Carlos Burger

9.0

From farfar’s cellar. Opened with Will and Monika and Kalen and Hugo. Tough to get the cork out but I did a yeomans job. Developing very well over time, started a bit astringent on the finish but now showing much more structure. Beautiful. — a year ago

Carlos Burger

9.2

Honeysuckle, Crenshaw melon, pear, and gasoline on the nose. Slight glue/paste. Very very concentrated, almost syrupy. Background of gentle Christmas spices over massive lemon curd. Oyster brine. Spice notes integrate more with air. Sophisticated stuff!!! — a year ago

Carlos Burger

9.5

This feels like what all of the best “funky” orange wines without extreme skin contact are gesturing towards, their platonic ideal. But it isn’t a static edifice of an ideal, rather a great vibrating energy vortex, changing from minute to minute. Marmalade, spot prawn heads, salt, new sneakers, gooseberries, Bacardi limon, pickled red onion, sherry, green tomatoes, curry leaf, Hoja Santa, cilantro stems, seville orange. Enjoying on my first Father’s Day while Hugo and Kalen take a nap. Sichuan Impression delivery on its way. — 2 years ago

Carlos Burger

9.0

Structure!!!! Beautiful — a year ago

Carlos Burger

9.2

With the Flynns and Hugo in the backyard in La Jolla eating grilled garden summer squash and el pescador fish/shrimp/scallops/uni. Divine. — a year ago

Carlos Burger

9.3

This is ripping. white fleshed melon, finger lime, lemon basil. Big acid but very balanced with a featherweight sweetness, multidimensional in a way the barrel x isn’t. Grapefruit and pomelo. Mexican oregano. Tension in the acid almost feels like the beginning of carbonation. Just goes and goes. Wow. — a year ago

Carlos Burger

8.0

Purchased from Costco. Drinking at home in the final days of Kalen’s pregnancy. On the nose honeysuckle, sunscreen on saltwater wet skin at the beach, cantaloupe. Tasting very bright acid, pomelo, key lime, sorrel and lemon basil. Puckering sour apple candy taken into the mouth directly after drinking a sip of ice melt watered down Minute Maid lemonade from a movie theater soda fountain. — 2 years ago

Carlos Burger

9.0

Picnic with soraya and Danny and kalen and Hugo, kalen told the birth story and we had lots of conservas and some very nice cheese and Clark street bread. Very nice, went great with conserva. Need more! This was a wing hop fung bargain table score. — a year ago

Carlos Burger

9.0

Salty strawberry capri sun. Lemon, lime, cherries, a light herbaceous funk at the finish. Tomato peel, celery leaf. I would’ve guessed this was from Bichi in a blind tasting. Super super good. — a year ago

Carlos Burger

8.8

Nice oily, slippery texture. Kiwi, green papaya, spearmint, yellow starburst, Granny Smith, wheatgrass. — a year ago