Ross Bathgate

9.5

Very impressive, took a long time to open up but was glorious rich and ripe with silky tannin structure — a year ago

Shay A

9.5

Again, these are love it or hate it style wines, and I fall on the “love it” side every single time. This was part of a blind lineup for “Rhône style wines”. These wines are a bit difficult not to identify in a blind lineup due to their distinctive aromatics.

My note here is pretty similar to the 2011 I opened a year and a half ago. In true to Christophe Baron style, this is a savory packed punch wrapped in elegance. Aromatically, it’s a heady display of soy, teriyaki, green olive, peppercorn crusted smoked meats, currant and spicy rhubarb. At 10yrs, the palate is almost a dead ringer for high end northern Rhône Syrah. The savory/iron driven components from the nose continue but there is great acid followed by stems, herbs de Provence and lots of wildflowers/potpourri for a floral finish. I found the 2011 to have a lighter/more floral profile, but this one certainly has more stuffing and aging potential. This seems to just now be entering a peak drinking window.

Also in the lineup was a 2014 Hors Categorie (also from Christophe Baron), and I found the 2012 HP to taste younger, while the 2014 HC had a bit more heft in the mid-palate. Love both. — 4 years ago

Jenny

9.4

Refreshing. Light. At HP bar & grill. — 7 years ago

Mike R

9.7

While this is so good and what a way to reintroduce myself back to red wines - amazing - we had to fight off wine zombies at our local high end burger joint as they saw our faces and knew the wine was speaking no screaming to us “I don’t like it, I LOVE it” as my friend @David L says but we escaped with our lives and enjoyed our wine

We kept drinking listening to Bon Jovi Wanted Dead or Alive while our horses got hydrated (well 500 horses in HP) as we did as well drinking this brilliant example of Cabernet Sauvignon from my new great friends @Mike Smith and Leah Smith - thank you so much - I praise you as I love this as much as one of top fives which is Quivet LPV 2013 which we discussed as well when we were together - this is different and Rhonda says it has a strong hint of vanilla beans that makes the scent unique and pleasant - I doubt she is right

The music changes to Dave Matthews and we taste to wine and man does the palette get pleased and finessed like a sexy women talking to me which I am lucky as that is my wife

The length of the taste is like watching your breathe on a cold day as Stone Temple Pilots plays on the speaker and really enjoying this masterpiece of wine craftsmanship / bravo Mike

By the way hope the family is great and Rob our son is doing good in first job after college and he is happy so we are blessed — 8 years ago

markus gould

9.3

most sincere red wine.
loving it!

huge tension, unagitated. lingering aftertaste, not jammy.
this is - as the winemaker- not s stage hog, for gods sake.

♡ — 10 years ago

Matté

Manager The Wine Cellars

9.1

First bottle wasn't right, HP Sauce mate! Next one was stunning, wonderfully fresh fruit laced with a sweet spice, scorched earth & graphite. In the mouth you get more of the same though on the rich side, one glass wine with food. — 11 years ago

Shay A

9.3

My choice for a Rhône style theme with my local group.

Definitely the oldest No Girls I’ve opened. As expected, these have a Burgundian flair to them in the way they are made when compared to Cayuse/HP/HC. Not as much depth/richness, but there is great acidity and the use of stems is clear. Faint ruby in the glass. Stemmy/green aromatics with herbs de Provence, black olive, Cayuse funk/iron on the nose. Saline, red and black berry driven on the palate with black pepper spice, truffle, beef jerky and big phenolics. Tart and acidic, I followed this over two days, and to my surprise, held up very well. Pop now. — 2 years ago

Gretchen Rogers

9.1

This is a great bottle of wine. 12.5. Drink 2. With a burger 🍔 at HP — 6 years ago

Shay A

9.7

Though not the same as it was pre-COVID -19, a handful of us were able to gather (while keeping our distance) to celebrate being back together and opened some fun wines to share. Wine is always better with good company.

A tour de force Syrah. Kudos to Christophe for not only the monumental effort here, but for also how it has its own profile away from Cayuse, Horsepower and No Girls. For me, this fell in between Cayuse and HP in the funk department, but it’s depth and concentration is unmatched. Pours dark in the glass with aromatics reminiscent of a bbq pit next to an herb garden. Teriyaki sauce, cherry smoked jerky, black currant, peppercorn crusted blackberries and classical funk. On the palate, it’s commanding with a vein of iron like savoriness down the middle, alongside licorice, potpourri, brambly dark fruits and herbs de Provence. We followed this out of the decanter for a few hours and it only got more powerful. Heck of a bottle, courtesy of @Keith Fisher . — 6 years ago

with joe, Dan and 2 others

Mick Farrell

9.3

Tetsuya's course 6 — 9 years ago

with Paul, Peter and 3 others

markus gould

9.2

traminer "ried froschau "

HUGE austrian white!!
what a tension, complexity and potential!
always makes me smile!!

for some pragmatic reason hp used different barrels that year (oak instead of acacia), which leads to a slightly different style with less incense impact.
my all time favourite is 2012. — 10 years ago

LM Segal

9.3

HP had a way of making sharp edges feel like diamonds not sticks. Add a touch of honey, hard candy, butterscotch. Beautiful. — 10 years ago

Shay A

9.4

Even as someone who loves the funk, I find these HP wines to need every bit of 10yrs to really unfurl and balance out. In my opinion, the Syrah with similar age shows a bit more dark fruit whereas this was more red floral.

Double decanted an hour, then consumed over the next 2-3hrs. Last glass was the best, but not overly different from the first. There is still signature funk, crunchy and green stems, peppered raspberries, olive, and iron, but the red floral/potpourri notes started to jump alongside a citrus/pomegranate flair. Great nervy acidity and tannin. Desperately needs food (went well with charcuterie board). If you enjoy these with some balance, this is starting to enter that window. — 3 years ago

Alexis Sepkovic

10

Fav this summer- from Tilda or Holcomb HP — 6 years ago

Meg Moore

9.0

HP and Michigan — 7 years ago

Neil Valenzuela

8.9

Nice dark cherry skin color. Aromas of strawberry, cherry and a nutty cheese. Delicious flavors, can’t go wrong with an HP wine. — 8 years ago

Jay Kline

9.2

I was skeptical with the packaging being so OTT. However, this is a very good whiskey from HP and certainly worth a try if you come across a bottle. For my palate, just the right amount of peat. — 9 years ago

Fraser McKinley

9.8

A fantastic treat and a truly inspiring bottle. Still lush, mouth filling and bursting with life at 43 years old. The antithesis of Grange and Hill of Grace from the same era - 1973 — 10 years ago

Derek Wilder

9.0

Good Malbec, one of my favorites. Thanks hp — 11 years ago

Macrina Kgil

9.5

My BF loved this one. — 11 years ago