Raul Puga

9.6

What a great wine. Up there with some of the best domestic Grenache I’ve had. — a month ago

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. — 3 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. — 4 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 — 2 years ago

with Sarah

Dan Schwartzstein

9.1

Light, refreshing, numbs the tongue. Flirt forward, peach? — 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. — 4 years ago

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. — 4 years ago

Al Val

9.7

Dry with fruity flirt — 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. — 2 years ago

Stephanie Bone

9.0

Juicy red fruits, a little sweeter than post flirt. — 4 years ago