John Nader

9.0

A really nice red blend. A great "go to" especially as the weather warms. Nice for grilled meats outdoors or charcuterie. It's an unusual blend with real depth. — 5 months ago

Lorraine Cancellieri

9.0

Slight strawberry notes. Well balanced. Not too sweet and not to dry. One of the best roses I ever had — 4 years ago

with Kristin

Brandon Boesch

9.5

Tasting great with some age. Cedar, tobacco, green pepper, plums, chocolate covered tart cherries. More on the herbal/veggie side of Bordeaux blend. I really like this. Probably even better in a few more years. — 4 years ago

Lynsey

9.3

Fruity and flavourful. — 5 years ago

Grace smith

9.0

Good Chardonnay with just the right amount of butteriness. Great value wine that I picked up from my local wine guy! — 6 years ago

Joe Hakim

9.0

Paired well with grilled chicken parm — 6 years ago

Kristen McCabe

9.0

Lemon, peach, rose nose, very well balanced complex flavors, strawberry — 6 years ago

Theress Bricker

9.1

A rich bouquet of raspberry and blackberries oak and savory spices. Soft tannins make for a easy relaxing wine.  — 2 years ago

Susan Daniels

9.1

At the bottle shop with Becky, chris, patty and me. Nice and smooth! — 4 years ago

Shengli Hu

9.0

A tasting note for their Vermentino (since no such entry exists): Stony grassy oily beeswax lanoline
Crushed stones citrus medium+ acidity medium - finish phenolic bitterness
— 4 years ago

Shiho

9.0

苦味強めだが美味しい — 5 years ago

Severn G

9.1

A pre-dinner bottle while we do meal prep tonight.

Prior notes still apply:
Nose has lime zest, lime juice, green hay, wet granite/limestone pebbles, oxidized green apple peel, polyethylene tubing and tangerine peel.
Palate has Key lime flesh, cold tangerine slice, apricot skin, wet-pulverized limestone, lemongrass, tangerine zest, (minor) dried apricot and light honey on the medium finish, medium acid, great balance. — 6 years ago

Raj Ajrawat

9.2

Lots of mineral on the nose and an ever so subtle bit of jam there at the end. I wish I could make this an everyday drinker. h/t to Chris Leon for the bottle! — 6 years ago

Severn G

9.2

2016 / 2017 / 2018
Ameztoi Getariako Txakolina Rubentis Rosé - Mini-Vertical
50% Hondarrabi Zuri / 50% Hondarrabi Beltza

Nose has ripe strawberry, dried orange peel, ripe Clementine orange and tangerine gummy bears (yum).

Palate has tart strawberry, tart raspberry, minor candle wax, dried grapefruit with light tannins.

Txakolina rosé tasting on the 2020 Summer Solstice, perfect for a hot/humid day in the Berkshires. Last bottle from our cellar. — 6 years ago

Lynn Carter

9.1

Had in Truckee with John, Jeff Kepple and Natalie and Garret Haywood. Very light but very tasty. — 3 years ago

Severn G

9.2

Notes are cumbersome, so no notes today but plus side, scores are honest and I should be a professional reviewer, LOL. (Good, but not 2019 good, detailed notes on future bottles...)

On the Lawn at Tanglewood this final afternoon with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Our guest conductor Michael Tilson Thomas is leading IVES (Psalm 90) and BEETHOVEN (Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Opus 125).

After a two-year pause, we arrive again to the day when Beethoven concludes on these hallowed grounds. The 9th by Beethoven is always bittersweet for us, as it marks the end of the official Symphony and Pops season for the BSO at their Summer home. It is a wonderful and singularly emotive piece moved with the full force of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus (110+) conveying the message of a divine spark of joy that makes all people one. The music and the day almost bring me to tears on an annual basis...
'Freude, schöner Götterfunken!' / 'Joy, beauteous, godly spark!' — 4 years ago

Brandon Boesch

9.2

Tasting good. Nose has some flowers, lemon, hay. Palate I keep coming back to beeswax, brioche, honeysuckle, lemon cream, there’s good acidity from underripe pear. Pretty nice to drink. — 4 years ago

Martin Bergo

8.9

Minor differences compared with the -19. Didn’t gain much with 5 years. — 5 years ago

Severn G

9.2

Nose has over-ripe stinky cherry, dry leather, moist leather, old horse pasture, tomato leaf, blackberry, dried blueberry, dried mint, saturated oak and old cigar.

Palate has blackberry, partially dried cherry, dried raspberry, (minor) moist garden soil, wet raisins with soft tannins and a long finish. Decanted 4H and it's finally starting to really open up.

Mid-shoulder fill on this particular bottle, remaining bottles are looking better. Quite reminiscent of older Bordeaux in the nose/palate traits.

(BTW I love the old labels when they used to underscore the Cabernet Sauvignon, for me it's always been Cabernet Bosché, history in a bottle!) — 6 years ago

Severn G

9.3

Wine 6/12 (Pinot Noir aka 'Peanut of the Night')

Nose has ripe cherry, tree bark, roses, blood orange slice, minor cedar notes, molasses cookie and fresh blackberry.

Palate has dried strawberry, ripe cherry, dried citrus, tart cherry, molasses, baking spices with notable tannins/acidity, a very long finish.

A perfect wine for any party, if you don't like this there might be something wrong with you. Are you a dyed-in-the-wool White Zinfandel fan, maybe this isn't your game then.

Once again it is notable that I have made one full trip around the Sun earlier this week. We had our small, social bubble team to the house for celebrating my getting older and somewhat less flexible in advancing age...Whatever will be done when I creast 50? Well, at least it's several years until needing manage that concern.

We enjoyed well-salted Ribeyes (Kinderhook Farm - Valatie, NY, prepared 48h in advance), turning to a beautiful medium-rare after a mere 12m of grill time and smashed, small red potatoes with capers (yeah try it, don't judge me yet). None of the bottles were particularly planned as 'steak wines'; we didn't care as it really was a wine nerd-fest of grapes/regions, from Burgenland, Austria to Brittany, France. Wine and food were on individual plateaux today. This was the vom Boden Spring Experience case, expertly curated by Stephen Bitterolf, and well received by our tasting crew. — 6 years ago