Matthew Cohen

9.8

N: class. Breeding. Smells expensive. Deep but not over the top. Pencil shavings. Peeking florals. More as it opens.

P: silky. Perfect sweet cherry fruit. Hint of bitter. Delicious. But elegant. Long. Juicy.

Grapevine 285 — 3 months ago

Matthew Cohen

9.8

Nose: pink roses. Intense. Laser like.

Palate : a wow wine. Balanced. — a year ago

Erik Longabardi

9.3

Juranuary — 2 years ago

Nicole Ruiz Hudson

9.0

N: peppery raspberry sauce with lots of garrigue and a few wild flowers.
P: starts out with ripe, rich fruit notes balanced by savory herbs, with pencil lead and stones on the finish.
Had with kibbeh and mezze spread. The allspice in the kibbeh brought out attractive spice notes in the wine, and vice versa. Similarly spoke the paprika on the hummus.

I really like this cdr, Greg liked it less.
#sample — 5 years ago

Matt

9.0

Honey nut cheerios, juicy apple, sweet herbs, dough, chalk. There’s a honeyed note to it all and a nice chewy texture. It finishes short, but the snapshot of an aged champagne is there. I liked the strong autolytic components. Thought the dosage seemed about right, curious if less would bring more length or vice versa. Bottles 4/2000; 7/2018 disgorgement: 3.5 g/l dosage — 6 years ago

Bob McDonald

9.1

Better than expected for a Barossa Cabernet Sauvignon. I have traditionally thought that Barossa is best suited to Shiraz and Coonawarra better for Cabernet but obviously there are occasions where vice versa applies. Proper Cabernet descriptors of Mint Tomato Leaf and Blackberry. Oak is there but in balance with the ripe fruit with fine persistent tannins. All round a good effort. — 7 years ago

Matthew Cohen

9.5

N: herbs. Cigar box. Muted. Gorgeous. Elegant florals.

P: perfect early to mid season cherry. Clingy. Still some tannins. So bright. Hint bitter.

Grapevine 285 — 3 months ago

Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

9.6

2023 vintage. Tasted via Coravin. Love me some SLD cabbage. Medium-medium heavy body. Earthy, loamy, cocoa powdery nose. Striated richness throughout with sleek raspberry and baking chocolate accents. Wow. Phenomenal shizz. Picked up a 3-pack. Top 5 Napa new vintage cab tasted in 2025 (and tasted waay too many new Best In Show wannabe's this year). 09.25.25. — 9 months ago

Ellen Clifford

9.2

Whoa Nelly that’s a nose! Potent as being nosed out of sleep by my cat in the morning (ps I lied and told him that Xinomavro the grape was named after him, not vice versa). Full of dark red cherry, pepper, herbs (the wine not my cat, he’s just full of Fancy Feast) the palate echos the nose bringing in an amaro-esque element. I want more! — 3 years ago

leon egozi

9.4

Very nice tasting with Patrice and Samantha- they are producing some great juice! — 5 years ago

Philip Deibel

9.1

Very enjoyable Pinot. Great depth with restrained ripeness. — 6 years ago

ADAM STROMFELD

9.9

Meaty nose. Milk chocolate on the palate. Absolutely perfect balance and red berries. A mouthful of red cherries and tobacco. Again, with Maayan - what an experience!! He is the “Man” in Napa!!! — 7 years ago

with Howard, Frank and 5 others

Lev Lavrichtchev

9.3

October 2018: Nose is excellent, palate still young, wait 5 yrs? Revisited, another bottle opened Oct 14, 2020, Slow ox 1 hour in the bottle. Very mature, off peak, in blind tasting was mistakenly identified as its brother, Case Mate 1998, the former being very mature with nice nose and black fruits - as the Case Mate presumingly should be - while the latter showed up very young and more towards red fruits. Presumably, should have been vice versa. What a turnaround - 2 years between the two bottles opened! Drink Up! — 8 years ago

Matthew Cohen

9.6

N: muted. Complex. Pink roses. Floral.

P: silky tanins. Really juicy. Long. Almost sweet tart. Hint rubber.

Grapevine 285 — 3 months ago

Matthew Cohen

9.3

N: pink roses. Gorgeous.

P: elegant licorice. Spice. Some rubber. Precise fruit.

Grapevine $99 on 1 case. — 3 months ago

Matthew Cohen

9.6

Nose: pink roses.

Palate: elegant. Silky blackberries. Amazing. Such balance. — a year ago

Nicola Morvillo

9.1

On 20-11-21 La Versa Testarossa 2003 degorgiato iv trimestre 2011 — 5 years ago

Martijn

9.7

Its not that often that wine and food really elevate each other but this Chadwick 2008 and Beef with home made Stroganoff was a match made in heaven.
The pepper and sweets in the wine pushed the sauce next level and vice versa. — 6 years ago

Scott Kahn

8.9

Soft bouquet gives way to a rich glass of complexity. Dark red fruit, tannic rightness, and Smokey barrel notes. Likely good for years to come. — 6 years ago

Howard Greenfield

9.5

Stood up to the big boys!!! — 7 years ago