romo

9.3

Your tattooed sister’s Albarino. Took this matured skin-contact menagerie home. Is it oxidized? Maybe. That’s the fun. — 9 months ago

Lee Hill

9.2

Refined. It has a lot going on but all well integrated, somehow showing age already but in a very pleasant way. Fresh, yet lightly oxidized with intent, a menagerie of fruits and soft spices. Very delicious, special occasion given the price point, want to try more Bordeaux of this status — 4 years ago

David Kline

9.2

Nice medium dosage brut with loads of flavor. Mag became lees-y and rich as we approached the finish and it warmed. Mineral and lime interplay was superb. Gorgeous golden Buddha hand zest, pith menagerie, and a tangy white berry. .
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#champagne #brut #lahertefréres #ultradition #bringthepagne #champagnedreams #lahertefréresàchavot #bubbles #bubblesforthepeople #sparkling — 5 years ago

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Jack Cranley, Backroads Wine Club & Cascadia Premium Wines

9.3

2009 vintage consumed in October, 2018.

Aging very gracefully, the nose still has gobs of fruit. Some of it fresh, some of it dried, some of it baked. It's the complexity of fruit that is really remarkable hair. Not necessarily the complexity of other esoteric or earth-based aromas. Just the sheer menagerie of dark fruits, light fruits, and fruits of all colors.

The powdery tannins have really resolve themselves and go down like Silk. As you drink, a bouquet of lilacs and violets come up through the back of your nose leading to a long lip-smacking finish.

It also transforms and peels off in layers as you go through the bottle.

If you have any of this in the cellar, there is no dire need to jump on it. This bottle could have easily lasted another five to seven years. — 8 years ago

Jack Cranley, Backroads Wine Club & Cascadia Premium Wines

9.6

Absolutely terrific wine. Bound to uplift even the most doomy-gloomy mood. As such, it pairs well with political discourse and the prospect of "President Trump." Go ahead, drink those sorrows away. You deserve it.

Beautiful, shimmering golden color. I believe it's actually already deepening with age. (2012 vintage consumed in mid-2016)

On the nose, apricot fruit and unrefined honey dominate but is accompanied with a menagerie of rare and precious aromatics. The result is a feeling of having something truly exotic in your glass. This is a world-class wine for which there could never be any argument over its worthiness. You will be taken by this wine and there's really no way to over-hype it and set the expectation bar too high because this wine will meet it every time.

As we dig in deeper past the obvious top notes, we discover a treasure chest filled with persimmon, sandalwood, white flower, and vanilla bean.

Upon first entry in the mouth you are met with a zippy liveliness but then that melts gently across your palate to really give you a fine, pervasive coating that excites the taste buds in every corner of your mouth. This is a POWERHOUSE of assertive flavor. This wine will stage a veritable coup d'etat upon your complacent palate. There will be an ouster of your resident ennui. No incumbent sense of boredom will be safe from this wave of populist essence. There will be a complete and total transition of power in the halls of your mind's parliament leading to a peaceful but efficacious revolution. With your personal Congress in shambles, this fresh new confederacy shall draft a Constitution that will usher in a new era of utopian cooperation and transcendental civic euphoria!

Sorry, maybe for a little carried away there. For reals though. Drink this wine when you're feeling down and feel the BURN! Well, not really - because the alcohol is really well-integrated. ;) — 10 years ago

David Kline

9.7

Really impressed with the absolute earthiness of this wine. A menagerie of mushrooms with shittake in the lead. But criminis, morels and chanterelles abounding! Cedar and hot loamy earth to feed it! This at 17 years! A meaty African violet. Olive tapenade and minerals, crystals, and a lovely interplay of oak, toast and a backbone of acidity that won't quit! Cinnamon, Connecticut tobacco and white pepper. An Amazon with a soft touch! — 11 years ago

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romo

9.4

Worth it. A menagerie of dried fruits and nuts, crème brûlée and salted caramel. Precise but not in a Chenin-way. — a year ago

charlotte

10

very yummy. heavy, alcohol forward, more toward a chardonay. would be good with charcuterie — 4 years ago

Maggie J

9.1

Had this with my first Sunday roast ! — 6 years ago

Lee Hill

9.2

Menagerie of fruit; apples, pears, and nectarines. Yeasty/biscuitty characteristics secondary to the fruit. Excellent balance, the brightness of the fruit makes for a nice highlight in place of totally relying on acidity — 7 years ago

Eric Grasser

8.9

Menagerie of tropical fruits with good acid that definitely combine to give the sensation of Cali Sauv Blanc (but without the grapefruit). Tends away from the classic Spanish drive of green flavors and slight RS, but brings slightly more weight yet still really crisp, clean and zippy. A nice alternative from a great Mendo producer. — 9 years ago

Dan Perry

9.6

Mixed dried fruits, blackcurrant and vanilla on the nose. Black cherry, blackcurrant, all spice on the palate with a little vanilla coming through but well balanced with some rich smokiness in the finish. 9/10 - would drink again — 10 years ago

S Butterfield

Sommelier Flask Fine Wines

9.3

So dense and complex but each layer is clearly differentiated. Wow, a menagerie of floral and red fruit. Beam me up to Pinot country. — 11 years ago

romo

9.4

Cherry cordial fruit menagerie. Impossible balance. — 2 years ago

romo

9.3

Preserved lemon reductive Burgundian acid menagerie. Twelve-cylinder hum. — 2 years ago

Spencer Spetnagel

9.2

Oolong tea leaves, herbal menagerie, gorgeous floral lift. Cassis and currants, leather and iron. Lithe frame. Perfectly balanced acid with crunchy tannins. Nimble across the palate, but with depth and complexity at every turn. A lingering finish that keeps on giving. Gorgeous wine. — 5 years ago

Lee Hill

9.2

A heady menagerie of fruit and floral aromas, intense fruit flavors balanced by a driving acidity. Raspberry, plum, cherry, and blackberry, both fresh and candied characteristics. Oak further balances the fruit further but plays nicely and I want more — 6 years ago

Isaac Pirolo

9.5

The force is strong with this one. Gravity defying ethereality relative to the immense density of flavor and a mouthfeel that pushes 1,000 thread count. Opens with a wild fruit arrangement of cherry, strawberry, and raspberry that comes through in perfect harmony, followed by grilled tangerine peel and baking spices with an earthy bent. The background is filled with a menagerie of orchard fruit, wildflowers, faint smoke, black tea, and rose hip. The balance and weightlessness are a deceptive precursor to the echo of a noticeably lengthy finish. — 9 years ago

Mathew McNamara

9.1

Called this as Leroy off the bat. Horsehair and a menagerie of berries and their leaves! — 10 years ago

David Kline

9.3

Only 300 btls produced? Wondering if that is accurate, but no matter. This was a beautiful wine! Everything one cod want in a bottle. Seductive dark blueberry fruits without all the sugar, a mineral and earth strata to tone it down, judicious oak to frame it all. Fine art! Really delicious, and the tannins were exquisitely integrated. A menagerie of amuse bouches from soft smoke, to crisp plum, black cherry, to forrest scrub, black olive, roasted currant, truffle, etc. Will drink this again! — 11 years ago

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