Ray Vanderhoff

9.0

Dark ruby color with purple highlights. Extremely savory aromas and flavors of dried black cherries, bramble berries, cedar wood, violets, bakers chocolate and fresh herbs. Long finish and high level of acidity. Quite fresh tasting, rich and brooding. Very rustic and juicy, but not overly tannic. Excellent value. — a year ago

David Kline

9.2

Dark rye toast, blackest of currant, raisin and dried plum complement a nose of toasted sesame and maduro tobacco. Palate shows grill char, burnt brittle, toffee and resin knit into a rich and comforting blanket of espresso, bakers chocolate, black and red currant, blackberry, violet extract, cinnamon and Madagascar vanilla. At once a treat and a depth charge!

#cainfive #springmountain #napavalley #bordeauxblend #redblend #springmountaindistrict #estategrown #estatebottled #cainvineyardandwinery #sthelena — 4 years ago

Dawn E.

9.2

This wine is really nice and represents more of an "old school" style of CS. Dark berry fruit is present but not the star! Earth and minerals mingle nicely...pencil lead..eucalyptus..leather..
Cola..Bakers chocolate..oak.& cherry compote!
90 min decant. — 6 years ago

Stephen Redenbaugh

9.1

60/40 Carignan/Grenache...Opened as midweek foil for Filets and Bakers. Showing little sign of age... vibrant dark berry notes with noticeable ABV... bit more “modern” and fruit/forward than expected. Recall buying two of these at 50% discount. Probably at $15-20 a far price...but tasted fully “Parkerized”. Little if any sense of terroir or connection with place. — 7 years ago

Paul Coletta

9.3

From Tom Bakers private stash. Thanks Ztom!! — 8 years ago

Matt Sterr

9.2

Bakers Chocolate. Rich and full and balanced. — 9 years ago

Alex Lallos

Owner No Limit Fine Wines, Private Wine Consultant

8.9

Boy this is good with 10 years on it. Iron red color with notes of bing cherry, dark soil, bakers chocolate and cinnamon. A touch of lavender and sage as well... It is soft and supple with a long finish. Almost Bordeaux like today and I really like it. Worth a visit to the estate if you're in chianti as well. — 10 years ago

Brad Jensen

9.1

Delicate nose of green mango rind, tart green citrus, maybe wet sea sand, with a touch of hay, with some slight bakers goods notes underneath. Light bodied, grassy and mineral on the palate, with notes of honeydew melon, maybe some ash, underripe green fruits, maybe herbaceous notes, but slightly creamy on the finish, with a palate or maybe green lush grass. Very interesting! — 2 years ago

David Kline

9.0

Castello

Bakers chocolate, cardamom, herbs de Provence, roses, suede, tobacco, coffe and black cherry. Red tart and black cherry power palate with brooding chocolate, rich raspberry and cherry reductions, crispy sage, light graphite, and finally tight plum and blackberry. .
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#castelldibolgheri #castellodibolgheribolgherisuperiore #bolgheri #supertuscan #bordeauxblends #bordeauxblend #rosso #italianred — 5 years ago

David Kline

9.0

Hard pour if you’ve a desire to to see a head of coffee foam in dark cappuccino. It loiters a little with unctuous lacing that stick in place in globules, sporadically spaced. Dark chocolate scented, where brew, and coffee bean mix with toffee and sweet cedar, vanilla bean and nougat. Chocolate-pecan-caramel turtles amp up with mocha and espresso, a tiny pinch of black pepper, dark tobaccos, bakers chocolate, and brown sugar coated malt chocolate. Sweet initially, then revelatory as it sorts its relationships, then bitter, with pine, acanthus, chicory, walnut and pecan shell. Warm, rich, and covered in monster muck. Like a cigar smoke filled station wagon driven by a dark chocolate Santa after an Italian truck stop espresso run being slowly pulled into a tar pit. One for the ages. Happy holidays, ya filthy animals!
. .#foundersbrewing #founderskbs #KBS #beer #birra #bier #biere #stout #flavoredstout #coffeebeer #oakagedseries #oakaged #barrelaged #chocolateale #imperialstout #theamazingkosmickis #kosmickisbourbonstout #barrelagecseries — 7 years ago

Ken Venezio

9.7

Wine of the night. Took 3 hrs to really show its colors but this is a huge elegant Cab from Sacrashe. Loads of fruit and structure. Dark cherry, espresso, and bakers chocolate. This wine is massive but also very expressive and eloquent. — 8 years ago

David Singer

Sommelier/Wine Educator LibationEducation

9.2

Black cherry, mocha, bakers chocolate, wild strawberry, new leather, supple tannin, orange pekoe and a bit of carbonic banana (open 2hrs). — 9 years ago

Shawn R

9.4

Light and nimble with a seductive side. Nose of mulling spice and bakers caramel. Wonderfully integrated. Lovely flavors of carnations, lush cranberry/cherry, cardamom and spice on the back of the palate. Terrific length in the finish. — 10 years ago

Tom Casagrande

8.9

This is the Brouilly (not Côte) “Les Marquisats” cuvée.

The nose is outgoing, with deep, ripe, almost jammy dark cherry. There’s also some crushed granite and, unusually, a note of bakers’ chocolate. These all carry through in the mouth. It’s rich, the texture is luxurious, but the acids are a bit low for my traditionalist taste. But that’s what nature handed them in the hot 2020 vintage. A little of the 14% alcohol peaks through in the finish. — 4 years ago

Ray Vanderhoff

9.1

Wonderful Barbera. Dried rose petals, dark cherries, blueberry and bakers chocolate on the nose. Plum and chocolate flavors as well with hints of minerals and toasted spices. Dusty tannins. Beautiful red/light purple color. Excellent value! — 5 years ago

Loren Grossman

Vintner Wilde Farm Wines

9.3

Excellent. Rich, black strap molasses, caramel, bakers chocolate and Turkish coffee. Sherry, cherry liqueur a touch of beef broth. Delicious. — 6 years ago

Jonathan McCarthy

9.1

Really needs some time in the decanter, wound up super tight. Funky earthy nose with sour cherry and topsoil, very fleshy, rustic body of blue and red fruits, a bit of red bell pepper, bakers chocolate, loads of pencil shavings, a faint suggestion of spruce. Really crunch skeleton with serious, almost saline minerality. Fruit fades before the minerals and earth. Really complex. Give it plenty of air and a long ponder. — 7 years ago

Tom Casagrande

9.0

Beautiful example of a riper-styled Zin. Classic nose of blackberry, brambly notes, gravel, and a little maple syrup. Rich and weighty, the fruit accented with earthy peaty notes and a bit of bakers chocolate. Long, savory finish. — 8 years ago

Jason Brater

9.2

Dark red fruit, dark chocolate, cinnamon?, Some white pepper. Great stuff! — 9 years ago

with Heather

Kevin Ortzman

9.4

Way too young! After double decanting and sitting for an hour, the fruit started to surface. Petroleum and leather on the initial nose, super tight and grippy tannins. The fruit does surface, a bouquet of dark berries, bakers chocolate and structure. Sit on this for another decade. — 10 years ago

with Russell