Heather Rostker

9.6

Excellent — 5 months ago

with Emmett and Brian

David Shaw

8.9

New vintage, 46/44/10 blend of Viognier, Pinot Gris and Muscat. Honey golden yellow, very good clarity. Slight sulfite on nose. Dry, flavors interpolate between the Pinot Gris and Viognier. Didn’t pick up much of the Muscat. Moderate skin astringency on the finish (bear in mind this is an orange wine). Floral, linalool and passion fruit flavors. Give the tannins a little time to soften. Dry as the Gobi Desert, so pair it with something tasty. Cheese? Fries? Something… — 2 years ago

Monique Blanchard

8.9

Drank after Postmark, St Supery and a 2009 cake bread Cellars Dancing Bear Ranch (Howell Mountain)cab sav/Franc and drank better than I thought — 5 years ago

Greg Ballington

Co-Founder of Millennial Drinkers Wine Blog

9.1

Medium magenta pink. Rather stinky on the attack of the nose with some dirty rocks and opened up with some ripe red berries. Medium acidity (6/10) and medium plus body. Great structure and balance on the palate. Even seemed a bit lively (bubbly) in texture. Layers of strawberries, melon and watermelon. Long finish. Quite a big Rosé, excellent work Mike! Drink till 2022. | Sample — 9 years ago

with Sean and India

Scott Petrus

9.2

This delicious sparkler is bursting with citrus, toast, crème, and fresh mountain pebbles. As the official champagne of Porche, this bubbly is good around the clock at Les Mans. — 11 years ago

Omar Castillo

8.9

Big Bear Mountain Cabernet. Coffee and berry flavors. — 12 years ago

Jessica Puente

10

Bubbly, soft, crisp finish. — 14 years ago

David Kline

9.3

Toppling Goliath Munich Weiss Hefeweizen Ale.

Marigold and antique gold assemblage. Bubbly, ropy cloud cover. Bear paw print lacing to ursine spoor torpedoes. Strong nose of yeast with ammoniac aura, lime is the citrus bulls eye. Lemon zest on whole wheat. Citrus mouthful! Very lemon with white grapefruit and bitter orange. Clove and cinnamon bring the bark. None of the softness of the wheat, but a sour and lovely excursion on the citric parameters.

#TopplingGoliath #TopplingGoliathMunichWeiss #MunichWeiss #hefeweizen #weissbier #beer #bier #biere #birra #cerveza — 9 months ago

Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

9.4

2017 vintage. Pretty solid stuff. Medium-medium heavy body. Dryer than your average Napa bear and tastes more like mountain slope fruit but don’t think it is. Underrated potential and QPR pop. This should be dynamite in a decade. — 4 years ago

Shay A

9.4

Monthly WTF wine group night. Our theme was American oak vs French oak. All wines tasted blind. We started off with two bottles of bubbly and finished with two non-themed reds.

Similar experience to last having this eight or so months ago. Rich and powerful without being out of balance. Inky blue and black fruits, sweet oak and vanilla tobacco on the nose. The palate here was expansive and a bit wild (in a good way)...signature mountain structure, dusty youthfulness in the ripe fruits. Dark chocolate & plum on the finish. Delicious now but probably better in a few years! — 7 years ago

with Jack, Mark and 4 others

Sophie Collins

9.2

Very dry delish bubbly — 12 years ago

Jose Castillo

8.9

Bubbly bright on the front, jelly long flavor on the end. Dig it. — 12 years ago

Stephen DesRochers

9.5

Almost bubbly, on the tongue. Light, smooth and fruity. Very enjoyable with some light pasta sauces and fried fish. — 14 years ago

Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

9.5

2021 vintage. So tasted alongside sister property Cade (and Plumpjack) Howell Mountain Cab. If I weren't so familiar with the Cade HM, woulda sworn this was mountain fruit. This is the leanest, dirtiest SLD effort I've ever had spanning a multiplicity of SLD producers since the 1986 vintage. It's got the underlying structure of Stags Leap District but none of the top layer of richness. It all got scraped off and you are just left with the steak-no sizzle. Comes courtesy of the old old Steltzer property (hadn't heard that winery name in decades and it was the durtiest in SLD!) and the new powers that be turbo-charged it and turned shizz up to 11. Fascinating and phenomenal. Light-medium body and has the color but packs an unexpected Barolo-styled punch. Not your average SLD bear. Watch out for Mr. Ringer...err...Ranger. 10.30.24. — 2 years ago

Tenmu Arakawa

9.0

Rich tropical fruit intertwines with grapefruit, lemon and candied lime peel. — 4 years ago

Kristin Christian

9.0

Very refreshing and bubbly. — 9 years ago

Craig Van Pelt

9.2

Get more. TJs beaitiful summer rose bubbly. Mountain stream and roses. — 9 years ago

Ted Kizor

9.6

Still a grippy lil mother. Must have been a bear young. I'm a huge fan, lovely lanolin cigar box, fruit-leather with heaps of tarragon on the pallet. Great acid. Love it! — 9 years ago

Wineshout 💀

9.4

Christmas, this is the bubbly you've been missing! Gorgeous, bright fruit medley balanced out so well by acidity. Bubbles were subtle and fresh.

Hand filled, hand riddled. — 12 years ago

CS

Sales Amy Atwood Imports

9.3

Bear claw (Aran's call!) in a glass with fried little fishes. What does that mean?? It smells like sweet bread with cake frosting and almonds with notes of briny fried fish skin. That may not sound good to some, but it's fucking worthy bubbly made from Prie Blanc. — 12 years ago

with Aran and John