Smoking Loon

Smoking Loon

The Original California Pinot Noir

Delicious, gutsy Pinot noir. Buy again — 2 months ago

Smoking Loon

The Original Old Vine California Zinfandel 2018

Dark cherries and chocolate, not too dry — 2 years ago

Smoking Gun

Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2016

Very, very good. Vanilla, black fruit, smoke, cocoa. Love it. — 4 months ago

Matthews Cellars

Syrah 2014

Smoking and leathery with a fruitful first note. — 3 years ago

Georges Lelektsoglou

Vieilles Vignes de Gervans Crozes-Hermitage Syrah 2017

Lyle Fass
9.5

Have not had in 2 years. It’s awesome now. Nose is olive and game. So wild. Black and red berry fruit. Granite galore. So fine. So refined. Gorgeous and wide open. Palate is a wonder. Super juicy and decadent but allied with terrific freshness and a smoking granitic finish also with notes of game, herbs and olive. The nose is a 9.6. Outrageous. Wow this is juicy. I’m going 9.5 here. The purity and clarity of fruit puts it over the top. — a year ago

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Realm Cellars

Farella Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

2014 Farella- smoking good — 2 years ago

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S.A.T. Camaretas

Frontón de Oro Tinto Gran Canaria Tintilla Listan Negro 2016

An incredibly expressive and terroir-driven wine that might be one of the world’s best wine values. Volcanic microclimate shines clearly through a heady nose whose first bite is not just smoke but...smoking volcano. Along that sweet dark fruit, grilled lavender, flowers. In the palate more primary with black cherries (grilled black cherries???) exotic spices, cooked black pepper, bay leaf, sage, that sanguine element that screamed high-iron volcanic soil, all held together by a very sitinctive salty spine. Finishes with a long note of those herbs and some drying tannins. Very juicy but with good structure and medium acidity avoiding any sense of being cloying. A really unique, transparent and well made wine that is an astounding value. I wonder whether it improves with age or is at its best here... — 4 years ago