Enrique

9.4

No decepciona. Rioja de ley — 6 months ago

Sergio L Figueiredo

9.1

HIDEO - 28.02.2025 — a year ago

Catherine Leith

9.2

Bold for a Sauv Blanc. Notes of succulent pear and tropical fruit. Well-balanced acidity. — 3 years ago

Paul T, Missing My Beautiful Wife 24/7

9.6

Short Rib wine. 👍🏼
Winery notes,

Unique circumstances helped create the monumentally impressive 2013 Le Petit Vice. Proprietor Patrice Breton worked with Paul Hobbs and Mike Smith in the beginning, and finished the wine with the help of Philippe Melka, and Shawn Johnson… Four of Napa Valley’s most accomplished winemakers.

Aged for 22 months in Taransaud and Marques French oak barrels, — 6 years ago

Guthrie Raimondo

8.9

Dry sherry flavor with a bit of funk — 7 years ago

Chris England

9.5

Fab 05 top Rioja @ £70-100 in a great year & a fav of mine - will keep improving but great now 😉 Awesome 2020-30 👍

📍 Marques de Murrieta Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva Especial 2005

🏵 95 points w/ 96-98 potential

🍇 89% Tempranillo & 11% Mazuelo

🍷 Deep ruby

👃 Soft oak through dark spiced berries, currants & cherry with creamy vanilla, light smoked tobacco, leather, mocha, coconut, mint & balsamic into choc cherry gateaux w/ a bit of date coming through

👄 Med+ body of deluxe silky smooth creamy stewed rich dark cherry driven fruits all perfectly balanced w/ thick cocoa cream, vanilla & balsamic touch

🎯 Long seductive oak, cocoa, balsamic & dark fruit cherry boom linger — 8 years ago

Greg Giere

10

140 bottles of this treasure were found in the winery's cellar around 2011 before it was reconditioned, sealed with fresh corks, and released into the world a few years later. A portion of these made their way to the Portland market in 2017 thanks to a fantastic local distributor, Casa Bruno.

Popped and poured - pristine cork beneath the wax and beautiful color, not at all brown or tawny, more brickish, slightly orange towards the rim. First sniff- clearly this is a sound, complete wine that is without a doubt very much alive. Aromatically reminiscent of old Bordeaux with ample leather, earth, cigar box and tobacco, sandalwood veering towards old wooden cabinet (if that makes sense), clove and nutmeg and cola, fruit is still present- strawberry/pomegranate, orange, very herbal and floral with dried rose petals/potpurri, vibrant acidity and an impressively long, haunting finish. Incredibly elegant, silky texture, crystalline purity, finished very Burgundian. Really, a perfect hybrid of aged Bordeaux and Burgundy. As a friend put it, "somehow both aged and ageless." No question the best 50+ year old bottle I've been fortunate to try. Certainly a once in a lifetime opportunity, though I hope to track down another bottle someday. You'd never guess this was 105 years old.

— 8 months ago

with Bryan and Terry

M. Christopher Roebuck

9.2

Barnyard funk on open. Soily. Wet leather. Needs time to expand. Time that I didn't afford it. Quite better than my last time with this. 2012 vintage offers more weight and heft. Very good.

92+ points — 5 years ago

Steve Churchill

9.0

With cheese, gorgeous — 6 years ago

Jon Bergqvist

9.7

Of all the old Rioja I’ve been drinking this last year this, together with the Marqués de Riscal 1964, stands out the most. A stunning wine with mindblowing complexity. A true joy to drink. The bottle was finished extremely fast. — 7 years ago

Janet Alvarez

9.1

Smooth and full bodied. Delicious, will buy again. — 7 years ago

Joelene Hasse

9.0

Smokey with oak notes — 8 years ago

Sanford Collins

9.0

Had this wine at Penny’s Wine Shop in Richmond, VA 9/3/2025 with Lisa. — 10 months ago

Caitlin

9.2

Peppery and good — a year ago

BaliRain

8.9

Blitz heavy duty — 5 years ago

harry Juggins

9.0

A rioja to remember — 6 years ago

Vaughn Liley

9.0

Takes me back to Marques de Riscal and the Frank Gehry designed hotel - go there if you haven’t been! — 6 years ago

LeMel Humes

9.0

Very smooth and good with spicy and red meat — 7 years ago

with Suzanne

Rob Smith

9.0

Balanced, fruity, violet undertones. Easy drinker. — 8 years ago

Brent Clayton

9.2

Lovely nose of dried fruit and nuts, soft and elegant on the plate, with a hint of dryness on the finish. Layered on the palate and lingers in the mouth. -En Rama NYC popup — 8 years ago