Willem Booij

9.4

Razersharp wine💪 — 10 months 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

9.4

8 days on skins. Without sulfur. Really good. Grapefruit. Herbal lemonade. Wow. This is wonderful. Wow. — 3 years ago

Benjamin Carson

9.2

I really enjoyed this one. Acidic but nice — 3 years ago

Simon Hader

9.0

Schöne Farbe angenehme Säure — 4 years ago

Chris Shultz

9.6

Really complete now. Starts out savory and sweetens up with air. There are such excellent chiseled minerals that get cut with air at the same rate that the fruit gets sweet and fleshy. The fruit gets more pink too, more raspberry than cherry. The savory component changes with air in a non-linear fashion, but it’s an excellent forest smell, wild maitake and violet. Really well resolved. Such fine tannins. Compared to the Thörle, which has more aspects to it, and now seems composed, this feels so much more organic and soulful. There’s not a jagged edge in here. Great. — 5 years ago

with Lyle

Jean-Pierre Meesters

9.4

Price vs quality 👍 — 7 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

Lovely nose. Peach, mineral, spice. citrus, acid is killer, very ripe papaya, peach, tangerine and so much acidity. Wow. — a year ago

Matthew Cohen

9.3

Nose : cherry flower.

Palate : cherry, mineral. Elegant pepper. VERY good.

Fass selections — a year ago

Andrew Schirmer

9.6

No formal notes. See @Lyle Fass review. Stop overpaying for burgundy, buy this instead… — 3 years ago

with Alsu and Geoff

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.2

Gorgeous nose. Fresh mowed grass. Peach, apricot, minerals and some vulcanized rubber. Very petty. Amazing how sugar changes the whole equation. Nose gains depth and breadth as it airs out. Palate is lights out with unreal fresh layers of fruit, peach, apricot and white peach. Nose gets more evocative and blends limestone and vineyard peach. Such a summer wine. And likely great with food. Dense, light, nimble and just the right amount of barely there sweetness. Outstanding. — 4 years ago

Jason and Caitlin

9.2

Biden Harris Inauguration! — 4 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.1

Lemon candy, rocks, gorgeous nose, spice, Apple spice, gorgeous rocky fruits, such a unique aroma. Juicy and rich with nice ripeness and purity. Clean. Mineral. Very good but not special. — 5 years ago

Jakub Kalinowski

8.9

Quite rich & powerful with ripe pomelo and green grapefruit, lemon tart and some matchstick reduction. Fullbodied with the wood nicely integrated, good lemony acidity and nice length with a flinty finish. Needs some time to aerate so large burgundy glasses are a must. — 7 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

Brilliant as usual. Just as good as 21. Maybe more seductive and dense and a skoche less acidity. — a year ago

Andrew Cullimore

9.0

Quite light straw colour . Green apple , lemon rind , white flowers and wet stones . On the palate high acidity balanced with hint of sweetness . Green apple , lime freshness , cool stony notes , good length and balanced alcohol . Simple but effective . Drink now but no rush over the next decade I should imagine . — 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

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Another stunning nose. Apple. Green apple, barely ripe pear and stunning vivid minerals. Hint of smoke. Good breadth to the nose. Palate is ripe and rich but has such cut and minerality. Silky yet structured and just the mildest, complimentary hint of oak. Very very juicy. Complex, jagged minerality and some caressing barely there apple fruit. Long, even some lovey finesse and wonderful purity. Nose develops some woodsy, tree bark aromas after some minimal air. Also some lovely spice. Like an incense spice. Terrific depth. This is special. — 4 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.2

Confectionary nose that is teeming with energy. Awesome minerals, sugar snap peas and airiness. So clean and intense. Awesome. Has that 19 lift. Rich, yet also so energetic and crisp. Has terrific fruit intensity like apricot and kumquat but finished mineral and shows its limestone footprint. So good. Lovely tension between elegant richness and intense minerality and crunch. — 4 years ago

Cameron Etezadi

9.1

Elegant. Off dry. Classic. — 6 years ago