Matthew Cohen

9.6

Oop. Ignore the following needs a 45 minute decant.

Nose: not much golden raisins ??
Palate: delicious. Old. Rich.

I’m pretty sure this is “drink em if ya got em “.

Fass selections — 22 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.8

Late-disgorged sparkling apple cider from the old Basel style, 6.8% alcohol. My God, this is fine. The mousse is on the level of elite Champagne: creamy, precise, persistent and unbelievably elegant. Unreal apple flavors, but also real balance, purity and depth. The late disgorgement gives it a deeper bass note than the regular cuvée, while keeping the wine lifted, fresh and crystalline. Krug with apples. Remarkable. @Delectable Wine this is the “Late Disgorged.” — 3 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

Superb. Brambly cherries, glorious spice and Alpine love. Really airy and expansive. Palate is full of minerals and energy. Gorgeous cherry fruit that is so pure and sapid. Velvety tannins that are so well knit. Needs air but this is a superstar. The texture became so creamy but it didn’t sacrifice its minerality. — 9 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

10

A perfect bottle of this wine. A true emotional experience. Can go toe to toe with any top white wine in the world. And it’s Sauvignon Blanc! Best bottle ever of this and wine of the trip so far. — 2 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

One of the best Swiss Pinot Noirs. Just a stunning stunning example. Nose is all woodland berries, mountain spice, insane florals and sweet herbals and unreal mountain cherry. So alpine and floral. Captivating and enveloping aromas. Plum skin as well that is so so fine. Stunning purity, breadth and detail the nose. Enchanted forest floor aromas. Keeps changing and changing. Just stunning. 9.6 or 9.7 on the nose. Smell like Grand Cru Burgundy. ZOMG the palate. Insane fruit and sweetness. So sweet and so intense. Wow. Mid to late season red and black cherries. Just so elegant and pure. Suave and chewy but silken tannins and impossible length. Just sickness. So long. Endless. Sappy and noble. There is a very serious and substantial structure here. This is truly amazing wine. Better than the 15. Needs air and I’ll be back. 9.6 for now.

After air the texture on this is truly stunning. So velvety. Amazing sweetened and no hard edges. Nose has so much Burgundian sous bous now and really is in Clos Vougeot territory. Brilliant. An elite wine. This is very close to a 9.7 but not quite. Only age is holding it back now. — 6 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Rich, juicy, dense and elegant, with tremendous freshness and purity. Apple and pear on the nose, followed by a textured palate and intense minerality. — 3 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.1

What a nose. Huge red apple skin and macerated cherries. — 3 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

Absolutely phenomenal. Black raspberry, black cherry, white tea, flowers, some red currant. Stellar aromas. Unique. The palate is teeming with energy. Juicy, and slathering minerals. Velvety tannins but also substantial. This needs to flesh out but the underlying everything is brilliant. After 19 hours open the nose is softer and more expressive. Really a lipstick like intensity and just evolved so much overnight. Loads of Alpine spices. Palate is so round now but still has that energy and that barely there sweetness. Juicy and clean. Wonderful. 9.4 to 9.5. — 8 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.8

The nose is just the most incredible thing and if the palate wasn’t so delicious I’d be smelling this cider till the pigs come home. It’s smokey. But smokey in a smoked applewood type of way. It’s got green apple, red apple, and the aromas are mostly green and red apple skins and not the flesh. It’s not floral but has that same floral effect a floral red or white wine has in that it’s expansive and has a bouquet but these “floral” aromas are more like leaves. Fresh, gorgeous leaves. It’s so uncanny how complex this nose is. The nose also has hickory and iodine and I yelled out “This!! This is what would happen if you made Puligny Montrachet from apples!” I was so proud of myself. It’s got that Puligny iodine, sweet hazelnut thing and a kind of florality from the combo of apple skins and leaves. It’s just insane. After maybe 25-45 minutes of air this develops some quince, apricots and spice aromas that only add to the allure.

The palate is so juicy. I mean this is juicy and delicious like nothing else. It’s so explosive and just bursting with the purest green and red apple flavors one can imagine. It’s absurd. Nearly religious experience as you cannot comprehend how apples can be fermented into something that is at once contemplative and also insanely delicious. It’s delicious like ice cream you cannot stop eating. There are few wines like this and even fewer beverages. It’s so pure and so refined with just incredible finesse. The palate has these amazing candied apples that I have never experienced before in my life. These candied apples in this cider have to be tasted to be believed. There are also flavors of brioche and sourdough bread. There is a hint of sweetness but it’s like the sweetness one gets when one bites into a ripe, juicy perfect mid season apple. This is so so juicy and so clean. I mean this is as clean as any beverage I have ever had. The finish goes on forever and ever and finished with spice, complexity, green apple skins, green leaves, hazelnuts and iodine. This is absolutely bonkers cider — 2 years ago

Carsten Rudolph

8.9

Weissburgunder — 8 years ago

Stanley Lipkin

9.2

Raspberry, smoke, and definitely black pepper. Less fruit than a Williamette, more pepper than a Beaune. Very good. Food friendly. — 9 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.2

Super aromatic, with apple and pear. Ripe, juicy, clean and pure, from younger vines. Very fresh and complex. — 3 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Serious depth, texture and palate presence. Long, sappy and dense. — 3 months ago

Ely Cohn

9.2

Flinty, smokey, charred lemon and seashell. Full boat of texture and concentrated flavor + acid. Action and amplitude in every direction. — 7 months ago

Mark S.

9.0

Rich fruity with some bitterness. Wiengut Jauslin Muttenz Gutedel = Shasselas from Basel @7029, Dmar, 241007 — 2 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

Gorgeous aromas. Mid season sweet cherry fruit, spices, some gorgeous sweet oak, wet earth, florals and aromas that penetrate deep in the nasal cavity. Almost some barely ripe blackberry and cassis. Really a whole world of difference than last August. Just silly good aromas. Palate is ripe and juicy with a lithe, silky texture. Awesome purity and balance and such haunting delicacy. Sweet fruit and so nimble this is shockingly great. I vastly underrated this last time. Sweet, lithe and ripe tannins. This is stunning and achingly beautiful. 9.6 for now. Let’s see what air does to this. — 3 years ago

Matthew Cohen

9.2

Nice fruit. Nicely balanced and mineral.

Bought from fass selections — 7 years ago

Helen M Gaydos

9.4

Nervy bright with aromas and flavors of bing cherry and earth. Just lovely enjoyed with Sea Bream in the country of origin, Switzerland. — 8 years ago

with Mark

Christina Colman

9.3

Smells like champagne, tastes like juice — 9 years ago