Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Nose is ripe with late season red cherries. Spice, earth. Wet earth and tweed jacket. Really spectacular fruit on the nose. Almost a cola like intensity but it’s all Burg fruit. Terrific aromas. Really nice layered spices beyond that. Almost middle eastern. Juicy and so concentrated with such sappy and pure fruit. Man what amazing fruit here. So long and slippery. Really open now but will develop. More 22’s I taste more I have to pat myself on the back for making the call these would be open when they landed. Not one closed 22 so far. Fantastic wine. — 10 days ago

Daniel Schniepp

9.1

Explosive aromatics of lavender, elder flower, tangerine peel and gooseberry. On the palate fresh citrus, bright acidity with a long finish. This wine would be easily confused with a great bottle from Alsace. Super refreshing with all the floral complexity that this varietal can elicit. Excellent wine. Thanks Pat for the recommendation! — 4 years ago

Big Wave Dave

9.2

Not nearly ready but in 10 years this will be wonderful. One of the best noses I have ever whiffed. Elegant style. With Pat. — 6 years ago

Pat A

8.9

Pat liked it more than Steph. Is a normal bottle on Victoria's wine list — 7 months ago

Frank Kuo

9.4

Color of purple with a bit cloudy copper tone on the rim, decent legs. Nose of dried strawberry and aldehyde, spicy, ripe grapes, a bit leather, vanilla, and oily pat. Nose is quite nice. Taste is mellow, almost no tannins with refined dark fruits sweetness, quite silky with hidden bittersweet zest. Aftertaste is medium with more vanilla and zest notes. Smooth one. — 3 years ago

Alvaro Bustillos

9.4

Pat lefreida trufa — 4 years ago

Alvaro Bustillos

9.3

Pat La Freida (Alex Benny Gomez) — 6 years ago

Nate Miersma

9.0

Strong but good. Venice in St Mark’s square with Stephan, Kevin McLeod and Pat Beyer — 2 years ago

Doug Powers

9.0

Lovely mature redfruits, solid still on the palate, hate that synthetic cork they used this vintage and another, but wine is still in pretty nice shape, bravo to Pat and Dave Coffaro for such a lovely blended Dry Creek Valley wine!! — 4 years ago

with Jim

Laurie Angell

9.6

With Pat & Kelly — 5 years ago