Amy Hill

8.9

Big bold Cabernet. Nice tannins. Earthy. — 9 months ago

with Emily

Tom Casagrande

9.2

@Delectable Wine - this is NOT the Cent pour Cent cuvée. It is the regular IGP Merlot.

Great and funky nose shows a fair amount of barnyard leading a caravan of plush dark cherry and ripe red berry fruit. Bit of sweet spice too. On the palate, it’s got kids of gravelly earth and dark berry ooze, and the texture shows lots of soft but unobtrusive tannin. Nice balance. An astounding value. — 5 years ago

Sean Townley

9.4

Baby Darioush! — 5 years ago

with Mairead

Doug Mandic

9.1

2016 central coast — 6 years ago

Alex

8.9

Fantastic nose. Dark berries and jam just the way I like it. The palate was a bit disappointing at first. Right and out of balance, almost bitter out of the bottle. But by the end it had smoothed out and was more dark fruit with good acid. I bet if we had time to decant first an hour or more it would have opened up. Oddly. — 7 years ago

Scott Soren

9.5

Pinot. Doesn’t get much better than this — 8 years ago

Anthony Belmonte

9.2

We picked this up for $60 a case!!! Great wine too! Couldn’t believe the price. A great blend highly recommend — 9 years ago

Lawrence Bernstein

8.9

12/24 beautiful cabernet. 2011. $45. It was 100 % cab. Blended from various Vineyard lots. It stayed in the caravan for seven days and softened into a very well balanced California cab hi marks 89. — 2 years ago

S.R.Alexander

9.3

Fading black fruit on a caravan of earthy spice — 4 years ago

M Mbangwa

9.4

#redwine #lovelyflavour 👌🏿 — 5 years ago

Steven Lee

9.2

Chocolate, liquorice, a typical heathcote character, herbs, red and blackcurrant, spicy — 6 years ago

Herbert De Nova

8.9

Gypsy Kings... excelente compañía — 7 years ago

Palmer Emmitt

Owner/Winemaker Judge Palmer

9.6

My last bottle of Romy from the cellar and it was utterly sublime. As a representative of both the wine world and the ski world - we miss you Gary. — 7 years ago

Frida Levin

9.0

Lättdrucket — 4 years ago

with Kim

William Paley

9.6

stop everything, corner yourself, and plunge into this rutabaga, flocked titanium frame, licorice root, tarmac, damp earth, distant diesel, stewed tomato, crushed petal, oleander?, cherry meat, candied gossamer violet caravan. this juice is a vampiric traffic cop with crawdad pincers, it halts and releases you in a screaming fluorescent red vest with unregulated grip. surrender or die. — 4 years ago

with Jess

Jalyn Warren

9.0

Refreshing! Love the label! — 5 years ago

Brooke Comrie

10

A new FAVOURITE — 6 years ago

Andrea Raja

10

Delicious! — 7 years ago

Elizabeth

9.0

I like. With Catherine & ken watching the bachelorette. From Trader Joe’s — 7 years ago

Isaac Pirolo

9.5

Opened this to put the kibosh on Alabama. And it smells like it just might have those powers. Founded by John Alban in 1989, Alban Vineyards is the first American winery and vineyard established exclusively for Rhône varietals. Jeb Dunnuck said “One of the best entry-level wines out there is John's 2012 Syrah Patrina, and it competes with many top cuvees.” I wholeheartedly agree. Patrin is a gypsy word for leaf and grass blades. By mounding up patrin in specific configurations called Patrina, Gypsies mark secret trails that kinsmen can follow to special gathering places. Patrina guide these nomads to the site of what starts out as a simple get together underscored with wine and song. These bohemian celebrations of nothing in particular inevitably escalate with great abandon into wildly hedonistic carousing.
Aromatically virile. Intense aromas of black raspberry and kirsch, star anise, white flowers, violets, pepper, and baking spices. The palate is equally potent and sports a black fruit infused with red fruit character. The lush and ripe fruit is buttressed by layers of licorice, lavender pastille, chocolate, and cured meats. An all-time favorite of mine. — 9 years ago