Ely Cohn

9.2

Nose is delicate. Not much chatter. White flowers, thorny pale rose petals, peach.

The beauty is in the texture. Absolutely let this thing get to room temp. Cooks down like thick stock. Firms up. Coats the throat like cough syrup. Waxy, acidic, powerful.

Flavors are concentrated versions of the aromas - peach and apples plus hints of almond and white flowers. — 3 years ago

Tom Elliot

Founder Northwest Wines

9.1

Aged to full potential at 15 years. Sits between new and old world. Blackberry, cassis, espresso beans, scorched earth, iodine. — 4 years ago

Ned Gray Creed

9.0

Cold and crisp. A fine quaff as we set up the game room, filled out prop bets, and listened to pre game chatter. — 6 years ago

with Mark

Bill Bender

9.4

A luxurious treat of orange rind and cranberry, clove and cedar. Picked me back up after the Maiden. The betta was in to it and I got my date to watch one of my favorite movies—Almost Famous—with minimal chatter and no falling asleep. Success all around. — 7 years ago

Willis Mendocino

9.2

The time had come for la baronne to stand from the table willing and able to drip her lip in for a sip of the fruit forward concoction she’d made for auction. Her serpentine tongue slithered to attention at the taste of layered perfection. Shockwaves erupted in a delayed matter one can assume was an effect of all the inebriated chatter. “Aton Aton!” she cried. “I’ve done it again with this most regal of blends.” And with that she cheers‘d the rapscallion bunch all of them equally out to lunch. — 8 years ago

with Michele and Joshua

Jason Gabriel

9.1

Nice tart flavor. — 10 years ago

Paul Costigan

Founder Courtier Wines

9.5

1969: The wine was clear when placed on the table, yet arrived back from opening and decanting (ahem) unfortunately cloudy (note to Somm's). Very fresh nose, while not withholding maturity. Vibrantly nervy and spicy entry, and lively on the palate. Meaty, chewy, table chatter suggested beet root, and positive comment regarding being herbaceous. Held up well throughout, should any bottles still be laying about for ready money. Had the same wine from same cellar 3 years ago with equally happy results. — 11 years ago

with Michael

Ely Cohn

9.5

This feels important. Like it's earned its wax.

Delicate lemon scented bath bubbles with a texture so luxuriously round it's like fancy olive oil coating your mouth. There's chatter - flint and lemongrass, starfruit and sour pineapple, and vanilla pound cake.

A showcase, and Throrle's racehorse entry for the Silvaner derby. — 3 years ago

Brad Draper

9.0

Delicious and smooth especially after it airs for 20 mins — 5 years ago

David Kline

9.1

Chunky blonde monkey! This tangy orangutan is riddled with bits of grits! It had a big blonde head and was like an orange freshly peeled with pith, fossilized, and amber singing of grapefruit days and juniper nights; black pepper and cedar chiming in with rosemary and chive. Really slaps your tongue with the Gin-ny Juniper...Secondary notes of grapefruit, orange, lemon seed, coriander and grapefruit pith chatter and whoop as your face is lovingly eaten. The gibberish and screeching grows to a crescendo as the juniper raises its cedar cudgel covered in lichen and wild yeast, cinnamon and clove and just a bay leaf or two, and warmly drums your taut torso while your consciousness clouds like the thick detritus of its last sips. Your limbs pull away with ease as the troop joins the rhythmic frenzy. ‘Why are you hitting yourself?’ their warm starlit eyes suggest with just a little mischief. You know why. — 7 years ago

Kristin the Wine Girl

9.1

Dr. Crane approves. Delish. Predominantly Merlot with cab it’s a robust room chatter maker. Huge and go-to. No argument here. Raspberried oak with careful cellaring. Soft yet powerful and predominantly proactive on the soft side. Ouch! But not really. Likely. Gimme another. — 8 years ago

Ron R

9.4

So much chatter about this, and Venge has done it again. It's a clone of the 14 vintage.
Deeply perfumed nose of flowers and cassis. The wine has mucho depth. Cedar, tobacco and sweet black fruits tease the palette. Decadent and pure finish. Very well done. Wifey was looking at 93, but editorial liberties prevail 🙂 — 9 years ago

with Anne-marie

Scott Wren

9.6

There is champagne and their is Champagne. This all chard beauty is redolent of lemons, celery, pear and brioche all in a shimmering shist oceanic pale golden Elixir. You can't drink this and chatter away. It stops you in your tracks and says pay attention. — 10 years ago

Conrad Green

9.5

Hint if tobacco, dark cherry, plum. A low level thrum of intensity. Interesting with lots of chatter. All very in place. — 4 years ago

with Matt and Paul

Peter van den Besselaar

9.3

Vintage 2016 | Archetypical Riesling kabinett that performs absolutely great now. Multi layered smell with honey, peach, apricot, butter chatter, lots of minerals. Very vivid taste with tingling acids that give it tension. Dangerously easy to drink. But will give no problem even if you drink a bottle, only 9% alcohol. Love this exciting Mosel. It gained extra depth with two years cellar since I last drank it | Paired with a vegan Chinese vegetable dish from the wok. — 4 years ago

Ely Cohn

9.2

A million micro-organisms socializing in your glass. Life thrives in the absence of S02. You feel the chatter - naval orange, clementine, white flowers, dill, basil.Like Mandarin Orange Arizona Green Tea - with Ginseng and Jasmine - and a soul. — 6 years ago

Aaron Tan

9.2

I've been dying to try this domaine after all the positive chatter on IG, and I'm happy to report that it lived up to it. At the recommendation of AC at Blackhearts and Sparrows, I opted for their 17' village instead of their cru cuvees. Apparently, the latter are rather jammy this vintage 🤮 Don't you just love it when your favourite wine shop knows your taste well.

This Beaujolais-Villages was bright and complex. Red-fruited, spicy, black tea elements, with a granitic minerality, and fine acidity. There's some serious structure here, but it's so easy to drink.

NB: Domaine Chapel's Beaujolais-Villages is made from vines in Lantignié, next to Régnié and high up in the hills. The village is considered by many to be equal to or even better than some of the crus in the region (apparently, a prime candidate for the next cru Beaujolais). Good to learn! — 7 years ago

David Kline

9.1

Buttery, candied grapefruit and pineapple, lemon marshmallow, aloe, beeswax candle, juniper berry and pine parchment aromatically. Fluff biscuit head that pontificated amidst perimeter chatter leaving scrawl and stalactites. Creamy with burnt points like baked Alaska. Yammy and browned with sugar before pulling apart to cola, egg cream and bitter chocolate with electric malt shadows. Gum Arabic and pine sap are just the catalysts to this green pinecone and sweet grass turned bitter almond, and oregano oil medicine rinse. Kicks out all the head fog that ails you, and replaces it with resin and tar. Sinus meds. #Lagunitas #hopstoopid #ale #ibu #ibuubme #102ibu4u #LagunitasBrewing #abv #beer #bitter #headmeds — 8 years ago

with Courtney

Janina Passey

9.6

Great summer wine - light and fruity — 10 years ago

Nick Kapral

9.0

Domestic neb is very very good. Love the bottle and glass bottle stop. Good stuff coming from WA state — 11 years ago