Steve Rura

9.4

Dang, this is a good Chardonnay! White burg is one of my fave styles, and this certainly meets it. Floral, grassy nose. Green apple and preserved lemon peel. Pale, clear color. Crazy, focused mouth-watering acidity and dry, dry minerals. I haven’t had too many pure Swiss Chardonnays, but this is the alpine Graubünden style I like. Thanks @Lyle Fass — a month ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.9

Floral, roses, 100% whole bunch, red apple, sweet red cherries but darker, sensational aromas, more, spices, baking spices, some rare underarm. wood shavings, so high toned and intense and such fine, silky tannins and all red fruits and barely sweet. what complexity, and unreal red fruits, energy and tannins, so so good. big structure and density. Long and such an echoing finish. Just an iconic wine. Just a crazy good wine. Earthy sweetness and sweetening up but it’s so not sweet just so on the edge. It’s amazing how talented Patrick is. — 8 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Apple, smoke, pear, super clear and elegant, I love the finesse on these young “. simple” vines. Good energy, concentration and sap. Long and juicy and so clean with energy and balance for days. Spicy, mineral, white pepper, so much depth and clean. — 8 months ago

Steve Rura

9.1

Great CA Chardonnay. Balanced, not overly oaked, not really buttery. Fresh and delicious lemon, yellow apple, underripe pear. It doesn’t have the electric acidity of the Adank Swiss Chardonnay I just tried, but it’s delicious in its own softer, more subtle way. Speaking of Swiss, I’m using a cup for tonight’s cheese fondue on a snowy night. — 19 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

(2020)Unreal nose, so salty, so briochey, so good. Unreal depth, so complex and serene. Salty and creamy, so and so dry and has to be zero dosage. Reserve wines and mostly 2020. 2 years on yeast. Unreal mousse. 1.4 dosage. Extra Brut. Sapid, so elegant and just crazy bubbles. saline and salty and also brown butter. Stunningly pure. Made in the evacuation bunker of WWII. So fine. So great. Wonderful. 100% Pinot. BDB coming. Nose is so precise. The brioche is so clearly defined. — 7 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Heavenly, elegant nose, gooseberry, sage, so elegant and ethereal and like a pillow, just so expansive and like a cloud. 9.6 nose. Jeez. So elegant, round and juicy, super clean, palate is all mineral, so nimble and mineral and it’s delicate. Some nice herbals. Long and lingering finish. unreal flavor intensity. Unreal aromatic complexity. So so dank and light. Unreal sapidity. Palate staining. 60% old wood barrel fermented. — 8 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

50th. Almost no memory of this. Elegant and pure. So nimble. Did get lost. Not a wine to drink with a bunch of other wines. — 2 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

Unreal finesse and elegance and wow that acid. — 3 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

This is the entry level and wow is it incredible. - Goegeous pinot noir aromas, florals, unreal nose, so insane, roses, so floral and so spicey, heartbreaking nose, ethereal and just so so insane. Gorgeous balance and purity, so delicate and ethereal, sweet red fuits but barely red and such a pitter patter, unreal freshness, tangy and fresh, never with whole bunch. Many different clones and parcels, sweetness and energy and so good. Unreal wine. rose petal, Aged in big old oak. — 8 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Nose is so schue and wonderful purity and expensiveness. grapefruit and herbs, alpine aroma, superb and fresh, juicy and clean and so so refined. Amazing intensity and juiciness. So clean. Sappy and so well made and wonderful. Salty finish. — 8 months ago