Bonnie Chu

9.3

Champagne tasting 🍾: interesting varietals — 8 months ago

Lars Miller

9.6

Beautiful nose of baking spices and unknown herbs. Also vanilla and cherry. And bam! OMG is this gorgeous. Very fully flavored and luscious with more baking spices and cherry. Higher alcohol of 14.5%, which seems to dominate the wine. Love this! Decanted for 45 minutes. — 3 years ago

Chris McClellan

9.1

BAM! Tart/ripe blue berry and red cherry, smoke, grilled meat, and the awesome black pepper , slight olive, and acid bringing it all together...paired with chicken tandoori burgers... — 6 years ago

Amber Moshin

9.3

This beauty took a little while to open up then, BAM!! Huge expansive black fruits, intense minerals and savory spice, grippy tannins ... lip-smacking acid too at 10 years old. Damn, wish we had more to lay down even longer! — 7 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Look at that Fucking color. Yes that is what Pinot is supposed to look like. Gorgeous. Unreal nose. Sour cherries, dry leaves, pinpoint precision. Takes 45 minutes to an hour before the symphony begins. But the unfurling and aromatic nuances are just gorgeous. The fruit is almost non existent on the nose the first 15-30 minutes then BAM! Palate is just amazing. Red Riesling on another level. This showing reminds me of Möbitz. It’s so ethereal and lacey. Stunning. Amazing delicate and refined red cherry fruit. More mid to early season cherries and gloriously juicy and perfectly ripe. This is so fine. Velvety and delicate Lacey tannins weave in and out of the finish. Stunning almost silly freshness. Stellar. — 7 years ago

Pedro Rusk

Wine Educator Kendall Jackson

9.0

Batch 49
Bottles 5/02/2013
Drank like a week ago.
Good makes me want to know more about beer — 8 years ago

Wojpodge

9.5

Bam! Surprising amount of tannin still left. Spreading this over a couple of nights. First night - opening up with ripe plush red fruits, some cocoa, cloves violets, with a touch of smoke and cedar once you really get your nose in it. Balanced palate but still tight. Day 2 - upping the rating to 9.5. Structure holds up very well, surprisingly fresh but supple fruit, still giving off that fulsome violet aroma. — 8 years ago

Hum

9.2

1985- Bam! Holding on and getting beautiful — 2 years ago

David Walser

9.8

A wonderful wine that we enjoyed with our Christmas dinner that included some beef tenderloin. Not sure how they do it but Carter keeps cranking out wonderful cabs. — 4 years ago

Nate Bowser

9.0

Adult cherry juice. Best pet nat I’ve had in awhile. — 5 years ago

Mike Saviage

9.7

Tasted blind. Straw gold color. Looks young but the complex nose says it isn’t. Notes of citrus, apricot, gravel, some mint. Has that dirty nose that I connect Niellon to. Stunning power, structure and acidity in the mouth. I’m told this was open for 6 hrs already. Some conversation leads to Batard as the vineyard. Someone guesses Ramonet but I go with 86 Niellon Batard. Bam. An all time fav white for me, this was one of the best showings for it. — 7 years ago

Marc vanholst

10

BAM...what a great wine. Everyone in our tasting is the same opinion ! max score ! — 7 years ago

Marc vanholst

10

BAM....what a beauty. Incredible nose, finesse and complexity !!!! — 8 years ago

Karen Zgoda

9.0

Let it open for 4 hours and BAM OMG. — 8 years ago

Lars Miller

9.8

Pungent fruity notes with loads of spiciness. Such an incredible nose! Beautiful melange of cherry, raspberry and baking spices. And bam. Fully flavored with loads of fruit, silky smooth, and light and easy finish. Incredibly well balanced and refined. My only complaint, although a small one, is the higher alcohol content is noticable and almost takes away from the elegance of the wine. If the AC were lowered a bit I'd have to say it was a nearly perfect wine. All that said, I have always loved brunellos and this is an amazing example. Definitely recommend! — 3 years ago

Jeroen Koenen

9.3

One of the “1001 wines” in the book.
Never found this one in Europe before.
And… Bam… there it was. @Vinografi in Prague. — 5 years ago

Chris Gillespie

9.3

Only 14 barrels produced, 💯% Mourvedre. Black berry fruit forward, light initially then Bam! Mourvedre funk and has a nice punch! — 6 years ago

Jay Kline

9.5

Bam 💥. I’ve had this lone bottle of Jonata resting in my cellar for the past six years. We had some friends over who had just returned from Santa Ynez and couldn’t make the time to visit Jonata; they weren’t sure what the fuss was all about. Well, now they do. This was absolutely killer right from the pop and pour. So much power yet there was an undeniable charm that just had us all smitten. And, at 14 years young, this was still so alive and downright youthful. There are decades of enjoyment left in these 2005 Desafio’s. Simply outstanding. — 7 years ago

Michael Seely

9.5

Bam! Spank my ass and call me Sally!!!! — 8 years ago

with Jeff and Joe

Justin Hart

9.7

Bam! This is Washington state Syrah at its finest. Big, cheeky montage of pepper, tobacco, and jammy blackberry notes. Tannins that go on and on and a heavy mouth feel. Truly fantastic wine! — 8 years ago

with Cherish