Turd Ferguson

9.1

Robust blend, dark and spicy. Alicante bouchet, touriga nacional, cabernet, some other shit. Pair with roasted baby goat in Portugal for a good time — 3 days ago

Ceccherini Cristiano

9.1

Slightly funky, but not extremely so to put you off
Various fruits, quite ripe and mineral vein
It's enjoyable, fairly long and could do well with Middle Eastern food — 2 years ago

Bob McDonald

8.9

Bought at a good wine retailer in Barcelona. Made from 100% Carignan grapes from 80 year old vines and vinified in concrete tanks - zero oak influence. I made no notes but I do remember enjoying it as a great food wine and highly savoury. Drank this last week in Spain. — 4 years ago

Hum

9.0

Currant candies, cherry pie, raspberry jam, rosewood, blood orange and beeswax. Warm and powerful for Willamette. A bit young and taut. Maybe in five years it will show what it can really do — 6 years ago

Skip Smyser

9.1

Castello de Amarosa has a wine for every price point and most visitors do the lower end.This Pinot exceeds expectations. — 6 years ago

Virginia Streit

9.0

Yummy, easy drinking, loves fish — 7 years ago

with Alejandro

Randy Fuller

9.1

This yellow-gold wine has aromas that are more herbal than floral, with savory dill bolstering the citrus and stone fruit. The palate carries much citrus along with savory balsamic notes. Acidity is great, and makes for a lively pairing with a variety of salads and seafood. — 7 years ago

Daniel M

8.9

Terra Mater, Magna limited reserve, carmenère, DO valle de curicó, 2015
Opened yesterday and it was too oaky and all over the place. 24 hours later it's settled and the wine is presenting itself in a much better way. It's even not bad at all! The nose shows blackberry, coconut, vanilla, oak, coffee, tar. The palate is very rounded with blackberry, cocoa and coffee notes, some width and almost a lactic touch. The tannins are well integrated now and leave a silky layer over the finish that goes on for a reasonable time. It's reminiscent of a nice Bordeaux except for that coconut scent on the nose. For about 11 USD in a supermarket nearby it's a steal! — 2 years ago

Klaus Denecke Rabello

9.0

Esse vinho já merecia algum destaque por ser homenagem à bravura e nobreza do cavalo dos donos, Arlequim, que descansa em seus campos e se confunde com a força e pureza da Terra que o viu nascer, viver e agora o acolhe pela eternidade.

Todavia, este vinho faz-se presente também por seu bom custo-benefício, que traz o melhor do encontro das Cordilheira dos Andes com o Oceano Pacífico. — 3 years ago

Jim McCusker

9.4

Terrific rose of pinot noir from Maggie Harrison of Antica Terra. This is not your garden-variety rose: serious skin contact time coupled with her incredible wine-making abilities has produced a really substantive wine. Reminds me a bit of Manfred’s SQN roses (not surprising, I guess, since Maggie worked with Manfred for I believe a decade or so before striking out on her own with what I think is the best winery in the Willamette Valley). Do yourself a favor and try to snag some of this. Terrific juice. — 5 years ago

with Vanessa

Shay A

9.3

Monthly WTF group recap. Theme this month was “bring something special”. Normally we taste all of the wines blind, but we decided to do a relaxed night with amazing wines at a great restaurant. Spectacular evening!


What a treat this will be in 10yrs! Very youthful right now. I don’t know how the grapes are used here, but it was reminiscent of whole cluster Pinot. Similarities to the Antica Terra Angelical wine but more spice and denser core. Lifted and energetic profile. Smoked and slightly bloodied with iron and smoky beef jerky. The finish showed tart mulberries and baked black cherries. Oak wasn’t very noticeable. Hold. — 7 years ago

with Steve, Andrew and 8 others

Eric Grasser

9.0

Rating my second bottle of 2009. First was sometime 2014/15. This is so heavy, driven by deep dark cherry fruit and so much forest floor it reminds me of Brunello. Not as elegant as 2007 and 2008 vintages. But still very likable and I do like many of Eric’s wines (Terra Nuema, Dierke and his Riesling, namely) — 8 years ago

Marcel van Hemert

8.9

Aroma of green apple, pretty sweet with a lemon-apple-melon taste which was hard to deduce. I do enjoy it and will probably drink it again. — 2 years ago

with Antonella, Frank and 2 others

Raul Puga

9.3

Do different and so good. — 2 years ago

Susi Steiner

8.9

Do, 28.04.2022: Sitges, Restaurant Maricel — 4 years ago

Renato Albuquerque

9.2

Na verdade é um pinotage. A cor já não é tão vibrante e já puxando para uma tonalidade de terra. Tem um bom corpo na taça. Um vinho bem aromático, lembra flores e frutas. O sabor é bem diferente, agradável, com bom rastro. Sente-se o álcool mais na garganta do que na boca, e não parece tão denso. — 5 years ago

Byron C Mayes

9.0

Dark blackish red that slightly clings to the glass. Black fruit and tobacco on the inviting nose. Full bodied palate gives black cherry, black tea, and cigar box. Fine dusty tannins. Medium acidity. Long, luxurious, black velvet finish. Calls out for grilled or roasted meats. Beef will do, but lamb or game would be sublime. Drink now through 2028 or beyond. — 6 years ago

with Jay

Klaus Denecke Rabello

9.2

O vinho com inspiração nos aborígenes Selknam da Terra do Fogo, no sul do Chile, continua oferecendo experiências ricas, suaves e elegantes - como deve ser a representação de Deus pelas máscaras de Fogo: nós, espíritos que andam. — 7 years ago

Bryan Kesting

9.4

Antica Terra and Lillian wine event

This was probably my favorite Pinot of the evening. I do think it will even get better. — 7 years ago

Matt Perlman

9.2

Mag. Excellent, dark fruit, elegant and restrained, hasn’t quite shed its tannic austerity on the finish. I don’t always drink Priorat, but when I do... — 8 years ago