Andrew Lohse

9.4

This ‘94 was rich and enticing - plenty of freshness and pyrazine, vanilla (light), bitter dark chocolate, and young tannins / black fruit and a finish for days — 6 years ago

dan boedeker

9.3

Dark fruit, coffee, anise. Opened up with 2 hour decant but still has tannin profile to age for probably a decade. Celebrating 9 years and 3 days of wedded bliss. — 8 years ago

Julia Weinberg

9.6

Still on my mind days later... a standout from the line-up, energetic and not quite resolved in the most compelling way. God damn am I ever a sucker for wines with tension. — 9 years ago

with Chris and The

Willie Carter

9.0

The Boxer is big as hell and will take you where you want to go. Tons of dark fruit with coffee and cherries. I don't usually dig chocolate but it works here. The creaminess and the plums are on full display but it's the boldness that steals the show. — 9 years ago

Mark Schmidt

9.0

Surprisingly light and fruity. Works well with wide variety of food. — 10 years ago

Austin Ferrari

Wine Director Hillside Supper Club

9.6

Real wine! Lapierre takes me back to the chez days! — 11 years ago

with Aran

Igor Dralyuk

9.6

Thank you, Vadim! — 12 years ago

Brian R

9.3

Starting to find that good California pinots are better after a few years or a few days after opening or both. — 7 years ago

Robert Evans Jr

9.3

Sweet Clean Crisp Honey suckle Green Apple — 7 years ago

with Nicole

Brandon Loper

8.9

Pretty delicious and the only field recordings offering that I've found in Alabama. — 8 years ago

Chris Murray

9.5

Delicious. Dark, syrupy but fruity. — 9 years ago

Michael Horkay

9.5

Wine of the night. The high percentage of cab franc actually works and produced a wine of amazing ripeness. Special wine. — 10 years ago

Robert Torretti

9.1

Now the 1998 Red Musar. Fragrant nose. Still quite tight. Reminiscing about the 2008 Musar dinner at Hearth with Serge Hochar, just a couple of days after my birthday. Quite a wine and a great winemaker and human being. — 10 years ago

with Sagan

Katrina Ryan

9.8

What a fun cab from the old days:) — 11 years ago

Justin Hart

9.4

Ah, the Rocks at Milton-Freewater produce such remarkable and distinctive fruit. Morgan Lee’s take on the Stoney Vine Syrah is outstanding. Earthy, gamey, succulent, dark and full stone fruit (plum) that just keeps going. This is good for another 5 years I think. — 7 years ago

with Cherish and Jen

Kenny Baldridge

9.5

Yum!!! It even has bill clay on the label. Ha!! — 8 years ago

Edmond Ng

9.5

Drank this over the course of 6 days using Coravin...still too young, but the wine really opened up by the last day. Smells and tastes like a Grand Bordeaux St. Julien wine as it should. I used to this wine to test the Coravin. It is clear that oxidation starts right after the first pour. — 9 years ago

Rebecca Fletcher

9.1

Nutty, orange rind, and chocolate. M+ acid and M sweetness. M+ intensity. On the palate, raisin, dried fruit, cherry, caramel and orange. Long finish. — 9 years ago

Lewis Chester

9.4

2002 vintage Rose. Light salmon, copper hue. Chalk, wet rock to the fore. Red currant and cranberry. Slight blossom notes. Iron fragments. On the palate, very lean and balanced as is the Crystal style. Not the concentration of the white 2002. If there's any tannins here, you have to focus to notice them. Maybe at the back end there's a touch of weight from the tannins. Very young - too young. Don't touch for 7-10 years. Makings of a great wine as acidity is so balanced with the fruit. Love it. NB: Pinot cold macerated for 4 days - to extract colour but little tannins. Then blended with Chardonnay and co-fermented. Quite unique. No added red wine per se. — 10 years ago

Patrick Knöfler

8.9

The wine was medium to dark garnet in colour. On day one it offered red fruit, cherry, balsamic vinegar, cola, leather, mushroom, earthy and vegetal notes and a wet sewer component on the nose. On the palate the the wine showed red fruit, cherry, blackberry, tobacco and earthy notes, the acidity was quite pronounced, the wine became slightly drying and even more acidic after some time in the glass, and the fruit faded a bit. Two days later, on day three, the medium-bodied wine was more balanced and showed red and dark fruit, some chocolate, some tobacco, spices and earthy notes on the nose, and red fruit, cherry, leather, tobacco, earthy and balsamic notes on the palate, with just a faint touch of greenness, paired with medium-plus well-integrated tannin, medium-plus acidity and very good length. I had almost written-off the wine on day one and then, surprisingly, it showed much better the third day. Holding-up well. 90 — 11 years ago