ESF

9.0

For $14 are you kidding me?! NC Yadkin Valley fruit, actually BDX blend heavy on CF and it was delicious. New World nose but if you peek under the hood (wink) there is some Loire. absolutely delicious with or without food as tannins are relatively tamed. Easy drinking & well made — 4 months ago

Ely Cohn

9.3

Glowing glossy chartreuse with a side wink. Seriously complex, playful soul. It's fruity and floral as riesling goes - violets, grape gummies, finger lime, rubber ball, and if you find it, because it comes and goes, the best little kick of secret mint.

Olive oilish viscosity with kiwi level acid. There but not center of attention there. Descents to peachy, yellow apples, lime drizzled in honey, and a long goodbye. — 3 years ago

Peter van den Besselaar

8.9

Vintage 2016 | This wine developed itself fine with a few years cellar. Expressive cassis, decanted three hours, afterwards very good drinking with a good structure. Pierre Ardoin - a oenologist at the Bordeaux university - makes this wine with a wink to its more reputed colleague vintners on the other side of the Gironde river. | paired with bbq, incredible good p/q. — 4 years ago

Bo Hemian

9.2

A Burgundy with a wink to piemonte... pine tar, tobacco, leather, smoke... salty on the mouth, more tannic than expected. And that beautiful burgundy berry. Unique and beautiful. Super happy. — 6 years ago

Beth Hamilton

9.2

I think this is my first white wine from Bordeaux. It’s a beautiful pale straw color. The aroma is maybe sugared lemon and a touch of butter. I find it to be smooth textured and light and fruity with a little wink of wet rock at the end. — 7 years ago

Nerd_Emperor

9.1

A great fruit forward red blend. Great either room temperature or chilled. A high recommended. — 8 years ago

Peter van den Besselaar

8.9

Vintage 2023 | this family run domaine in Panzoult - since 1953 - has 27 hectares. Son Pierre has entered the company and he is an advocate for Chinon red wine. So he features as Superman in a label, modern marketing with a wink. Very energetic red. — 10 months ago

Jan A

9.2

Already developed into drinking window. Sometimes you have these wines that do not tip the high rating scales, not overly complex, layered or standout elements. No, this is just really well balanced and giving a lot of pleasure and easy drinking.

Funny fact: This cuvee name means badger in Occitan, a wink at the animal who eats Jean-Francois' grapes.. 🦡 — 2 years ago

Shengli Hu

9.1

This is such a hidden gem. Alix and Etinne's negociant label. Do I see the Roulot influence here (wink wink)? I guess so. Very muted on the nose: minerality, honey, white flowers, ripe citrus, and stone fruits. Sooo much more expressive on the palate! Very broad and soft textures, white Brioche, baking spices, apple blossoms, medium+ very integrated and soft acidity. LONG finish. — 4 years ago

Riccardo L.

8.9

Big, powerful, delicious. Fluttering feeling on the tongue on the aftermath. Wink. — 4 years ago

Palmer Emmitt

Owner/Winemaker Judge Palmer

9.4

The nose is pleasant but a bit musty and tired, like I’ve rented a 150 year-old farmhouse on the coast of Ireland for a quiet weekend away. Upstairs, in an old sock drawer, is an ancient bag of potpourri containing dried herbs, crusty rose petals, and lumpy brittle strawberries that mingle with the peat and damp hay drifting through the air. The palate is fresher, brighter, the same but somehow newer, like the proprietor of the old house, a 30-ish strawberry blond named Fiona, whose great-great-grandfather built this place with his bare hands, has burst through the front door to greet me with a wink and wry smile. Like her, this wine is feminine but not delicate, stout but not burly, complex but not ostentatious. I’ll spare you any further indulgence of this tortured metaphor, but this wine is nearly everything you want in a mature Barolo – the acid is bracing in a good way, the tannin fully resolved, the balance exquisite, the length prodigious. — 6 years ago

Lindsey King

9.2

Curvy rose! Plump cherry and blood orange. Bright and fresh. 70+ year old Zinfandel vines from light sands in Lodi. A nice wink to Cerasuolo! — 8 years ago

Irina

9.0

Flirty lil fruit with an acid wink. worth her cheap ass. I’d text back — 9 years ago

Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

9.3

2015 vintage. Medium-heavy body. Coffee grounds/mocha nose. Deep color. enuff grip and plenty of chonk. Ridiculous pricing for this vineyard/these grapes. Noticeably without the over the top, reductive flavors espoused by Napa's "finest" re: this vineyard the last decade+. Not exactly a declaration of independence but definitely passive-aggressive and non-compliant. Doubt you'll find it but if you do, worth a flirtatious comment and a wink. 06.18.25. — a year ago

Mark Rosse

9.5

Remoissenet cellar collection released 9/2022. Dried rose petals, earthy and multi layered. Still very beautiful with a youthful wink. Wow! — 3 years ago

Jakub Kalinowski

9.1

Amazing on the nose - so pure, so juicy.
Dark fruit (mulberries, dark cherries, forest fruit compote (love the warmness of 2018 here!)) with w pinch of exotic spice (clove, cinnamon, anise?) But also nice sappy freshness., a hint of fresh moss or tree bark. This is enticing!
On the palate this surprises with lightness, purity, linear clarity and brilliant juiciness. Fine, polished tannins, great quality of fruit - this is so full of character yet almost weightless.
You could take this for a perfect glou glou wine (and it is!) but there’s a also wink of seriousness, too!
Ridiculous value! — 4 years ago

Daniel Lopus

9.1

Nice dry red! Wink! — 5 years ago

Friday Hill

10

Huge acidity

Very tart - bing cherries

Dennis loves this one, huge wink. — 7 years ago

Tegan Marriott

9.0

Expensive wine to sip if someone else is footing the bill, wink, wink. — 7 years ago

Ned Gray Creed

9.4

@Ryan Stirm that is a brilliant way to kickoff a long wedding weekend. This is Championship level sparkling my good man. Very refreshing, lip schmacking, and I think I got smarter the instant it hit my lips. Give Alejandro Medina a wink for opening this one. — 8 years ago