Bryan Vanderkruk

9.2

Anniversary bottles. Wedding year vintage drank side by side with ,2016. Great dried fruit, leather, tobacco, black cherry. Dry but not tannic. Well rounded. Very nice. — 3 months ago

with Corrie

Peter Sultan

8.9

Borgueils are creeping up in alcohol, as I remember this as a lighter affair in previous vintages. Still, a precocious 14$ wine, with classic cab franc dimensions but now with a thicker, richer mouthfeel. Given how Beaujo has crossed the 20$ demarcation border for some time, my go to summer mid week choice. — 4 years ago

October Cleveland

9.0

Very clean, westy affair. — 5 years ago

Elyse Imamura

9.1

Words can’t describe my love affair with this wine. My 6y describes it as “lemony. The sun, a treasure, smells like gold”. It’s hard for me to argue with him. Silky ripe lemon with a heavy mineral chalk component on the front palate. I wish it lasted a little longer in the finish but still soft and expressive. Out of magnum second day. — 6 years ago

Jess

8.9

Pale pink color.
Aromas of peach, red fruit, cherry.
Dry. Flavors of grapefruit, white peach. Delicious nose, but does not translate to palate.


Intensity: 4/5
Complexity: 1/5
Balance: 4/5
Finish: 4/5 — 2 years ago

Bryan Vanderkruk

9.9

Oak on the nose, blueberry jam,oak, dried fruit, drying in the mouth, cherries, great acidity level, rich full bodied. Paired amazingly with wild game charcuterie and cheeses. — 3 years ago

with Corrie

S.S. Mandani

9.4

Elegant, classy champagne hue like I’m at a gala, but, let’s be real, it’s probably a B-list affair.

Asian pear, chalky, lemon pepper essence, no joke.

Excellent carbonation. Reserved, fine bubbles.

Definitely getting the asian pear, but also a slight undertone of licorice, and then finally some nice sweetness and acidity reminiscent of yuzu.

Wonderfully complex and fun to drink like a stimulating chess game is fun to play. I can’t stop, this one might become a go-to. — 4 years ago

James Scott

9.0

Very nice lighter Pinot, needs to breath, at Foreign and Domestic, Austin!! — 3 years ago

Everett Waltrip

9.6

2012 vintage, opens with roasted peppers and dark fruit, dark earthy tones and briary tones. After some air it reveals more dark fruit, plums and black cherry, tannins are quite gripping, all natural tannins not wood tannins from oak. After a few hours the fruit has more presence, still shows a bell pepper tone on the nose followed by gobs of dark fruit and sun exposed earth. Some herbaceous notes intermingled with forest floor. Could age longer or drink now, all up to the drinker I suppose. I like the balance of fruit, earth, herbaceous tones followed by the grit of the tannins. No sediment when I got to the bottom of the bottle. It was a crowd pleaser and in a blind tasting people were stumped when it was revealed. They all thought it could have been an Italian Cabernet from a cooler climate region. Would definitely recommend, great quality and beats out almost anything in the same price bracket from other producers, foreign or domestic. — 3 years ago

Julianne Bell

9.0

Currently having a love affair with Alsatian and Austrian wines. Beautiful golden color, smells like musky green apple, honeydew, and sunshine. Very acidic, tense, brimming with energy, honey and apple and lime. — 5 years ago