Steve Reiss

9.1

Friday night at The Pony Club - Paso Robles — 10 months ago

Scott E. Becker

9.2

[Tasted on December 9, 2022 at Home with Tom and Kathy]

Purchased wine during visit to the winery’s tasting room in Los Olivos in 2021. Red fruit with graphite, mushroom and spice. Silky and rounded. Burgundian in style. — 2 years ago

Scott E. Becker

9.2

[Tasted on November 6, 2021 at Husk in Nashville with the Joel Isenstein and Linda Nathenson]

Purchased wine during visit to tasting room in Los Olivos, California in October of 2021. Raspberry, pomegranate, minerality, nutmeg spice and a hint of orange peel. Nice structure and acidity. Paired well with food. — 3 years ago

Matthew Lipson

8.9

Needs time to open up. Solid. — 4 years ago

Ines Mitishita

9.5

Vinho delicado, tranquilo, fácil de beber, frutas vermelhas, madeira sutil, com notas de pimenta, amora. Taninos equilibrado. Cinco segundos retrogosto. — a year ago

Matt Austin

Owner/Winemaker, Grosgrain Vineyards, Walla Walla, WA

9.3

From a 16 acre vineyard in the hills of Bel Air. Probably the most expensive vineyard property in the US. It’s currently owned by Rupert Murdoch, but this is from before his purchase in 2013. This is legit good. Much better than any Malibu wines I’ve had. 13.8 listed alcohol and fairly restrained style. Let’s rip down all of those mansions and plant some grapes! — 3 years ago

RJ Stefanski

9.0

Seductive, medium bodied Chardonnay with tropical fruit and a dollop of oak imparting toasted coconut notes. A tasty single vineyard treat at $29.

More info: ABC farms plots in the best area of the huge Alamos vineyard (500 acres) which is in the northern section on the Solomon Hills. — 4 years ago

Chris N

9.0

S&C 🔀 sharp, fruity and mellow after tones. — 2 years ago

Vanessa

9.1

Dang, this wine has such a unique, complex expression, hopping across layered aroma and flavor categories! It’s a 2014 Rogue Vine, Grand Itata Tinto, Los Amigos Red Blend hailing from the granite hills of ITATA in Southern Chile.

This wine is made with 95% Cinsault and 5% Pais varieties, coming from organically grown, dry-farmed (no irrigation), bush-trained vines that are over 60 years old!!

This wine has a pale ruby hue with secondary garnet influences.

On the nose, it has developing, intense aromas of black cherry, strawberry, anise, mint, eucalyptus, potpourri, clove, black olive, rooibos tea, tobacco, cigar, peat moss, and leather.

On the palate this wine is dry, it has medium acidity, medium alcohol (12.8%), a medium body, medium(-) tannins, and medium(+) intensity in flavors consistent with the nose. The finish lingers.

I love that this wine is the product of a fierce passion, shared by friends (and friends of friends), who have committed themselves to producing expressive Itata wines that are gulpably delicious! Salud! — 2 years ago

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Neil Valenzuela

9.0

Drive by this winery all the time-located on Bear Creek Road in the Los Gatos Hills - Pale ruby color. Aromas of cherry, violets and baking spices. Gorgeous flavors of cherry and those baking spices at the finish. — 4 years ago