Really great wine and I can drink Barge all day. Such a great producer really coming into his own now. Awesome nose of violets, bacon, olives, meat, game, and just unreal florals and granite. Wide open nose. So many herbs. Just amazing. Palate is energetic and has great acidity with lush berry fruit, engaging granitic minerality and velvety tannins. Needs some air but that long finish tells me it will stick the landing. — 5 months ago
Olivey and mineral, complex and juicy and so clean, so so clean, grippy and elegant and so so sappy, stunning purity and mineral, airy and mineral, amazing finesse and complexity and so so refined and fine. long and supple! red fruited and olivey and so so elegant, 9.8? Yes! so so juicy and clean. wonderful.
— a year ago
A very nice sweet, tart and easy white to drink in the hot summer time — a year ago
Probably the bottle, not the producer. — a year ago
Did I just have this in January? Yup! lol. Anyway nose is young and grapey. Super young. Dark berry and bright red berry fruit. Maybe some pomegranate? Really unique nose. Good syrah sweetness. Palate also young and grapey. But elegant and meaty as all can be. Charcuterie, rich dark berry fruit, super concentrated and just so young but has energy, freshness and acidity. Needs mega air. I’ll be back. Nose becomes more civilized with air and settles into spiced dark berries. Palate is so gamey, so olives and so feral. Really wild St. Jo. — 2 years ago
Matt Austin
Owner/Winemaker, Grosgrain Vineyards, Walla Walla, WA
In the zone. — 11 days ago