K L

9.3

Excellent. Earthy and complex. Some cherry. Really enjoyed. — 24 days ago

with Matt

Maggie Harrison

9.3

green pepper, barnyard. cliche to say it but quite old world in style. Terrific value, lots of complexity. medium tannins, medium + acid. — a year ago

Jule Ryan

9.1

Oaky buttery vanilla. I’m into the cliche — 4 years ago

Peter Wassam

8.9

Structured stuff. Lots of plum and cassis and boysenberry. Smell a little like green bell pepper and some cigars (cliche I know). Tannin smooths out with some open time. Also smells a bit hot. — 6 years ago

barak heller hayun

9.0

joined a new 'wine club' that's supposed to send me surprise 'authentic' (not mass produced) wines that are 'for me'.
i started 🙈 tasting (my wife covered the label for me).

this was a cliche Bourgogne white. but a well made one. i half guessed it was bourgogne. but wasn't sure this is such an easy right guess. my other option was an oaked sa chenin blanc.

firm but mellow oak-ness, citrus and hints of stone fruit (apple and peach).

full body.
high acidity.

long 🎯

not my style but well made wine.

my wife supposedly didn't like it, but the bottle was empty before dinner was served. we halfed it very easily. — 6 years ago

Stephen Redenbaugh

9.1

Starting to show a bit of brown around the edge—prob should have been popped earlier. But still a pleasant dinner companion. Definitely veering towards the lighter side of Sonoma Pinot... alcohol shy of 13...light mouthfeel... but enough cherry/berry to balance the acids and resolving tannins. I know it’s a bit of a cliche, but worked well with home broiled Alaskan King Salmon and farm grown late summer corn. — 7 years ago

Peter Wassam

9.1

Idk this my fave wine from CH despite the critics. Power, grace, blah blah blah cliche but they coexist here. Lemon curd and macadamia — 8 years ago

K L

9.3

Very good! Enjoyed this. Balanced. — 2 months ago

with Matt

Yosuke Sato

9.0

美発泡のスモーキーなオレンジに近い白 — 9 months ago

Daniel Bloom

9.2

See previous. This wine, bought basically blind, delivers as the cliche says… way above it’s price point.
My post Covid mouth still is reductive, but the Sangiovese fruit comes singing through, wood too. Some cocoa on the nose, lots of iron/sanguine on the palate.
Refreshing acidity to boot.
Perfect with Tomatoes and cannellini bean pasta. — 3 years ago

Keith M

8.9

割合不詳だがピノノワール、シラー、ビオニエの3種。
香りがかなり特徴的。ピノの香りにバラような華やかな香り。ここからして変化球感強めだが、飲んでみるとアルコール度数の低さからか割と甘めの果実味だが、スルスルと飲めてしまう。
香りや果実味のタッチからは意外性のあるスルスル感。
後味はシラーのスパイス感と花の香り。
すごく変化球感のあるテクニカルで、味わいも変化球感強いけど、何故か美味しい。今まで飲んだ中で1番不思議かも。 — 6 years ago

Ericsson

9.0

A great white from the northern region of Galicia, native grape. Straw color with wet stone and lemon curd on the nose. Good texture, medium bodied with balance and vibrancy. So cliche but so true: a great northern Spanish white. Drink while young! — 6 years ago

Michael Meyer

9.5

Lacking nothing. It’s the cliche “iron fist in a velvet glove”. Just reaching its best years. — 7 years ago

Mike Ma

9.0

Big plum and jammy nose. Blackberry and cherries in the front. Really big. Smooth vanilla notes to finish. Remarkably balanced for something this big. Really a great CA wine that can stand up to a big ribeye w a Gorgonzola sauce. A bit of a cliche but would indeed pair well w/weed. Perhaps suggestive placebo effect, but it doesn’t suck! — 7 years ago

Ira Schwartz

9.5

Thanks to 2 wine store owners that I became good friends with over the years I’ve had the opportunity to have a good stash of Vatan. For me Vatan is one of those wines that adheres to the cliche, “ there are no great wines just great bottles”. In this instance it was a great bottle. Intoxicating aromas of lychee, lime and florals. One of those wines you’re happy just to smell. There is no disappointment on the palate. Beautiful balance and texture, nothing out of place. Layers of concentrated fruit; mango, green almonds, star fruit and lemons. Ripe fruit that is fresh and managed by the wonderful acid. A finish you never want to end. The only flavor missing, which I often find in Vatan, is “spearmint”. — 2 months ago

Josh Morgenthau

9.3

Acquired in the Maucaillou tasting room in Bordeaux in 2008, then transported back to the states in a suitcase full of laundry, deposited in my cellar where it has remained until today.

Transparent and fresh. Almost pure ruby, showing only a smidge of bricking at the edges and not much age at all. Very pretty. Earthy nose of no. 2 pencil and old spices that gradually opens to red fruits. Maybe a cliche but this is on the Burgundian side of Bordeaux. So succulent; vibrating with red fruit and lively acids. — 5 years ago

Ian Blackburn

10

Dom - is it cliche? Hell no! This is as good as Rosé gets!! wonderful soft cherry and berry, spices, chalk - the autolytics are there but in the background so they don’t destroy the fruit or voluptuousness -ness - ness!! — 6 years ago

Chip Hughes

9.2

Every Bordeaux cliche in the book: graphite, cedar box, soy, cèpes, wet earth, five spice, forest floor. At its peak, gone completely secondary in terms of aromas/flavors...yet vital, vigorous and quite obviously has another gear left. Properly 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, and not blemished with either drying doses of new oak or the skull-splitting level of alcohol that makes drinking most modern classified growths a grotesque test of endurance. — 7 years ago

tim heyman

9.0

amazing discovery 1989 vintage 30 old year wine drunk august 2019 reaffirming cliche of wines improving with age — 7 years ago

Jacinda Bronaugh

9.6

Mellow and fruity, without being cliche. — 8 years ago