Duardo Solan

9.0

Fenomenal a 7 eur — a year ago

MICHAEL COOPER DipWSET

Owner TomeVinos wine shops, WSET Level 3, Blogger www.spanishwinesandmore.com, blog.tomevinos.com

9.0

Nice fresh #Verdejo — 3 years ago

Roger Ray

9.1

"Basque country overlaps with the Rioja appellation, and Diez-Caballero's 2014 Reserva embodies that unique culture's esthetic and gastronomic identity. Its aromatics leap from the glass in waves of blackberry and vanilla notes while dark cherry flavors and polished tannins extend through the satisfying finish" — 4 years ago

Sandra Camarena

9.0

Beautiful sipping wine gifted for my birthday. Wonderful night of sips — 4 years ago

Donald Williams

9.2

Delightful Rioja with a delicious Cuban dinner. — 6 years ago

with Bonnie

Ruth Ann Grant

9.0

Beautiful light French Chardonnay. Hints of moral notes on the front soft vanilla on the back palate. Went well with our salmon-topped salad. — 6 years ago

Roger Ray

9.1

"this grape features pomegranate and sour cherry flavors. Medium body, light tannins" — 7 years ago

Mark S.

9.0

With yellow, ample aroma. Slight sweet. Diez Merito Pemartin Pedro Ximenez Oloroso @, AD, 250210 — a year ago

Wulf Losee

9.6

I’m going to leave my original review up, but if you want my final review of the this wine, scroll down to the bottom.

My original rating was 9.1– Pine and a hint of leather on the nose. Currents on the front of the palate. Medium tannic structure—but not much going on on the mid palate. Ends with a lot of tart high notes on the finish. There is a pleasant mineral astringency that lingers after one swallows. I rather like that. I’m going to let this sit for a half an hour to see if the tartness of the finish mellows out a bit. There’s not much here to open up though. this is a perfectly fine wine, but it’s not QC’s best. Slightly disappointed.

Update: after being left in a decanter for an hour and a half (I got distracted) the fruit on the front and the mineral finish faded, leaving the astringency at the back of the palate with tannins that were unable to balance the bitterness. This is a wine that’s best guzzled quickly [at least if you intend to drink the wine today— see my further comments below].

Updated rating, two days later: 9.6!
Oh my! Because this wine didn’t seem very exceptional, I put the remainder in an empty plastic water bottle. I squeezed out most of the air and I capped it and left it for two days. I certainly wasn’t expecting much when I drank it tonight, But it went from OK to fantastic! Bouquet was 100 percent leather. The fruit had faded on the front, but the tannins from front to back are now intriguingly complex. Lots of earth, and mineral notes all along the palate, and the finish is longer. Yummy!

The moral is don’t bother to decant this sucker. Open the bottle, at least 24 hours before you intend to drink it, and do the French thing of pouring off half a glass and then re-corking the bottle. Truly an amazing transformation!
— 3 years ago

Allison Lyzenga

9.0

Medium brown; pronounced intensity aromas of cola, cumin, sultana, allspice, cinnamon; sweet, medium acid, high alcohol, full body, pronounced intensity flavors consistent with aromas; long finish, a lovely, complex, sweet and savory vermouth — 5 years ago

Heather Danskin

9.2

Really delicious. Complex but perhaps dangerously drinkable. Somehow both sharp and smooth. — 6 years ago

Tom Casagrande

9.1

[Night 1:] On the lower-toned end of the flavor spectrum. Dark, smoky, leathery notes take the lead on the nose, with some very dark cherry verging into blackberry fruit in the background. Loads of warm sandstone. Tannic, dark, and large-framed in the mouth. Maybe a tad scorchy. Not my style (I like ‘em with more cherry fruit and freshness). Others may like this more.

UPDATE: Night 2 this is much nicer. Dark cherry liqueur fruit has moved to the fore, and the tannins are not nearly as prominent. Amazingly, I’m upping this from 8.8 to 9.1. Obviously the moral of the story is to give this guy plenty of air. — 6 years ago

Neil Valenzuela

8.9

Pale straw color. Aromas of lemonheads, orange blossom and white nectarine. Flavors of honeydew and Meyer lemon finish. — 7 years ago

Liz Navard

9.8

Different but delicious — 2 years ago

Joe Santiago

8.9

Fairly mild for Tempranillo. Little tannins, not very fruit-forward, pleasant but nothing special. — 3 years ago

Martinez

9.1

Most of Tissot’s Chardonnays were sold out, but we were able to taste this unusual cuvée, made with Chardonnay Rose, a rare
Chardonnay mutation with bright pink berries Tissot discovered in the Tour de Curon and Mailloche vineyards (propagated by selection massale). Aged for 12 months in oak. Moral floral than regular Chardonnay. Vibrant. Delicious — 4 years ago

Aleksei Snitsarenko

9.0

Вкусное довольно легкое вино. Нотки лесных ягод, вкусное послевкусие — 5 years ago

Aravind A

9.0

I think my first btl of this must have been from a friend's stock as I thought I was out of this. On the nose: massive reduction, with loads of struck match...this suggests a gravitas that the wine just can't live up to. Reduction dominates the nose, so there's nothing else to say about that. On the palate, hi-toned meyer lemon, rich lemon tart with butter, but surprisingly light-bodied..leaning a touch thin. Ok finish, which shows some white pepper. OK, but slightly disjointed...moral is: noble reduction and a big punt does not a great white burg make? — 6 years ago

Morgan Frederick

9.3

Very good Verdejo, light aging in barrel makes a rounder and more complex wine than the usual — 6 years ago

Anne Carman

9.0

Soft spun golden blonde hue. Notes of almond and hint of moral bouquet. Curtis and fresh herbs with a wash of dried apricot at the finish. Delicate yet significant gem. — 7 years ago