Michael Herzog

9.0

Plum, oak, wintergreen, and a little dusty on the nose. Decent amount of wood on the palate, but not over the hill for a 2009 and still has some nice polished tannins. — 5 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

Sick, dramatic nose, wintergreen, herbals you the wazoo, spice, flowers, pink grapefruit, almost a greenhouse effect on the nose, sickness. Some faint Riesling stoniness. Smells like a JR Tolkien scene. Insane inner mouth aromas. So dense, so chewy, so mineral, so dry. Lovely dry extract and purity. But also gentle and so so so mineral. I don’t think there is any fruit. And that’s a good thing. Long, meandering, finish with sick purity, and length. Chewy. So complex. Ethereal. — 6 years ago

Hum

9.0

Wintergreen and tea berry on the nose with a touch of cherry lozenge; sanguine and herbal on the palate with a touch of charred orange. Light and racy. — 6 years ago

Patti Gamboni

9.0

Yum. Delicate. Tiny bubbles. A touch sweet but very well balanced. Wintergreen and diesel. — 7 years ago

Emily Kresie-Harrington

9.1

2015 vintage. Fresh peach, lime, green apple, white raspberry, pineapple, a little wintergreen, fresh white flowers, honeysuckle. — 7 years ago

David E

8.9

Take a dill pickle from a good deli and bash it around in a well-made humidor then set that whole affair in front of a bowl of blackberry conserves. Et voila! Initial impressions. With air, this sheds the dill and cedar and replaces it with wintergreen. Overall a beautiful expression of a difficult and contentious variety. Satisfy your curiosity here; you'll enjoy it. — 9 years ago

Thoger Petry

9.4

Dense velvety personality with a dark core of fruit leading out to rich chocolate, fresh wintergreen and spice. The dark side of Delicious. — 9 years ago

Tom Casagrande

9.1

On the first night the mint leave/wintergreen aspect was overwhelming and weird. So I put it back in the fridge. On night 2, it’s calmed down and is quite nice. Still some intense sweet green herbal notes on the nose, but also showing fresh-sliced stone fruit and crushed rock notes. Quite flavorful, with same amalgam of herb-fruit-rock in the mouth. Juicy, and with good acidic tension. Surprisingly good, especially since I’m generally critical of Italian whites. — 5 years ago

Brent S

9.0

Some wintergreen in there. — 6 years ago

Nikki Goddard, DWS

9.1

Sour cherry, dried strawberry, rosewater, dried savory herbs, wintergreen, cured meat. Pretty, elegant, and lively; velvety-smooth. Delightful and easy to like. — 6 years ago

with Emmett

Loren Grossman

Vintner Wilde Farm Wines

9.2

Very fresh and still extremely firm. Cedar, cacao, smoke, wintergreen. Really does well with air. Screams Oakville in all the right ways. — 7 years ago

Allison Lyzenga

9.2

Pale lemon green; medium plus intensity aromas of wintergreen, star anise, Thai basil, melon rind, cucumber, tarragon; dry, medium minus acid, high alcohol, medium body, medium plus intensity flavors of cucumber, melon rind, wintergreen, star anise, Thai basil; medium finish, outstanding quality, very interesting and surprising flavors — 7 years ago

Brandon Thiessen

9.2

Delicious. Stemmy. Light funk. Cranberry. Tart but balanced. Violets and liquorice and wintergreen. — 7 years ago

Kat D

10

Dry paper with a Wintergreen and eucalyptus finish — 9 years ago

Shay A

9.3

Though not the same as it was pre-COVID -19, a handful of us were able to gather (while keeping our distance) to celebrate being back together and opened some fun wines to share. Wine is always better with good company.

From the 2018 Cayuse Ex-cellar sale. Followed over two days.

The oldest Cayuse I’ve had to date and a testimony to the quality and longevity of these wines as the wine was drinking beautifully. This sat with the cork removed for about an hour before it was tasted the first time. Aromatically, the Cayuse funk was just barely there (I’m assuming a combo of age as well as less use of whole clusters/stem back during these vintages), but even just a touch of that funk is enough to reel you in. Iron driven, teriyaki, stewed tomatoes, and dark cocoa dusted dates. It has a semi muddled profile on the palate but the acidity is still keeping this lively, and it went from black cherry dominant in day one to a darker, roasted black cherry/underripe blackberry flavor on day two. Olive and truffle mushroom on both days, but day two had a distinct sage/wintergreen type note at the finish. Complex, integrated, and delicious. Thrilled to have been able to acquire one of these, courtesy of @Bill Bender — 5 years ago

with joe, Dan and 2 others

Chris McClellan

9.3

Wow...dark blackcherry, some blueberry, ripe and aromatic with slight wintergreen, bell pepper, vanilla, blackberry liqueur, baking spices, tannins and acid still holding on...but it’s definitely time to drink this!! Amazing finish..paired with nothing but itself! — 6 years ago

Matt

8.9

Haven’t had these wines in a while so it was great to get reacquainted. Great balance/length, focused with nice generosity and texture. Well made. Stonefruit, yellow apple/pear, flowers and wintergreen, integrated lees work and barrel. — 7 years ago

Ely Cohn

8.9

Beefy aromas with black cherry and uplifted cool herbs - lavender, wintergreen, and menthol. Classic Sangiovese with flavors of dark berries, minerals, and high acid. — 7 years ago

Patrick Hu

9.2

Licorice, wintergreen - fascinating! — 8 years ago

Thoger Petry

9.7

Inky and thick in the glass, pure velvet on the tongue, berry muffins and wintergreen on the nose. The weight of the wine is masterfully offset by the undercurrent of acidity and the tannins literally melt through the finish. As mysterious and intense as the bottle it comes from. — 9 years ago