David Kline

9.0

State of Brewing, Wisconsin. Oatmeal stout.

Almost-black stout with a nuclear head that sizzles in brownish red. Mangrove root lacings turn leaping, pulled taffy reindeer. Chocolate nose shows a slight bent of minty, below molasses and rich coffee. Palate shows pecan and coffee bean, allspice and nutmeg in abundance, but somehow is the perfect ramp up to calendar finale. I am too exhausted to doubt it.


#stateofbrewing #wisconsinbeer #wibeer #stout #darkbeer #oatmeslstout #beer #bier #biere #birra #cerveza — 4 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

I use NV because this is a 2010/2011 blend. The nose is bonkers. Herbs, sweet Mosel slate. Oh the good slate on this nose. Oh what herbs. This smells not like your normal tarted up Auslese. This smells serious and aged and also young. 🙃some mint, some menthol. Gorgeous. It’s deep, floral, a hint of honey and so so pure, detailed and vivid. Wow. Insane honeyed depth as it opens. Palate is so refined but then a lemon nuclear blast of acid and then so many rocks and lime. Wow! This is incredible. So precise. But that blast of acid then straight into the acid lemon lime electricity on LSD is some Ken Kesey shit. Wow. This wine is crazy. The finish is remarkable. This is a force of nature in vinous form. — 4 years ago

Matthew Cohen

9.4

So this is totally not the kind of wine i normally drink. Super Tuscan but from Montalcino. Big big blackberry fruits. Spice. Some richness. Blackberry candy a bit in the nose but in a good way. As it opens that turns to sick awesome licorice Palate soaking from the fruit. Like a basket of concentrated blackberries exploded in your mouth. Gorgeous nuclear spice all over. Delicious but not exactly elegant. But it’s insanely juicy and fresh despite the 7 years and density. Color is black as night. I’d take this over almost every blingy bolgheri I’ve had at 2-4 times the price. Maybe all of them. Think about it. A super Tuscan from the sexiest terroir in Tuscany.

This is 7 years old and has some sediment. A careful decant is strongly recommended.

This needs 60-90 minutes to optimize.

Bought from fass selections. — 5 years ago

Dave Mayers

9.2

Grand Finale bottle with Madi in NYC. Had high hopes for throttle given the vintage but didn’t really have the fruit for it to hold up. Searing acid and nuclear reduction which I love but just savory notes. — 8 months ago

Ely Cohn

9.1

Wabi-sabi is nuclear sour lemon then cool salted butter cream. The acid to the base. Piercing citrus at levels that stiffen nose hairs and burn the back of your tongue. A creamy malo blanket cools you off.

Mix of mostly Chenin, with Sauvignon Blanc and Muscat to round her out.

Lemon, key lime, green herbs. — 4 years ago

David Kline

8.9

Volatile number, with a nuclear mousse; big whipped cocoa pudding top pumping up like a volcanic island. Zero lacing, despite marathon persistence. Herbal jasmine and lavender in chocolate with black pepper scents. Orange peel, Cuba libre, ginger, and Old Spice-allspice. Finesse mouthfeel turns beef Bourgogne iron skillet de glace. There is a soy sauced tofu element, complete with green onion and black mushrooms. Not at all what I imagined, yeasty-malty salty-sluice-y and a real anomaly. This damned hairy ape! Is it even from this planet? — 5 years ago

TwiLea Fletcher

9.1

06/08/22
Tasting #4
What’s the difference between a fist fight and nuclear war? Not a thing if it’s Don Suhr. — 2 years ago

with Neal

Mark Flesher

9.5

With family roots to BV over decades of winemaking, the style shows in this wine. A black fruit dominant wine. The finish on this wine makes SURE you don't miss the Rutherford dust, as it is ABUNDANT. For someone wanting to learn about Classic Napa and, further, classic Rutherford wine, **THIS** is the wine to serve. This wine is right on par with Wm. Harrison for Rutherford gem deluxe. And crafted in the nuclear style. This one can hold for 20 years easily. Well done Raymond and Steve. Fantstic Napa cab. — 4 years ago

Erik Sjolund

9.1

Still a very complex n HUGE wine w the pleasant but HUGE oak aling the apply fruit n slme minerality. Good bubbly - of the nuclear type. — 5 years ago

Brian Grech

9.1

Still tight. Wait another 5-8 years. Cherries, anise, black tea and a ton of grip. Cherry cola on the nose. Medium fruit, medium body, nuclear tannins, high acid, and high alcohol at 14.5%. With Eleonora and Michael — 5 years ago

with Ashley