Seriously, Malibu. Do you have to use an inch of wax to seal every bottle? You're really making me work for this one. Ripe black cherry and baking spice entices the nose. Young bright and fun on the palate. It's definitely equipped for aging across the decade. Just have a machete handy to bust through that wax. Paired tonight's offering with a massive rare tomahawk steak. Nom nom. — 7 years ago
Medium to light golden yellow. A touch of oak on the nose with some citrus, hay and stone fruits. Medium acidity (6.5/10) and rounded palate. Medium to medium plus body with crisp and bright acidity. A little bit of cream in the backend of the palate with citrus zest up front. Medium plus to long finish. Drink till 2020.| Sample — 8 years ago
Excellent vintage! — 8 years ago
A five hour decant. Dark cherry and blueberries with a rub of minerals and tobacco. Just awesome — 8 years ago
So frickin get yummy — 10 years ago
2010 grenache gris witch taste like savagin!!!
Can't stop drinking or — 10 years ago
Low $, low alcohol, crazy good - take a swig👣🕶🍷
She’s a country sort casual, cool, in a simplistic seductive red dress showing voluptuous skin draped and contrasted in a purple sarong-like shawl clinging to her shoulders and rim, earthen, perhaps a tinge of wood maybe leather surely more than lace, somewhat feral playing around swirling, twirling ”dazzling dancing half enchanted,” I pull her close, breathing in her deep essence, I spin her left then right taking her close to the edge as she spills over wetting my lips into my mouth drifting slowly clinging unctuous and warm, she takes her time, deeper, as an errant drop drips from the corner of my mouth her ruby round essence slides down my pectoral finding linen, landing marking the moment - the music changes and I am reminded to take another hit, blue and red berries - musky blueberry and cherry. We dance all night. I get her name, her number and take her home ... “ohhhh what a niiight...” (vintage Dells and this sexy rough around the edges fine thing) hanging @ the Beau paddle dock on Taylor’s Creek during this the Season of The Witch - drink up and enjoy✌🏽💙💚☀️🌊👣🕶🍂🎃🎼🍷🌀 — 7 years ago
Strega is an interesting Italian liqueur...better described below. I only sporadically enjoy it, but it's fun and tasty at each sip.
"Strega is an herbal, saffron-infused liqueur deeply tied to the secret world of witchcraft. Witches are said to convene in Benevento to perform rituals and honor Il Noce, the sacred walnut tree. (The lower part of the logo shows witches dancing with demons around Il Noce.) According to legend, Giuseppe Alberti, son of a grocer, saved a witch from falling out of a tree in the woods. In gratitude, she gave him the recipe for an elixir, which the Alberti family began selling in 1860, perhaps as a curative or restorative.
The liqueur's proprietary recipe is a mix of 70 herbs and spices which include Ceylon cinnamon, Florentine iris, Italian Apennine juniper, Samnite mint, fennel, and saffron. Saffron is the key to Strega's signature yellow color and it shares the spotlight with mint and juniper as the most pronounced flavors within the herbal mixture." — 7 years ago
Excellent Tuscan blend, medium body, good berry flavor witch some spice and complexity. 2012 vintage. — 8 years ago
Colder than a witch tit — 8 years ago
Always love Cielo — 9 years ago
Highly aromatic & stays mainly on the mineral side. It is enough fruit for me, apple, yellow melon plays with candied apricot, off dry but witch characteristic leon aftertaste - good value & heavily drinkable, our bottle disappeared in 20 minutes. Mine first French screw cap. — 10 years ago
Smooth witch rich flavor... — 10 years ago
Let it breathe a bit and then it's wonderful. Not too heavy and just the right amount of oak flavor with hints of cherry, leather and subtle spice — 10 years ago
One of my favorite, "reasonable" tawnys. Great witch cheese & fruit or to sip after dinner. — 12 years ago
Red, resinous currant with a licorice twist. Warm blackberry, dark toast, vanilla, cedar and sweet tabac seamlessly tailored, even at such a young age. Fresh gingerbread oven, too. Silk suit of tannins; loose stitching. Wound tightly showing sinewy potential and a Christmas cactus of sutured fruits bursting at the seams with liquid graphite and black currant reduction with fresh cassis and olive berry. Violets, treacle and black tea. Onyx train of a witch bride all the way down Howell mountain! #Dunn #DunnVineyards #napacab #napacabernet #Napa #howellmountain #howell #howellmtn #mountainwine #cabernetacademy #cabernetday #cabernetsauvignon #californiaclassic — 7 years ago
Beautiful label by Wes Freed and perfect for the holidays.
Deep and dark ruby red. Layered nose giving off a bit of mystery, with notes of anise, vanilla, black currants, violets, oak and lavender. Lush palate with medium tannins (6/10) and medium bodied. Complex palate with layers of blackberries, crushed gravel, cinnamon, and even a touch blue. Medium plus to long finish with a touch of dryness. Drink till 2021. — 8 years ago
With all the smack and throw down about the recent Texas HB1514 witch hunt, I'm not sure I should admit to heavily armed Texans that I really enjoyed this wine. This wine took about 45 minutes to express. Poured a dark purple into the glass with nose of nitrogen, cola, mint. On the palate, good acidity and supple mouthfeel. The middle of the wine showed an earthy mushroom and young, black fruit. Finishes lighter actually with a floral perfume. Tannic, even after 2 hours. Less than the 2012 though, which is VERY locked up. Great density to this wine. Tasted the 2012 in the winery but bought more of this one. Labeled appropriately as a St Emilion Grand Cru and sold at a Fredericksburg winery. Truthful about origins -- nothing wrong with that!! This one is good to go now but better in a few more years. — 8 years ago
Wish I could have tasted that over the course of 2-3 hours. It was dark, dry, and brooding. A witch over the kettle. Perhaps it is tasting better now, but sadly the bottle she is empty. — 9 years ago
Good typicity. Dried cranberry, red currant, red plum, dried rose, violets, organic and inorganic earth, moderate level of VA, normal for the style. Bridge between modern and old style. Paired well with a debate concerning the carrying capacity of European vs African swallows, ascertaining the guilt of a witch, and a near-fatal battle with a bloodthirsty rabbit :) — 10 years ago
A standard bearer for modern Crozes-Hermitage. Baked blueberry pie, purple flowers, corn meal, tobacco leaf, and crushed rock. Spicy, witch hazel, and plenty of grip on the palate. Really delicious vintage! — 10 years ago
Perfect for rounding out a summer weekend! — 11 years ago
Gregory Fulchiero
Out standing wine with plenty of dark cherry notes and some subtle but ever present tannins witch took me to the Pacific Northwest at first - the 14% alcohol was well hidden — 7 years ago