David Kline

9.2

Topaz colored Marzen Lager with orange-beige brim. Oily lacing that doesn’t grip, just slithers like snaky digits, then visually ossifies to porous porcini underbelly. Wheat bread nose, with candy brittle. Lemon tea, cola and balsa. Almost sweet tea greets the tongue, holding the lemon note which gives way to potato bread, and a dash of brown sugar. Sweet elements are not vocal, but do harmonize. A very well orchestrated Marzen which is pleasant, refreshing and adequately complex. Prost!

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Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

Huge nose. Huge aromas. Green apple, spice, white alpine fields of flowers. Also fresh tilled dirt. Like the freshest. Huge earnest and vocal aromatic minerality reminds me of Chenin Muscadet. Like Coteaux de Loir or Jasnieres. So layered and complex. Really just ethereal and so distinct. This is one of the longest aging Altesse out there. Wow, so elegant and pure with just searing mineral force. Juicy and so balanced with unreal acidity and depth. This is not for everyone in that it has a severity/austerity not meant for every drinker but all my geeks will adore this. So luscious. It’s the liquid equivalent of a long, meandering Tarkovsky film like Stalker or Nostalgia. Love it. — 6 years ago

Christo Barker

9.5

Will get again — 7 years ago

Darius Liddell

8.9

much more vocal and vibrant on day 2 — 8 years ago

Anthony Lombardi

9.1

2012 Garaudet Vielles Vignes Meursault and this Rasta Classic, Satta Massagna by The Abyssinians. Vocal harmonies which are nothing short of magical here & Robbie Shakespeare on bass needs no explanation. The wine is a great mix of bright structure and spicy deep almost tropical fruit. Beckoning spring to stick around a bit. — 8 years ago

Jay Green

9.0

Recording vocal juice. — 10 years ago

Marcus Goodfellow

8.9

Delicious, great aromatics, a wee full bodied. A Freddie Mercury vocal. — 11 years ago

Jay Kline

9.4

Popped and poured; enjoyed over three days and showed very well throughout. The 2012 pours a deep garnet color with a near opaque core and some browning towards the rim; medium+ viscosity with no staining of the tears. On the nose, the wine is developing with secondary characteristics just starting to show themselves. Also, the solar nature of 2012 is showing through with loads of truffles and overripe and desiccated red and black fruits: tartufo bianco d’Alba, dried cherry, bruised raspberries, red roses, leather, Fig Newtons, dried herbs, and some dusty and gravelly earth. On the palate, the wine is bone dry with high tannins and medium+ acid. Confirming the notes from the nose. The finish is long, drying and savory. I’ve been a vocal fan of the 2012 vintage of Produttori since release and this might be the best showing yet. This is my last 750mL. My remaining bottles are magnums and I’ll look forward to enjoying those over the next 10-15 years. No rush, but this is a fun time to drink these as the truffle character is starting to peak through. — 2 years ago

Christy

9.5

S- Vocal, Enz Vineyard, Sabroso wine from Lime Kiln Valley. What a treat this was. Ruby color with magenta & pink, smell of ripe fruits and flowers, purple fruits and flowers, blue and black plum, wild berries and black pepper. Light-bodied and juicy with a refreshing tanginess to finish. — 5 years ago

Stuart Scheff

9.2

Vocal Pinot. Great balance and structure. Light looking but bursting with flavor. Cherry cotton candy, strawberry blow pop sucker. Find it and buy it. — 6 years ago

Stuart Scheff

9.4

Vocal- wild strawberry rhubarb pie. Find it and buy it. — 8 years ago

Ryan Mayes

9.7

Huge thank you to @originalmarmar for sharing this beauty (along with about a dozen other great wines). Have been wanting to try this wine for some time. A real stunner. There’s a reason To Kalon is so highly regarded — the fruit makes gorgeous wines with incredible dimension vertically (power / precision) and horizontally (breadth / complexity). This wine is particularly spectacular. The tannins, acidity and fruit come together in a synergistic harmony that reveals fireworks a la vocal overtones. Describing this wine, someone on CellarTracker said it best: a light heavyweight. — 9 years ago

Mike Madigan

9.4

Light, lovely communicative Pinot-- Vocal and fruit forwarded with candor and conviction... Not a surprise with this winemaker and vineyard master.. This Pinot announces itself and charms at the same time.. One of those Pinots that possesses the senses. Illusionary, beautifully bizarre, animated and theatrical. — 10 years ago

Peter Rando

9.3

Excellent Santa Cruz Mtn. Pinot
— 10 years ago

Carter White

9.5

Sweet red fruit, woodsy with some spice, great concentration, power, and length. — 3 years ago

Ron from VA

9.2

Some said this was flabby…but the richness/elegance is more beneficial than the slightly muted acidity. Like a great performer (singing) is lauded even tho the vocal range is limited or lacking spectacular, world class essence. This is a solid performer that left me smiling with a dialed in vanilla and candied lemon freshness. More please :) — 5 years ago

Severn G

9.3

We recently pulled some cases out of storage, which haven't seen the light of day for nearly 15 years, so I'll have some fun posts in the next several months.

Nose has dusty cherry, dried blackberry, tanned leather, old cedar cigar box, shriveled blueberry, dried black currant, violets, mashed blueberry and dark roast coffee.

Palate has rehydrated blackberry, dried cherries, dried blueberry, dry potting soil, over-ripe black currant, chocolate powder, medium tannins, long finish; polished and beautiful!!

Paired with enchiladas with my homemade sauce from the summer of 2019 tomato harvest, local beef from Columbia Co NY; the dish and the wine lifted each other.

Could hold this bottle until its 20th birthday in proper storage, likely a little more. A perfect and supple cork pull tonight.

Listening to the beautiful vocal prowess tonight of Catherine Russell, life is good. No COVID-19 lockdown in MA yet, but it's gotta be around the corner...

$38, September 2005. — 6 years ago

Anthony Lombardi

9.1

2011 LaFouge Auxey-Duresses 1er “La Chapelle”. Silky & fresh with some sappy red fruit. Has an ethereal quality which pairs with Eno’s 2016 masterpiece, The Ship. I love this record as it hits his vocal & ambient stuff in equal quantity. — 8 years ago

Rajiv Ayyangar

10

This is a knockout wine, a stunner, a pitch-perfect expression of love for wine in general, and Loire Cab Franc in particular. It's wild in all the right places, and impressively refined where it counts.
Medium ruby color. Arresting and straight-up delicious nose that has a certain choreography to it. Specifically it reminds me of Jiří Kylián - finding freedom within a melange of classicism and visceral impetus. Exuberance in wine is rare enough, but exuberance with such focus and intention?
The classicist bent was my first impression - a correct nose of stewed bell peppers and coffee grounds (pyrazines), earthy dog fur with slight clove (brett), and a savory blackberry-cherry fruit compote.
Tasted blind, you would guess Loire, but you might wonder at the shifting nature, at how occasionally the bretty flavors rear up in a flourish, only to be overshadowed a second later by a warm, pure fruit. There is something haunting about the fruit here - it seems to contain memories of many different wines. The wildness is complex - dried leaves, dog fur, toasted mushroom, spiced clove, moist earth. The pyrazinic aromas have uncommon depth and character - stewed bell pepper, coffee, and nascent tobacco.
On the palate, the wine dances with an elegant 12.6% alcohol frame, vibrant acidity, and satiny tannins - the medium on which the finish is printed. There is a moment, mid-palate, where the individual components come together seamlessly - a strong argument for structural-aromatic integration in the Clark Smithian sense. On the finish, the flavors subtly unravel, then persist like a vocal ensemble with synchronized vibrato.
Get this. — 9 years ago

Marshall Todd Herron DPM

9.7

The color is dark and opaque The boquet is wonderful with no strong cheap tannin smell tgat most wines have The initial palate sensation is velvet and smooth - no acid The flavor is amazing. Blacberry but dry, oaky but smooth. The after taste is dry leaving your lips and the back of your tongue slightly tingly. My first vocal response is: Yummmmmmm! — 11 years ago