Tree Kilpatrick

9.1

Classy and simple label. Still a pretty perfect golden hue even four years in. Smells funky. Herbs like artemisia and sage with maybe a hint of lemons. Flavors are dry, tart and complex. Gravel or river rocks meets sambuca and orchard grass. Like when you pluck a fresh sprig of grass and chew on the green stem. This is a stunner of a Sauv Blanc. Clean and clear with lots of gratifying strangeness. — 8 months ago

Anne Carman

9.6

Rich bright and dark fruit - black and red cherry, black and red raspberry- with note of coffee bean and sambuca. Perfect balanced acidity with tamed soft tannins and a velvety finish. — 6 years ago

Andy Wigginton

9.1

Loads of complexity! Nice boisenberry and cherry along with sambuca (that's right) and brownie, with a suggestion of, perhaps green bean. Tip of the cap to one of Livermore's best. Could go another 2 years... — 9 years ago

Vanessa

9.2

Yes, please, to this developing wine with notes of fresh blackberry, plum, tart black cherry, violet, black licorice anise, sambuca, fennel, cedar, nutmeg, cinnamon, cedar, sweet tobacco, and clove. 100% Sangiovese from Tuscany.

Acidity, alcohol, tannins are strong! Solid structure; wish we’d held on for longer. Still lovely now though.

Cheers! — 4 years ago

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Ceccherini Cristiano

9.5

Very different expression of this wine from what I remember with different vintages tasted in the past
Quite refined, hard to tell the texturally magnificent support of fairly large wooden barrels
Has a unique shade of sambuca or aniseed that I had only found in some southern German riesling
Long and memorable after taste
As if it had some extraordinary notes given by a beginning of an oxidation — 7 years ago

Severn G

9.0

If you enjoy Sambuca, Molinari is one of the best, that's why it's Extra. A nice alternative to wine some evenings, for my palate. — 9 years ago

Martin Sachnik

9.0

A fine anisette with a level of sweetness less than Sambuca. — 4 years ago

Sharon B

9.0

Total licorice — 6 years ago

Benjamin Frechette

9.9

Jammy, smooth, dark fruit; like port/sambuca — 8 years ago

M. Christopher Roebuck

8.9

Weird... If it was a blind taste, I'd swear this was young. As a 2010, I am unpleasantly surprised. A Sambuca nose. With clove or some Christmasy spice. Not digging it. Maybe it will pair with this fish but I'm not optimistic. Big letdown after starting the night with a bottle of Veuve. Shout out to peeps @Bill Bender and @Shay Aldriedge And @Kimberly Anderson .

89 points — 9 years ago