Jay Kline

9.6

And then this happened. Oh my days! Opened prior to dinner and enjoyed over the course of a few hours. The 1990 pours a deep garnet color with a translucent core; medium viscosity with moderate staining of the tears and some sediment. On the nose, the wine is vinous with notes of powerful ripe and desiccated brambles, dried purple flowers, beef blood, leather and mushrooms and earth. On the palate, the wine is dry and structure is still going strong with medium+ tannin and medium+ acid. Confirming the notes from the nose, to quote “Squints”, the finish goes on, FOR-EV-ER. A monument. Drink now through 2040. — 3 months ago

Lars Fischer

10

What a monument. Thanks Christian 😍 — 4 years ago

with Corinna

Enrico Nicoletta

9.5

A monument to Sangiovese!!! — 6 years ago

Jay Ciccarelli

9.4

Light colored almost coral like. The grip , length, depth and layers. Tanins are still young and clearly this wine still has many years of youth. Not even bowing its age. It’s so subtle and non agressive you could mistaken it for being a lesser wine but you see the power and longevity will reward it with depth and complexity. Not showing its potential yet but nonetheless a monument to Barolo. — 7 years ago

Gavin Baum

9.6

What can you say about a wine like this? I don't think there's any arguing that if nothing else it constitutes an incredible feat of engineering and basic human ingenuity. Dry extract is absolutely off the charts; fruit is borderline jammy but somehow still vibrant and succulent; and the structure is at once dense enough to cause a mild histamine reaction (not a frequent occurence for me) yet utterly silken in texture. It's incredible. Truly incredible. But frankly, nothing about this wine tastes like it came from this earth. Every sensory element of its overall gestalt is so exaggerated in scale as to seem utterly unnatural. It's cyborg wine. It performs all the tasks we expect of wine better than any natural wine ever could and yet there's no beauty to it. I'm scoring this highly because as a winemaker and vineyard manager I can only begin to conceive of the astronomical sums and herculean effort involved in producing such a monument to oenological wizardry. But when it comes to wine, all the money in the world can't buy a soul. — 7 years ago

C R

9.5

Un monument. This is superb, rich yet fresh and balanced, white flowers and apricot, some buttered notes. This is the white. — 8 years ago

Joe Fischer

9.4

An excellent Pinot Noir with notes of blackberry, minerality, pine, and forest floor. On the bud, it’s enriched with raspberry, black cherry, and stewed fruits. Very smooth with a long finish. — 7 months ago

Peter van den Besselaar

9.3

Vintage 2011| An absolute monument of balance and elegance, só beautiful. Honey and hay in smell. Acidity and sweetness nicely balanced, hurray for Chenin Blanc | paired with a baked apple and vanilla sauce — 4 years ago

Peter James

10

Prob my fav Chardonnay of the year! — 4 years ago

Benjamin Wegman

9.6

Marvelous diner, brilliant wine. Feeling special while drinking. Monument. — 7 years ago

with Alain

Vijay Parikh

9.6

This took a while (four plus hours of Audoze style airing) to open up. A monument to complexity favoring those with patience — 7 years ago

Raul Puga

9.1

2002 vintage in honor of my sons 16th birthday!!!! Great fruit with a smooth finish — 8 years ago

Yi-Fen Li

9.4

Fun Hugo🍾 paired with diffusing VR 💣s and exploring Monument Valley’s Land’s End — 8 years ago

with Clarke and Matthew

Gilbert Van Hassel

9.5

Monument, wow. Needs a lot more to line in the cellar. — a year ago

Barny

9.4

Don‘t drink Riesling more often times not too young , a Saar monument — 2 years ago

Heather Rostker

9.4

Wonderful for an evening after a long day visiting Cabrilllo National Monument. At Barbarella restaurant in La Jolla Shores. — 4 years ago

with Dave

Brett Rogosin

9.1

The better of the bunch. At 7 years old it developed the best so far and held its structure. I’ve come to find Byron drinks better in the near term. Nose of cherry, cinnamon, a touch of clove, and tree bark. This one still may have life left...the tannins hit the outside rim of the tongue and acidity coats the entire top, rushing down the sides. It drinks light to medium and was nice with a slight chill. The palate hits with cinnamon, clove and cherry again. There’s a little dry earth, crimini mushroom element that pops up in the finish. Tasty stuff. — 6 years ago

David Kline

9.3

What a pleasant gose! Lively, frothy and full of energy! Lime, tangerine, rhubarb, mild grapefruit, green strawberry and grape Bottlecap candy. Tangy rhubarb and slightly riper strawberry blossom on the palate with a dry lime finish and a briny mesh that blankets the mouth in cozy, lazy afternoon comfort. It is literally the polar opposite of the label, which features a scary freigeist ghost‘freespirit’, and a seemingly haunted tower/monument in shadow. I’m sure there’s irony baked into this! Have a ghostly good time in the hot sun...or hell. — 7 years ago

Isaiah Estell

8.9

Monument of dust when open. Came around quickly, showing the requisite dry spice and earthy elegance expected. Very subtle on palate, not a lot of concentration, still with great harmony between fine tannin and fading acidity. Nicely mature, much more developed on day 2. — 8 years ago

Dylan Thomas

9.1

Drinking with Heath, Dennis Rodman (broken dick), Kim Jong-un and Donald Fucking Trump. The simulation is going berserk. — 8 years ago