| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments More... |
|---|---|---|
| Red |
2018 Cruse Wine Company Tannat Alder Springs VineyardMendocino more |
4/2/2024 - Giggs wrote: NRMaybe a little acidified? |
| Red |
2017 Zorzal Eggo FrancoTupungato Cabernet Franc more |
4/1/2024 - Giggs wrote: 89 pointsLovely wine with restraint, balance, and all the hallmarks of Cab Franc. Finishes a bit flabby. |
| Red |
2012 Soléna Pinot Noir Domaine Danielle LaurentYamhill-Carlton more |
3/31/2024 - Giggs wrote: 91 pointsNeeds a few more years for the oak to fully integrate. |
| Red |
2013 Trisaetum Pinot Noir Coast Range EstateYamhill-Carlton more |
3/29/2024 - Giggs wrote: 90 pointsSplash decanted and back into the bottle, then it took three hours before it suddenly went from quiet and weedy to brawny with brown sugar-edged black cherry. An interesting wet paint note on the nose. Keeps getting better and better with more air, adding more sweetness to the fruit. It definitely has a touch of sour-fruited character of the rainy 2013 vintage, but there’s enough quality and complexity to balance it out. Mature but doesn’t act like it will be declining anytime in the next few years. |
| Red |
2018 Trisaetum Pinot Noir Ribbon Ridge Estatemore |
3/27/2024 - Giggs wrote: 91 pointsNose blends brown earthy spices with sweet perfumed florals and raspberry-cherry. Kinda has this soapy character that smooths out the underlying texture; I think the soapy note is the acidity that still needs a few years to relax. I’d guess peak around 2028. |
| White |
2018 Audeant Wines Chardonnay Seven Springs VineyardWillamette Valley more |
3/24/2024 - Giggs wrote: 96 pointsThis is world class. So much matchstick and gunflint creating a pungent minerality that almost comes across as spicy, plus delicate Meyer lemon cream, vervy acidity, and oak effortlessly integrated in the background. It’s a special wine. |
| Red |
2016 Alois Lageder NATSCH RömigbergVigneti delle Dolomiti IGT Vernatsch, Schiava more |
3/23/2024 - Giggs wrote: 91 pointsFascinating wine, extremely high acid, light body, opens up with air to reveal wild strawberry, just ripe enough. Acts like a cooler-climate Piemontese wine. |
| Red |
2013 Torii Mor Pinot Noir Olson Estate VineyardDundee Hills more |
3/22/2024 - Giggs wrote: 90 pointsSour-fruited like many of the 2013s. Nice texture, though not much depth. |
| Red |
2012 Storybook Mountain Vineyards Zinfandel Estate ReserveNapa Valley more |
3/22/2024 - Giggs wrote: 93 pointsAll the other reviews really nail it. Great wine. I’m not sure I’d guess Zinfandel right off the bat, but it’s definitely Napa. Reminds me of La Jota Howell Mountain Merlot in style: lush fruit, lots of acidity, wild/austere tannins. |
| Red |
2019 Lapostolle Carménère Cuvée AlexandreApalta more |
3/18/2024 - Giggs wrote: 89 pointsVery solid as usual for this bottling. |
| Red |
2018 Milbrandt Vineyards Malbec The Estates Wahluke Slopemore |
3/17/2024 - Giggs wrote: 84 pointsToo candy sweet and lacking a sense of place like so many Washington wines. The nose is more restrained and sophisticated than the palate. I’d love to ask the winemaker about picking a little earlier. If feasible, I can imagine trading some sweetness for more acidity would be beneficial. |
| Red |
2010 Rubissow Merlot Mt. Veedermore |
3/16/2024 - Giggs wrote: 87 pointsAwesome right out of the gate but quickly declines with air. Had the exotic red currant, mint, and mature chocolaty oak combo but evolved into more V8/tomato. |
| Red |
2014 Crowley Pinot Noir La ColinaDundee Hills more |
3/16/2024 - Giggs wrote: 94 pointsReally polished, and to such a degree that it smooths out a lot of the rusticity that I love about the region. That being said, it’s excellent wine. There’s an intense candy apple and crushed red raspberry liqueur-like sweetness and weight to the mouthfeel, some pastille/Sweet Tarts flavor to the edges of that fruit, fresh cut mint and herb grasses, and mineral/iron shavings. Powerful, concentrated, and has years of life left, to 2030 at least. |
| Red |
2008 Tenuta Santa Maria Merlot Decima Aurea Veneto IGTmore |
3/16/2024 - Giggs wrote: flawedSeems to be on a plateau of maturity, but unfortunately this bottle was barrel-marked (corky). Putting that flaw aside, the wild red plum/cherry fruit and mouthfeel are pretty nice. It would likely be a 90- to 91-pointer on my scale. |
| Red |
2008 Soléna Pinot Noir Domaine Danielle LaurentYamhill-Carlton more |
3/15/2024 - Giggs wrote: 94 pointsPerfectly at peak drinking right now. Masculine profile with fully integrated oak, dark spices, black currant/berry fruit, butterscotch, damp forest floor, finishes with sweet ripe blackberry and a subtle tannic flourish that ratchets up the authenticity. Sensational. |
| Red |
2018 Farella Vineyards Merlot Coombsvillemore |
3/9/2024 - Giggs wrote: 91 pointsYoung. Try in 2026, target 2032. |
| Red |
2012 Ayres Vineyard Pinot Noir Perspective Ribbon Ridgemore |
3/9/2024 - Giggs wrote: 89 pointsPresents as a couple years past peak drinking, but no question there’s some quality here. Typical 2012 restrained fruit personality, tons of the Ribbon Ridge brown spice, molasses, and an astringent finish that’s kinda hollow in terms of fruit at this stage—if only you could turn back the clock. |
| Red |
2021 Lingua Franca Pinot Noir AVNIEola - Amity Hills more |
3/8/2024 - Giggs wrote: 90 pointsThis is really good. An unpretentious Piemontese style. Needs a few years. |
| Red |
2010 Cullen Wines ManganMargaret River Red Bordeaux Blend more |
3/1/2024 - Giggs wrote: 90 pointsOpens up and gains fruit intensity over a few hours of air, Malbec-dominant profile on the nose and more of the Merlot on the palate, wonderful fruit intensity with medium weight, well made, though slightly flabby on the attack and finish, perhaps lacking the acidity it probably had 2-3 years ago. Still would love to have a few of these to drink over the next year with 3-4 hours decanting. |
| Red |
2018 Two Mountain Winery Cabernet SauvignonYakima Valley more |
2/29/2024 - Giggs wrote: 85 pointsBlack-fruited, typical Ribera del Duero style that you find in Yakima, heavily oaked, lots of pepper and woodspice, truckloads of capsicum. |
| Red |
2013 Patricia Green Cellars Pinot Noir Estate Etzel BlockRibbon Ridge more |
2/21/2024 - Giggs wrote: 92 pointsDecanted 2 hours. This is just now entering early maturity. Nose of earthy spices, sour cherry, pink Starburst, damp forest floor, tree sap. Palate has tangy dark red fruit, plenty of acidity, well-integrated oak notes that blend into a brown spice-accented finish. I’d guess 2026-2030 will be peak drinking. |
| Red |
2018 Tenute Guardasole Pio Decimo RossoPiemonte DOC Nebbiolo more |
2/14/2024 - Giggs wrote: 91 pointsDark and brooding Nebbiolo profile with a light- to medium-bodied presentation, more vegetal than fruity, with a complex mix of leather, chalk, rosemary, tangerine, wet stone, and crushed violets. |
| Red |
2020 Domaine Chantal Lescure Pommard Les VignotsPinot Noir more |
2/14/2024 - Giggs wrote: 93 pointsFantastic. Deep pomegranate, pungent red cherry skin, Barbaresco finish. Really good now and will be nuts in 2028. |
| Red |
2019 WillaKenzie Estate Pinot Noir Estate Yamhill-Carltonmore |
2/12/2024 - Giggs wrote: 89 pointsLots of oak, which needs a couple years to integrate. Drinking it today with a couple hours decanting, the oaky brioche and bourbon notes do eventually blow off to reveal ripe cranberry and brown spices. There’s a lot of quality to the presentation but not much complexity, or at least the oak is concealing any complexity that might be hiding underneath. Drink 2026-2030. Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comments (2) |
| Red |
2017 Penner-Ash SyrahOregon more |
2/11/2024 - Giggs wrote: 91 pointsComplex nose of sweet plum, cranberry, evergreen, mushroom. Medium-bodied palate, woodspiced plum, rawhide, green tannins on the finish. Has years to go and could see it improving by a point or two in a few years. |
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