Paired with rack of lamb, roasted figs. Cecelia's third night in DC, windows open, warm night. — 10 years ago

Andrew Benn

9.3

These older PM whites can be wonderful and complex (like this bottle) or elegant but a bit tired
Great to experiment with these wines to reevaluate how long their drinking windows can extend — 10 years ago

Stephanie Inzalaco

8.9

Kevin Zraly's Windows of the World Wine School - 1st Assignment - White wine from France ✔️ — 11 years ago

Vinny Eng

9.5

Advent! Christmas comes early if you open all the windows all at once! — 11 years ago