Fruit & Vine

Vine Hill Ranch

Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon 2011

An excellent wine from a not great year. Gorgeous on the nose. Plum, cassis, lavender, and milk chocolate. Just a bit weak on the finish. — 22 days ago

Ron liked this

Château Ducru-Beaucaillou

Saint-Julien Red Bordeaux Blend 2008

Drinking well with its perfumed aromatics, fruit & spice that needed some air to open — 7 days ago

Mario, Tom and 8 others liked this

Château Lynch-Bages

Grand Cru Classé Pauillac Cabernet Sauvignon Blend 1978

Great btl that had the classic LB character showing mostly red fruit, cedar, leather, spice box & tobacco notes — 11 days ago

Tom, Somm and 11 others liked this

Beaulieu Vineyard

Private Reserve Georges de Latour Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2011

This might be OTH at this point - nose is great, full of fruit, but the palate comes up short and a bit wooden. I think this is part of the batch that froze in the garage at Verona - might have something to do with it — 21 hours ago

Paul liked this

Oak Ridge Winery

OZV Lodi Old Vine Zinfandel

Pleasantly surprised how good this is for less than $9. Bright fruity nose. Sweet dark cherries, raspberries, baking spice. Full bodied slightly jammy and smooth as silk with pleasing lingering finish. — a month ago

Château Latour

Premier Grand Cru Classé Pauillac Red Bordeaux Blend 1945

Intense blue fruit. Very meaty with iodine and gnarly herbal undertow. Berry juice and balanced and pure. Excellent — 11 days ago

BOT Matt LichtenbergPaul Woolls
with BOT, Matt and 1 other
Tom, Jay and 13 others liked this

Tenuta San Guido

Bolgheri Sassicaia Cabernet Sauvignon Cabernet Franc 2021

Decant and pour. Restrained notes of dark fruit, smoke, leather, tobacco, grilled bell pepper. Taste: cherry, blueberry, currants, crushed granite, truffles. A young wine that I would luv to drink again in 15 years. — 11 days ago

Brenda Terzich-Garland
with Brenda
Brenda, Somm and 20 others liked this

Klinker Brick

Old Vine Lodi Zinfandel 2020

Light and fruity with a smooth, earthy finish — a month ago

Château Margaux

Premier Grand Cru Classé Margaux Red Bordeaux Blend 1945

beautiful fruit. Strawberry and plummy fruit. A hint of tangy minerality around the edges. Still quite fresh and bright. A great bottle — 11 days ago

BOT Matt LichtenbergPaul Woolls
with BOT, Matt and 1 other
Tom, Shay and 9 others liked this
David White

David White

That’s quite a special wine at 80 yrs

Opus One

Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Blend 2019

From MAG

2 hour decant. A striking purplish dark garnet color. On the nose: beautiful notes of dark fruit, pencil shavings, herbaceous, vanilla, cloves. Taste: creamy, polished, structured wine with blackberry, dark chocolate, minerals, bell pepper, leather, and a decent herbal/potting soil finish. Drinks surprisingly well with the decant at this age, and of course a few more years it will improve. YUM!
— 7 days ago

Brenda Terzich-Garland
with Brenda
Brenda, Tom and 17 others liked this
Paul T HB

Paul T HB

Only about 10-15 years too soon