Brian S

9.3

Red fruits, dark soil, mushroom, dried leaves, citrus, for the burg lover that want fruit. — 7 months ago

Jody Scharf

9.4

thank you @Daniel P. Drake winner. — 3 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! — 5 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. — 7 years ago

Stephen Becker

8.9

A deep-tissue massage from Groot. — 7 years ago

Brandon Gianfala

9.1

Mr. Daniel Drake captured the flavor profile exquisitely. I’ll only add one word to his critique of this beauty...magic. — 8 years ago

John Howard

Harvest production at Hirsch and Cobb Wineries

9.1

What @Daniel P. Drake said. Classic old school Willamette Valley. So good. — 8 years ago

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. — 2 years 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. — 4 years ago

Rob Brobst III

10

Full of aromas of a lost vivification process. Old world and sexy as ever! Thank you Paul... LETS GO LAKERS...
@Neal Schaffer @Warren Sapp @Shauna Summers @Jim Trobaugh @Terri Walker @Neal Schaffer @Eric Shanks @Bill Bender @Bill Bender @leon egozi @Ian Blackburn @Stanley Barrios @Kimberly Anderson @Daniel P. Drake @Paul T- Huntington Beach @Peggy Hadley @Neil Valenzuela @Connor McMahon @Keith Crump @Martin G Rivard @Lisa Marie Aka “Beachin Wino” @Laura Purdy @Vanessa D — 7 years ago

with Paul

Kate Pursley Follmann

9.0

Lula Drake 2016 version — 7 years ago

Steven Beishuizen

9.2

This is outstanding liquid. We were given the bottle around our wedding along with a poem and told to consume it for our first anniversary. Well, we're three years married and just getting to it now... At a hotel... Before a Drake concert... Anyway, the wine has all kinds of complexity. Blueberry and black plum dominate for me with cedar or new oak flavors also dancing throughout. Really well done. — 8 years ago

with Anita

Anthony Lombardi

9.2

@Hugh O'Riordan - Here you go. 2013 Graillot Crozes & the Great Pink Moon. Nick Drake packed more into the thirty or so minutes on this record than some did on double LP’s. The Graillot is a singular expression of Crozes. Exactly the way I like my Syrah. — 8 years ago

Michael Wood

9.4

Drinking at The Drake! — 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 — 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) — 7 years ago

Kate Pursley Follmann

9.0

Lula Drake — 7 years ago

Velma Cooper

9.0

Velma had this 8 years ago

Mike Casalenuovo

8.9

Anniversary champagne! — 8 years ago

Jason Keefer

8.9

Very nice, definitely has the structure to age a lot more! Mellow dark fruit. — 9 years ago

with Natasha