Andrew Blazic

9.1

Paired very nicely with lamb sausage pasta, Veal Milanese, and a red sauce rigatoni. Little bite at the beginning but pairs nicely as it breathes. — 18 days ago

Marc Ouellette

9.4

Always delicious every time!! — a year ago

Lars Miller

9.3

Lovely nose of pepper and ash. Ashy pepper? Haha. Red licorice and horehound on the palate, super light, and dissipates from the back of the throat. Super yummy this! — a year ago

Clayton Haggarty

9.2

Bone dry with beautiful cherry and floral notes and a long finish. — 3 years ago

Jay Kline

9.1

The last bottle from my cellar. No formal notes. This has become more black fruited; structure remains status quo. Apropos, this remains an delicious wine that begs for food. The RTW series from CCC and Lodi continue to be one of the wines I look forward to most each year. Drink now and over through 2030. — a year ago

Eleanor Levett-Millett

10

Perfect with tapas — a year ago

John Kuhn

8.9

This is a beautiful wine. Great color and nose. Fruit forward with great notes — a year ago

Daniel P. Drake

9.4

It is Thursday night the eve before the start of another weekend. I have opened the 2018 Patricia Green Cellar Durant Vineyard Madrone Block Pinot Noir. This is a beautifully balanced pinot noir from the Dundee Hills of the Willamette Valley of Oregon.

The nose brings out notes of cherry, raspberry, floral notes, sassafras, vanilla, cola, clove and baking spices.

Onnthe palate there is cherry, raspberry, cranberry, spice, vanilla, herbs, hibiscus and forest floor.

This wine is a beautiful expression of Pinot Noir that is beautifully well balanced and is medium bodied with medium + acidity and medium fine tannins that lead into a medium to long red fruit finish. Here we are on the eve before the start of another weekend and we need to look within to see how we want to proceed in life? Do we want to try and make something out of our life and do right with our fellow man or proceed with the status quo and not make a mark on this world.i hope we all want to make a difference and try and lift one another up. Let try and support one another and see above the hate and discontent. Please be kind to one another and be healthy and safe so we can all make this a better place. Nostrovia! 🍷🍷🍷🍷 — 4 years ago

Aaron Tan

9.3

If I were Nicolas, with my newfound cult status and without some of Burgundy’s more hallowed sites at hand, I’d be tempted to push my wines to all sorts of extremities. Perhaps extract a little more, or sprinkle a little more oak, or reduce yields radically in some way. The goal here would be to make it ‘loud’, that is to have enough volume to imprint my wines into the minds of drinkers who will likely ever taste them once per vintage (the wine in focus had just 866 bottles produced - talk about being a unicorn). Maybe I’d even go so far to challenge the status quo and make a Grand Cru-slaying Bourgogne!

I’m not saying Nicolas isn’t planning or already doing any of this, but drinking the 17’ Aloxe Corton certainly didn’t feel like it, and for that I loved it. There was a certain rawness to the wine which I adored. It felt like a wine he wanted to make - not one made for the collectors or critics, but one made for good times with his mates. It felt genuine.

On day one, the wine was such great fun. A tinge of reduction mingled with the aromatic galore of pitch-perfect whole cluster vinification, followed by pure, juicy red fruits wrapped in particularly fine, lacy texture. It was very ‘glou glou’ in short, and if not for an undeniable inner density that begged to be unpacked, it would not have seen the light of the second day. I’m glad it did though, because on day two it was a truly a wine to ponder. The whole vibe seemed to darken with a myriad of flavours - fresh flowers now melded in with smoky incense, red fruits with plums, and earthy notes and warm spices arised. The intensity too seemed seemed to have increased, yet the appearance of a new vein of minerality kept the wine so digestible. It was just such a pleasure to drink that by the end of it, I was left feeling a little sad that I do not have any bottles of this left in the cellar. Bravo, Nicolas! Don’t change. — a year ago

Karyn Fricke

8.9

Spicy blackberry aroma, fresh tang and cherry finish. Just a hint of tannins. — 2 years ago