A massive wine with massive booze. Wildberry whiskey and Cachaça cobbler. Wait for ten years and see what happens, or open now and use for a circus fire breathing act. This is a straight 4 on the…
Chewy and earthy, with a road tar and sanguine thing going on. Finishes with a grainy texture that adds to the rustic profile. Past its prime, without knowing exactly what its prime might have looked…
Double decanted 3 hours. Heat. Angular. Fruit muted. Some interesting honey and marzipan notes poke out, but not much depth to be had; a completely clipped finish. The 15.8% ABV is distracting at…
Well, hot dang! What's up blackberry bombshell?! Huck a slab of tar in your face and top with some chocolate, gingerbread, and ...pine needles? ..and you got yerself a Booker that, once the booze…
Ok, I gotta call it like I see it. This was HOT HOT HOT. A Grenache cocktail if there ever was one. No, we didn't decant (so I'll take the hit on that for less-than optimal service). But oh lordy was…
A blend of 46% Grenache Blanc, 31% Roussanne, 23% Chenin Blanc, the 2019 Saxum White displays quite a beautiful core of deeply pitched yellow melon and peach notes counterbalanced with judiciously…
PnP was wound up tight with all sorts of Russell Crowe angry, just spitting poisonous nails across the palate and finishing with a hot, linear, and bitter barb on the tail. Double decanted and back…
Nearing almost a year since my last experience with this wine. It was in a "good not great" mood this go-around. The flavors were all there, but it took some serious coaxing and swirling to get them…
So this dude acted like an adolescent 2013-year-old instead of a decade-old adult at first. Insert all the comic book quotes of "Pow," "Bam," and "Kablamiboom," all stampeding massive black fruit…
PnP was a bombastic booze blast of red and black raspberry liqueur, cassis, kirsch, cherry syrup, vanilla, and limestone. A massive attack, striking aggressively with big fruit and big alcohol. A…
Previous notes from last year apply, except that this was showing quite a bit of hot alcohol on the finish, washing out the initial front-end attack of spicy blackberry core fruit out from underneath…
Two years ago to the day since I last had this wine; a wonderful progression since that time, with notes of blackberry compote, dark cassis, lower-toned dark cherry kirsch, Black Forest gateau, black…
Specific flavor display is similar to my notes a year-and-a-half ago, except that this wine seemed open for business in every way this time around. A short decant helped roll the wave of flavors…
Similar to my notes from September, except that overall I feel as though this wine is smoothing out quite a bit. This is fine, but it also flattens out some of the more concentrated flavors I've come…
Surprisingly energetic and a bit overrun by an initial blast of alcohol and tightly coiled tannins. Not sharp, but coming across a bit brash on the PnP. The quality of fruit was evident, but it was…
Paired with a grilled lamb chop (covered in redwood needles). This piece of meat was cooked beautifully, with the fat rendered perfectly. The flavors were not as interesting as the previous squab…
PnP was just a hair tight, but an hour in the decanter did this wonders. Drinking very well right now. Deep blackberry, asphalt, blueberry, and some beautiful minerality. Mid-palate and textural…
PnP with notes of ripe blackberry, stewed plum, asphalt, and some charcuterie. More ripe than expected. Tannins had integrated well, with layers of deep black and ripe red fruit flavors. Reminded me…
PnP with high-toned red berry fruit notes of bitter cranberry, pomegranate, chalk, and brush. Extremely Grenache driven, with the bitterness of the Mourvèdre clipping the finish almost immediately.
PnP with explosive notes of amazingly ripe black raspberry, blackberry, blueberry, sweet kirsch, rosemary, chalk/pumice, and a nice cut of bramble on the back end. Into the decanter it went for…
Cracked the cork on this knowing full well it was too early, but in the name of science it had to be done! Restrained notes of kirsch, black cherry liqueur, raspberry, blueberry, bramble, underbrush,…
