Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

Faboosh! What a nose. Unreal Gevrey perfume of big cherries, violets, meat, spice and more. So complex and expressive. Really really perfumed it’s actually intoxicating. So juicy, sweet and dense with insane tiny berry fruit intensity and such purity. Wow the energy on this is off the charts. It’s super clean and the finish is all elegant limestone. Needs to open but man is this stuffed and aristocratic. Lipstick like intensity on the nose. So juicy and so concentrated with that just unforgettable Naddef fruit. Unreal sweetness. Picking up finesse as it airs out. — 10 hours ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.9

Oh. My. God. — 3 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

A new one to me. Nose is very generous with blackberry, blackberry liqueur, spice, flowers and more. Really giving and generous. But under all those flowers and blackberry is a firm background of granite. Palate is terrific. Young, grapey and fresh with nice finesse and terrific olive and game flavors. Very savory. Very fresh but finishes so stoney and granitic. Really a very pretty nose. Blueberry now coming through. So sappy and fresh. Needs to open but this is wonderful. So juicy and just teeming with energy and so much olive and game. One of the most savory Cornas I have ever had and really approachable. Wow with air the nose became elite. Flowers and spice galore. Olive. Wild mint. So fragrant. Unreal. 9.8 nose out of nowhere. Crazy granite. What a perfume. Palate is ultra sleek, concentrated and super pure. Fresh, dense, alive and explosive. Really great stuff here. This is a 9.7 and one of the greatest new Cornas I have tasted. — 7 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.0

@Delectable Wine this is bottled by Pierre Brisset from purchased fruit in the Coteaux Bourguignons. It’s called “Les Dessous” Chardonnay and is Vin de Bourgogne. Thanks!

Nose is rich and ripe with some elegant, buttery and oaky notes plus green apple and pear. The palate is rich, oaky and fresh. Juicy and mineral. A tremendous value. Won’t sell it as it’s too cheap and for France only but for the money it’s tremendous. As it airs the oak integrates more and the energy is terrific. 9.0 now from 8.9. — 10 hours ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

Wow this has opened up. Nose is so 21 and super steely, citrus, floral and skeletal. Palate is luscious, juicy and nervy with gorgeous fleshy fruit and unreal density yet lightness. Awesome. So dense. Weight of a spatlese but nimble as a Kabinett. Lime zest on the nose now. Seashells. Chablis like. — a day ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

Stunning and generous nose. Spicey cherry, macerated cherries, mid season, clove, cinnamon, cardamon, pomegranite and so much more. Such an evocative nose and super fragrant. Gorgeous, detailed minerality. Palate is so decadent with unreal sweet fruit that is kinky and confectionary. So juicy and sleek. Amazing, sweet and velvety tannins. Juicy and so tangy with just the most outrageous inner mouth sweetness and florals. This is so brilliant. Girard really stepped it up in 2023. This is such a refined wine and from an often forgotten about 1er Cru. The tannins are remarkable and substantial but man are they sleek and sweet. Some plum skin, black cherry now with air but my god the sweetness is literally insane. 9.6 for now. Let’s see where this goes. I can’t get over this nose. It’s just to kinky and exotic. It smells like a carnival. In Volnay. — 5 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Unreal old school Nebbiolo nose. Chestnut, dried leaves, desiccated mid season cherry skins, sour early season cherry and some tar. Only just open and usually needs 3 hours but forward aromatically for a young Valgella. Charcoal and burning embers. Such a wine of place. Unreal concentration and density. Juicy and forward for a young Valgella. Dense and thick but so fresh. Damp leaves, soil tones and tremendous lift. Ripe but substantial tannins. Grape and old chestnut. But really fans out on the finish. Great stuff!! — 8 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.8

Forgot to take a pic the other night so forgive the “jacked from google image search” picture. But this wine deserves a shoutout as it was genius. So elegant and supple with outrageous confectionary fruit and inner mouth aromas. So complex and elegant. Just amazing. — a day ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

This bottle is very reserved. Usually this is a bit more showy. Nose is a bit neutral which means maybe this is aromatically closed? But that palate is all saline, lemon, mineral and huge acid and grip. Like Puligny 1er Cru. Architectural in its structure. Super sappy and dense and so clean. Chiseled. Odd the nose is so reserved. This is so epic on the palate with just enormous density, structure and concentration. Thick yet dry. Let’s see where this goes. Now the nose is starting to show. It’s got that wet earth, wet stones thing going. Huge mineral stank. Now it’s grooving. Nose is all Puligny with flowers and iodine. Brown sugar as well. So elegant. nimble and juicy. Luscious and mouthwatering. Chewy and dense. Unreal mineral sweetness. — 5 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

16/17 blend. Bottled April 2018. Disgorged Oct. 2022. What a color. Now that’s salmon. Nose is gorgeous strawberry, watermelon, minerals and it’s so clear and so clean. Just gorgeous. Floral and airy. Very attractive and provocative nose. Unreal concentration and the fruit is all sour cherries, sour sweet apples. Wow this is concentrated and the bubbles are so fine. This is superb. Sapid and dense but oh so light on its feet. Just terrific fruit and purity. This will improve with air but so much to like. The fruit is almost fruit skins. Some flesh but mostly skin. Such balance. Wonderful inner mouth aromas. So delicious. Saline finish. Can’t wait till this opens more. Wow this is salty! So good. Fleshing out with air. Tremendous architecture to this wine. Now there is citrus, and gorgeous florals and deeper watermelon. The nose is like a 9.7. Also a feral element that adds complexity. Amazing. So chewy and dense and just insane complexity. Needs to get more elegant and it will. With air comes great finesse and a brilliant, very integrated textured and all parts. Very fine stuff. Unreal density and structure here, anchored by world class finesse and length. — 7 days ago