Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

Love this Cab/Merlot/Cab Franc blend from the brilliant Richard Ostreicher. Stunning nose of leather, smoke, deep cassis, wild herbs, minerals and flowers. Just a knockout. Wild mint, lavender. Just so impressive. Palate is ripe and generous with unreal freshness and energy. I mean the energy combined with the fruit clarity is just insane. So juicy and clean and the fruit just echoes. Blakcberry, black cherry, cassis but intermingled with awesome minerality. The tannins are so fine and woven. Unreal inner mouth aromas and a nice plumpness due to the merlot. The elegance is top notch. Brilliant stuff. — a day ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Tough vintage only means that Aligre transcended the vintage even more than normal. Killer nose. Such pure fruit. Rhubarb city. Strawberry, plum skin, cassis, but barely cassis and gorgeous light mid to early season cherry. Smoke, mint and more. Stunning fruit clarity on the attack and terrific concentration and depth. Chewy and tannic and finish is clipped for now but just opened and needs much time to unwind but good bones. So juicy and pure. Wow. The tannins are a combo of very 13 and very aligre. I love them so much. So sappy, dry, noble and pure. This has 50 years ahead of it. — 5 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

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Honeyed, ripe and so precise. Really wonderful. — 7 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

Crazy expressive nose that is ultra confectionary. Funnel cake, lime zest, smarties, sweet tarts, flowers, just stunning. Pollen. Opulent and incisive with fantastic but not oppressive acidity. So nimble and playful on the very elegant finish. Which is miles long. What a wine. — 8 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Love this 1er Cru and these 2022’s are really coming into their own these last 2 months after being a bit hurly burly. Nose is deep cherry, wild mint, gorgeous florals and minerals but overall an impression of thoroughly ripe fruit. Palate is so juicy and sleek. Huge fruit. So deep and the vivid red cherry fruit soaks into the palate like a crash of waves. The white caps being the ripe and sweet tannins. Such a killer vintage for Laurent. This has the guts for 10-15 years of aging. So juicy. Can’t wait to see how air hits this. Watch this space. — a day ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

What a wine. Nose is so complex with unreal aromas that honestly are at once mineral and at once so utterly unique I don’t have the vocabulary to grasp them. Apricots is about all I got but the nose is still a 9.7 even if I can’t explain why. Palate is vivacious, rich and elegant but with so much tannin from what I assume is skin contact but also reads as textured and fresh. So brilliant, complex and utterly distinctive. It’s rare I can’t find words to describe wine but here we are. — 4 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

Terrific classic Pomerol from a legendary right bank vintage. Raspberry cake, smoke, tobacco, leather and cocoa. Palate is opulent and silky with so much finesse and gorgeously ripe tannins. — 6 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.8

Just a stunning bottle of wine. The nose leaps out of the glad with bright, clearly defined mid season cherries. Gorgeously elegant and earthy with mineral notes that are so utterly refined you can almost smell the vines in that Alpine air. Wild flowers, so intense and pure. So supple and juicy with unreal juuuust almost not quite but barely sweet fruit which no one does like Adank. The most supple and velvety texture and finishes so delicately mineral it’s whispering. This is a stunning wine and for the $60 we sold it for one of the greatest Pinot Noir values ever. Adank is a giant. — 4 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

Just insane. Nose is so fine. Lemon oil, lemon pith, yeast and toast. Glorious baking spices. Hint of oxidation adds to the allure. Palate is so good. Unreal fine mousse. I mean FINE. Top notch finesse and elegance and wonderful sapidity. My god the pitter patter on the finish of spice, acids and fine textural mousse stuff is phenomenal. This is as good as it gets in Germany. — 4 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

Just wow. How does a wine at 15.5% show no heat and this much finesse. Unreal fruit. Red berries, leather and smoke throughout. But the headline is how elegant this wine is. — 6 days ago