Brandon Boesch

9.5

So freaking good, huuuugggee! It’s so amazingly different from tribute to Grace which I’ve been drinking lately, but I love them both in each way. But only want to drink this one a few times a year. So much fruit, cigar box, cherry, apple jam, herbs, lavender, a bit of flowers, meat, so rich. — 2 years ago

Cuyler Binion

9.3

14 years old and still singing like a song. Bright, sweetly balanced liquid lemon curd, with loads of pineapple punctuated with dashes of white asparagus that only that Loire vegetal train can bring. Lots of honey crisp/motts apple juice box all up in that mid palate. — 5 years ago

Neil Valenzuela

9.5

Clear, filtered- served cold in a box. This sake won a National New Sake Contest, squeezed from Dewasansan rice. Fuji apple, rose, grapes, and plump blue berries. What an interesting sake! — 5 years ago

David Kline

8.9

Light golden color reminiscent of apple juice. Warm apples, baked pineapple, grilled lemon, walnut brioche, pine nut, hazelnut, and Bosc pear and vanilla cooking aromas. There is light Spanish cedar trailing. NorCal wildflower honey meets pine nettle and orange peel on the palate. Cedar plank, green peppercorn, currant leaf, lemon zest, grapefruit oils, and flash of cinnamon oil paints a pleasantly complex narrative of autumn comforts and campfire smokes with brittle caramel bits and bee pollen place it squarely in the meadow. Packs a surprise for those who underestimate it based on pale color. No caramel color here, and no dark shadows. Bright, lively, alive. #compassboxgreatkingstreet #compassbox #compassboxwhisky #scotch #blendedscotch #edinburgh #scotchwhisky #whisky #whiskey #artistsblend #johnglaser #nonchillfiltered — 6 years ago

with Courtney

Charlie Horsnell

9.2

Nice clean, normal red wine — 6 years ago

Bob McDonald

9.2

Quite a history to this wine. Back in 1997 Robert Parker gave the 1997 Duck Muck 99/100. A rare event at the time for an Australian wine and rapidly turned it into a Cult Wine par excellence. Almost overnight a bottle of Duck Muck was bringing $1500USD and higher. Unfortunately this led to many Australian winemakers wanting to duplicate this success and began creating these ultra ripe, high alcohol, very oaky Behemoths trying to attract Mega Scores from Parker. This was a trend that set back the Australian Wine exports by 10 to 15 years. We are only recovering now from the image of only producing Massive Shiraz and anyone who knows the Aussie wine industry knows we do much more than that. This wine at 16.5% ABV is not for the faint hearted. Rich Plum Prune and cinnamon notes. On the palate concentration and intensity is off the charts. You would never guess the age of this wine if tasted blind. It tastes much younger than a 2002. On a cold Winters night it’s great to reacquaint with a big Australian Shiraz. This is the whole Box and Dice - Shiraz on Steroids - but from this Burgundy Lover I can tell you it works. Time and a place for everything. — 7 years ago

Victoria Berry

9.0

Like the other reviews, tart, smooth white wine that tastes like apples! Light and easy to drink. Adult apple juice basically! — 3 years ago

Jae Cho

9.0

Funky lighter cranberry and gala apple juicy juice fruit box. Initially has a bit of cidery funk that levels out. Akin to third Thursday in November fun. — 5 years ago

John Hagood

9.0

Laura’s 2018 from Chambers most recent box on 1/20/2021. Sauvignon blanc not Pinot noir! Very nice — more complex than past. Granny Smith apple, limestone, bright — but a layer of sultryness and lush mouthfeel. Citrus. Ripe cantaloupe all the way to green skin. A tad alkaline. Warmth, Wohlgefühl. — 5 years ago

Mike Lee

Beverage Manager/Sommelier Catch Miami

9.0

Ultra-ripe red cherry, raspberry, oxidized apple flesh aromas/flavors, ripe red plum with spice box and oak smoke, dried rose petal, dried sage and savory herb, and dried potting soil earthiness. Decant and drink now. — 6 years ago

Mike Lee

Beverage Manager/Sommelier Catch Miami

9.3

Aromas and flavors of dried maraschino cherry, red apple, dried herbs, mixed peppercorns, broken rock, and spice box. Medium-high acidity, and medium body. A Pinot lovers’ wine. — 6 years ago

Kristen McCabe

9.0

Sweet cream, camomile tea, oranges on the nose. Full bodied, lightly tannic, caramel flavors. — 6 years ago

Adam Knoerzer

9.0

Yellow pear and apple on the nose with pineapple, sweet spice, and vanilla to round it out. Similar echoes on the palate with some green melon, a mineral streak, and bright acidity to give it plenty of lift. Sits beautifully between old and new worlds in style. Don’t put this in a box, though; it’s delicious no matter how to label it. — 7 years ago

Tamara Rutenber

9.1

Very nice. Slightly fizzy. Citrusy, a little apple flavor, too. Light and perfect for back porch sitting after a long day. I'm hoping coming years are as nice as the 2020.

Weird thing I noticed...the bottle is super heavy. Twice as heavy as other wines. Not that this has to do with the wine, but with reducing waste and recycling such a hot topic these days... conserving the resource of glass would make sense — 4 years ago

Lisa Hersh

9.6

Excellent. Fruity and light, mildly sweet. Peach and apple notes. Would absolutely buy again. Wine.com gift box. $20. — 5 years ago

Byron Hewett

9.4

Disgorged on November 11, 2013. Spectacular! Apple, crisp, dry. Went really well with peel and eat shrimp, lobster bento box and blue crab stuffed lobster! Happy New Year everyone! — 5 years ago

Mattias Söderberg

9.2

Red fruit, lesthery nose!! — 6 years ago

with Andreas

Mike Lee

Beverage Manager/Sommelier Catch Miami

9.3

Aromas & flavors of blended Golden Delicious/green apple, Meyer lemon yellow peach, golden plum, mango, banana, fresh herbs, wild flowers, spice box, and buttercream. Full bodied but not heavy on the palate due to the acidity keeping it afloat. Nice hints of saline tinged minerals. Lovely Chard!!
— 6 years ago

Jon Ebsworth

9.4

Joyous intense fruit alongside that Barbera tannic backbone hits all the right notes, up there with my wine of the year to date — 7 years ago

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.1

I bought nearly a case of this years ago. I’m guessing 5 plus years ago. I think I paid somewhere $16.99 - $19.99 a bottle and its proven to be a very good QPR steal. Sadly, my last bottle.

I found it in a box encased in styrofoam. It has been on the side floor of my garage at least that long. This Cremant was even better than I remember it despite its poor storage. I was expecting far less and was really only curious to see if it was still good. I will say it doesn’t get hot on the California Coast often but, I am surprised by how well its held up and even improved slightly.

This bottling represents to me how good of Cremant/Sparkling wine can be made in Burgundy and in the hands of a good producer. The climate and soils are not all that different than Champagne.

This Bourgogne Cremant was lively in the mouth. Good acidity. The body showed a lot of mousse. Bright lemon, lime, grapefruit, green apple, its taken on just some very light honey notes, beautiful, soft chalkiness with spring flowers. The finish was rich, delicious and lingered on the palate for minutes. Great with dessert and sipper to close out the night.

Photos of; Domaine Henri Boillot, some of his beautiful Chardonnay grapes, Owner/Winemaker-Henri Boillot and a wide shot of one of his vineyards. — 7 years ago