Vasanth Balakrishnan

8.9

My first white bottle selection wasn’t available so I chose this instead. Not a bad consolation prize: apple, white peach, citrus nose, medium body, engaging acidity backed by minerality. Great accompaniment to the table’s seafood and chicken entrées. — a year ago

Neil Valenzuela

8.9

Pale straw color. Aromas of tropical fruits, key lime and limestone. Tart Sauvignon Blanc- very good for the prize. — 5 years ago

Adam MCLEAN

9.3

Quiz prize so unexpectedly excellent food wine.
Straight evocative messenger from the Northern Rhône.
Drank it with Angela with aubergine/goats cheese burgers. — 7 years ago

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.2

We had this with Oxtail dinner at Rattray’s in Mala Mala last night.

Not my usual detailed notes. This is ripe & lush like the Nederburg but with more complexity.

The palate showed ripe and slightly candied fruits of; dark currants, blackberries, black raspberries, dark cherries and a hint of blue fruits. Nice softly layered baking spices, dark chocolate, mocha, rich, dark soils, some dry top, well done granitic minerals and fresh red and dark florals. The acidity round & beautiful. The finish, ripe, lush, well balanced & polished. Good QPR here.

Photos of, today’s Mala Mala sunrise, baby calf elephant along with the nearly 40 in the herd and a total of over 100 Elephants seen today, playful male dominance of the Giraffe’s intertwining and smacking necks/mid section and the grand prize, male spotted Leopard. An amazing finish to our last day. — 7 years ago

Emeline Vast

9.0

Super quality prize ratio for this chateau . Good with meat and cheese ! — 9 years ago

Chris Bensick

9.4

Ch Palmer 1983. Mid-shoulder, saturated cork. Ripe purple in color, full in the mouth, hint of strawberry in the bouquet. Lovely wine, but the Leoville takes the prize! — 9 years ago

Henrik Poulsen

9.1

I looked at my last posting of this (from 4/2016) and stand by my notes.

I absolutely LOVE the various Single Vineyard Abreu's which to my palate are some of the most awesome wines coming out of Napa but I just don't see a resemblance to this 2nd label?

At $125 (if I remember correct) on the Mailing List I'll rather enjoy the $375/425 spent on the real thing.

I used to think this was a "super second" but at this point Blankiet's Prince of Hearts or Bryant DB-4 takes the prize for me.

....just my $0.02
Your miles may vary. — 9 years ago

Alexandre Pagliano

8.9

Very modern style, extracted, oaky. Plenty of good fruit. Silky tannins. But lacks character, one cannot tell where it comes from. Not our thing. But better than most modern styled Bordeaux. We dont understand the high prize by some pros… — 4 years ago

with Adriana

Ely Cohn

9.3

Loire power couple Catherine and Pierre Breton have cab franc all dressed up. 2014 Les Perrieres is their prize - pretty now, will be beautiful in time.

Elegant and deep - traditional the way cab franc contributes to Bordeaux blends.

Old cedar and pencil shavings. Fresh raspberries and stewed plums and black cherries.

Concentrated perfectly - salty solution with a little grip. Plenty of time to mellow out. — 5 years ago

Connor Smith

9.2

Sanlúcar de Barrameda was the port that Christopher Columbus set off from in 1492. Just 1 year earlier, duties on wine exports from Sanlúcar had been abolished to take advantage of English merchants desperate for new supply after the loss of Bordeaux.

It began a centuries-long romance between Sherry and English wine lovers, as immortalized in Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 2, when Falstaff glorifies sturdy Spanish 'sack' over thin Bordeaux 'claret' and Rhine 'hock'.

But the honeymoon, quite literally, was not to last. Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon drove a wedge between England and Catholic Europe, and left English wine lovers in need of a new source once again. But Sherry fanatics wouldn't have to go entirely without. When Sir Francis Drake sailed into Cádiz and burned the Spanish fleet in 1587, he carried away 2,900 butts of Sherry - enough to supply London for years - as his most famous prize.

(This is adapted from notes for Le Dû’s Wines ‘History of Wine 1453AD-Present’ seminar, where this wine was poured) — 7 years ago

Jamie Natalo

9.1

Like the other Arneis i discoverer from this producer, a prize!! — 8 years ago

Emil

8.9

Super considering the prize. — 9 years ago

Kieran Roberts

9.0

A well made, generous without being over the top Syrah. — 9 years ago

Jonathan Bennett

9.4

A delicious dram in great company! Celebrating a phone call with a Legend, a stint on the most petty and ill informed radio program in the Scottish speaking world, oh aye, and a wee Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Congrats again Dave! #Nobel-lshill — 5 years ago

with David

donat agosti

9.2

75% Grenache / 5% Carignan / 20% Syrah
Eur 7.95
Les vins du terroir
The best vine/prix experienced in Paris, well competitive with bottles of a multiple prize — 6 years ago

Charlie Marshall

9.2

BIG and OLD - god damn that’s some goodness but HEAVYNESS — 7 years ago

Tess vO

9.2

Prize in Chili Cook-off — 7 years ago

Kristin the Wine Girl

9.2

Berry melange. Gimme more. The dessert of meals to serve to your prize of guests. Berry Creme de la berry. — 8 years ago

Donald Williams

9.1

In my opinion, the lower ratings are probably caused by not holding the wine long enough. Nice wine at this point. — 9 years ago

with Bonnie

Steve Matthiasson

Owner/Winemaker Matthiasson Wines

9.6

This lemony white wine has a character that we prize in all wine, but especially white wine, and that is "wetness." Sounds obvious, but in an age of heavy cloying wines it's actually elusive. Refreshing-ness can also be acid driven, but wetness is different, it's the liquid sensation, part of great sake, and this wine had it in spades, tasting like pure snowmelt and fresh-squeezed Meyer lemons. — 9 years ago