Favourite Chardonnay!! 2012 Christmas edition from Aitken’s Folly...drank for my 26th Birthday! — 5 years ago
With Thai food with Jeannette — 6 years ago
Black river rocks with a Luxardo cherry finish. Blackberry and snail shells with a raspberry sorbet on the riverbank nose. Satin finish, with a decadently ripe red plum that borders on cream. Fine strands of cedar, lingonberry and black currant reduction flood the culminative pronunciations. — 8 years ago
Garnet rim with a deep Ruby center. Classically Left Bank Bordeaux with dark fruit, green peppers, tobacco, gravel and pine on the nose, also displaying molasses, caramel, leather, gunpowder and riverbank. A touch of VA, seemed to be a bit more than an added complexity. Slightly underwhelming for a 1st Growth. — 5 years ago
Ripe cherries and riverbank. Amazingly fresh. — 6 years ago
Amazingly complex wine. Medium Ruby ranging to a Garnet rim. Exploding out of the glass; cherries, strawberries, cacao, coffee, chocolate, hazelnut, gravel, brisket, pork belly with crackling, an intense sanguine nature, peonies, cardomun, riverbank, maple bacon, clove, numbing menthol, pepper. Truly amazing. Well structured! — 5 years ago
Nose is super earthy, sweet-topsoil, pasture, riverbank clay. Soft red raspberry and alpine strawberry on the palate with a thoughtful smooth creek-bed pebble quality. Very pleasant and very versatile! — 6 years ago
Awesome Gamay from Seven Springs, by way of Evening Land. Has all the great qualities I love about good cru Beaujolais yet doesn't seem like it's trying to be *be*Beaujolais and it certainly reflects its Oregon origins and the warmer vintage with its ripe fruit and (relative) roundness, although that's certainly not to say it's not nimble and doesn't have great acid structure too because it is, and it does. Lithe, elegant, juicy, and supremely drinkable. Concentrated nose of ripe wild raspberries and red cherries, fresh rose and violet floral tones, mossy riverbank stones, and white pepper. Palate is echoes the nose pretty identically in terms of flavor. Medium (+) acid. Medium (-) body with lovely soft texture and a small amount of superfine tannin to help give a bit of extra structure. — 7 years ago
Shona Claremont
Slightly Sweeter than many rose wines but not sickly. Fruity and perfect for a summer lunch — 7 months ago