Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

9.5

2023 vintage. Medium-medium heavy body. Old-school RRV swill that eschews the sweetness that crept into the area during the Williams-Selyem heyday/culty scores of the mid-80's to mid-90's. Big tea, earth, light mud, restrained cherry and plum. Structure. Fruit. Balance. No sizzle, all steak. Blind tasting this, you'd be hella pressed to call this as being from RRV. Tastes like it's got 8-10 years of age on it already as a new release. You could sock this away for an easy 15-spot if you're that disciplined, unorganized or behind on opening other stuff. One of the best new domestic pinots tasted in the last few years. P.S...tasted the 2023 MacIntyre (the one that gets all the scores/pub) right after this. It was nice. A new school nice at 9.3. I'll take this any day that ends in "y" instead. You can have my MacIntyre allocation. 3.25.26. — 3 months ago

jesus g

Hospitality Schramsberg Vineyards

9.8

Hella pain at this tasting — 4 years ago

Tree Kilpatrick

9.0

Fancy label. Very avant-garde. Hella dark. Red Inky. Smells intoxicating. Plenty of juicy aroma. Also ink well. And leather in the sun. Flavors are pretty classic petite. Tongue coating with blackberries and fancy fruit flavored licorice. Tannic. Dry as can be. Like a cat’s tongue up in here. It’s not softened much and it’s 10 years in. Lovely for petite lovers. Aka the P.S. I love you crowd. — 6 years ago

jesus g

Hospitality Schramsberg Vineyards

9.0

30 was just too long. Acidity won the battle, like it was there, but the fruit been dead a long time. Earthy notes way passed mushroom and truffles. This was wet basement and wet leaves. Hella funky — 7 years ago

Stephen Gallo

9.8

Truly fantastic. Hella mature, dynamic, and developed. Smoky tobacco and leathery notes with a beautiful attic nose. I crave more of it. — 8 years ago

Josh Brown

9.5

Dry and very fruity. Perfect for a meal. — 9 years ago

Ellen Clifford

9.1

Oh my. Yes, it is modern pick of Barolo drinkable now but possibly even more in two years. Tar and roses and hella vanilla and a lovely red-black blackberry vibe I want more. — 9 years ago

Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

9.2

2021 vintage. Last tasted 01.15.25 (9.3). Slightly more reticent than the last visit but still rocking the chunky vibe and hella value. 05.23.25. — a year ago

Branden Reimer

10

Had it with beef stew and it was hella good. — 4 years ago

Tom Casagrande

9.2

Very complex for a non-Riserva. Nose has macerated cherry, roasted green herbs, loads of crushed stone-rich gravel, and a light savory balsamic note. Savory and intense, it’s got good acidity and cling. Hella good CC. — 6 years ago

S.S. Mandani

8.9

Sweet raspberry, leather, baking spices. I like this bouquet.

Very fruit forward. Honestly, wait for it... watermelon. This is straight up jammy, picnic wine.

Unreserved, brash, jammy. Bae got this for me for my burrday. It’s not amazing, but it’s hella drinkable. Shh, don’t tel her I said that, though. — 6 years ago

Stephen Gallo

9.0

Light fruity, dry, and hella minerally — 8 years ago

Matt Sterr

8.9

Not complex, but hella affordable. Drinking well now, too. — 9 years ago

John Venable

9.6

Good god. Like liquid derby pie with a hella-long savory finish. — 9 years ago

carmen

9.3

lovely valdiguie grapes from redwood valley, the gamay of california. it’s mediumish body, hella juicy with cherry flavors and tannic — 2 years ago

Joshua Fisher

9.4

Wanna hear something super cool and at the same time super nerdy that I’m hella proud of? — 4 years ago

Ellen Clifford

9.1

F-ing delightful, Pegasus, take me away. Well first let the Pegasus catch its breath (aka let the vino breath), then hop on. Smells a little earthy as a winged horse is want to be, but take sip and the steed takes flight. Fly through hella raspberry…orchards? Descend enough to grab those and some cherries fresh off the tree then accelerate through a tunnel of (politefully chill) oak barrels and chill. Oh! But this flight didn’t have turbulence rather (abandoning metaphor) it is supes silky but while it punches with fruit and pepper it then smooths itself across your tongue like a lace tablecloth. Aka achieves smoothness with texture and the flavors and sensations seem to pop all over my tongue prior to my hopping on my metaphorical pegasus who is (describing the finish) descending into a cherry orchard (not just cause I’m doing a stage reading of Chekhov’s “Cherry Orchard” soon) and lovingly (as lovingly as a creature with wings and hooves can) sending me to find my way back through the barrels to who knows? It’s like I’m Alice in Wrinkle in Time-land. Cool Pinot from NZ I’d like to take another flight on a different Pegasus Air line. Just to see. — 5 years ago

Evelyn

9.0

Peachy, green (yes, gruner), salty, fresh, yum. Accidentally drank a whole glass just in the time it took me to pick something to watch. (Admittedly, I was taking a long time to pick something. But it’s hella easy to drink is what I’m trying to say.) — 8 years ago

Aaron Walters

9.4

2014 Vintage- Love the juxtaposition of the characteristics of this wine! Jammy fruit up front but a hella solid backbone with some good spice and leather notes. — 9 years ago

with Maggie

Antoine Pin

Wine Buyer Kroger/QFC

8.9

I had 2 different samples of this. I had it at 6 months old and fresh. Obviously the freah one was far more lively and fruity. The color was hella bright, but the 6 month old held out well. Darker in color and deeper in flavor, but still solid. That's a plus. — 9 years ago