Raun Kupiec

9.3

Unctuous red and black fruits, tea, cocoa, earth, strong but integrated tannins adding a solid structure and heft. Absolutely delicious. Needed a good two hours to get booming but super. — a month ago

with Barbara

Jan de Weerd

9.4

Real pleasure. Started out surprisingly soft and elegant and about 1 hour in it just jumped the river and became a true grippy left bank Bordeaux. I had to check our claim that Vilafonté Bordeaux series m and c can stand shoulder to shoulder with the big rollers of Bordeaux. They sure do! Try for yourself and experience a wine from an ancient soil. You will not be disappointed. www.spokenwines.com. — a year ago

with Tammy

Eric Vishria

9.5

Fantastic. I got blueberry which no one else seems to have gotten. This followed a 1971 Barolo so was booming in comparison. — 4 years ago

with Kamal

Ted

9.0

Starting to rack up a bunch of white PN. Booming acidity. Nice texture and a bunch or unripe tart white fruit. Peaches and nectarines. — 7 months ago

with Jeni

Tom Casagrande

9.2

Drinking really nicely right now. Booming nose of cassis, graphite, and clove. In the mouth, it’s very soft and clingy, with dark cassis fruit and low-toned savory flavors. — 10 months ago

Ted

9.0

Reminds me of a lemon pound cake. Small production. Booming acidity. — 2 years ago

David Kline

9.5

Heavy floral notes with lavender and violet, carnation, cherry blossom and red rose, booming amid dried black cherry espresso and cocoa, though distinctly separate. Dark toasted sesame, rye bread, and crumbled earth. Bright cherry palate turns dusty in all the right ways, leaning into cocoa nib and espresso oils. Lovely and dry with dried cran and red currant but exhibits miles of lingering blood orange citrus and crystalline cherry. Gorgeous. Eternally evolving and all of it amazing. The concrete egg has made something ethereal that also shows a mysterious depth. Great range.
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with Courtney

Ted

9.1

Nice find from a cool little wine shop in Chicago. Ripe raspberries and booming acidity. Surprised at how dark in color the wine was. Loved it — 10 months ago

with Jeni

Ted

9.3

Delicious. Booming acidity and gorgeous black cherry fruit. — a year ago

with Jeni

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9.4

The 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon M. Étain is a powerful, muscular wine that speaks with booming authority. Blackberry, gravel, chocolate, spice and lavender are some of the many aromas and flavors that saturate the palate. Far from an easygoing 2018, the M. Étain is a brooding Cabernet that needs time in bottle to allow the formidable tannins to soften. It remains one of the most distinctive wines made in Nape Valley. Dollops of Merlot and Malbec from the back of the property round out the blend. There are 2,400 cases of the 2018, a large production within the context of Napa Valley for a wine of this level. (Antonio Galloni, Vinous, January 2021)
— 4 years ago