Showed very well at 8 years old. Always fun to taste the older Southold wines from their time back on Long Island. — 2 years ago
Will be sad to have my last bottle of this! Drank over bday weekend 35. Delicious — 4 years ago
75% Syrah, 25% Goldmuskateller
2016, North Fork
Utterly lovely, unclichéd sparkling rosé - this isn’t a tossed-off afterthought, it’s refreshing and intriguing. — 5 years ago
The Southold experience asks you reintroduce yourself to familiar grapes. There is no typicity so throw your schooling out the window.Love Just Because is purple brown Dolcetto that smells like sour wild blueberries and beef jerky steeped in iodine.It’s bloody and meaty - metallic and full of salt. Also pulpy and fruity and sour and nothing you’ve seen before. — 6 years ago
First and last time, interesting Sangiovese 55 Cab Franc 45 from Texas! Very lean purplish floral notes into acidic lean but balanced palate — 4 months ago
Deep ruby/indigo; spice, leather, spring mud layered over ripe black plum on the nose; pepper, leather, sour cherry, fine and dusty tannins upfront; finishes mid-palate w lingering cherry notes.
Tasted while listening to Schubert’s Fantasia for Piano Four Hands in f, Op Pos, D 940 with David Fray and Hacques Rouvier — 6 months ago
2020 vintage — 5 years ago
Solid. Texas y’all! — 5 years ago
Cloudy AF. Super sour in a way that matched the tartness and gaminess of a yogurt sauce on lamb meatballs. Ocean spray & hi-c juice. — 5 years ago
This is a first, CVed to taste for dry red for Evan cooking but the nose was great, lean yet floral, with leanness all the through on palate. Acidic firm texture, will be good food wine — 5 months ago
Pale orange; earthy, orange peel, vanilla; sour orange, white flower, vanilla bean; long tart finish — a year ago
Dark ruby; tar, spice, and brambly berries on the nose; black cherry, pepper, and smoke with lively acidity and depth; chewy tannins with a long lingering finish. Maturing already and one of the best from the producers, who have decamped to Bordeaux. — 3 years ago
Brush my teeth with syrah garnacha — 4 years ago
Cloudy, medium ruby. Fresh, fruit-driven nose. Good acidity, notes of licorice, leather, and sour cherry. Smooth, lingering finish, more acidity than tannins. What I’m saying is, while drinkable now, it’ll reward more time before uncorking. — 5 years ago
Ray Vanderhoff
Wonderful Long Island Bordeaux-style red blend from a winery that no longer exists. Blend of Cabernet Franc (50%), Malbec (25%) and Petite Verdot (25%). Dark ruby/purple color with just a bit of fade on the rim. Aromas of black/blue fruit, granite dust and intense lavender. Flavors of black cherry/currant fruit, blueberries, leafy herbs with a mineral backbone from start to the end of the very long finish. Touch of a pleasant phenollic funk. Medium bodied and well balanced. Silky tannins and quite complex. This bottle aged nicely. I miss visiting the “tasting shed” at this winery. — 3 months ago