Martijn

9.2

Superdry with tons of lime and orangepeel bitter. Fantastic nose too. — 2 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

One of my favorite wines ever. Tressalier and Chardonnay blend. Nose is rich and buttery like and old school Meursault but has so much sea air mineral expression it’s unreal. Gorgeous. Palate is stunning if a bit young. This needs air but the bones are there. Juicy, clean, pure, rich, like a Meursault but super fresh and textured. So elegant and dense. What a wine. Let’s see what air does. Getting nutty as well. 9.4 to 9.5 overnight. Stunning today. Fresh, textured and energetic. Icing on cake texture and so pure. Almost a 9.6. — 10 months ago

Eric Kememes

9.5

Best pétillant maceration spiced peach skins all fresh no va no off vibes slayed — 2 years ago

Daniel Bloom

9.1

Took to a Dutch BYOB.So it was PnP.
Very sappy, cherry skins and pits. Dense, opened up over the course of dinner. Could have been the Pork shank. Forest fruits and dark brightness, an oxymoron I know. Delicious stuff wether you decant or not. Some yrs. won’t hurt.
Thanks@FassSelections
Thanks@ Dankbaarphilly — 3 years ago

Matt Sterr

9.2

Amphora. Aged on skins under Flor. Beer-like. Almost hoppy. Notes of beeswax 🐝 — 6 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

Always a treat to open this Charmes. Nose has loads of baking spices, green apple skins, huge clear minerality, like smelling fresh air, gorgeous hint of florals, zero sense of woods unreal purity on this, palate is superbly complex, linear with great energy and a sappy intense mineral driven structure. Such a lean Charmes! Love it. That opulence and richness one can get from Charmes is there but man is this chiseled. Gorgeous. Insane complexity already. Chewy and structured and gets richer with air but the chisel stays as is. — 7 years ago

Tom Casagrande

9.2

I LOVE this wine. It is so old school. So much like the better CDRs and CDRVs I used to drink/sell in the early 80s. Very earthy, funky, aged meaty nose. Peppery, roasted green herbs, iodine-tinged flavors. There’s spicy blackberry skins too, but that takes a back seat to farmy garrigue. Clingy and damn good. Cambie may have have Ginger-ized most of the southern Rhône, but it is really nice to find that Mary Ann is still in the house. — 7 years ago

Sipping Fine Wine

9.1

After pressing dried grapes from making Amarone, Valpolicella wine is passed over the still warm skins of Amarone for 2nd alcoholic fermentation, increasing the alcoholic content, aromas and color. Blend of 85% Corvina, 10% Rondinella, 5% Oseleta. Deep Ruby with aromas of sweet dried berry fruits and pepper spice. On the palate ripe blackberry, currants and sweet cherry with complex spice. Well balanced with acidity and alcohol, full-body with soft tannins on long finish. Nice value. — 6 months ago

Maggie Harrison

10

whoa! wild, totally unexpected nose. never smelled a chard like this. Menthol, eucalyptus, mint. Andes mint. high elevation, select rows from a single vineyard. Unlike any other chardonnay. Flipping beautiful. High acid, lemony citrus and mineral on palate. the mint is fascinating- almost overwhelming. decanting would prolly help. 10 just because it’s so interesting, so delicious. but it is not identifiable as Chardonnay. — a year ago

Martinez

8.9

100% Chenin Blanc, macerated with skins — 3 years ago

Matt Harrelson

9.6

@James Knoblich — 4 years ago

Vanessa

9.0

Cheers to this Pinot Grigio from Slovenia! 🇸🇮

It has a beautiful, pale, rosy-orange tint due to extended time on the skins, which gives it a lovely texture. 👁 The mouthfeel has some weight to it. Yet it’s refreshing and has a lot of food-pairing potential. If you’re a rosé lover, like me, this would be a fun alternative to try. 👌

This wine is dry, youthful, and offers medium intensity in aromas and flavor notes. 👃👄 Notes include white peach, pear, lemon pith, grapefruit rind, and wet slate. Acidity, alcohol, and body are medium. The finish is also medium.

Pullus, Pinot Grigio, 2019, ABV 13%. Picked this up at @thewinepeople for $15.99, which sure seems like a great value. — 5 years ago

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Chip Hughes

9.1

Baked bones, popcorn, pure Chardonnay flavors. Well structured and quite remarkable in its restraint, given the blazing hot growing season. — 7 years ago

Karl Heinmiller

9.5

Yum! Great cab franc from Trader Joes (not necessarily a "great" Cab Franc but great in that it's from TJ and really really good) — 8 months ago

Matthew Cohen

9.6

Nose: Very interesting. Dried apricot. An hour in the nose is a masterpiece. Elegantly floral in an intense way.

Palate: mineral. Amazing dry fruit. Wow. Savory a bit.

Maybe the best orange wine on earth.

Fass selections. — a year ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

Really stunning wine. Maybe best one ever and I have had everyone since 14. Nose is dripping with terror, deep forest, rain soaked moss, light sweet wood, burst of minerals and some green apple skins. But so stunningly pure. Palate is rich and ripe but so pure and juicy. Elegant and deep with a lovely opulence and wonderful freshness and lift. Impressive finish. Such an airy yet dense wine. Just glorious. — a year ago

Reda Pilybaite

9.0

Lovely easy to drink orange vino! — 5 years ago

Jody Scharf

9.2

Grape skins. — 6 years ago

Chip Hughes

9.2

More balanced and precise than the ‘17. Apple-blossom, baked bones...along with a concentration and complexity that suggests Pouilly-Fuissé way more than Mâcon. — 7 years ago

Bob McDonald

8.9

An interesting varietal - Saperavi is an ancient Georgian varietal which is known to be long living in the former Soviet republics where it is grown extensively. Has bobbed up here in Queensland at Ballandean Estate. Very dense ruby in colour. Aromas of plum skins and dark berry fruits extending to the palate with a savoury twist. A core of fruit which will carry this through for some years. Great experiment. Saperavi has s good future in Ballandean. — 7 years ago