Finnie

9.0

paw paw at first, apricot jam, toffee — a year ago

Kevin C

9.0

Smokey cherries, maybe a little vanilla. Smooth and earthy. It shows legs, a out 13% alcohol. Develops well with air, becoming dryer. Worked well with short ribs and pork. I liked it. — 6 years ago

Mucki Sobania

10

Love this. — 7 years ago

Lindsey King

9.3

In a newsletter I wrote: ‘Margalagua’ roughly translates to ‘Mother of Water’ and I think it is obvious that the Mother of Water is wine. This is a wine for all weather, the weather forever thirsty, you always in need. The grapes are a busy blend of Listan Negro, Listan Prieto, Baboso, Negramoll and Malvasia Negra. The vines are at least 100 years old and untrained like an old dog that can’t learn new tricks but aren’t his old tricks still so good? He can’t differentiate a formal paw shake and a casual high five but he knows raising a paw to yours results in a mouthful of flavour and you too can expect a mouthful of flavour from the Margalagua. Fermented in old 500 liter barrels with the whole grape clusters included, and then raised in neutral 500 liter French oak barrels for 11 months. A tantalizing mixture of pepper and stones, pungent aromatics, with wonderful deep umami notes, high-toned citrus, spice and flowers. Float in this current, dream in the stream. — 7 years ago

David Kline

9.2

Beige and fluffy pour turned porous and sparse with just a cat’s paw print remaining. Really ready for Oktoberfest, so jumping the pond early this year. Subtle cardamom, and pine notes atop orange peel and honey bread on oak leaves waft from the dark, reddish-amber of this dunkel. Cherry pit, lemon tea, rye, and applewood with a dusting of aspirin that yields to a yeast and honey over cigarette paper. Mineral elements suggest silver and nickel. The finish has a malty, pecan nuttiness throughout. #bier #beer #germanbeerday #deutschebier #deutschland #dunkel #flensburger #flensburgerdunkel #darklager #lager — 8 years ago

with Courtney

Brian

9.1

Cant decide if I like Black Paw or Red Paw better.This Red Paw was very nice. Good Vintage — 9 years ago

Robert Irani

9.4

In Geneva at Grizzly — 3 years ago

Josh Morgenthau

9.4

This producer has been batting 1000 recently. Nose is beautiful butterscotch and birthday cake. Plus paw paw and orange creamsicle, palate has fabulous acid and some nice minerals, also very long. Quite honeyed but with a wonderful phenolic bite, lingers unbelievably long. Great right out of the gate. — 5 years ago

Robert Ward

9.1

Had side by side with some big cabs so it was a bit green but held its own. Love the south paw. — 7 years ago

Lindsey King

9.5

A pot of wild creamed honey to scoop my bear paw into. — 7 years ago

Valerie Finley

9.3

Vanilla bomb with deep red fruit. Nicely banned with a long finish! — 7 years ago

Mark Oldman

9.8

if you or someone you know hates Chardonnay, as I sometimes hear, this little number - 2011 DRC #Montrachet 💥- will effect an instant conversion. It is inconvertibly beautiful and pure, with a lemon-mineral core, joined by shades of tangerine and salted caramel balanced by an invigorating citric minerality, and a golden, silky persistence that stretches out like a cheetah's paw. 🐾 🐅 Even the residue of the empty glass seduces the sniff 👃. This is a more elegant and balanced style, not the creamy honeycomb voluptuousness of 2005 or 2000 DRC Montrachet, which are also sublime. Only 3,178 bottles on Earth. Perfect with Galatorie's jumbo lump crab salad. 🦀 #Burgundy #wine
— 8 years ago

Thomas Brenner

9.2

Nothing grizzly about this one. It's alot to bare, but please bear with me, for I'm gonna lay it bare: if this wine were an animal, it'd be a bear.
Not only because it spends months out of the year hibernating in a cave (a cellar does well too), but much like a bear, it gets your blood rushing when you encounter it. Ferocious black berry flavors claw their way to the forefront, as a warm coat of tannins and a snarl of almost barren pine forest and growling purple flowers make up the bear share of the flavor. Pairs well with wild game, bear claws, gummy bears and bear hugs.

#sothere — 9 years ago

Brian

9.1

Very easy drinking 2016 vintage. Light but very enjoyable Pinot Noir — 5 years ago

Steve Ambrusko

9.2

Well rounded balanced, long finish with fantastic nose and taste. — 6 years ago

Vasanth Balakrishnan

9.0

***I was wrong - after tasting the 3rd time, James Suckling was right. This is a lovely wine, perhaps it does earn the 93 points.*** Pronounced aroma which is bramble fruit, touch of herbs and anise and a back note of toasted oak. Lovely smell where the taste will eventually catch up given time to breathe. Tannins are a bit grizzly, long finish with more licorice hints and I agree there’s a zing of black pepper but it’s subtle. Acidity is right and overall it works really well and is quite food friendly. All of this after a full day in the wine fridge as it’s really tight after uncorking. Take into account the $9 price on sale at Total Wine and the QPR is through the roof. — 7 years ago

ScottandTina

10

A red fav — 7 years ago

Virginia Thomas

9.4

The Whitemans, the Jeraths: Avli dinner turned Monkeys Paw dinner — 8 years ago

Jeff Bennett

9.2

Look no further fella, you found it. Beautiful aroma of grizzly long cut and cape cod cranberries. Medium bodied, light acidity, and softer than Lebron James in crunch time. Beautiful finish, a la licking your little league baseball mitt. Delectable. — 8 years ago

Anthony Belmonte

9.2

We picked this up for $60 a case!!! Great wine too! Couldn’t believe the price. A great blend highly recommend — 9 years ago