Matthew Cohen

9.4

Nose is gorgeous. Like a mountain air flowing over a field of tropical flowers. Beautiful. A hint of opulence but perfectly integrated and so elegant. Wow.

Palate is mineral. Light integrated fruit. Delicious. Lacks the density to be better than this but good I love this. Blind might have guessed savoie but doesn’t have that pine thing. But it’s that elegant. So clean and perfect. Seamless.

Long finish. Like drinking fresh cold creek water after a long hot hike.

This is insane for 30 minutes and then just very good afterwards. Not a wine to sit with methinks.

Bought from fass selections. — a day ago

Kevin Cahoon

9.1

Fresh nose with lemon peel, waxy pear and a touch of spice. Richly textured but still has a sense of focus with pear and orange fruit tones. — 20 days ago

Lee Pitofsky

9.4

Chave 2000 Hermitage Blanc showed just as well as the bottle I had earlier this year. I have such an appreciation for Rhône Blanc especially from the greats like Chave and Rayas. This 2000 is really in the zone showing layers of rich unctuous spiced orchard fruit, grilled nuts, brown butter and honeysuckle with superb length and persistence. — a month ago

Aaron Rankin

9.2

Honey color. Nose gives waxy lychee and golden apple. Texturally soft and round. Finish lingers asymptotically. — 13 days ago

Fredybeans

9.1

Belle marsanne sans presence du bois intempestif
J aime bien — 16 days ago

Taavi Davies

8.9

Vanilla and cream, developing into green fruits and minerality — at WineNot — 13 days ago

T. Berghaus

9.1

Orange, melon, minerals on the mid palate — 14 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.2

Mostly Marsanne and this clocks in at a whopping 15%! Nose is rich and ripe. Very pure. Fascinating Marsanne minerality. Buttery but high end French buttery. Smells big. Palate is quite elegant and shows less heat than the 14.5% Viognier. It’s still there but this is rich and dense for sure but also playful and light at the same time. Very juicy, lovely freshness and as the wine opens it retains more freshness and the heat goes away. Marsanne handles alcohol much better than Viognier. Nose gets much more refined and elegant as it airs out and wow that finish is super long. Really well made. Teetering between 9.2 and 9.3 right now. I’ll see where air brings this . — 15 days ago

Carter White

9.1

Full bodied, vibrant. — 19 days ago

Al Doyle

8.9

New release is actually 50% Grenache Blanc, 50% Marsanne… from languedoc but at a high elevation so surprisingly crisp and delicate, but still with a bit of an unbalanced floral edge that isn’t totally up my particular alley. — 11 days ago