Erik Longabardi

9.4

Gewurtz. 💥❤️ — 23 days ago

Ely Cohn

9.4

Four months ago I visited the exciting newcomer to Texas and our first serious natural wine shop - Southold Cellars. Our spring allocation tasting was led by Adrienne Ballou, assistance winemaker. After I left, I learned Adrienne was just about to release her second vintage under her personal side project, Lightsome. I didn’t give it much thought but recently was persuaded to try her Tourigo Nacional.

I’m really stunned. This is easily the best Texas wine I’ve tried. It’s not even close really. And I’d be surprised if Adrienne recognized how good this is.

The aromatics are stunning and elegant. What you get from the best Cru Beaujolais. Sour wild blueberries, macerated raspberries, and iodine. Significant stem inclusion - it’s the flesh of Gamay and personality of cool climate Syrah. I can’t wait for what’s next from Adrienne.

Side note: I since learned Eric Texier went bananas for this wine at our WildWorld Fest in Austin this year. I’m not crazy — 3 days ago

Ned Gray Creed

9.2

We drank this during our weekly WND. Such a treat to access a soul project. Nice balance, very pure fruit, cant wait to dive into the single variety bottlings. — a month ago

Darryl Tirtha

9.2

fantastic skinsy sauv blanc — 2 months ago

Stephanie Sunde

9.4

Nice and light — a month ago

Jay Miner

8.9

Made from desiccated fruit saved from an otherwise botrytis plagued crop. Fig and plum, with a surprising amount of acidity still present. High alcohol, but no longer drinking hot. Interesting, but maybe would have shined a bit more a year or two in the past. — 2 months ago

Brandon Boesch

9.1

Funky! Yet good. Really needs food. — 2 months ago

Weijie Shi (Jay)

9.2

Immersion Project by Drappier. A bit more salty than usual bottles. — 3 days ago

Zack Hall

8.9

Smelled like eggs — 2 months ago

Mark Flesher

9.5

If you ever see anything from Texas Ale Project (TAP) on store shelves, you shouldn't ask logical questions like 'is this my kind of beer?' or 'do I have enough money in my checking account since I don't get paid until Friday?' or 'is this going to be good in the 180 degree heat index of my car while I make 6 more stops between here and the house?' or 'why do you drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?' (exception: Dallas, where everyone is always parked on driveways, tollways, freeways, parkways, etc). The questions you need to ask are 'how much do they have?', 'can it all fit in my car?', and 'can those other six stops wait until I at least get home and put this all in the beer fridge?'. And then buy a metric ton of it. Or a 4-pack if you have a Smarte car. And then get home and find that the hops are perfectly integrated. Pine, citrus, perfectly balanced. Now there's a third thing to like about Dallas. 100 million angels singing indeed. Well done TAP! — 2 months ago