Henry Fuseler

9.0

8/2024. Good fruit, flavor and body. Nice on the palate. Paired well with the Angus Burger at Lula Drake Wine Parlour. — 3 months ago

Henry Fuseler

9.0

7/2022. My second wine from Macedonia. Bold and flavorful. Nice on the palate and finish. Paired well with the meat and cheese board and pasta at Lulu Drake Wine Parlour. — 2 years ago

Joe DAscoli

9.2

Lovely fruit with smooth light body. First one I’ve ever had. Excited to try these with more aging — 4 years ago

Eric Urbani

9.0

A gem from the bargain bin - single block from the Bien Nacido vineyard near Santa Maria, CA — a personal favorite. 2011. Shows a bit of oak up front but mellows after being open for an hour or so. — 5 years ago

Michael Wood

9.4

Drinking at The Drake! — a year ago

Jody Scharf

9.4

thank you @Daniel P. Drake winner. — 2 years ago

Louis Joseph

9.0

Such an amazing wine, solid structure with stone fruit and oyster shells all day, a minerality that was very sharp and uplifting with fun slightly tropical notes as it warmed on the table. Each glass had something new to bring. Not your grandma’s Chardonnay, and I ain’t mad at that, loved everything about this one. Amazing recommendation from Chris and the lovely staff at the Lark SB. Drake is a true alchemist, turning fruit into solid gold! — 3 years ago

Jody Scharf

9.3

thank you Mr. Drake. another winner. Thomas Jefferson I think had a vineyard in VA. he was smart. lol @Daniel P. Drake — 2 years ago

John Gallo

8.9

Mimi paid $29 for the bottle at Boston Wine Exchange on Devonshire. A nice, full, rich, dry, smooth Cabernet. Worth repeating when I need a $30 bottle. A step up from the usual $15 red. — 3 years ago

Connor Smith

9.2

Sanlúcar de Barrameda was the port that Christopher Columbus set off from in 1492. Just 1 year earlier, duties on wine exports from Sanlúcar had been abolished to take advantage of English merchants desperate for new supply after the loss of Bordeaux.

It began a centuries-long romance between Sherry and English wine lovers, as immortalized in Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 2, when Falstaff glorifies sturdy Spanish 'sack' over thin Bordeaux 'claret' and Rhine 'hock'.

But the honeymoon, quite literally, was not to last. Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon drove a wedge between England and Catholic Europe, and left English wine lovers in need of a new source once again. But Sherry fanatics wouldn't have to go entirely without. When Sir Francis Drake sailed into Cádiz and burned the Spanish fleet in 1587, he carried away 2,900 butts of Sherry - enough to supply London for years - as his most famous prize.

(This is adapted from notes for Le Dû’s Wines ‘History of Wine 1453AD-Present’ seminar, where this wine was poured) — 5 years ago