Skipping Bail

Shelton Vineyards

Bin 17 Unoaked Chardonnay 2020

Quite tart and smooth. Not as heavy as a usual Chardonnay, almost like it’s skipping (happy). Very lemony and bright. A hint of peppery spice at the end. Definitely not oaky. — a year ago

Domaine Leflaive

Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru Chardonnay 2010

Amazing. Even with skipping the bacon it was drinking very well. — 2 years ago

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Bruce Leboff

Bruce Leboff

Wow. Amazing they offer this at the bar by the glass! Perfect Christmas Eve wine. L’chaim
Bruce Leboff

Bruce Leboff

What year was it?
David Stein

David Stein

2010. Corkage :)

La Morella

La Corte Dei Merli Freisa

Great complex juicy wine. Summery. LJ: “skipping kid trips on asphalt, skins knee, spills raspberry sorbet — 4 years ago

Buehler Vineyards

Estate Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

Good wine without skipping school — a year ago

Clos Erasmus

Laurel Priorat Garnacha Blend 2019

Over the last 10 years or so, I’ve sort of avoided the wines from Priorat. Not for any ideological reasons, more so I simply found the wines too often over the top for my palate. However, after years of skipping offers, I bit the bullet a couple years ago and swooped up a couple bottles of Laurel which is a wine made by Clos i Terrasses (most famously known for Clos Erasmus). I’m so glad I did. What I discovered was a wine of tremendous character and beauty.

The 2019 version of this wine is no different. It pours an almost magenta red ruby with a translucent core and moderate staining of the tears. On the nose, raspberries, plums, purple flowers, dried herbs, organic soil, limestone. There’s abundant fruit but it comes across super fresh, not jammy. There is also the faintest whiff of pyrazines. On the palate, the wine is dry, medium bodied and confirming the complex fruit set and non-fruit characteristics. Medium+ tannin and medium+ acid. Such a fresh, youthful and gorgeous wine. For those that are wondering, Laurel is aged in a combination of neutral oak, concrete egg and amphora.
— 2 years ago

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Marcassin

Marcassin Vineyard Pinot Noir 2012

Seriously this good once it opens up. I had a Father’s Day cocktail bar the restaurant but had to bail on it after tasting this. — 3 years ago

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Gunja Gargeshwari

Gunja Gargeshwari

9.8! That’s a serious rating - have to find this wine now!
Amit Srivastava

Amit Srivastava

Wow that good. Have to try . Gunja , I have one from your Sf Golden gate guy’s store . Impulse buy lol

Bonneau du Martray

Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru Chardonnay 2005

See previous notes from about a year ago. Enjoying this visually bright light straw bail color. Chardonnay from Burgundy. Taste is an oily chalky feel on the palate. Peach, lemon-lime and apple are dominant fruits with a mineral dry coconut med dry finish finish. Yummy! Enjoying on a beautiful silhouette night in Napa. — a year ago

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Luis A. Rodriguez Vazquez

Viña de Martin Os Pasás Ribeiro White Blend 2018

Nice fruity and refreshing. Citrusy. With friends and colleagues, just the boss is skipping it ;) — 3 years ago

Greenvale Vineyards

Skipping Stone White Blend

Great summertime light white from Greenvale Vineyard, Newport, RI. Definitely will buy again. — 3 years ago

Pio Cesare

Barolo Nebbiolo 1967

Pale cherry color, slightly turbid and a tawny rim. A 53 year old wine from 1967 for my father's 67th birthday who was born in 1953.

Having with veal parm.

Super delicate, earthy and hay bail on the nose. Just a slight note of dark cherry on the nose. Topsoil, underripe bitter cranberry.

Light, velvety and super soft tannins. Earthy, compost, preserved dark cherry jam with balsamic. Reminds my mother of a dairy barn.
— 4 years ago

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