Kristin the Wine Girl

9.4

Ripe and supple berry pie. Dark dark spicy fruit in a velvety coat of midnight cacao, nutmeg, cinnamon and clove. Big tannins that cling to palate all the way through the finish. Relax back in your recliner near the fireplace for this one! Perfect rainy day wine. — 5 years ago

Ned Gray Creed

9.2

Praise the Moon Mountain AVA. Hashtag old stomping ground. — 6 years ago

Jean Herndon

8.9

2015 Bronze winner @ CA State Fair comp but underrated IMO. Red fruit, spice, earth. Good stuff. — 7 years ago

SJ Charlson

9.2

Really great Sonoma cabernet. — 7 years ago

with Joe and Mark

Martin G Rivard

9.8

@David L @Shawn R @Ron R @Joe Lucca @Carl Fischer I can almost hear DAVID L 🎤 right now saying “Oh no you didn’t just open another 12 Edge Hill Bacigaluppi!!!”
Yes I did and am quite happy at my decision!!
Irresistible in a glass!! Simply awesome after an hour and stunningly gorgeous after 2. — 8 years ago

Kelly Kirkland

9.0

2010 vintage. A totally unknown winery to me given to me by a grateful neighbor. I noted that the bottle quality portended a high-end wine. So I decided to wait to have it with a group of friends who'd appreciate something like this— a good decision. Upon opening, the nose struck me as a fine French Bordeaux with a big of age. The palate was fine and smooth with medium tannins. It's got a lovely full body and a nicely aged fruit that shows a sweet leather note. My friends loved it, as did I. What a treat to subsequently find out (through Charine Tan's review here) just what a special wine this was to have been given. — 8 years ago

Marlon Wells

9.5

Excellent Chardonnay! Crisp apple taste with vanilla finish. Great bottle. — 9 years ago

Myke Morgan

9.0

Very fruit forward cab, with minimal tannins or chalkiness. A nice quality everyday wine. — 5 years ago

with Anjanette

Bill Bender

9.3

Heavy tannins at 9 years but also significant fruit purity and depth. An astonishingly well made wine. Enjoy now or reward yourself with patience. 5 years will ratchet this up approachability wise two fold. — 6 years ago

Morgan Harris

Head Sommelier Aureole New York

9.4

Stellar. Actually still maybe too dense and young, still tons of chewy black fruit, stand up tannins. But good balance of chocolate-spice oak and cedar-mushrooms secondaries. Old Napa doing its thing in spectacular fashion. Can definitely go higher ratings wise. For $45 bucks, unbelievable! — 7 years ago

Jasmin Arpin

9.0

Friendsgiving 17 — 7 years ago

Mike McGovern

9.2

Fabulous blend, fruity with notes of plum, blackberry, and vanilla. Smooth but lively and present beginning, with an earthy finish that paints the palate dry. Let it open up for a few minutes before diving in. — 8 years ago

Katherine Bordelon

Court of Master Sommelier Guild member

9.0

Earthy but not over powering. Dried fruit, berries, hint of pepper, oak but not hiding behind the oak. Rich and balanced after at least 20 minutes of breathing. Decided to decant and it was a good decision. — 8 years ago

with Edmond

Conrad Green

9.1

1st vintage if this wine, so a real treat to try. A little shrill and sharp at the front. Lovely fruit. Still some fresh notes but in a good place age-wise. Doesn't hang together as well as the wines beside it. — 8 years ago

with Matt and Paul

Jason Dunn

9.1

Not tannic. Lightly fruity. An excellent red for lamb. — 6 years ago

David Watts

9.0

Oak and marzipan on the nose, with a whack of fruits of the forest. Taste-wise, it's warm red fruits, quite soft and viscous to begin with but then some solid grip to follow through. Very nice. — 6 years ago

Matt

9.2

70 CA 30 GR old vine bottling that proves how important Carignan can be in arid, warm climate winemaking. At 15% abv this wine carries balance, life, and most importantly complex interplay of deeply hued fruit and savory layers. There’s an air of roasted meatiness, leather, wet slate, and roasted black and purple fruits that stands out. In the background purple flowers, smoke, talcum, licorice, brown sugar. Palate is expansive, rich without being too heavy, kept in check by balancing acid of the carignan. Tannin wise there’s grit, nothing overpowering but flowing nicely about, keeping the texture present with its length. — 6 years ago

Stephen M Duffy

9.5

Delicious, savory cab franc and a great value. More leather and herbal notes than fruit. Fairly tannic for the style. Versatile food wise. — 7 years ago

Martin G Rivard

10

What a beautiful person inside and out! I'm blessed beyond measure to be able to call him "Dad". Words can't adequately express how much I Love him. We opened a few bottles last night that I will hold near and dear to my heart forever. We are celebrating his completion of 6 rounds of chemo therapy in his battle against Prostate cancer. This is his 3rd time in the ring against this opponent and it appears that he's won with a unanimous decision by knockout at this time!!!!!! Love you dad!!!!! So proud of your strength through this process. My Father was born in 1940. A difficult year to say the least:
Germans entered Bordeaux in June of 1940. As dictated by Hitler himself, it was the sworn duty of each and every commander to search and seize whatever could be used for the advancement of the German cause. Bedlam broke out. Chateaux' were ransacked, wine cellars were looted if not used for target practice. The Chateauxs were forced to continue producing wines. It's poetic justice that Mother Nature provided the Germans with the worst growing season from 1940 to 1944!!!! The Germans left Bordeaux in 1944 to the cheers of the residents "Au Revoir Les Allemands"!!!! The 1940 bottle that we enjoyed this evening survived World War II. It Survived the ransacking, pillaging & plunder of countless German soldiers. It's outer capsule showed evident signs of its struggle but it's inner beauty was unblemished and glorious. I've had many, many vintages of Latour from 1928 and on but none have ever tasted as perfect as the one we enjoyed tonight. This 1940 was perfect. It was a fighter, it never gave up, it never relinquished in the face of adversity. That's my Father, that my role model. He's a beautiful person inside & out. I think 1940 is the best vintage that I have ever had the privilege to enjoy. Special thanks to my good friends Michael Troise whom provided me with much of the insights in regards to the incredibly difficult vintage and David Page whom gifted this bottle to me for our celebration this evening. I will never forget your generosity. It was a glorious evening to say the least!!! Wine has a way of bringing people together and encapsulating an evening and event. I couldn't think of a better way to rejoice in his victory than to open a Father & Son birth year wine. — 8 years ago

with Ryan, Christine and 1 other

J Levenson

8.9

A few more years in the cellar would have been a wise decision. Still lovely. Full bodied. 8/5/16 — 9 years ago