Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.8

Late-disgorged sparkling apple cider from the old Basel style, 6.8% alcohol. My God, this is fine. The mousse is on the level of elite Champagne: creamy, precise, persistent and unbelievably elegant. Unreal apple flavors, but also real balance, purity and depth. The late disgorgement gives it a deeper bass note than the regular cuvée, while keeping the wine lifted, fresh and crystalline. Krug with apples. Remarkable. @Delectable Wine this is the “Late Disgorged.” — 5 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

Superb. Brambly cherries, glorious spice and Alpine love. Really airy and expansive. Palate is full of minerals and energy. Gorgeous cherry fruit that is so pure and sapid. Velvety tannins that are so well knit. Needs air but this is a superstar. The texture became so creamy but it didn’t sacrifice its minerality. — 6 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

10

A perfect bottle of this wine. A true emotional experience. Can go toe to toe with any top white wine in the world. And it’s Sauvignon Blanc! Best bottle ever of this and wine of the trip so far. — 2 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

Graves meets Switzerland. Love this wine. Pungent nose of mystifying alpine scents. Greengage, grass, hay, wild flowers. Some grapefruit. Yellow not pink. Such purity to the aromas. Smells like you outside in the cleanest Swiss field ever. Palate is massive, concentrated and so pure. Tiny berry fruit intensity. Fruits are apple, apricot and some gooseberry. So textured. Rich but light on its feet. Great acids and structure. Long finish. Grassy on the palate as well with such distinctive minerality. This will likely benefit from 2-3 years of age. — 4 years ago

Matthew Cohen

9.2

Nice fruit. Nicely balanced and mineral.

Bought from fass selections — 7 years ago

Carsten Rudolph

8.9

Weissburgunder — 8 years ago

Ely Cohn

9.2

Flinty, smokey, charred lemon and seashell. Full boat of texture and concentrated flavor + acid. Action and amplitude in every direction. — 4 months ago

Matthew Cohen

9.5

A quite interesting wine.

Nose: yellow flowers. A tinge of oxidation but pleasantly so.

Palate : yellow delicious but in a good way. Delicious. Dense. Long. Great acidity. It has this elegant dense richness. This roundness on the palate. Nutty. Toasted almond.

Fass selections — 6 months ago

Mark S.

9.0

Rich fruity with some bitterness. Wiengut Jauslin Muttenz Gutedel = Shasselas from Basel @7029, Dmar, 241007 — 2 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

Gorgeous aromas. Mid season sweet cherry fruit, spices, some gorgeous sweet oak, wet earth, florals and aromas that penetrate deep in the nasal cavity. Almost some barely ripe blackberry and cassis. Really a whole world of difference than last August. Just silly good aromas. Palate is ripe and juicy with a lithe, silky texture. Awesome purity and balance and such haunting delicacy. Sweet fruit and so nimble this is shockingly great. I vastly underrated this last time. Sweet, lithe and ripe tannins. This is stunning and achingly beautiful. 9.6 for now. Let’s see what air does to this. — 3 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

One of the best Swiss Pinot Noirs. Just a stunning stunning example. Nose is all woodland berries, mountain spice, insane florals and sweet herbals and unreal mountain cherry. So alpine and floral. Captivating and enveloping aromas. Plum skin as well that is so so fine. Stunning purity, breadth and detail the nose. Enchanted forest floor aromas. Keeps changing and changing. Just stunning. 9.6 or 9.7 on the nose. Smell like Grand Cru Burgundy. ZOMG the palate. Insane fruit and sweetness. So sweet and so intense. Wow. Mid to late season red and black cherries. Just so elegant and pure. Suave and chewy but silken tannins and impossible length. Just sickness. So long. Endless. Sappy and noble. There is a very serious and substantial structure here. This is truly amazing wine. Better than the 15. Needs air and I’ll be back. 9.6 for now.

After air the texture on this is truly stunning. So velvety. Amazing sweetened and no hard edges. Nose has so much Burgundian sous bous now and really is in Clos Vougeot territory. Brilliant. An elite wine. This is very close to a 9.7 but not quite. Only age is holding it back now. — 5 years ago

Christina Colman

9.3

Smells like champagne, tastes like juice — 9 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

Absolutely phenomenal. Black raspberry, black cherry, white tea, flowers, some red currant. Stellar aromas. Unique. The palate is teeming with energy. Juicy, and slathering minerals. Velvety tannins but also substantial. This needs to flesh out but the underlying everything is brilliant. After 19 hours open the nose is softer and more expressive. Really a lipstick like intensity and just evolved so much overnight. Loads of Alpine spices. Palate is so round now but still has that energy and that barely there sweetness. Juicy and clean. Wonderful. 9.4 to 9.5. — 5 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.8

Puligny Referts made from apples. — 7 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

Wide open, saline, flowers, minerals and so expressive. Fantastic juiciness and sap. Super mineral and so engaging. Long finish. mineral, energy is off the charts, good dry extract and so so fresh. Sappy and dense but elegant. — 2 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

Beautiful nose of earthen scents, mid season cherry fruit, wild flowers, alpine grass and some sort of umami scents. Seems like it has more to give. Palate is fresh as a daisy with crazy energy and superb dark cherry fruit that really sticks to the palate. Terrific finish that clamps down. Awesome. A new value Pinot from Ziereisen’s Swiss project. Deep and ripe tannins and a lovey rusticity as well. Gorgeous minerals awash the finish along with loads of black cherry fruit. This is fantastic wine. Gets very chewy with air. But man the fruit here is extraordinary.

@Delectable Wine made a mistake. This is Riehen L’Unique Pinot Noir. Thanks. — 4 years ago

Helen M Gaydos

9.4

Nervy bright with aromas and flavors of bing cherry and earth. Just lovely enjoyed with Sea Bream in the country of origin, Switzerland. — 7 years ago

with Mark

Stanley Lipkin

9.2

Raspberry, smoke, and definitely black pepper. Less fruit than a Williamette, more pepper than a Beaune. Very good. Food friendly. — 9 years ago