Hits on everything. The fruits, the woods, the meats. It’s what you get when you pair a great California winemaker with his best grape.
Hardy Wallace makes beautiful things happen with Mourvèdre.
Murky, fresh pressed wild blueberries, raspberries, strawberries. Salty thick cut beef jerky. Coffee, cocoa, rosemary stems.
Plush and classically balanced like a real-life checkbook. — 4 years ago
Listen to @Hardy Wallace and decant this puppy to bring out the beautiful Evangelho terroir. — 6 years ago
The 1993 Musigny Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru was a real surprise given that I have meted out criticism for the wines from this era. It has a mesmerizing nose with wild strawberry, raspberry and rose petal scents that feel youthful and exuberant. The palate is fleshy and beautifully balanced, supple and has delightful, seductive rondeur. It crescendos towards the finish that is armed with killer delineation, completing perhaps the best Musigny that de Vogüé oversaw that decade. Tasted blind at the Wallace brothers' Xmas dinner. (Neal Martin, Vinous, March 2023) — 2 years ago
Drinking with the asian stacks — 5 years ago
Served blind to a few of us by @Weston Eidson . My initial, and final call, of this was ‘14-‘15 Napa Cab. Honestly, hard to put it anywhere else. A more ripe and rich version with an overwhelming amount of baking spices, bruised dark fruits and fig on the nose. Low acidity and an overall “soft” profile...tannic, but not overly so. Nutmeg, cocoa shavings, baked mixed berry pie and just a hint of dust/chalkiness to it. Super approachable now. Julien Fayard makes wonderful wines and I think this, along with his Matthew Wallace wines, are the most enjoyable young. — 5 years ago
Very good value — 3 years ago
Super fun tasting through a selection of Dirty and Rowdy’s. While there wasn’t a bad bottle in this lineup, the 2017 Enz was lights out... Was a treat having the winemaker Hardy Wallace join us via Zoom. What we expected to be a 30min or so zoom call to walk us through the lineup turned into 2 hours of learning about the various vineyards Hardy works with and diving into his philosophy on wine. An afternoon I’ll never forget! Thanks Clare for making this happen! — 4 years ago
People better at wine than me told me to seek this out. So I did. And now I shall pass the same advice on to others. This juice is legit. I feels like your consuming sugar plum fairies in liquid form and giggling all the way. This will make you happy. @Hardy Wallace tip of the cap to you. Hope @ChappyTheWineSteward is well — 6 years ago
Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego
2019 vintage. Drinking more like that Caterwaul stuff vs straight Regusci juice but whatevs. Acting up and showing/throwing medium juicy/fleshy w/o the SLD soft tannic boundaries/guidelines so far but needs both a time-out and a nap to reset. Block 1 is the problem child apparently. We'll see in a year. 4.12.23. — 2 years ago