Michael Greene

9.3

Phenomenal wine. Black cherry and raspberries. Savory herbal element. Really fresh. — 8 days ago

Matt Lasater

9.4

Deep, savage, brooding wild black and purple fruit, smoke, pepper, meat, rocks and distilled violets. There’s some carbonic element that’s settled in nicely. Its low SO2 upbringing is evident, VA is elevated but right up to my limit. Quite lifted and pungently aromatic! Found the tannins settled too, acidity is really driving, the northern gore soils are showing their impact. Enjoyed seeing some bottle development here. — 16 days ago

Kapyrick Wine

9.2

V18. Love it. Nice creme brûlée nose. Buttery, tropical fruit, and pear fruit. Unique, round soft oak and limestone finish. Very well balanced, one element complements the next. — 18 days ago

Jeremy Pollard

9.2

Warm vintage, soft ripe fruit. Presents as young but very approachable with soft tannins, with liquorice and dark fruit prominent and tannins sitting in the background. An intriguing contrast to the Man O’ War blend alongside it. Very easy to enjoy but perhaps some element missing at this stage. — 25 days ago

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Adam Beasley

9.2

Sour cherry, leather, soil, and herbs. Beautiful volcanic ash element to the minerality. Sturdy tannins and high acid. Needed air to get going but really nice once it did. Great structure. — 9 days ago

Matti Jokelainen

8.9

Quite dark ruby color. Nose kind of follows with darker berry and cherry notes, musky/earthy element and some oak. On the palate wine is midweight+, suprisingly open and like nose suggested rather dark toned compared to what I've used to from this bottling. Had to check if I grabbed a Felsina CC instead of this. Anyway a solid CC in the making — 14 hours ago

Joe Weinberger

9.2

The quality of the fruit here is undeniable. Incredible purity. You get your typical blackberry fruit like in most Syrah but this also has a beautiul strawberry jam element to it. Texture and tannins are incredible silky but still provide lift to the rich fruit. Additionally, you get a good amount of dried herbs and pepper on the finish. I don't see too much reason to age this bottle if you have one. It is offereing immense pleasure at the moment. — 15 days ago

Ben richford

9.1

Deep, opaque purple hue. A concentrated concoction of balsamic, chocolate, smoke and bitter black cherry. Perhaps a few more years will help it fan out and impart a more secondary element. — 9 days ago

Martin Sher

9.2

Strong bell pepper element in this version. — a month ago

Joe Weinberger

9.2

Amazing concentration of brambly fruit, but this has the acidity to keep it from feeling jammy or overextracted. Black and blue fruits on the nose and palate with a compelling violet/floral element on the finish. Personaly I could would have welcomed a bit more olive/smoked meat on the this wine but that might present itself with more bottle age. There was just the hint of olive tapenade lingering in the background. This wine is drinking beautifully right now but I think would reward you with more complexity after 5-10 years of bottle age. — 15 days ago