Steve Somermeyer

9.4

Very dark with a rich complex nose. Opened it a day ago and it’s benefited from a day open. Yesterday I would have scored it 9.2 but today it’s 9.4. With restraint I’ll try it again tomorrow. Really a great Sonoma Malbec!
— 4 months ago

Jess

9.3

Deep ruby color.
Aromas of baked raspberry, cinnamon.
Off-dry. Flavors of baked raspberry/blackberry/plum, licorice, cinnamon, oak spice. Rich velvety tannins.

Intensity: 5/5
Complexity: 3/5
Balance: 4/5
Finish: 4/5 — 3 years ago

Hannah Barnes

9.0

Easy to drink — 6 years ago

Ale Cortinas

9.0

Lovely cherry notes. Love the mix of this 3 grapes. — 6 years ago

Randy Fuller

9.0

This yellow-gold wine rings the “old-style Cali” bell in all the right ways. A nose of apricots, mangoes and apples is helped along with the smell of buttered popcorn. Oak treats the palate as well, draping over the tropical fruit like a sunshade. The acidity is zesty, yet the mouthfeel tends toward creaminess due to the wine sitting on the lees for five months. The oak is a definite part of the wine, but the effect is softened enough so that it's a pleasure, not a pain. — 7 years ago

SparrowApril

10

Love this wine. It's a new favorite. First had it in an Italian restaurant on lake Conroe — 9 years ago

Sipping Fine Wine

9.0

Dairyman Vineyard sits in the southern alluvial plains of the Russian River Valley near the ocean, a region where cooling fog comes in through the Petaluma Gap in the morning and once again in the evening. Medium Ruby color, with aromas of berries, tea and spices. On the palate flavors of raspberry and tart black cherry with herb, cedar and cinnamon. Fine tannins, medium+ finish with lively acidity, good structure, ending with fruit and cedar spice. — 6 months ago

Gary Redng

9.0

I really enjoyed this wine, unfortunately I paid more than $10 because I bought it at a restaurant. Columbia Valley wines are def in my wheelhouse of taste and enjoyment for vino! 2019 — 3 years ago

AnitaAnita

9.4

Covid Bottle 3. A little spicy. 2017 — 6 years ago

Hal

9.2

With Kristen — 7 years ago

Camille Vancil

9.1

Light, easy drinking, so smooth. Great with food or by itself! — 8 years ago

Matt Perlman

9.0

Pale amber. Fresh and fruity for a skin contact wine, maybe because of carbonic. Hint of smokey peat or pine resin on the nose with toffee, plenty of zesty orange and saline on the palate. — 9 years ago

Michael Meyer

9.1

This really needs the @Bill Bender photo treatment to deflect the snickering, but it was a surprisingly balanced and delicious wine. #meow — 9 years ago

Roman Ochocki

9.0

Very good. A butter, grapefruit and an apple. Medium acidity, but in this… configuration it's still too high. — 6 months ago

Rob Brobst III

9.8

Ripe in flavor, with a vivid array of black currant, blackberry, violet, black tea and black pepper aromas and flavors that zoom through to a long, expressive finish. Shows subtlety in the layers of complex flavor against a refined structure. Tannins are present but nicely contained. #1 Wine of 2009, Wine of the Year* — 10 months ago

Yen Boubel

8.9

Nice & crisp SB with some herbaceous & vegetal notes with citrus, minerality & pear aromas. — 5 years ago

Adam Smith

9.0

Took 30’ to get good started slow then developed black cherry and even a hint of current 2015 vintage — 7 years ago

Jan G

9.4

Very good. Had with Mexican — 8 years ago

Bob Benson

8.9

Great value and wonderful body . Some spice with dark berries. Will try to get more for just to have on a nice night on the deck — 8 years ago

Mathew Arnold

9.0

$10 bold, little spice, thick n dark, slow sipper in a good way, would buy again. Still like it, but wasn't as impressed 2nd try — 9 years ago