Abbas Zand

9.0

Brassfield estate Eruption 2021 red blend High Valley appellation, Volcano ridge vineyard.

This is a dry red wine. Jammy nose. Full bodied, medium acidity, high alcohol but not tasting like a high alcohol wine. Enveloping tannins. Flavors of blackberries, blueberries, dried herbs, bay leaf, earthy, long finish.
Cab, syrah, malbec, petit sirah, mourvedre, zin.
$14.9% alcohol.
Lake county. — 6 months ago

David Kline

9.0

Powering through the last of the oak beers on the way to wine immersion. On a positive note, the baby now has a room! Anyway, last year’s Good Gourd! Looks like dark tea or a hot cider, nice eruption of bubbling magic. Orange tinged; good start! Super spiced cinnamon apple, caramel, vanilla, nutmeg, and oddly smelling of a California wine. Sierra foothills mascarpone notes and also a hot buttered rum smell. Cinnamon tea, clove studded orange, whiskey-lemon-honey tea, toasted coconut, sweet tobacco, brown sugar, dates, fruitcake candied notes with a nod to its density. A cream soda finish with raisinets. #cigarcitybrewing #cigarcitygoodgourd #goodgourd #imperialale #ale #beer #bier #biere #birra #imperialpumpkinale #pumpkinale #pumpkinbeer #ccb #halloweenbeer — 7 years ago

with Courtney

Chris England

9.7

After a tiring day shopping 👠 👜 with Mrs E you gotta love Barcelona that you can pop to the local supermarket next to the hotel, grab some meat, cheeses, hummus & bread as well as a €295 98-100 Point by Vega Sicilia Unico 🤣 & a decanter + some glasses, then sit in your room overlooking the beach & city to chill @ sunset 😎 💗 Barcelona 🇪🇸

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Drinking superb already but will become legendary 😍

📍 Vega Sicilia Unico 2006

🏵 97 points w/ huge potential but I prefer 04 at this crazy price 😁

💥 14% ABV

🍇 94% Tempranillo & 6% Cabernet Sauvignon

🍷 Opaque pitch black ruby

👃 A heady intoxicating nose of date & prune jam, chocolate kinky goo sauce, raspberry & cherry Black Forest gateaux, melted liquorice, smoked dry cured meat, mint infused fresh cut cedar & herbs w/ spiced damson plums & subtle oak 😍

👄 Full bodied rich & ripe raspberry & cherry through creamy cocoa w/ dark plum, prune, blackcurrant, liquorice & parma violets

🎯 Long prune choc cherry & raspberry gateaux cake food fight eruption in your cake hole 💥 Did somebody say food fight 🤣 — 8 years ago

Chris England

9.6

Like wearing silky underpants whilst apple bobbing covered in sticky toffee - this £97 fills your upmost desires 😍

🍷 Light straw

👃 Caramelised apple over toasted brioche w/ citrus zest, honey & wet crushed minerals

👄 Never-ending eruption of fine bubbles in a med bodied creamy mousse of caramelised honey apple citrus

🎯 Long caramel honey apple & citrus buttery sweet biscuit finish — 9 years ago

Joseph Carmona

9.3

Effusive red, medium bodied, spicy, flavorful fresh market mixed vegetables. This is a great wine nourished by the soil of dead Sicilians on the volcanic slopes of Mt. Etna whose decayed bodies are still furious about an eruption 500 years ago! Recommend with a seafood dish with capers and tomatoes — 10 years ago

Teri Roberts

9.4

We drank this at the Volcano Winery on the Big Island in Hawaii.
Our server said the wine was different than usual: probably because of an underground volcanic eruption! — 12 years ago

romo

9.1

Volcanic eruption on PnP. After wiping up half of this magnum a diverse set of reference points claims its slot in the queue of flavors. — a year ago

Willem Booij

9.4

What a big nose! This is a eruption of dark red fruit fully blended with great use of oak. Dark chocolate and spice mix like Ras el Hanout. Super juicy and silky&soft — 5 years ago

David Kline

9.5

Huge milk chocoalate to Cappuccino colored eruption of thickest froth dwindles, flattening to a lunar landscape. Dark chocolate and coffee elements initiate. Machinery. Roasted almond-in-shell, vanilla and hazelnut aromas. This stout will zap the tongue with malty coffee notes that feel like a 9 volt battery connection, then shimmer in bitter arabica, dried violet, valerian root, nutmeg, clove tinges of ginger. The whole almost suggests licorice, but the flavor isolates encourage soloism. Dark chocolate abates, revealing rich roasted coffee in a splendid finish. Launch into the darkest astral day with the breakfast for champion cosmonauts. — 7 years ago

KA

9.9

Ridiculously good last bottle of rum from 1929 before the eruption of the volcano in Martinique — 8 years ago

Chris England

9.3

🌋 Volcanic explosion of aroma & taste in this 2nd wine of La Mission Haut-Brion in a top year @ £67 that's drinking beautifully 👍

🍇 46% Cab S, 44% Mer & 10% Cab F

🍷 Opaque ash ruby

👃 Smokey earthy volcanic ash, lava smoke, minerals, gravel, coffee, burnt oak, dark plum, blackcurrant & cherry -Just fab 😍

👄 Med+ body of perfectly balanced silky, slight dry, earthy dirty mashed & stewed refined creamy deep dark & light red fruits

🎯 Long eruption of fruit embers all over w/ liquorice elegance — 9 years ago

Martin Bergo

9.0

Named after the 10-year-long Etna eruption that began in 1614. The wine is clear ruby red; nose full of small tart black and red currants, powerful mineral salinity, light oak, and baking spices; the taste is a mouthfilling eruption (couldn't resist) of dark fruit and brush spices over a dense tannic structure. Very good, but needs a few years in the cellar. — 9 years ago

Tom Kobylarz

10

A wine that combines nature, art, terroir and an amazing story. From the volcanic island of Sicily on the slopes of Mount Etna, Fattorie Romeo Castello had lava flows in a vineyard that they thought was lost after an eruption. Years later the vines pushed through the lava and the resulting fruit from this lava vineyard make this special wine. Thank you #MonicaLarner for bringing this wine to my attention through your pioneering critical writings.
Now for the wine notes:
The color is a slightly hazy garnet red color.
The nose is spectacular, revealing the complexity inherent in this wine. Notes of ash and volcanic rock give way to ripe bing cherry, a meaty roast beef streak, with subtle hints of roses, herbs and tar.
The palate is just as complex, showing power and elegance in the intensity of flavor, while plenty of acidity and firm, youthful tannin add length and freshness.
#sicily #etna #vigo #nerellomascalese #nerellocappuccio #lavawine — 10 years ago

Riccardo L.

9.2

Volcanic. Eruption. — 4 years ago

Mike Holzer

9.1

First night in Boston. Pop and pour. Wow. Red fruit eruption. Leather. Fine tannins. Long. Delicious. If this is example of 2007s…..drink next 3-5 years. Will try again tomorrow as 1/2 bottle left. — 5 years ago

with Ania

Kyriaki Kalimeri

9.6

this vineyard was destroyed after the latest volcanic eruption — 8 years ago

Chris England

9.5

Like wearing silky underpants whilst apple bobbing covered in gooey sticky toffee 😉 This £97 fills your upmost desires for a good Blanc de Blanc bobbing session 😍

🏵 95 points & will improve

📍Tattinger Comtes de Champagne 2006

🍷 Light golden straw

👃 Caramelised apple over toasted butter brioche w/ citrus zest, honey, soft smoke, vanilla & wet crushed chalky minerals

👄 Never-ending eruption of fine bubbles in a med bodied creamy mousse of caramelised tangy green apple covered in zingy citrus infused honey w/ dry rock minerals in med acidity - a tiny bubble tickle in every crevice

🎯 Long dry mineral infused caramel honey apple & citrus buttery sweet biscuit finish

🧀 Paired with a cheese sarnie 🥪 & sunshine 🌞

Bubblelicious 😍 in a #zaltoglass @zaltify — 8 years ago

Ian McDonald

9.0

Very nice for the price. Very pleasant nose that leads to a full but not too rich body. Chocolate, berry and coffee notes and a smooth finish. — 9 years ago

Chris England

9.4

Bargain top year Faustino 1 @ £26 on offer which is hard to beat on QPR & delivers old world Rioja nasal eruption 🌋

Rounded up as so good for 💵

🍷 Opaque deep red w/ brown edge

👃 Smokey rich oak baked dark cherry & vanilla cream pie covered in date & fig parfait sauce w/ leather & balsamic - gorgeous 😍

👄 Chewy ripe plump smooth creamy dark cherry jam in a med body w/ a cocoa, balsamic & liquorice hoof kick ole 🤠

🎯 Med+ dark oaky cocoa cherry/berry fruit liquorice bull bottom slap 🐮 — 9 years ago

Ron R

9.1

The nose is a volcanic eruption of exotic fruits. Citrus fruits, gooseberries, white peach and lemon rind demand your attention. The palette does not disappoint. It's bright and light on its feet. Grapefruit, apricot and lemons come along for the ride. There is some acid on the mid-plate which provides structure. Finishes with fresh toast and a slight hint of marzipan.
Excellent showing which is considerably improved from my impression 4 months ago. This wine causes all the senses to pulsate - top shelf. — 10 years ago

with Anne-marie