Austin Hohnke

9.2

Agree with Ashley Lanie. So much complexity here for $24 on the shelf. Merlot, Sangiovese, Syrah, and Cabernet. Leather, tobacco leaf, and baking chocolate all wound up in a robe of juicy cherries and red berries. Nose is super mature. Sangiovese explains the acidity. Wine is drinking great! — 5 months ago

Bob McDonald

9.1

Colour is mid Ruby red. Dusty cherries, savoury cherry pip, a touch of menthol. Thought there were hints of caramel oak but I note it was fermented in stainless steel at controlled temperature. Malo in vats of cement, stainless steel and wood (large bottis I would imagine).Good structure for a Rosso - silky tannins. Very enjoyable and a great match with Fettuccine. Drank another bottle 16 weeks later on 1st December 2022 with consistent notes. Drank another bottle on 30th May 2023 - Sweet Cherry , medium weight, more savoury than fruit driven. Also notes of fennel and menthol - tannins M plus but the wine Is young. Drinks as a Rosso, nothing more. — 4 years ago

Nicholas Cotton

9.0

Pip and I, Sam and Silvie at Sam’s place with steak and potatoes anf grilled veggies. — 4 years ago

Joe Santiago

9.0

Aromas of lavender and currant, and hint of cranberry linger after. Quite yummy. — 5 years ago

Andrew Holod

National Sales Grapes of Spain

9.4

Vibrant, limpid, ruby. Initial nose of cranberry, bitter raspberry pip, irony mineral tones, tea roses. With air gains a pomegranate and slight beety note as well as some petrichor. Energetic palate with lively acidity. A good foil to salmon cakes with homemade tarragon mayo and Yukon golds persillade. — 6 years ago

Josh Morgenthau

9.2

Totally unique green apple pip and sea spray aromas. Grassy and mineral and salty and acidic in nice proportion with a hint of marzipan. Medium body and good concentration and a supple long finish. Not harshly acidic like the red collares I’ve tried, nor as floral as I’d expect from a Malvasia. Like a young savagnin grown on the beach. Would love to try this bottle in several years. — 7 years ago

Nicholas Cotton

9.1

With Pip at Ephraim's birthday — a year ago

Nicholas Cotton

9.4

With Pip on Valentine's Day — 2 years ago

Joe Santiago

9.0

Nice young Merlot. Mild aroma and tannins — 4 years ago

Mark Howard

9.8

WOW! One of the best pleasures in life is enjoying a spectacular wine at its pinnacle. Tonight was one of those nights. Dining with life long friends we enjoyed this wine. A dear friend selected this bottle as a backup for dinner. A definite case of Wally Pip taking the day off. This wine is not just peaking, it sings from the glass. Everything you expect from a classic Napa Cab with the style, elegance, and finesse of a First Growth in spades! You want aromatics, here is red and black fruits, cigar tobacco, lavender, anise, scorched earth, Asian spice…okay so we drifted into mid palate yummy flavors. A finish that lingers while dancing over the palate for more than 30 seconds, titillating the taste buds into pleasurable submission. Did I mention the WOW factor? This wine has it! Where can we find more?!?? What a spectacular selection! — 4 years ago

with Elizabeth

Rena karefa-johnson

10

So yummy. Dark amber and dry. Wine Colleen and Pip brought over — 6 years ago

Amanda Fritts

9.5

A wonderful, effervescent dry rose blend. A little funky and fruity; a great drink for warmer weather. — 6 years ago

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9.1

As usual, this is the one dry Hexamer wine to perpetuate the tradition of Prädikat, and that is done solely to satisfy the Norwegian importer who takes all of it. (All to one country, yes; but this has become a high-volume cuvée by estate standards.) The fruit comes from the Eisendell as well as from a site known as Grosser Stein for the huge stone that marked the boundary between the holdings of the Rheingrafen (counts) and those of the Disibodenberg monastery. Picked nearly a month earlier than was the highly-impressive 2016, this weighs-in at 11.9% alcohol, and that shows in an attractive sense of levity and spring vis-à-vis Hexamer’s other dry Rieslings of this vintage. Fresh lime, apple, piquant aromas as well as a juicy, crisp-edged and pip-tinged presence on the glossy palate serve for penetrating. Subtly bitter but cooling and stimulating notes of melon rind compound the sense of crunch and piquancy while lovely, bittersweet inner-mouth perfume adds allure. The combination of vivacity and refreshment with floral and mineral intrigue renders the buoyant, bell-clear, seriously-sustained finish next-sip compelling. (David Schildknecht, Vinous, April 2019) — 7 years ago

Nicholas Cotton

9.8

With Pip at Barbarians — 2 years ago

Andrew Holod

National Sales Grapes of Spain

9.0

Aslina Chardonnay Western Cape 2021.
A blend of roughly 75% fruit from Stellenbosch and 25% from Elgin. The Elgin portion aged in neutral oak. Both portions 10 months on lees. No battonage.
Creamy, orchard fruit, apple blossom, spring white flowers, a touch of apple pip/bitter almond. — 4 years ago

Andrew Holod

National Sales Grapes of Spain

9.1

A very old bottle bought back from a customer cellar. Foil suggests serving chilled or "ice cold," welcome to 80's era wine guidance.
Medium gold color. Nose is apples, slightly bitter apple pip/skin. With air shows some delicate/floral peach aromas. Balance is spot on with a good acid/sweet balance. Maybe this would be between sec and demi sec these days. There is a slightly bitter mid palate attack that echos an apple pip/cyanic character. Surprisingly good given character of cork, which refused to come out with an ah-so and retreated to the bottle. — 4 years ago

Sara S

9.0

The Syrah adds a nice sweetness and balances well with the dryness of the Merlot. Berry undertones. Nice to pair with sharp cheese or flavorful stew. — 5 years ago

Katie

9.0

Solid merlot — 5 years ago

Alexas Hills

8.9

Smooth and medium body. Plum — 6 years ago

Ron R

9.3

Boys night out. OS in the house. 16 is good to go. Previous vintages pip this, but no complaints. — 7 years ago

with Mo