Sipping Fine Wine

9.1

Dairyman Vineyard sits in the southern alluvial plains of the Russian River Valley near the ocean, a region where cooling fog comes in through the Petaluma Gap in the morning and once again in the evening. Medium Ruby color, with aromas of berries, tea and spices. On the palate flavors of raspberry and tart black cherry with herb, cedar and cinnamon. Fine tannins, medium+ finish with lively acidity, good structure, ending with fruit and cedar spice. — 6 days ago

Jenn Ingle

9.0

Nose - gardenia, chamomile, ocean and clay pot. Appearance - Super duper clean. Beautiful light straw color. Main tasting notes - tart lemon all day with a little bit of grapefruit. Pretty acidic with a longer acid finish but the acid works well with the lemon flavor. Really nice with a spicy summer chicken dish. Not always a fan of acidic whites but this hits the spot. — a year ago

John Willison

9.1

Meyer lemon, herb garden, crushed shells, ocean water. — 3 years ago

Lee Pitofsky

9.5

Decant your white burgs! This improved so much with air. There’s such power and verve with incredible depth and seamlessness of its layered Chablisen minerality, with buttercream, roasted hazelnuts and an ocean spray-like salinity. It’s texturally captivating, wrapping around the palate with killer density without weight. Racy acids balance its richness and secondary nuttiness and it finishes forever. Excellent. — 2 months ago

Seth Masterson

8.9

Orange blossoms and ultra ripe apricots flooding out of the glass.
The orangeness carries onto the palate as well. Acid is a bit lower than I expected, which might not be a bad thing with all of that nice orange citrus flavor but also not as clean and refreshing as other svb examples. — 3 years ago

Kurt Winrich

9.2

Grapefruit and peaches and ocean. — 4 years ago

Mike Miller

8.9

Definitely mineral and can smell the ocean  — a year ago

with Anne

John Willison

9.0

Crushed oyster shells, ocean water, crisp acidity. Clean. — a year ago

Al Shikoh

9.3

dark purple; blueberry, black plum, white pepper, black olive, hint of smoke; medium body, medium+ acidity, grippy tannin, 13.8% ABV; made from Syrah sourced from remote high altitude vineyard in Mendocino County 3.3 miles from the ocean and cofermented with 5% Viognier, 50% whole clusters used, aged 14 months in neutral French Oak puncheons; $48 — 3 years ago

Aaron Rankin

9.4

Nose shows greenness/stems, smoke, strawberries. Lightly crunchy, medium+ acid; some ocean spray cranberry juice here. Texture is where this shines with a rich creaminess that ends with medium+ acid. Great food wine. — 4 years ago