Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

Love this Burgundian style throwback Cornas. Nose is deep blackberry and cassis with dried herbs and black olive. Huge crushed granite and a deep meatiness. Much to like on this nose. Palate is ripe and rich but elegant, succulent and juicy. Really nimble, fresh and gorgeous sweet fruit and tannins. Wow this is so impressive. Amazing texture and fruit clarity and a deep, mouth coating finish that lasts minutes. Profound showing. Unreal fruit whiplash on the finish makes this so elite. Silky and elegant. Just an amazing wine.

On day 2 this is so silky, sweet and velvety. Seductive. — 4 months ago

William Paley

9.3

whiplash tangerine streak at first.....the tropical/lychee/rosewater thing of course....it leans a little oily, which may be the years on its side speaking, and there’s the faintest bit of something that falls between rubber and mint. a fleeting rose perfume comes back, then some grapefruit rind. then this weird thing that’s like baby aspirin rubbed into wet wood. plucky. — 3 years ago

with Jess

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

From a site within Goldtropfchen this is an absolute stunner. 2017 sweet wines are 🔥🔥. Huge nose of apricot, minerals, sweet peaches, vulcanized rubber but in that Mosel way. So good. Amazing balance and richness. Like pink grapefruit with sugar on top and then a whiplash acidity, minerality and salinity. My god this is good. So clean and nimble while being intense and rich. The Mosel ballet. Finishes bone fry. Stunning wine. Coming to an inbox near you. — 5 years ago

Fabio Franchella

9.4

While eating figues on saint felicien and watching „Whiplash“ — 3 years ago

with Kathrin

Ely Cohn

9.3

Hanami is year after year one of the best values I can find. I’m careful with Cab Franc the way I am with Chardonnay. The good ones are beautiful and the bad ones are whiplash.

This is deep and complete and a textural therapy. Smells like cinnamon and cocoa powder and wild strawberries. Tastes like raspberries and blood oranges.

Feels like sweat pants right out the dryer; or melted milk chocolate. — 3 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

Enigmatic and just tremendous aromas. Ripe pear, lavender, mountain herbs, Bosc pear, apple skin, lovely nose. Mountain stream. So fresh, dynamic and pure. Palate is rich, ripe, opulent and concentrated with a whiplash of juicy fruit, herbs and insane acidity. Long, balanced and so pure. Shows ripeness of vintage with classic Altesse acidity, herbaciousness and freshness. — 4 years ago

Jonathan Shoup

9.0

Red fruits, spicy and delicious. She really likes it though... — 3 years ago

with Jennifer

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9.6

Bright medium ruby to the rim. Very ripe aromas of blackberry, cassis, licorice pastille, bitter chocolate, cocoa powder and minerals, lifted by a note of lavender; just this side of liqueur-like. Dense, sweet, silky and firm, with wonderfully suave, dense flavors of dark berries, bitter chocolate and violet dominating. This savory wine finishes with a slowly building whiplash of flavor and the sophisticated seamless tannins to support a long evolution and graceful evolution in bottle. I still give the edge to the 2016 for its energy and lift, but this very deep, youthfully medicinal wine is potentially great as well. Real nobility of texture here (it saturates every square millimeter of the palate) and outstanding palate-staining length. Lots to come! (Stephen Tanzer, Vinous, December 2020) — 3 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

Psycho saffron, honeyed apricots and tangelo, citrus, vanilla extract, electric acidity and so so pure, stunning depth, richness and purity. Sticks to your palate every nook and cranny. Such rich texture and whiplash acids. Insanely spicey mid palate during the swish. Wow. Just an unreal wine.
— 5 years ago

Daniel McGeough

9.5

Powerful Riesling! Pithy stone fruit! Smoked diesel flint! Golden gunpowder! Chicken bouillon, limeade lemongrass whiplash!!!!! 😬 — 5 years ago