Paul J

9.1

Dark gold color with ever so subtle orange hues. Past prime and slightly oxidized. Mammoth wine! Caramel and stone fruits dominate. Not bad by any means. Decant and Drink up soon. — a year ago

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Paul J

9.3

Very dark colored wine. Fruit forward with ample sweetness. Huge depth and a mammoth wine. Definitely drinking young. — 4 years ago

Paul J

9.1

1hr+ decant. Dark maroon color. Nose is very unique with massive olives and prunes. Wine has mammoth depth with more olives, prunes, chocolate, and subtle oak. Medium plus finish and awesome texture. Very CDP like, which isn’t my style. Some cohort will find this amazing, so selling my other two bottles. — 5 years ago

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Matthew Cohen

9.6

@delectable Quarantadue means 42 in Italian. This is the 45 which is quarantacinque. There is another wine called quarantadue 42 but this is not it.

For those of you who are not drinking rattalino you are missing out big time. This is one of the more mammoth wines. Nose is black cherry tar and a hint of rose. Super complex. Palate is just starting to shift from young vibrant fruit to darker fruit with leather. Still has great balance. Long. Grippy. Great structure. A big dense wine but a balanced one. Some rose juice on the finish. Wow. Bought from fass selections. — 7 years ago

Matthew Cohen

9.4

Wood has integrated. An absolute monster. Mammoth fruit minerality and acidity. Juicy as heck. Internal aromatics just go on and on. — 8 years ago

Aaron Means

9.2

Big, big, and did I say big? Needs a tomahawk chop to hold up to this mammoth of a wine. — 9 years ago

Ian Blackburn

9.5

The problem for this wine is that it is understated....typically sitting next to monsters of mammoth proportion this wine will not impressed you're overwhelmed pallet. And unfortunately at $2600 a bottle you want to be overwhelmed. My suggestion is you drink it next to great burgundy and champagne .... this wine has wonderful structure and wins over the hearts and minds of critics with its poise-restraint-balance-and dare I say finesse even though it has 14.8 alcohol which is higher than normal for this one. But it is a very dependable and predictable profile which I enjoy and carefully frame - but I also enjoy tasting it next to the beasts especially with great food like we enjoyed at Gwen Restaurant Best bottle dinner hosted by wineLA on 2.8.17 - The eagle was singing but definitely not screaming — 9 years ago

Peter Sultan

9.2

A mammoth, chiseled beast of a wine that really needs extensive decanting and/or aging. Despite a modest decant, imagine am tasting a tease of its true potential. — a year ago

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Paul J

9.0

Mammoth wine! Very young and deep. Dark purple color with lots of vanilla and oak. Candied, dark fruit that covers the palate with a nice texture. Reminds me of the wines we had in Croatia. — 3 years ago

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Aubrey Rivera

9.1

pleasant, not overly bitter. rich and bold but with a smooth blend of flavor. shared with campfire and burgers in mammoth cave national park! — 5 years ago

Matthew Cohen

9.5

On open the nose is mammoth. Immense spice. Cherry. Wow

Palate is dense cherry. Spice. Delicious. So good. Delicious. Salivatory. Juicy as all get out.

Bought from fass selections — 5 years ago

Michael T McAlhaney

8.9

A mammoth wine with dark berries and ripe bramble fruit. — 8 years ago

Rich Bluth

9.0

Perfect wine with Mammoth Creek trout! — 9 years ago

Igor Beron

9.1

Really tight and firm structure. Concentration is there, showing fruit, garrigue, chinoto and crushed rocks. Really interesting structure although bitterness my throw some people off. — 9 years ago

Tom Casagrande

9.2

@Delectable Wine - This is the Halbtrocken. Color looks like permafrost-preserved wooly mammoth piss. In a good way. Unique style to say the least. Nose has loads of tart green apple, a sprightly herbal note, and pungent crushed stone. Very dry for a Halbrtrocken. Zingy acids and a flume of minerality. Amazingly youthful. — 2 years ago

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Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

Oh man! Big woolly Chenin nose. Wow. Electric Kool Aid with wool electric cut. Wow. A mammoth electrified. Some almonds, Meyer lemon as well. Super refined and elegant nose. So clean. Wow. Just Rieslingesque Chenin. Palate is immaculate. Perfect texture, balance and lithe concentration and almost a tannic impression on the back end. So sappy and pure. Brilliant finesse. Wow. This is drop dead. Super wine. Wow. Has 10+ years to go. Super lemony and no lack of acid. Long long finish. Dynamite. — 4 years ago

Okamura Seisho

9.5

流石62021(紀元前4000年) もののワイン。神秘な感じの味わい、いつの間にか杯が進みます。
開栓直後からこなれた感じの丸み、とは言え古臭さもなく。 — 5 years ago

Chris Rodgers

9.0

Fruity and sweet and really refreshing — 7 years ago

Ara Aslanian

9.7

An amazing find in the village at Mammoth Lakes, nothing short of spectacular. — 8 years ago

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David Kline

9.0

Black as electronic death. The head spills slowly to the surface from the darkness and at the same tempo, returns like a mammoth to its tar pit. The caramel brittle releases French roast coffee between the cracks and mocha follows. Campfire pecan shells and hazelnuts shine. Easy entry malts initially coat the palate with vanilla and dark sugar, but they are tempered by iron filings and burnt coffee, chicory, nutmeg and clove and bitter almond. There is a nasty streak to the vulcanized wall of bitter chocolate burnt to a crisp. Additional sipping helps, providing sweetness, but the streak persists like the bubbly burnt remains of a truck stop decanter. Almost tannic in nature. #founders #oatmeal #stout #breakfastofchampions #truckstopbabies #chocolatebeer #coffeemalt #chocolatefountain #mamadroveatruck — 9 years ago

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