Sean Lyons

9.5

Amazing. I guess you really do have to wait a decade for Riojas to reach their potential. This 2016 tastes right in the sweetspot - very firmly structured while showing vibrant fruit notes (plum, prunes, cranberry, currant) elevated with an incredible earthiness (mulch, leather, tobacco). This is the real deal — 8 days ago

Sean Lyons

9.3

This took a good hour to open, but was really great once it was ready. Plenty of dark fruit left 11 years after harvest - blackberry, plum. Notes of leather, rosemary. Wonderful structure still intact — 4 months ago

Sean Lyons

9.8

Sean had this a year ago

Sean Lyons

9.0

This is a fine tequila, I just don’t understand how it is so damn expensive. It has a nice clean taste - raw and cooked agave, some citrus, grass - but it is very mild. Not what I would call a unique or special experience, which it should be at this price point. — a year ago

Sean Lyons

8.5

I’m not sure what to say about this one because it was 2 completely different wines all within a 24 hour period. The first was a very nice, well balanced Barbera with a wonderful concentration of bright red fruit notes at the front of the palate with strong acidity and structure to balance everything. Not a superstar, but a great “food” wine. However, over the next several hours it devolved into something completely different - flat, sour with a finish that tasted like artificial sweetener. Really bad. Weird — 13 days ago

Sean Lyons

9.1

This was fine - kind of a weak sauce version of the Loch Gorm. The smoke was lighter and the texture was thinner than the LG. I’m finding that I prefer my sherry-heavy whiskies to really hold themselves on my tongue and this just didn’t. No off flavors or anything. I’d probably buy it again, especially a bigger bottle so I could taste it as it develops. — a year ago

Sean Lyons

9.1

Nothing super complex but wonderfully floral and sweet with enough structure to keep it balanced. Wonderful summer whisky — a year ago

Sean Lyons

6.1

This is the worst bottle of wine I’ve ever tasted. No hyperbole. An insult to the grapes they used to make it. Tastes like communion grape juice - not wine, grape juice. I’d turn it into sangria but that would just be a waste of fruit. Shameful. — 14 days ago

Sean Lyons

7.0

Tasted like bad grape juice that had been spiked with grain alcohol. Technically wine is the nicest thing I can think to say. — 22 days ago

Sean Lyons

9.4

A very specialized whisky - a heavy peated sherry BOMB. Most distilleries don’t bother with this combo because it is thought the two treatments don’t play well together and kind of cancel each other out. I see their point - this wouldn’t be my pick for a great peated or great sherried whisky. However, when i get the craving for that odd combo, nothing else will do. It’s confusing, but delicious. The nose is a great indicator of what you’re getting - smoke first, followed by a wave of dark, stewed fruits. The palate is the same, but with a brown sugar sweetness on the finish. Fascinating dram. — a year ago