A. Rodda

Smiths Vineyard Chardonnay 2024

9.5

Exceptional chardonnay with the latent power of a GC burgundy, but with salinity and tannic grip. Beautiful nose with reductive gunsmoke, apple, and baking spices. The structure is the perfect fit for the intense and powerful flavour bomb: lemon merengue pie, smoke, tangerine, all in perfect balance. The concentration and length are world class. As long as I can remember of ANY wine I have tasted. World class for A$90 — a month ago

Sorrenberg

Chardonnay 2017

Alex Tso

9.5

2017 far better than anything after 2021! — 5 months ago

Hirsch Vineyards

East Ridge Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir 2022

Tyler Felous

9.4

One of Hirsch’s more rugged bottlings, being on the east ridge. Opened way to early. So much acidity and freshness overwhelmed the darker fruits you could tell sat beneath. Lots of promise. Will wait on the next one. — 7 months ago

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Detert Family Vineyards

East Block Cabernet Franc 2021

P Plusquellec

9.7

What a fantastic wine, vintage — a year ago

Ridge Vineyards

East Bench Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel 2023

Ericsson

9.0

Ridge Vineyards Wine Mixer at Thyme Restaurant — 3 months ago

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Chambers Rosewood

Rutherglen Muscadelle

Doug Powers

9.3

[Half-bottle] This lovely sweet orange peel and apricot Australian Muscadelle is a great stickie for dessert with some Junior’s Gooey Butter Cake from Costco, long finish, still miss our couple of visits with Bill Chambers at the winery (first in 1989)!! — 3 months ago

with Jim

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Tom Casagrande

Ooooo nice! Love the old school Aussie stickies!

Bob McDonald

@Doug Powers A good pull Doug. That would have been a mouthful of intense flavours.

Doug Powers

@Bob McDonald, my wife and I met Bill Chambers back in 1989, he actually took us outside the tasting room where they kept the AMAZING super old vine stickies and let us taste them — his comment then was “that nice Mr. Parker has really increased the demand for our sweet wines with his kind words” — those top end wines all those years ago drew us back a couple times already, and it’s 14+ hours in the air from the West Coast (CA)!!!

Giaconda

Estate Vineyard Chardonnay

Mark Rosse

9.7

A singular wine! — 8 months ago

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Oakville East

Exposure Cabernet Sauvignon 2013

Fred heupler

9.9

Great aftertaste; complex flavors; full bodied; — 2 months ago

Three Finger Jack

East Side RIdge Lodi Cabernet Sauvignon 2023

Kelly Perkins

9.2

Good stuff — 3 months ago

Gramercy Cellars

Lower East Southern Blend Red Rhone Blend 2020

"Odedi"

9.1

Dark purple in color with a wide purplish rim, and medium plus intensity.

Strong nose of black currants, plums, tobacco, licorice, light oak, spices and chocolate notes.

Full-bodied with medium acidity and long legs.

Dry and fruit forward on the palate with black plums, cooked cherries, currants, light wood, spices, coffee, dark chocolates, earth, herbs, peppercorn and tobacco leaf.

Short finish with soft tannins and tangy raspberries.

This 5-year-old Syrah blend from Columbia Valley is drinking nicely right out of the bottle, but better after 2 hours of airtime.

As it opens up, more earth notes show up and bring more complexity. Feels like a heavy Southern Rhone red.

This 5 year old Syrah is drinking at its peak, and will continue to drink nicely in the next few years.

Rich and fruit forward. Soft and elegant, with a mouth coating feel. Spicy and complex.

A blend of 70% Syrah, 22% Carignan and 8% Mourvedre.

13.5% alcohol by volume.

91 points.

$25. — 7 months ago

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