Abbas Zand

9.0

Full bodied dry red wine. High alcohol 14.5%. Medium+ intensity, deep red color. Aromas and flavors of black cherry and blackberries. Earthy, spicy notes of cinnamon and clove, dried herbs. Medium+ tannins. Long complex finish.
$35
92% cab, w/ malbec, petite sirah, Petit verdot, and syrah. — 2 months ago

Michael Amoruso

9.0

2023. Unoaked. Just plain delicious. — 7 months ago

Mimi Diamond

9.2

I really liked it. Great with steak. Easy to drink and a great price at Publix. — 8 months ago

Roger Custer

9.0

Nice Bordeaux blend from upstate New York. We aerated the first day and it added color. — 3 years ago

Kiley Hickman

8.9

Pleasant, smooth, very fruity. — 2 months ago

Des Adams

9.3

Beaver lake beer wine and spirits $5 cooking wine sale. Can't remember if we aerated it — 4 months ago

Kim Younggi

9.8

가격대비 무겁고 좋다. — 7 months ago

Vinod Peris

9.0

Garnet colored with long legs. Aromas of cherry and anise. Dry and a tad acidic, with a nice mouth puckering finish. This is my kind of red wine! — a year ago

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.3

There is an origins story for me w/ this producer. You can read about it by clicking my post from 55 weeks ago.

This bottle fazed between 92-94 while enjoying. I opened it and let it breathe in bottle for 45 minutes and then decanted it in stages…a 1/3, 1/3 & 1/3. I believe that was the right decision.

This 97 still has not ridden off into the sunset, it is just the other side of its peak. 28 yrs from creation & 26 yrs in bottle. I look at a Cabernet/reds from when it went into bottle vs its birth yr. All my opening decisions are made from that point. Humans don’t count their time in womb, I see wine similarly.

The fruits are still beautiful & its evolution is amazing. There is a core of dark currants surrounded by cassis. Ripe; blackberries, black raspberries, black plum with heavy skin, black cherries, secondary; raspberries, dark cherries & strawberries. Cherry cola/licorice. Dark spices w/ a touch of heat-hard to find better, moist clays, soft, layered baking spices-clove, nutmeg, cinnamon & vanillin, dark chocolate baking bar, mocha powder, caramel, anise to black licorice, dryish tobacco with ash, used leather, dry crushed rocks, limestone powder, volcanic ash, fire ambers, saline, some black pepper, tumbleweed, dry river stone, black tea, very lightly grilled pork, florals for days that are; dark, red, blue, lavender framed in violets, perfect acidity with a great balance, well structured/tensioned, elegant finish that lasts minutes and falls on dry earth & spice as it long sets. Wonderful style!

To quote Robert Lewis Stevenson, “Wine is Bottled Poetry!” — 2 months ago

Peter Heyboer

9.0

Jammy dark fruit, some barrel aromas and flavors. Pretty complex and enough tannin to keep you from getting overwhelmed. Great sipper for the price point! Would buy again. — 8 months ago

with Matthew, Ethan and 2 others