Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

Outrageous nose here. Wet earth galore. White peach, spice and citrus. White and pink grapefruit. The fruit on this nose is unconscious. Blown away. There are white flowers and all of it is just perfume. So gorgeous. The peach and now apricot with air is just so vivid and clear. This is a brilliant wine. What a palate. So juicy and vivid with such astonishing purity. The peach flesh and skins are expressed in similar proportions. It’s so balanced and clean with just terrific freshness. Scintillating acidity and freshness. This is an orb of perfection on the palate. Just a genius bottle of wine. The wispy, subtle effect is balanced by the clarity of the fruit and the terrific acidity. Brilliant! Terriffuc structure and a controlled density. — 5 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.8

Wow. The rarest E and M wine. Blend of the oldest vines from the Grand Crus. Holy crikey. This is insane. The nose has a depth that is rare in Pinot Noir and I’ve smelled a lot of Pinot Noir. Sick. 9.9 nose. Ripe late season cherries, cranberry bog, dark black cherries and sour cherries. It’s got all the cherries, but only the best cherries. Wow. Stunning level of spice and flowers. Just psycho. So complete and endless. Ridiculous. Palate is all there but man does it need air. Which I will give it. Tart cherries, cranberries and huge acidity and freshness with enormous concentration, power and structure. Long long finish that is fresh and nimble. Genius elite wine of the highest level. Tannins are big but ripe and so sweet. Cannot wait to see my score rise with air. The Chambertin. of Germany! With air the minerality on the nose shines through. Wow so airy and mineral on top of all that fruit! Man the palate is sweetening up. Tannins are getting velvety. My god this is elite wine. Insane inner mouth aromas. Keeps opening up. Now after 3 hours of air it’s just ridiculous. Nose is an orb of complexity. Spicey, feral, soil tones. Insane perfume. Cherry skins, black cherry flesh. Oh man what a sweet, velvety and insanely deeply fruited palate. Amazing delineation all the way through. A real deal 9.8. Profound. Big and soft and so precise. — a year ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

Stunning wine. Nose is all violets. Black cherry, spice, discreet oak. Needs to open. This nose is insane after air. Violets galore and unreal vivid earth. Tree bark, some fresh leaves. It’s such a vin de terroir.

But that palate is wow. Stunning texture and purity with black cherry fruit inflected with violets. Amazing balance, nimbleness and depth. Such sweet tiny berry intensity. Lipstick like intensity now on the nose. Stunning wet earth notes and just so complete. More soon. That palate is sick! So round. Orb like. Such fine tannins and great acidity. Def needs some age but I had to taste it. Juicy and long and gets to every nook and cranny. Wow is this long. Black cherries and my god the tiny berry fruit intensity is remarkable. Genius but will open more. Nose is heaven after 4 hours. Complex, layered and ethereal. Psycho. Palate is so sweet, elegant and intense. But soft as well. Concentrated. fresh and sappy. So supple and sweet. Amazing stuff. 9.5 to 9.6. Big tannins ensure a long life. — 2 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

Wow that nose penetrates. Deep honey, minerals and lime blossoms. Lime zest as well. Green apple and pear and such depth to the nose. Gorgeous. 9.7 nose. Haunting. Has that extra that serves this up into the stratosphere. Wow this is unreal. Elegant with crushed rock minerality, green apple, pear and some citrus fruit but has this zen serene quality to it that is to die for. Just brilliant. So pure and balanced. Unreal amplitude on the palate and so zesty. A perfect orb of wehlener sonnenuhr. Finish is an elegant and dissipated so beautifully. Utterly classic but lifted by an extra profundity. — 6 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.8

Green Cap. Exudes class. Nose gets confectionary after a while. Crazy confectionery. So aromatic and complex. Palate is like an orb with no edges due the kisses of sugar. So refined and finesse driven. Pillow like texture. A marvel but needs maybe 15+ years really if I am being honest. — a year ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.8

Brilliant aromas of forest floor, mushroom, mid season cherries, dried roses, red roses, herbs, spices and just super mesmerizing. Wow. Ethereal. Just insane. 9.8. Heavenly Nebbiolo. Again a perfect orb. Nothing out of place and god damn this is so refined. Stunning purity and clarity. Long finish and fruit is ripe but nowhere near “too ripe.” Inferno is the warmest vineyard. Wow this is amazing. Nose gets some sort of chocolate. Super concentrated and so sapid. — a year ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

As usual with this 1er cru at Buffet the nose is stunning. Mid season cherries, dust, minerals, flowers and smoke. Holding back some but what is there is so detailed and expressive. What a palate. Which now is ahead of the nose. Sleek and juicy with such a compactness to it. Like an orb. So elegant and lacey with top notch delicacy. Just so well balanced and classic. This is 21! Nose is now singing! So expressive. Layered and ebullient! Acid is so good and the energy is palpabale. — 8 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

Such an amazing wine. Nose is soaring with almost hallucinogenic levels of spice and tobacco. Such a wide spectrum. So good. Dried roses. Some cherry peeking through. Sweet spices coming through as well. Juicy and tannic but man oh man is this concentrated, fierce and burly but all in proper balance. What a finish. Huge tannins but air will mellow. I’ll be back.

Wow after a day open this is completely harmonious like an orb on the palate and has that super elegance that is rare in Ghemme. 9.5 to 9.6. — a year ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

What an amazing nose. So so floral. Sweet peas. Peach pit, tangerine flesh, blood orange and so so vivid and clear. A drop dead nose. Some herbs and so much “field in nature” aromas. Just a perfect circle of a wine. Juicy and complex with an amazing orb like presentation on the palate. Silky, subtle and perfectly balanced. So so pure. Nose gets some apricot pit now and also some other stone fruit pit and flesh. Terrific concentration and mineral power with a very mineral finish. So salty. Air will be this wine’s friend. — a year ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Spectacular and deep nose. Dark cherry fruit that is reminiscent of Girard. Pungent and also some cherry flower. But also brambly. Really beautiful aromas here. Some red apple as well. So unique. And an undercurrent of earth. Wow is this a knockout aromatically. Just a 9.5 nose that is so vivid. Very impressive. WOW. What a palate. Insanely perfect balance and just gorgeous purity and a Burgundian earthy sweetness. Long, linear and very delineated. As this opens the nose becomes so floral and the fruit even more deep and concentrated. Terrific inner mouth aromas and superb balance. Really so flavorful but also so restrained and exacting. Good grip and structure and lovely ripe tannins and amazing structure. Seems like it will age for a decade at least. This is the most Burgundian Swiss pinot i’ve ever had. Really glides across the palate. Such a lovely contrast between the silky attack, the mid palate structure and the sweet, silky finish. Wonderful wine. I had an old colleague that always use to say wines were charming and I never really knew what he was talking about but this wine he surely would of said ischarming. It’s so complete for what it’s trying to do. After 3 hours of air it’s completely a sphere. An orb of swiss in elite savigny 1er cru clothes. Right at the edge of a 9.5. The sap and extract on the finish stain the palate. Really a great wine. — 2 years ago