Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

Nose is all mid season red cherries, cherry flower and so so pure. Mulberry, cranberry bog and so much more. Lipstick like intensity and just so focused and clear. Insane nose. Unreal limestone and depth but also it’s like it’s vibrating on its own plain. Wow what a palate. Juicy and structured with just silly good cherry fruit of the early to mid season style and unreal clarity, focus and linearity. Unreal concentration and depth. So stunning and like a squeegee on the palate. Now some violets on the nose and unreal concentration and sorry but light and ethereal. Stunning beyond belief.After air it gets more supple and textured. All red fruit on the palate. — a month ago

Ron Siegel

9.3

This had clean, pure notes of lemon, citrus, wet crushed stone & white flower — 5 months ago

Ron Siegel

9.3

What can I say about this producer & wine that I haven’t said in my prior notes. This had lemon, lime, pear that was racy, energetic with its perfect acidity, mineral & white flower — 8 months ago

ja ramos

9.1

Treixadura — a month ago

JKT

9.0

Forgot this wine, no indication of vintage except on the cork! A flashy earthy dark fruited presentation straight out of some wilderness, firm almost woodsy palate and good finish. Not at all what I would have thought of as Gamay. Looked like it didn’t present well several years ago. Age difference? — 3 months ago

Matthew Cohen

9.3

Cherry flower on the nose.

Cherry with some bitterness on the palate. Classic liaison.

That sexy interplay between sweet fruit, bitterness, acidity and minerality. No one else on earth does it like this. No one.

Fass selections — 6 months ago

Jeff Miller

9.0

Blackberry, black plum, tobacco leaf. Delicious cab from a producer I wasn’t familiar with. — 9 months ago

Ray Vanderhoff

9.3

Bright golden color. Aromas of tropical fruits, white flowers and sea spray. The palate leans more toward pear and unripe peach with a pleasant herbal note on the finish. Mouth filling texture, medium body and crisp acidity. There is a bit of weight (pleasant) but it’s not over the top. Still fresh (opened almost five years past the vintage date) and quite fruit forward. So interesting! — 2 months ago

Ron Siegel

9.2

Like the Roulot this is a delicious Bourgogne showing clean & pure notes of citrus & pear fruit, chalk, mineral & white flower — 4 months ago

Lauren Conklin

9.0

LC huge fan - 9.5! J, 8.3 (but it’s growing on him) — 7 months ago