Wow what a drop. If you have this drink it now. Insane and ready to go. — 5 years ago
Ooh yeah. A delicious drop for the end of a stressful day! — 6 years ago
The 2016 Long Shadows 'Saggi' is a thrilling blend of Sangiovese (Boushey and Candy Mountain Vineyards) with 29% Cabernet Sauvignon (Weinbau Vineyard) and the remainder Syrah (Den Hoed Dutchman and Bacchus Vineyards). The nose is drop-dead gorgeous with bacon fat, black olive tapenade, mocha and fennel. The stunning range of aromas bring you back to the glass for more. Revealing a silky texture and a wonderfully ripe mouthfeel, this slowly unveils smoked meat, black tea, milk chocolate covered cherry and roasted fig flavors. Decadent, layered and downright delicious, this beautiful wine will enjoy an exceedingly long life in the cellar. Drink 20-9-2033- 95 — 6 years ago
09’ This is singing @Mike R Another wine from Mike- If this wasn’t the WOTN, it was damn close. Black fruits, black licorice, blackberry jam, floral notes, smokiness. This is a drop dead gorgeous wine. A very polished wine!! Especially from this vintage. There’s no need to hold onto this any longer. Drink them up in the next 10+ years. — 7 years ago
Full body Chenin - toasted almonds, exotic fruits - marvelous drop ! — 9 years ago
Made me go, "Wow!" — 9 years ago
Wow this is singing! What a nose. Gorgeous lemon inflected minerality. Hints of attractive spicey oak and stunning rocky minerality. Tree bark and herbs. So good. What a screaming mimi of a nose. Palate is rich and ripe but also nervy and tense. Amazing purity buttressed by that awesome Meursault richness. Lovely texture. Awesome mouthfeel and a lovely lemon drop lime zest finish. Wonderful. — 4 years ago
Last bottle of six, and is as brilliant today as it was six years ago. Must check out out a recent vintage. — 5 years ago
Drop dead gorgeous / a balance of dried and juicy red fruit with pronounced dill and blonde tobacco / nicely integrated oak, elegant structure — 6 years ago
Christmas drop 🎄 The 2012 GG's have been drinking quite well lately (the Dellchen's wonderful!), but this was somewhat disappointing. Despite the stony minerality which I love, I feel the wine isn't finessed enough. It's ripe, but doesn't quite have the precision and lightness to counteract. While there's heaps of fruit, there's also ample petrol characters. Perhaps it's in a odd phase. Hope to taste another bottle in the future. — 7 years ago
Revisiting my dear friend 2016 Petruccino from Podere Forte and she’s drop dead gorgeous as always.
Very inviting at first with perfectly ripe round edged fruit profile but with plenty of energy, red and black cherries, licorice, opening up with dried spice, tobacco and its Tuscan gravelyness with time in the glass. Long act on the palate, driven by its fresh acidity and almost powdery tannins that walks the intense fruit profile across the palate. Remarkable integration of the 14.5% alcohol. So convincing already yet with structure for further — 5 years ago
An excellent food wine! Paired this '15 with Gordon Ramsay's bolognese sauce. Substituted bison for beef. Decanter's review is pretty spot on but I'm just a tad shy of their 9.0. Regardless, at $18 it's a very pleasing drop that elevates a red sauce pasta to another level. And, if you are into Barbera vintages...'15 was a bobby-dazzler. — 6 years ago
Great drop from a great year. 5 years ok it's just getting started and probably good for another 5 or 10. Tennis softening, deep rich flavours. Red berries. Medium pepper and spice. Can't wait to drink as it ages. — 8 years ago
2013 vintage. I think it's just too hot to make a very fair assessment of this wine...big, round style. Extracted cassis, baked blackberry, over ripe blueberry, mullberry, cedar, white pepper, dried purple flowers, vague creaminess. Creaminess and ever so slight tannic greenness are competing with each other right now and seem a bit disjointed. Wish that I had either decanted this, or saved enough for a second day! — 9 years ago
Benjamin Carson
Really nice, easy to drink, we'll balanced — 4 years ago