Remarkable complexity and uniqueness mark this 2018. One thing I love about Sauvignon is it’s ability to adapt to where it is - and terroir comes flying out of this glass. Let’s start with the aromas because… omg I’m overwhelmed with an intimate old sweaty gym bag! Some petrol comes after, but it’s more subtle. Powerfully tight, like it’s poised to spring out of the glass. Tart grapefruit dominates with touches of tomato vine and other herbaceous notes. Long, strong, finish. It doesn’t sound appealing but it is. — 2 years ago
This is just such a distinctive and delicious wine. Yellow flowers.
Nose: so mineral and nicely tropical. So silvaner. Amazing typicity
Palate is stone fruits, minerals. So juicy. Great acidity.
Amazing with food. Just makes a good evening great. An hour in you get the wall of flavor. Dense yellow fruits mineral acidity all hit you like a lunch in the face all at once. Magnificent. Rich. Amazing body. Minerals crushed by hand in your mouth.
Finish has this almost savory element. Terrific
We can argue about styles but this is one of the best silvaners on earth.
Fass selections — 6 months ago
1975 vintage. Decanted with oodles of sed. Ambitious, older Graves nose. Medium (still) bodied. Frontal and mid palates satisfied but finish/end palate hit a wall and flatlined. Still, fairly nice showing with a decent amount of fruit kicking about. 9.21.23. — 2 years ago
A special wine — 2 years ago
A beautiful deep magenta-purple color. Fruity and perfumed aromas of blackberry, loganberry, vanilla, clove, currant, and violets rise from the glass. Polished and fine tannins glide across the palate, outlining a medium-full body that is loaded with black fruit, currant, sweet tobacco, and baking spice flavors, finishing with a flourish of chocolate-covered cherries. Drink now - 2027. $35 on Wine Access. Get more. — 4 years ago
Brief notes. Family dinner at my brothers house - sister and her hubby visiting from England. This selection from Mike’s Wall of Wendouree “. This was more black fruit plummy opulence than usual for Wendouree. Rich and intense which is par for the course with this producer. Consumed a little young at only 14 years of age. This is the Cabernet Malbec not the Shiraz Mataro. — a year ago
Very tasty & well-structured, but at nearly $80-85/btl, I was expecting more. Hate to sound chincy, but there are a lot of surprising $30 btls & I’d gladly try 3 of those for the KB price tag. Had it w/ grilled salmon & grilled squid steak - well matched & held up w/ marinades. — 3 years ago
Clay Bullwinkel
Robust skin contact for weeks - array of rich mountain herbs, nuts, tannins. Not a wall flower! — 4 months ago