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. — 2 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. — 3 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. — 5 years ago

with Mark

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. — 2 years ago

Brad Draper

9.0

Delicious and smooth especially after it airs for 20 mins — 4 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. — 5 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. — 2 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. — 3 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. — 4 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! — 5 years ago