Jules

9.0

my go-to boxed wine! most boxed reds BURN- either too acidic, too dry, or just plain cheap alcohol. but this one is perfectly smooth!! @ Black Box— this diva deserves to have “velvet” in her title way more than y’all’s awful red blend 😅💅🏻 — 5 months ago

Yuri

9.0

Very beautiful Sake, gift from Diva:-) — 4 years ago

Manny Abascal

9.2

Paired with burgers on hot day, great. Red fruit, bitter, reminded me of Pimms or a Cosmopolitan, snappy. Opened up well. — 6 years ago

Stephanie Swannack

9.9

Birthday dinner with Angela in steamboat Springs at Cafe Diva — 7 years ago

JFS

9.2

At Casta Diva, Hungary — 8 years ago

Jayson Noland

9.3

Post tapas in Vegas — good stuff — 8 years ago

Zack Klug

9.1

When we diva we #winediva — 9 years ago

with Patrick

Seth Masterson

9.3

Such a damn fine example what Muscat de petit grains dried in the sun can be. Made into the sweet (but not too sweet), spicy aromatic concoction that can be found in many countries. Miel? Yes but I get a lot of dried apricot equally. The residual sugar is IMHO perfectly balanced by the remaining acids. One of the best examples of desert Muscat I've had anywhere. Good cold but maybe even better at cool room temp.

Cellarer, Barcelona — 2 years ago

Gary Glaser

9.0

Casta diva w n,a & c — 5 years ago

Mike Saviage

9.5

Tasted blind. Dark red and opaque. Notes of tart cherries, earth, molasses, some wood, and a hint of VA that blew off. Rich fruit in the mouth. Monolithic though, and very quiet compared to the diva 64 Giacosa that is singing next to it. Perhaps it was the less air time that this had. What a treat to taste two great 64 Barolos side by side, brought brown-bagged by two different people. — 6 years ago

Elena Trierweiler

9.3

Pear, pineapple, peach, oh my! I want to dab this wine on my wrists, throw on an Hermès scarf and live my best elderly diva life. — 8 years ago

Austin Hohnke

9.1

From half bottle. Heavy SO2 that blows off with some air, which does the wine good in general. Ripe lemons and cinnamon spiced baked pear. The malo and battonage are more pronounced than the oak. The ‘15’s are out of control. A diva vintage for Burgundy. — 8 years ago

Greg Gregory

9.4

Love this wine. Had at Milos in the Cosmopolitan. — 9 years ago

Sam Jones

10

Wonderful, unique flavor — 9 years ago

Donald Williams

9.6

I always listen to the sommelier, and usually order what they recommend. This was one of those times, and we couldn’t be happier. A monster Merlot, 14.9% ABV, but smooth as silk. Delightful with our prime rib. Here we are in the middle of the Caribbean on the last night of a cruise, enjoying ourselves at a wonderful restaurant, the Cosmopolitan. — 2 years ago

with Bonnie

Lauren Golanty

9.1

Fabulous after 20 years. Took 15 min for a sour-tartness to mellow out, but it was delicious with fruity, flinty, and bready notes… wish we had more! — 5 years ago

Michael Lavely

9.4

What a delicious medium bodied wine. Violet and allspice with tart apple. Fantastic — 7 years ago

Connor Smith

9.5

#Nebbiolo is a surprisingly rare grape. Even in its native Piedmont, it accounts for only 8% of vineyard land. There are fewer than 100 hectares planted in the United States. 🕵️‍♂️🍇
Over 80% of prewar Italian immigrants came from Sicily and Southern Italy. Piedmont was the wealthiest and most politically dominant region. But if fortunes were reversed, could Nebbiolo have taken Primitivo/Zinfandel’s place as a grape relatively uncommon on the boot but dominant in California? 🤔🇮🇹🇺🇸
Probably not. The Nebbiolo vine is *not* for beginners. It flowers early and ripens late, making it susceptible to both spring and autumn frosts. It loves the occasional fog bath (some say the name is derived from ‘nebbia’, Italian for fog ☁️☁️☁️) but is prone to the mildew that may result from such humid conditions. Its fussiness would make Pinot Noir blush: it demands southwesterly exposure, a proper gradient, constant sun above, and fog licking at its toes. #diva
Sound anything like California’s Central Coast? 🌅
In the Santa Maria Valley, where the East-West Transverse Range bends back into the North-South Coastal Range, it’s possible. Vineyard selection still requires extreme discretion - an eye like @JimClendenen’s, perhaps.
Jim began the Nebbiolo program at the legendary #BienNacido vineyard in 1994. Production is small, but if you track down his “The Pip” Nebbiolo, it will only run you about $30. You’ll believe anything is possible when you have real California Nebbiolo of this quality come wafting out of the glass at you! 🙌🙌
🏞.“The Pip” is named after Jim’s old cellar dog Pip, a border collie. So it only seemed right to include one of our own pips! 🐈 — 7 years ago

Boris Mathiszik

8.9

First Tempranillo based rose for me. Very good. Nice minerals. Paired beautifully with the Tapas at Jaleo at the Cosmopolitan. — 9 years ago

Dan Bruton

9.4

No other way to describe this than a silky smooth full bodied beauty. This drop is the diva of the wine world. It demands your attention and you're more than happy to give it. To fully reap the exotic flavours of this Cabernet Merlot I recommend pairing it with multiple bottles. — 9 years ago

with Jack and Jack