A slight step up from last year. In a great spot right now with about two hours in the decanter at just below cellar temperature. A little gummy on the back end, but the viscosity is what makes for a…
Huckleberry, blueberry, blackberry pie, licorice, creosote, graphite, campfire, and wet slate. A textural temptress, with a silky smooth front end. Holds a ripe and chewy mid-entry drop that melts…
Well it looks like Andremily has upped their game with this iteration of Mourvèdre. The hype is real and justified my friends. I need another new winery allocation like I need COVID, but it looks…
On initial pull, the nose showed ripe blackberry, plum, and incense smoke aromas. Similar on the palate, with a fascinating smorgasbord of bramble and chewy ripe flavors of muddled blackberry,…
Stunning purple and black fruit lead a formidable but sophisticatedly succulent push on the front-end delivery of the SQN "M" Syrah. Flanked by notes of blackberry, black olives, creosote, melted…
Perfumed and floral, the front end of this purple popper follows up with notes of blackberry, blueberry, red/purple plum, and a hit of charcuterie. A Cote Rotie interpretation from the famed…
As it's always been, the Cautionary Tale is a Vegas Bionic Cowgirl machine that pumps out Spice Girl sultry to the nth degree. It's loud and splayed on the toasted spice and saturated and sappy on…
This took some time to get over a bit of a flat affective response on the palate on initial PnP. Similar in flavor profile to the 2012 and 2013 served next to it, this 2014 started out with some…
The most accessible and giving in the flavor department compared to its 2012 and 2014 siblings served beside it, this 2013 impresses for its ripe red cherry, red raspberry, orange rind, pomegranate,…
Decidedly tight and a little unforgiving in the early onset of PnP. Some swirling coaxed out crunchy cranberry, red cherry, pomegranate, and butter pulverized stone notes. Finished linear and…
Lemon, rock, vanilla, and faint vegetal notes. Simple, medium-bodied, and round. Some alcohol makes for a more obtuse delivery. Decent flavor, but no fireworks. 87-88 points.
A massive blast of dark, ripe black and purple-blue fruit unloads on the palate with huckleberry, olallieberry, blackberry, pine cone sap, garrigue, olive brine, creosote, and bitter dark chocolate…
Certainly a worthy comparison to a strong white Rhone, with a deeply pitched and viscous mouthfeel that makes for a full-throttle (at times, a bit heavy) delivery. It's a weighty white to be sure,…
Showing the earthy side of Cabernet Sauvignon at this stage. Notes of wild and dust-covered plum, red and black cherry, and dry soil and sedimentary rock. The plum and cherry dominate throughout the…
An even more integrated and overall improved animal than when I last had this wine two years ago. This took a couple of hours of decanting to open up, but once it did it kicked out beautifully deep…
A solid showing for such an infant. Surprisingly more medium-bodied than I was expecting given its youth (and considering its listed 16.1% ABV - which probably means 17%+). Appealing and agreeable…
Held up great over the course of two days. A decent amount of power and fortitude, but balances-out with spicy, ripe, and saturated black and red raspberry and cherry flavors that make for a fairly…
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…
Similar to my previous notes. Definitely an upfront, gushing fruit type of Pinot. A deeply pitched red raspberry core, with additional notes of red and black cherry, spice box, and some subtle earth.…
Still needs another year or two to fully come together. It's a bit stuffed-up currently, with a bitter component that is creating a higher register effect; the core fruit is displaying in more wild…
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…
Black cherry, blackberry, deep/dark kirsch, rich cassis, and ripe purple plum round out the core fruit here. Additional notes of hoisin and clay make an appearance midway through the attack. There is…
Blackberry seed, purple plum, red licorice, black tea, underbrush, pencil shavings, and some blue river rock. An interesting array of flavors, if not stunted a bit by a more linear delivery and…
A rich and plush effort, with ripe yellow citrus, lemon curd/custard, vanilla bean, creme fraiche, pear, and grilled pineapple. A full-bodied domestic Chardonnay in every way imaginable. If you like…
Dark, fairly round and rich, and displaying a ripe and ready attack of brooding black and crimson core fruit. Less of the funk than its Syrah counterpart, but equally as opaque. No high-toned red…
