Thien Bui

9.2

2016 sill need time — 2 years ago

with Mk

Jerry Raphael

9.1

Excellent wine and drinking great with a lot of dried flowers and fruits, mainly raisins/licorice stood out. Very long finish. It seemed to go on and on considering that I opened and decanted about an hour before dinner and was sill drinking great hours later. — 3 years ago

Thomas Ryan

8.9

Set the way back machine to 1996. Brings back memories of their patio, a little vegetal and the red cherry has mostly dropped out but very refined at this point, sill shows well for a 26 year old bottle of wine. Friday night Brisket it worked well to cut the fat. 1996 vintage on September 2, 2022. — 4 years ago

Sipping Fine Wine

9.4

Very special hand-crafted and unique Rosé, elegant, made with Sonoma Chardonnay (98%) adding a kiss of Rutherford Bench Napa Cabernet Sauvignon (2%), and in my opinion far better than the Rosé that herald from southeastern France where some of the best are produced. I have never tasted anything like this previously. Small production, grapes fermented and aged from French white oak wood staves from Allier, Nevers and Tronçais Haute Futaie forests, known for their sought after wood, with tighter grains. Stunning deep orange/salmon color with exceptional depth of fruit brought out by the small amount of Cabernet Sauvignon providing a beautiful fruit/floral character. On the palate layers of subtle extraordinary rich fruit, ripe melon pear with a hint of raspberry and citrus adding vanilla and very light subtle toasty oak, luxurious with a graceful savory freshness. Very well balanced, layered with elegance and persistent length with an ending that comes back with fruit and vanilla spice adding some minerality. Truly outstanding, will continue to improve if you decide to cellar a bit! For me, hard to resist drinking now! Grab a few bottles and give one to your Mother for a special day, before they are gone! Tasting Sample! — 7 years ago

Lindsey King

9.5

Champion of the evening. Ripe and confected red fruit. If you lightly dusted a cherry with brown sugar and left it on a sunny window sill you'd have this scent. Palate is super satisfying, you get exactly what you've been promised. Lovely bright acid. Well integrated tannin. Not super heated despite the 14.5% alcohol. Great balance. I blame this wine for all the strangely confident and bizarrely worded texts I sent to many friends and old bosses at 2AM. — 8 years ago

Cameron Myhrvold

9.5

2011 Aubert Lauren Chardonnay
what a beautiful wine. richly styled lie a white burgundy and great aromatics. they killed it with this wine. open for a week in the frig and still tasting great. Lauren is my favorite Aubert vineyard. very burgundy an but sill rich in flavor and fruit. — 10 years ago

David White

9.2

I preferred Mt Pleasant much better under McWilliams ownership, single vineyard expressions are not as clear cut as they used to be.
1946 Rosehill not as distinct as it used to be.
Sill one on the Hunter’s better wines — 2 years ago

Tom Kobylarz

9.2

Sill too soon, check back in 3 to 5 years. If opening now open up at least an hour and a half before you want to serve it. it gains a 3rd gear with that air! 92+ — 3 years ago

Amanda Truett

9.2

Bright flavor, but sill smooth. Bought at Red or White — 3 years ago

with Wes

Sipping Fine Wine

9.5

Deep Ruby, evolves with spectrum of aromas, berry fruit, dried herb, complex spice, notes of cocoa dust. Blend: CabSauv/Franc/Merlot/Malbec/PetVerdot. Palate, ripe blackcherry/blackberry flavors, rich tones, subtle oak, espresso/black pepper. Graceful/elegant, displays super fine “dusty” tannins, perfectly balanced, pleasing length, complex ending with fruit/mineral edge. Ultra-premium fruit, world class hand-crafting, limited production exceptional wine. Wonderful now, get better with age. Tasting Sample! — 4 years ago

Blair Jones

9.5

Big, built and viscous. Almost as if the fruit needs a bit more help with the tannins to balance it out. Decanted for an hour to take the edge off the ‘15 but ended up with a largely over-oaked finish. After the fruit-forward approach. Very good and solid wine... just me picking the pepper out of the fly sh*t. Sill a solid buy. — 8 years ago

with Brooks

Pinotman /// Andreas

9.0

Lyle Fass wine available via email. Clean and lean dry. Apple and a hint of peach works really well with Matjes Herring 'Sill Matjes' from IKEA the ultimate combo Riesling/Herring/Rustic Bread. This producer is getting better every year solid! — 10 years ago

Vin Zering

9.4

Very good wine. Vibrant and fresh. Flavors are sill a bit joined so I suspect this can cellar 8-10 more years with no hesitation. Great experience. — 10 years ago

with David

Jerry Raphael

9.0

I brought this wine to dinner almost as a joke, since I stopped buying the Pisoni PN and trashed this Vintage years ago. To my surprise this turned out to be quite nice with a lot of dark berries and nice smooth finish. There was a lot of wines at the dinner so had a bit leftover. The second day it was okay but developed a bit of vinegar notes on the nose and taste but sill had blackberries and blueberries all around. Have one bottle of the 2011 which I will get to shortly.

— 2 years ago

David Kline

9.2

Apple cider amber with thick day-fog top layer that reduces to snow crystal tam. Mutant duck pond straggling lacing soon becomes window sill insect anatomy graveyard. German beer nose with tinges of orange rinds dried and fresh. Yeasty-haziness gives it green plantain and lightest spearmint marshmallow and artichoke. Damn tasty though, despite its jumble of signals. Jamaican coco bread, rosemary bits, polenta, beer-bitterness that the style usually glosses gives it a nice perspective lemon peel and lime, candied ginger and grapefruit; all low-keyed and harmonious. Lemon bread with poppy. Tasty yeasty baby beastie.


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with Courtney

Brandon Thiessen

9.3

Sill tightly wound… several hours decanting required. Strawberries and aged balsamic. Prune, raisin, asphalt, iron, port. Delicious. — 4 years ago

Sipping Fine Wine

9.5

This hand-crafted Chardonnay is barrel fermented and aged in mostly French oak (guessing a small amount of new oak, if any, as oak is not dominating the wine as most CA Chardonnays do) ending with some time in steel tanks which provides an elegant freshness to the wine. The terroir for this Chardonnay is perfect, cool wind swept Sonoma Coast Petaluma Gap with clay like volcanic soils. Great depth of gentle fruit aromas with floral and a mineral character. On the palate layers of subtle extraordinary fruit, apricot and poached pear with spiced lemon and a touch of light almond toast, luxurious yet has a powerful savory freshness. Very well balanced, layered with elegance and persistent length that ends with a graceful minerality. Truly outstanding, will continue to improve over the next decade if you are disciplined enough to cellar a few bottles, not me, this is gorgeous now! Grab a few bottles before they are gone! Tasting Sample! — 7 years ago

John Hubbell

9.4

Love the he nose. Great balance with leather, spice and cigar box. This sill has some life — 10 years ago

with Jim, Allison and 1 other

Jonas Johansson

9.3

Perfect with sill on midsummer — 10 years ago

Dirk Pitt.

9.0

Starting to show developed characteristics, but sill had some beautiful red fruit, cherry, strawberry, spice and some acidity. Drinking really well now. — 10 years ago

with Winehouse