Vail Four Seasons, Flame Restaurant, Rob Ix Birthday dinner hosted by Chris Bonacci. — 11 years ago
Good wine with new friends at Flame. Paired with a window seat and seafood. Not bad, Springfield...Not bad. — 12 years ago
Yummy for Caesars!! — 13 years ago
Vail Four Seasons, Flame Restaurant, Rob Ix Birthday dinner hosted by Chris Bonacci. Always one of my favorite reserve vintage champagnes. — 11 years ago
A pale flame, thin skinned constituent grapes, like dancers giddy with exhaustion, sweat and expectation. — 11 years ago
2005 Summerland serial number 6043. Charred earth and meaty smoky loveliness that really reminded me of Cayuse for a moment. Bold terroir and a backdraft of black pepper on an extracted plummy black nasty fruit stuffed mushroom and peat cloud. Real depth of character stuff, where you really feel this wine has your back as your guns smoke and bluster from a wet foxhole. Straight cover fire for hours. Then you realize your brother is losing lifeblood, literally baking in a fever, and you are the one who gets to live with him in his greatest moment, shining like a flame. Another hour, and the sun has set, summer is over, the smoke is clearing to reveal a tired, injured if glorious wine that really was at its best in that precise moment, and adumbrates in the long shadow of death. — 12 years ago
Flame. Very good. Dark and chewy. — 12 years ago
My old flame. Missed the rich fruit, smoky leather and spice. — 13 years ago
Tart mead with rhubarb — 13 years ago

Vail Four Seasons, Flame Restaurant, Rob Ix Birthday dinner hosted by Chris Bonacci. — 11 years ago
Vail Four Seasons, Flame Restaurant, Rob Ix Birthday dinner hosted by Chris Bonacci. — 11 years ago
Umami. Aromas reminiscent of throwing a ribeye on an open-flame grill. Beautiful structure. Drinking so well right now! — 12 years ago
Ruby purple with a flame rim. Cranberry! on the nose, plus leathery tea, bay laurel, macerated strawberries, and balsamic. Clean and fresh on the palate and not as tannic as I expected, there is cranberry, tea, anisette. A lovely wine with some years ahead of it. 13.3% abv | wine club — 13 years ago
Nice chard — 13 years ago
Crisp light — 13 years ago
Brian Bonacci
Vail Four Seasons, Flame Restaurant, Rob Ix Birthday dinner hosted by Chris Bonacci. — 11 years ago