Tom Casagrande

9.3

Amazingly tight for a 16-year old wine. The acids are smell-able on the nose, zinging along tart, macerated wild cherry fruit and glacier-crushed rock fragments. (OK, maybe I’m making up the part about how the crushed rocks were created.) In the mouth it’s deep but the acids rip this along on the palate like a whitewater canoe ride. Really really unique and good. — 3 months ago

with Angelo

Kathryn McCarty

9.2

Lovely, rich Amarone! Berry on the palate with a smooth long finish. Classico! — 5 years ago

Jordi Pazo

9.1

Hotel Majestic. La Gran Nit del Priorat.
28.02.20 — 5 years ago

Mike Saviage

9.7

Taken to Hawksmoor in NYC for our uncle’s 75th. Decanted in hotel for 7 hrs before dinner. Dark reddish amber edges with dark tawny color center. Opaque. Great aged Bordeaux nose. Notes of black fruit, tobacco and cigar, cassis, old desk wood, saddle leather, some anise, some barnyard and a little mint. Rich and silky in the mouth. Long finish. The bottle (mid shoulder) wasn’t in as good of condition as the one we had a few weeks ago, but the outcome was similar. Family and the Somm all loved it, as did I. — 3 years ago

Jasmina Hegerova

10

Super yummy rosé. — 4 years ago

Brett Emerson

9.4

Pair this classically perfect 14-year-old Rioja with cheese and crackers that you share with your beautiful wife, ideally in a hotel room after you’ve been evacuated from your home for a week due to fires caused by lightning storms. Your appreciation will be elevated if you precede your wine with a few days of cooking paella for hundreds of evacuees and firefighters. If this is not a possibility, I suggest pairing your Tondonia with grilled lamb, which will play well with the wine’s tobacco, leather and cranberry notes. — 5 years ago

Debbie Boland

9.0

Delicious perfect with red sauce pasta with Connie — 3 years ago

H

9.6

Elegant, velvety in mouth and very balanced. 2015 red — 4 years ago

Aminda Ingulfson

10

New favourite! — 5 years ago

Kristen Grimes

9.8

This is the Garnache, not the Merlot Blend!
Chocolaty notes on the nose with a bit of dark cherries, ripe black fruits dominate the palate, smooth chocolate mild tannins that linger. Yum!!! Happy Valentine's Day ♥️ — 5 years ago