Raul Puga

9.7

So freaking delicious — 7 months ago

Al Val

9.7

Dry with fruity flirt — 4 years ago

Dan Schwartzstein

9.1

Light, refreshing, numbs the tongue. Flirt forward, peach? — 6 years ago

S.S. Mandani

9.0

Finally made my Quarantine Ragu for bae. Experimented with Brussels sprouts today and ended making a peach and red pepper dressing with an Aleppo pepper sauce. Not too shabby.

Grassy, the freshness of raw parsley and chives.

Primary note of pears. Solid brightness and sweetness flirt with each other at the right levels.

Rewatching La La Land with bae, and it’s just as good the second time around. — 6 years ago

Ellen Clifford

8.9

Nan Helgeland makes extraordinary wines because she pays attention both to the wines and the people making them. That’s a whole other story though. This wine: red red fruits for sure(cran-rasp-blackrasp) well balanced but the tannins are gonna play hard to get, then they flirt with you then hide again. It’s intriguing — 8 years ago

Doctor No

9.0

Spice and red tea nose. A bit of dried citrus peel and menthol. Cranberry fruited. Starts out light but eventually begins to round out with air. This is distinctly Spatburgunder in the way it seems to flirt with both ripeness and depth but doesn’t quite seem to get there and remains complex and interesting despite. — 9 years ago

Isaac Pirolo

9.4

The strikingly vivid and dark array of red fruits, including black cherry, black raspberry, pomegranate, and cranberry, flirt and fight with the densest of rose petals ever come across, while a soundtrack of potpourri keeps the fire stoked. This is the work of the red Jory. Intoxicatingly simple and simply intoxicating. — 9 years ago

Byron Hewett

9.8

Lot 53 is from 1953. This does flirt with perfection. A rich, complex spherical Cognac. Fantastic stuff! — 2 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

Aglianico as Musigny. This shit is bananas. It is a thing of great beauty. The nose is the perfect melange of echoes of elite Pinot Noir (Musigny comes to mind) but firmly rooted in the soul of Campanian Aglianico. It tows this line brilliantly. As Burgundian as the most elite Barolo but in a different way. De Vogue Musigny comes to mind.

Stunning bing cherry, and an elite florality. Dizzying in its complexity and relentlessness. This is some nose. 9.8. I can’t think if I’ve ever smelled a better aglianico. A true Burgundian interpretation. The nose is just a knockout. The palate has so much sweet, dark aglianico fruit and unreal sweetness but offset by this profound noble minerality. The level of dry extract is so impressive and as big a wine as this is it never feels heavy. Power with finesse. Both elite. The finish is just forever. It truly never ends. This will improve for 20+ years and I imagine it could flirt with perfection one day. No wonder this is on every important Michelin starred restaurant’s wine list in Italy. — 4 years ago

S.S. Mandani

9.2

This bottle was left at my birthday picnic, so we took it home not thinking much of it.

Roses, gummy bears, and strawberries.

Wow, unexpectedly great. Always a wonderful feeling when you’re not expecting anything.

Blood oranges flirt with rose petals, and threesome with grapefruit gummy bears to make a tart, refreshing, savory, and slightly pleasingly astringent autumn wine. — 6 years ago

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.5

Haut-Bailly Dinner in SF with Veronique Sanders of Haut-Bailly.

The 16 is sensational. The 16 vintage has the widest drinking window that I have tasted in my 25 years tasting Bordeaux. The style is lighter, brighter, ripe fruits, blackberries, black cherries, black raspberries, dark cola, picked up nice expresso notes revisiting another tasting at the end of dinner, beautiful understated earth of; stones, dry top soil & clay, dark fresh & slightly withering flowers. Great acidy. Elegant, well balanced finish that wows young. This will flirt with a near perfect score in 15-20 years of bottle age.

Served with Creek Stone Farm Filet of Beef, Sautéed Potatoes, Red Wine Sauce. @Mathilde French Bistro

Photos of; Clyde Beffa Owner of K&L Wine Merchants & Veronique Sanders, dinner menu & pairing & dinner guests. — 6 years ago

Tom Casagrande

9.3

Alsace Gewurz is a wine I pop when I want to reward myself. Tonight it’s a reward for getting a lot of yard-work done on a ridiculously hot and humid day and not getting dehydrated.

The nose is Gewurtzy, of course, in that it shows lychee, apricot, and musky florals, but what really sets this apart from the run-of-the-mill G-Dog is its minerality. Takes it from the verge of cloying, with which Gewurz can flirt, to something special. Soft and full in the mouth, slightly sweet. Very long finish. — 8 years ago

Jason Lee

9.5

Love this dirty little rose. Drinks like an orange almost. Substantial but with all of the flirt and beauty of a great rose. Cold pressed yuzu strawberry with a little stone fruit so fresh light refreshing and pretty. Brings a little Italian summer back into my life on this frigid New York night. BUY NOW at wine therapy wish I'd bought a case 😔 — 9 years ago

Daniel Bloom

9.6

Such an amazing wine.
This fino one day decides to not be, loses it flor and has a flirt with Amontillado..
N:cherries* ( my 26 yr daughters)Shoe polish, caramel candy.Nut treacle.oh so many constantly. Changes
Upon changes. Some petrol.
P: Feels a bit dying upon entry, sharp and luxuriously sapient and enveloping, leather shoes, oils that will always provide mystery.Caramel, Chalk, treacle…cobblestones.A beautiful thing to imbibe. 20°
@ 20th & Green — 4 years ago

with Sarah

Fredrik Finn

9.4

🍇Equipo Navazos, one of the leading stars in the rebirth of handcraft Sherry. The bota de Fino 91 is stunning with a concentration that is rarely seen in the fino category. Aged for an average 10 years gives it a sensation that the flor has started to fade quite a bit as the wine is almost starting to flirt with an amontillado in its characters. Serve it at 10 degrees and let it rise to 12-14 degrees while you enjoy this piece of art.

👃Pronounced intense, dense and very complex aromas, remarkably aromatic and round edged for being classified as a fino. Bruised apples, orange zest, sourdough, green olives, and Brazil nuts with a salty, iodine and seaweed character on the lead guitar.
Bone dry palate with pronounced flavour intensity. The salty mineral backbone brings freshness and tension through the dense mid palate through a long expansive and chalky finish.
Meditative. — 5 years ago

Stephanie Bone

9.0

Juicy red fruits, a little sweeter than post flirt. — 6 years ago

Dezel Quillen

9.3

Fields Family Wines ’14 Stampede Vineyard Zinfandel (SRP $28): Ain't no fun if the homie—The Spaceman—can’t have none (lol). This delicious Zinfandel is produced from 75-85 year old vines and made in small lots (only 100 cases made) with minimal intervention in the vineyard and cellar. A bright ruby color, this medium-bodied wine is juicy with beautiful raciness—showing a good sense of balance between richness, freshness and finesse. It offers appealing aromas and flavors of cherry and tart plum (gorgeous fruit), with notes of dill, spice, perfume, and loam adding complexity. This wine paired exceptionally well with the cherry/pecan baby-backs I smoked over the weekend. If you enjoy vibrant, food-friendly Zins that flirt with elegance, then this is your ticket. Put this producer on your wine radar if they’re not on it already. You can visit fieldsfamilywines.com to learn more. And for the record, of the four 1978 [Kiss] solo albums, Ace had the best one! — 7 years ago

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8.9

From one of our newest california AVA's, Gap's Crown. This wine's a flirt: slab of malo, cantaloupe/papaya/pumpkin, and browning apple. Bottle says it's grown on clay soils and it's pretty upfront with that. Some rubber or glue here too on the nose and texture. Like zero citrus notes.. veeeeery smooth and subtle acid I'd give it a 5/10 it's like a slow wave. A little extra floral for Chardonnay and I think the nose exceeds the palette. Honestly let this open up because 30 minutes later I'm enjoying it levels more. Finally this wine was picked because I was looking through my stash for a wine that pairs with lord of the rings lol. Good wine for sure. 14.4% — 8 years ago

Kacie Lyn

9.0

Buttery, acidic, full flirt — 9 years ago

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.4

I've been curious about this wine for some time. The original 05 Ausone review from Parker was revised and one would think it was at the request of the Chateau. Parker's 💯 point review started something like this...if you are over the age of 55, you'll want to decide if you want to buy this this wine. Largely, due to his call on it's years of drinkability; which was from 2055-80. Parker's review was mysteriously revised within two months of it's original review. Tonight, I Coravin-ed this tasting of the Chapelle D'Ausone. The 05 Chapelle D'Ausone is still very big & tight but starting it's journey into a decent drinking phase. The tannins are still chewy and dark. The fruits are; ruby blackberries, dark cherries, a mix of blue fruits, strawberries paint the back palate, dark & milk chocolate, caramel, Christmas cake, clove, nutmeg, cinnamon, vanilla, spice-box, black tea, a whiff of green bell peppers, irony minerals, loamy soils, tree bark, a touch of leather, lead pencil shavings, dry stems, dry stones & dark moist soil. The acidity is perfect. The structure, length, balance and tension flirt with glory. The finish runs ripe to dry fruit and the minerals are rich with a dark elegance that lasts and lasts. As good as this wine is tonight, I'll put this bottle back; which is 1 of a 6 pack and wait another 7-10 years to reopen it. Both of Ausone's 05 wines are meant for most collectors end of life or meant to be left for their children. — 9 years ago