Randy Fuller

9.3

This wine is cloudy in appearance with a peach-like tint to it. The nose is complex, with notes of watermelon rind, pineapple, green apple, and citrus. The palate is savory and tart. There are flavors of sour cherry, apricot, Meyer lemon, and pineapple juice. A cloak of salinity wraps around the flavor package. This is one of the more interesting wines I’ve tasted lately. I don’t know if it’s for everyone, but it is for me. I would like to pair it with a shrimp salad or even have it with an eggs-and-sausage brunch. Breakfast, even, if you don’t have to go to work. — 4 days ago

Ericsson

9.3

Well. These vintages are becoming rarer and rarer now that Beyoncé and Jay Z popularize it. Plum, graphite, tobacco on the nose. Poised and elegant on the palate, with silky fruit, fine grain tannins and a minera edge to it 👌🏻 — 10 months ago

Michal Rosenn

9.1

dusty, plummy, ripe pinot that finishes with a peppy bite. really enjoyed this — 5 years ago

Byron Hewett

9.2

Light PN. Cranberry, cherry, minerally on the finish. Rather Burgundian. — 6 years ago

Erik Ullvin

9.2

Gott, men sött. — 8 years ago

speedy duncan

9.0

A toast to Mr. Benson — 8 years ago

Benjamin Hickey

9.0

Very fresh and clean. VERY easy drinking. — 9 years ago

J gutz

9.7

Delicious! — 5 months ago

Stuart Pollack

9.6

A beauty. Sweet wine perfect with Thai food. Mix of white fruits all balanced together with peach, apricot, pineapple, and lychee notes. Intensely aromatic nose that could be smelled across the table. — 10 months ago

Josh Morgenthau

9.3

Completely unique. Rieslingesque in its fruit, minerality and transparency. With a rhone-like texture, relatively subdued acid and a tropical hint on the nose. Very interesting; a little too sweet for food right now. — 5 years ago

Severn G

9.1

Still a decent bottle, prior notes apply. — 6 years ago

Shay A

9.4

The owners of Hobel Wines came to town and put on a nice tasting, while also detailing their history. Very nice people and wines. They make two wines, both Cabernets from Calistoga. TRB is the winemaker.

I preferred this over The Figure. This could be a dead ringer for a Rivers-Marie Cabernet. TRB signature style of showing the entire fruit spectrum...raspberries, black cherry, blueberries. Dark cocoa in the middle showing a finish that turned more herbal and savory. Really enjoyable. — 7 years ago

Peter Isacksen

9.0

LOVED IT!!! — 9 years ago

Ericsson

9.7

Mariano García’s final vintage at Vega Sicilia. What a great bottle.

The nose opens with damp forest floor, leather, cedar, and quiet red fruit; subtle, reserved, endlessly composed.

On the palate, it’s silk laid gently over structure: dried cherry, tobacco, graphite, and savory earth carried by fine-grain tannins and measured acidity.

The finish reads like the final lines of a great novel: inevitable, complete, and exactly as it should be. And already, there’s a touch of nostalgia, because I don’t know when I’ll encounter something like this again. — 7 months ago

Jerry Raphael

9.0

Very smooth and easy to drink. Had some hard candy notes on the nose and taste. — 2 years ago

Gunja Gargeshwari

9.0

Pleasant - a palate opener for the night but not outstanding. — 5 years ago

Richard Perlman

9.1

Better than it was two years ago — 6 years ago

Brandon Boesch

9.0

Complete funk. Tons of herbs and a hint of fruit. It was a little too natural for my liking. — 7 years ago

Richard Sohn

9.3

Fruity, floral. Notably sweet with minimal burn despite 50% abv. — 9 years ago

Chris Opdyke

9.2

That hits the spot. — 9 years ago