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…
Same notes as last year. Some fruity, dark black cherry notes dominated more than I remember from my prior experience. It's good, but it doesn't make me want to race right out and buy more…
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…
Same as my previous notes from November. The best showing of this wine I've ever had. 98 points from RP seems about right. My last bottle. Wish I had more, but at more than twice the release price…
Round and soft, especially for a Viognier-based white. It completely lacked the acidic citrus, grass, and/or steely mineral cut desired from this varietal to make it more palatable and interesting.…
Oak, butter, oak, butter, oak, butter, and a hint of oak. The back end was speckled with flecks of oak and butter. Hints of vanilla and butter contrasted with a slight hit of oak and butter. An…
Purple Syrah-based fruit with a clipped and simple finish. As a GSM (or actually a SGM), the depth is almost completely absent. Not a lot of energy. Round and bitter at the same time, which was odd.…
Weak, thin, and linear. Some pepper and herb notes surrounding would-be fruit flavors of bitter cherry and dried plum (to the point of saddle leather). An odd wine. Almost no depth or concentration.…
A lot of black cherry fruit and some earth initially pumping out of this wine. The attack seemed as though it would easily sail on through the finish...but it didn't. Fell flat and quickly faded as…
Like the Contrarian, this was served too warm. Nose was instant barnyard and fertilizer. Everyone in our party caught a whiff of some version of manure and/or funk. Our hostess explained it away as…
The failure here was that it was served at room temperature. This needed to be at least 15+ degrees cooler. As fair as I can be with this wine (temperature aside), this was an ok white blend. The…
One of the nicest Rose wines I've had. Unfined and unfiltered, leaving a cloudy, viscous wine in the glass. But this gave it a noteworthy body and fairly intense mid-palate. I was a fan (for a Rose).
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. As a BDX blend, this was completely too round and soft to classify as a Cabernet driven blend. Plum, black cherry, and some funky chocolate notes. When…
Extremely accessible given its youth, especislly for a GSM. No hard edges or astringency to distract from the core fruit. This was much more purple fruit driven than the L'Aventure Cote a Cote I had…
I very much enjoyed this wine, even more so than Denner's reds. Nicely balanced, with acid and frame in wonderful check. Lemon citrus, minerality, lycee, white peach, and some pumice.
I always have to ask myself if I should assess this as a Syrah or a Cabernet/BDX. The Syrah component definitely stood out over any other flavor profile. Round and rich blackberry and vanilla…
An extremely well done white. The Roussanne component is stunning, with white peach, yellow citrus, and sweet flowers all wrapped in a nice kiss of vanilla. The Viognier seems to add a perfect cut to…
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…
Previous notes apply. Hold until 2018. Came off a little sweet and disjointed initially. Opened up a bit more after a few hours in the decanter, but was still a little too plush and round for my…
An intense and broad-shouldered Syrah blend. Big blackberry, charcoal, black plum and purple berry fruit notes. A beautiful and powerful zing of brambly black raspberry and sage remind you that the…
Same as my notes from last year, except that this still needs more time. Drank "fine" after a couple of hours in a wide-bottomed decanter, but was still a little tight. Good purity of fruit. Not a…
Similar to my notes from a year ago except that this only took about 30 minutes in the decanter to really fan out. The Syrah component was dominant (which wasn't a bad thing). Full of blackberry…
