Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

What a drop dead stunningly profound wine. Just so brilliant. Nose is all elite plum, black raspberry, mid season cherries, sour cherries, black cherries and lovely tree bark and a hint of herbals. So complex and so pure. There is a delicacy and elegance to the nose that is stunning. Also some citrus top notes. Palate is at once round and but also has terrific energy from what seems like stem inclusion. So nimble and pure. This has serious structure and the fruit in the palate is sweet but also high toned and cooling and one can tell this is a cool vintage wine. What an epic finish and such refined tannins. This also needs to breathe. And it will improve and wow what a wine. Let’s see where it goes. — a year ago

Philip Patston

9.4

Very elegant. Not too intense at all but quite delicate. — 3 years ago

Meg Herring

9.1

Just as good if not better than I remembered it! I love the high acidity. It is a mix of underripe and bruised apples plus herbs and spices. Perfect for summer! — 4 years ago

Ryan Mullins

9.6

“A transvestigh” -terry theise — 6 years ago

Chris Harvey

8.9

Tart apple, honey, slight effervescence — 7 years ago

Jan Roessner

8.9

Incredible experience. This lightly sparkling Pinot/ Blauer Portugieser is a revelation. Being German, I didn't even know something like this exists. Mind blowing. — 8 years ago

Ashley Sutton

9.3

Merry Christmas indeed! Absolutely stunning. — 9 years ago

Emily Voland

9.4

Yuuummmmmmmmma — 9 years ago

Floyden Mugford

9.1

Smells like cheese and taste like tropical citrus — 11 years ago

Matthew Cohen

9.4

Nose: midseason cherries. Spice. Maybe cloves.

With air some savoriness, lilacs. More Burgundian.

Palate : sweet midseason cherries. Hint of licorice. Bracing acidity.

In an odd place now. Not showing it’s usual exuberance. Let’s see where it goes.

Fass selections — a year ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

A perfume. All the better wines have a perfume in 2022. Persimmon. grapefruit, cardamom, clove, spice. Herbals. Stunning. Ripe but juuuuust ripe. That is a winner. 9.7 nose. Wow. acidity. Just an exciting vintage and what depth. Good dry extract. Long and so elegant. Edgy wine. Gorgeous and so pure. Such energy. So long. Stunning. Light and yet so dense. Really nothing like it. — 3 years ago

Abner Oakes

9.0

Bubbles lost their zest. — 4 years ago

Justin Farrar

8.9

Salinity is 11/10 — 6 years ago

Michael Piaker

9.2

7 December 2018. The Four Horsemen, Brooklyn, NY. — 6 years ago

Ely Cohn

9.3

An unsuspectingly forward Riesling with a watery pale hay color and shy aromas of orchard fruits, bitter apple seed, and slate. The flavors take a sharp u-turn - fully expressive with off dry but not honeyed notes of red apple and roasted lemon. It finishes cleanly with slate and wet rocks. Really excellent. — 7 years ago

Ned Gray Creed

9.0

I like the stems in this but don't know if others would. It's got Sass indeed. Kermit tasting. — 8 years ago

Michael Rusch

9.1

Bright, not sweet, not dry. Pear / light finish. — 9 years ago

Roy Arias

9.0

Awesome aromatics! — 10 years ago

Mitchell Pressman

9.2

A fine example of what this fairly obscure, under-the-radar, consistently good producer can do. — 11 years ago

Pinotman /// Andreas

9.2

No funk whatsoever the orange wines of E&M all rock. — a year ago

Michael

9.0

This is what a lot of natty wines think they are — a year ago

Matthew Bamberg-Johnson

9.8

Delicious new varietal that I never would have tried without recommendation. Tart and zingy — 4 years ago

Aravind A

9.3

This is awesome: fantastic dry extract and minerality, stunning acidity, lovely fruit. — 5 years ago

Liz DeSousa

9.5

Perfectly funky and citrusy — 6 years ago

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Corey Critchfield

9.2

Crisp, clean, minerally. — 7 years ago

Andrew Lohse

9.0

Herbal, kinetic — 7 years ago

Steve Pollack

9.2

Very sweet, could use more balancing acidity. — 8 years ago

Page Schultz

9.2

Pretty, peachy deliciousness. — 9 years ago

Jon Bonné

Wine Editor San Francisco Chronicle

9.2

Intensity from the Pfalz. — 10 years ago

Magno González

9.6

Perfect residual sugar / acid balance. Very fresh on the nose with notes of mint, wet stones some petrol. Deep and complex. Amazing showing. — 11 years ago