Kelley Raymond

9.0

Really balanced and good oak notes — 2 months ago

Kelley Raymond

8.9

Dry but fruity - lots of flavor and complexity, plus far more dry than your usual rose. — 7 months ago

Sara Bozich

9.0

"The *Real* American Grape!" 🍷🇺🇸 — 5 years ago

Amanda Johnson

8.9

Great drinkability with notes of raspberry. Very nice Virginia blend — 5 years ago

Kelley Raymond

9.0

Really clean and flavorful — 3 months ago

Pete Carrico

9.1

Nice complexity, great tannin structure with a long, peppery finish. Very good red wine! — 4 years ago

Chris DeBarr

9.5

My first encounter with Walter Scott's Pinot Noir's under Michael Alberty's provenance at Storyteller. All 2014s. Temperance Hill was lean, austere, still a tightly wound chrysalis brooding with tobacco & sandalwood. The Clos de Oiseaux has released more fragrance, and had moved beyond the meditative sandalwood phase toward dark cherry and oolong tea, wishing for time to cure and unfurl its powers. Dumb Ox is that brilliant, precocious child: transparently true & deep, expressing fruit and earth effortlessly. Makes me think of all the places all of these very fine Pinots will go with time and some hard-earned peace, but we took the Dumb Ox! — 5 years ago

Kelley Raymond

8.9

Really drinkable, crisp, and fruit forward. Well balanced. — 6 months ago

Bill Bender

8.9

Shafer HS is an all time favorite of mine but I don't typically open a bottle within 10 years of release. This bottle illustrated why. It's still in its chrysalis--developing and building and gaining weight and shedding tannin. Just not ready even after hours in the decanter. — 4 years ago

Mike Knuppel

9.5

Brilliant; same as previous notes, delicious quince, marmalade, apricots and honey. Glorious palate is long and round with years ahead of it. A colossal wine that proves you just leave Chenin to evolve like the chrysalis into the butterfly. — 5 years ago