Austin Blackwell

9.3

Sour cherries, bright strawberries, and ginger. Long lasting, mouth-watering finish. — 2 days ago

with Angelina

Austin Blackwell

9.4

Drinking well. A bit of fading fruit but a toasted herbaceous and forest floor now shines through. 14.5% ABV. — 3 months ago

with Angelina

Tom Garland

9.5

+1 hour decant(decent chunky/fine sediment). A splendid medium dark ruby red color with bricking. On the nose: Tantalizing perfumed notes of stewed plum/cherry, worn leather, smoke, forest floor, stewed meat, cedar, eucalyptus. Taste: creamy, elegant, with power and depth wine...plum, currants, smokey earth, graphite, saline, dusty crushed gravel, tobacco leaf, and a nice medium plus finish. YUM!! — 3 months ago

with Brenda

Bob Boyle

9.2

Apricot & honey on the nose, body creamy & rich with good mouthfeel and long finish with a note of hazelnut at the very end. This 10 year old held up extremely well — a month ago

Edward Nelson

9.3

51! Nolan and wife. Waiting on some birthday chicken parm. Cheers! — 2 months ago

Tom Barras

9.1

A Quintessential Pauillac, starting with its deeply dark appearance, black fruit aromatics and flavors, firm and balanced structure with abundant fruit, medium acidity, chalky tannins and a long finish.

Overall, the savory 2005, (one of several wines purchased to celebrate grandson Carter McMillan’s birth year), is smoothly textured, medium/full with the energy and vitality of a much younger wine, showing seductive elements of spice, smoke, currants and mocha. Pauillac aficionados, this is for you. — 3 months ago

Ron Siegel

9.5

Classic La Mission nose showing mostly black fruits, with notes of smoke, cedar, licorice, leather, mocha, underbrush & cigar ash. Just entering its prime with many years ahead — 2 days ago

Audrey Hiraki

9.5

Ablittlsweet, but smooth, balanced. — 2 months ago

Raun Kupiec

9.1

Exceptional, the lightest hint of Syrah smoke, but a lot fruit forward blackberry and herbal bell pepper hints, loads of acidity, integrated tannins. — 2 months ago

with Barbara

Ron Siegel

9.3

Showing lots of dark fruits, smoke, meat, savory spice, mineral & violets. — 4 months ago