Bryan Vanderkruk

9.6

Valentine's 2026, wedding anniversary vintage. Paired with prime rib. Bouquet of a dark fruit salad, oak and leather. Absolutely gorgeous palate, cherries, blue berries, prunes, peppery spice, oak. Oh my. This is perfect at 10yrs in the cellar. Incredible. — 5 months ago

with Corrie

Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

9.3

2019 vintage. Last tasted 12.2.22. Scored the same. Drinking decently now but just needs a solid decade to get affairs, papers and priorities in order. Unfair to be tasting it this young. 6.2.23. — 3 years ago

Victoria Berry

9.0

Nice bite and dry finish — 4 years ago

Alex Robershotte

9.2

New Year’s Eve with coco spiced steak from foreign cinema cook book — 5 years ago

with Michelle

Ely Cohn

9.4

This is exceptional and wise beyond years for a young winemaker like Rita Ferreira. A medley of foreign grapes, it has my favorite parts of white Burgundy. Restrained oak with lively fresh acid and citrus fruits that slip like nothing into orchard fruits of peaches and cherries. How can some so uniform come from so many parts? — 7 years ago

Seth Timen

9.0

2010 at foreign cinema With Lisa Ben and Amy — 8 years ago

Ben LaBolt

9.0

Terribly ugly labels but they make great Rhônes and are apparently flooded w foreign buyers — 8 years ago

Bryan Vanderkruk

9.3

Fantastic. Dried fruit, oak, spice, rich bodied. Damn. This is fantastic. — 7 months ago

with Corrie

Greg Schuler

9.5

Dinner with Kevin Kropp, Sam Bartsch and Andrew celebrating listing of 35 Hiliritas @ Foreign Cinema — 2 years ago

Jess

8.9

Pale pink color.
Aromas of peach, red fruit, cherry.
Dry. Flavors of grapefruit, white peach. Delicious nose, but does not translate to palate.


Intensity: 4/5
Complexity: 1/5
Balance: 4/5
Finish: 4/5 — 3 years ago

Everett Waltrip

9.6

2012 vintage, opens with roasted peppers and dark fruit, dark earthy tones and briary tones. After some air it reveals more dark fruit, plums and black cherry, tannins are quite gripping, all natural tannins not wood tannins from oak. After a few hours the fruit has more presence, still shows a bell pepper tone on the nose followed by gobs of dark fruit and sun exposed earth. Some herbaceous notes intermingled with forest floor. Could age longer or drink now, all up to the drinker I suppose. I like the balance of fruit, earth, herbaceous tones followed by the grit of the tannins. No sediment when I got to the bottom of the bottle. It was a crowd pleaser and in a blind tasting people were stumped when it was revealed. They all thought it could have been an Italian Cabernet from a cooler climate region. Would definitely recommend, great quality and beats out almost anything in the same price bracket from other producers, foreign or domestic. — 4 years ago

Stuart Dershaw

9.2

Drinking great Well appointed with honeysuckle tones that are foreign to CA — 7 years ago

Matthew Cohen

9.4

Plummy with some spice. Maybe some faint blueberries. Very mouth coating. Deep with licorice on the finish. Not sure I would guess Syrah blind. More like a dark pinot. Not huge acid but sparkly on the palate.

That’s the great thing about Ziereisen. He makes some of his wines from foreign grapes and they taste great but unlike anything you’ve had.

I thought that this was corked but the aromatics are fine after 45 minutes. So if you smell some mist it’s not corked. Chill out and it will blow off. Nose has some lovely spice.

Bought from Fass selections.

.... ok as this opens more it’s getting whack. Internal aromatics are explosive. Deep dense plums. Intense spice that literally cluster bomb all over your palate. Wow. A German just outsyrahed 95% of the Rhône. I may just bail on life and live next to Hanspeter. All hail hanspeter. — 7 years ago

with Lyle

Bryan Vanderkruk

9.3

Drank for 2024 anniversary alongside 2015. Very dry still, could have aged longer still. Nice fruit, cherry, berries. Very tasty. Might grab another. — 2 years ago

with Corrie

Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

9.3

1998 vintage. Top-notch fill (almost too good) and perfect cork with very little lower-level saturation. Decanted and tasted over the course of two hours. Appropriate, chunky sediment. Last tasted 12.17.23 (9.2). Had some nice older leather, dry summer earth and ripe plum in the nose throughout with only a modicum of "funk" that blew off quickly. Medium body. Still vibrant color. Initially, the experience was front-loaded but, after 30 minutes or so, the fruit and structure began to fill in/slide back and balance out the mid-palate and finish. More consistent specimen than the one tasted almost 3 months ago. Don't feel it needs more time to knit/resolve affairs but can likely hold in this phase for 4-5 years without degradation. 3.10.24. — 2 years ago

James Scott

9.0

Very nice lighter Pinot, needs to breath, at Foreign and Domestic, Austin!! — 4 years ago

Bryan Vanderkruk

9.9

Oak on the nose, blueberry jam,oak, dried fruit, drying in the mouth, cherries, great acidity level, rich full bodied. Paired amazingly with wild game charcuterie and cheeses. — 5 years ago

with Corrie

Jeff Bellato

10

Meaningful bottle of wine. This was a gift to me from the 70th anniversary of D-Day. I’d like to thank the French Foreign Legion for making the wine. I enjoyed airdropping the French Foreign Legion and the 101 Airborne Devision from the U.S. on the 70th anniversary of D-Day. We are 75 years out now and I would love to commemorate the brave souls that took part on the D-Day invasion. God Bless you all. You are true heroes. 75 years out I commend the greatest generation. — 7 years ago

with Grace

Patrick Derdeyn

9.0

This wine is wild in every sense of the word. The fruit is fierce and up front while also bringing a unique profile that feels foreign and exotic. It’s right up front with a huge swell of red fruit and then finishing with some moderate tannins. Ample acidity and the alcohol is in a great place under 13% — 8 years ago

Raphaël Dostie-Goulet

9.0

Ouvert, présent en bouche! Juste WoW! — 8 years ago

with Catherine