It's been a year since I last had this wine. Previous notes still apply. I found this wine to be good, but a little out of balance for my tastes. Good acid and energy behind it, but the flavors were…
Decent precision and energy, with a nice mineral-tinged focus on the attack. Really nice balanced acidity to carry it through the mid and back end. A solid showing given its $20 price point.
A very nice pairing with the cheese cart. This went especially well with the fresh baked brioche covered in a homemade preserve that was served with the cheeses.
"Ok" is the word of the day on this wine. Some minerality and faint citrus notes. Again, a wine designed to go with food in that it will never have enough oomph to be anything but a second-rate…
Pretty plain and forgettable, but a standard white that paired well with pickled carrots, cardamom soil, ikura salmon roe, and creme fraiche sabayon. The wine was overshadowed by the food by a long…
Previous notes from last year apply. A beautiful interplay among traditional Burgundian flavors (minerality, acid, citrus oil) and more modern notes of lemon curd, popcorn, and vanilla bean.
Always a bit of a popcorn butter bomb, but the wood Lewis uses seems to be of decent quality and doesn't overly distract from the beautifully pure core fruit, which seems to be able to stand up to…
Put this in the same camp as every other SB put out by a Cab house. Just another fairly forgettable SB with little behind it to hold any kind of interest. No real minerality. No grass notes. No…
Same as all of my previous notes except I took this down a couple of ticks for just being plain 'ol boring. This most recent taste was even more blasé than I remember before. It was "fine," the way…
Started out with some nice round lemon curd and citrus oil flavors. Some decent intensity and drive on the initial attack. Yet, it became a little thin mid-palate, with the flavors fading off…
I like it. It's good. It goes good with food. It is a nice combination of modern and restrained. My girl really loves this wine (like 94 points loves it). Drink now.
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…
A truly amazing example of a CA Chardonnay. Perfectly balanced but also displaying a nice kick of spice box, smoke, and grey pebble/river rock to elevate the yellow citrus fruit and lemon curd…
A pleasant, round, and inviting Chardonnay. The creamy, yeast and almond-laced notes were at the forefront, with agreeable lemon curd and citrus fruit rounding out the finish.
Same as my notes six months ago. This was not served at the pickup, but instead at my house after having all of his wonderful Caberenet-blends. I wanted to close out the day with a final Pott wine of…
Almost a year ago to the day since I last tasted this wine. Previous notes apply. Not much has changed. Possibly a little softer on the attack. Round, vanilla-tinged, buttered popcorn. Almost too…
Lemon, quince, stone, and the faintest hint of alkaline and alcohol on initial PnP. Air time didn't change this much, except that the fruit flavors fanned out a little more with some extra swirling…
A really beautiful bottle of Chardonnay all the way around. Notes of lemon olive oil, lemon verbena, quince preserve (hints of tropical fruit), pear, and some faint vanilla bean. A bit of a buttered…
Crisp and a bit dry without totally sucking the moisture out of the palate and sides of the cheeks the way some Chenin Blancs can do. Light and vibrant, with a finish that was surprisingly not bitter…
Same as last month and the month before that. A good palate kick-starter, but amongst other local SBs in similar price-points, this is simply "ok." Well made, well balanced, and well...forgettable.
I totally agree with Peter's note on this wine. This Bevan Ritchie was a big, rich CA Chardonnay (which I can usually tolerate and even crave every so often), but this was way too much of a "good"…
I really struggled with this wine. I understand its intent, but this version was so dry it sucked all of the life out of my palate. Its texture was like a deadened/still brut Champagne that had been…
This gained points more because it was an absolutely phenomenal pairing with the turkey dinner (compared to a 2012 Tor Torchiana it went head-to-head with). The Tor was good, but the Littorai was a…
Exact same as my notes from 2/3/16. Was tied with a 2012 Littorai Heintz Chardonnay until we served the turkey...the Littorai really complimented the bird much better. The Tor had a bit of a tropical…
