Black and red cherry syrup, ripe bruised strawberry, bitter chocolate (similar to the 2016 Bard but with a bit less confection), and Indian spices. Additional notes of rust, iron, and an upper…
Chocolate covered red cherries, raspberry truffle, Amarena black cherry syrup, and chocolate covered chocolate. Chewy, meaty, and encircled by some confection-heavy flavors. The delivery comes off…
Grapefruit, lemon grass, melon, and yellow citrus. A guava-meets-grapefruit flavor repeats throughout the delivery as well, with faint hits of pear and peach on the tail end. Finishes smooth and…
Plush and decidedly rich on the front end, but trailing off to a more superficial mid-palate and ultimately a round, somewhat simple finish, this inaugural rendition of Moonracer showed up to the…
Exquisitely framed flavors of perfectly ripened black cherry, dark cassis, plum skin, black raspberry, dark chocolate, dehydrated blueberries, and some subtle sweet oak char. There is a floral note…
Color me the outlier...again... Maybe I need to trade in my palate for a new one...? If you're running late for work, the punchline for those holding bottles is to wait another year+. If you have…
Previous notes apply. Yellow citrus, white flowers, melon, and peach/nectarine flavors. Less of the grass element this time around. Displaying more peach and cantaloupe notes intertwined with the…
Previous notes apply. A little more yellow fruit, acacia flowers, and grass notes this time around. Subtle white rock, but primarily grass and floral notes. Notable acid and cut. Medium weight and…
Tight yellow citrus, green apple, and white stone fruit notes. Some pumice, wet cement, and grass notes added an elevated experience overall. A slightly bitter acacia note on the back end helped with…
PnP. An absolutely incredible showing. The best I've experienced with this wine, and probably one of the best 2012 Napa Cabs I've had in recent memory. I almost wanted to hit it with a 100 point…
Similar to my notes on this wine from almost two years ago. This particular specimen was from Magnum. With some swirling in the glass, this delivered some nice earthy black cherry, purple plum,…
Cassis, black cherry, black currant, bitter chocolate, and some electric purple plum. Some baby fat still present, but it eased up pretty fast and became a medium-bodied plush stuffed animal in…
Previous notes apply with this wine. I kicked it up another point or so because this chubby baby might have shed a pound or two since I last had it a couple of months ago, but it still needs to hit…
This is a follow up from my note from last week, which was a Coravin pour. This time was a PnP with a couple of hours of air. Previous notes apply, except that the additional O2 really brought out an…
Well hot damn if this wasn't one of the best examples of a Cab Franc/Merlot blend (88/12) that I've had in a long while. Just when I've been all keyed-up in a recent grumpy rant over the doughy…
Captivating and concentrated black core fruit, a fistful of dark spices, and black minerality all pulsate across the palate in a beautifully powerful display of flavor and intensity. This Moonracer…
Disappointingly mulchy and cedar-driven, with black currant, forest floor, tobacco, wood-paneling, and a bitter leather note on the back end. This felt like something more from the mid-90's than a…
Previous notes apply. Sweet blackberry liqueur, blueberry smoothie, dark chocolate chunk, vanilla bean, bread dough, mocha, clove, and anise. Still exhibiting a bit of a clumsy profile, with a fat,…
Traditional SB notes of yellow citrus and white stone core fruit, yellow pear, lemon juice, honeydew melon, mango, pumice, sulfur, and wet pavement. A medium attack with an equally medium-weighted…
Starting to come around a bit better; slowly but surely. Previous notes apply; some nice black core fruit, with bitter chocolate, dark roast coffee, sweet oak vanilla char, blueberry, and some earthy…
A generous delivery of black and blue core fruit. Blackberry, blueberry, ripe red raspberry, fresh vanilla bean, dark (rich) chocolate, baking spice, and some scorched earth. Less of the floral…
Massive but sophisticated in its overall deliver of flavor...and I mean FLAVOR. Black and dark, dark red core fruit, with blackberry, black raspberry, bitter chocolate, clove, allspice, anise,…
An enormous, gushing cascade of dark core fruit encompassed by sweet vanilla bean and oak components. Blackberry, black raspberry, blueberry, dark and milk chocolate, fresh vanilla bean, oak char,…
Similar to my previous notes from last year. Blackberry, boysenberry, blueberry, black raspberry, black and dark red currant, Baker's unsweetened chocolate, dark baking spices (nutmeg), and clove.…
Previous notes apply. This was good, albeit still a little pedestrian. Decent concentration and fruit flavor akin to what the 2014 vintage seems to be offering wines like this. I'm not super excited…
