| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments Comment Date Community Score More... |
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2009 Tablas Creek Esprit de BeaucastelPaso Robles Red Rhone Blend more |
9/20/2015 - Michael Davidson wrote: NRFrom 375, this was too port-like to drink. |
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2012 Waters Syrah Forgotten HillsWalla Walla Valley more |
9/27/2014 - Anthony Lombardi Likes this wine: 96 pointsWOTY candidate.
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2012 Patricia Green Cellars Pinot Noir ReserveWillamette Valley more |
12/26/2013 - dsgris Likes this wine: 92 pointsDark red with magenta rim, light cherry nose. Fruity and aromatic on the PnP. Opened my first Patti Green to assess the style, a little more fruity than I like, so will let them age awhile. Very nicely balanced and a lovely wine for those wanting to drink a young fruity wine. On the second night, the tart berry is replacing the aromatic notes, some funky notes, I'm liking this a lot. Give it some time like a previous note said. Very good for the sub $20 price. Another night and this wine has fabulous balance of fruit and acid. Silky smooth with some light mineral tannins.
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2011 Wind Gap Wines Syrah Sonoma Coastmore |
12/30/2013 - Frank Murray III wrote: NRI opened this about an hour ago, just sitting watching some Hawks/Kings hockey and taking the wine in without food. I'm a fan of the winery, for sure, and I was jazzed up to get one of these opened to see what 11.4% syrah tastes like: would it taste dilute, green, crappy, awkward, etc? Putting aside the discussion about alc %, I'll just call this as I see it. Damn good. Aromatically, this is hard to miss, as it's packed up with smoke, cracked black pepper and spices--really distinctive. The palate? Juicy, with juicy blue fruit, red rancher hard candy, olive, leather and a cool savory quality that I consistently associate to this bottling. For a comparison, this reminds me a lot of the 2010 Copain Baker Ranch, and no surprise given the amount of this vineyard in the composition of the wine (40%), it speaks of the Armagh Vineyard. This is not lean, weedy or under-nourished but instead savory, bright fruited and good. On the second day open, the wine remains juicy and the blue fruit has really come into the foreground, with a long finish. What will turn off some here, I believe, is the cool climate, meaty, savory quality, which is precisely why I buy and enjoy the Wind Gap wines. I dig what Pax continues to do with the Wind Gap wines, pushing the edges of things and doing it fantastic.
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| Red |
2011 Cameron Rouge Clos ElectriqueOregon Pinot Noir more |
12/1/2013 - Michael Davidson wrote: NRA warning: this definitely needs air. Thin and insipid right out of the bottle. After a night corked on the counter, a total transformation. Beautiful raspberry and orange peel on the nose and palate. Driving acidity. Really a stunning wine.
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| Red |
2009 Tablas Creek Esprit de BeaucastelPaso Robles Red Rhone Blend more |
6/9/2013 - Michael Davidson wrote: NRIt may be because I drank this after a week of drinking burgs, but this was just too ripe for me.
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2008 Cabot Vineyards Syrah Humboldt Countymore |
4/18/2013 - Michael Davidson wrote: NRI really, really want to love Cabot wines. And I have loved the pinot, but this didn't grab me. Very reductive, never really blew off. Okay fruit and acid, but a little disjoint. Okay, but not great.
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| Red |
2010 Rivers-Marie Pinot Noir Occidental Ridge VineyardSonoma Coast more |
1/25/2013 - Michael Davidson wrote: NRA big, ripe California pinot. Well made and balanced, but not really my preferred style of pinot. More for the rest of you!
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| Red |
2009 Nefarious Cellars Syrah Estate Rocky MotherColumbia Valley more |
1/15/2013 - Michael Davidson wrote: NRPros: nice full body, good fruit/earth mix on the palate.
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| Red |
2009 Wind Gap Wines Syrah Sonoma Coastmore |
12/10/2012 - Michael Davidson wrote: NRDrank over the course of three nights, and noticed no fall-off over that time.
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2011 Wind Gap Wines Pinot NoirSonoma Coast more |
12/4/2012 - Michael Davidson wrote: NRI agree largely with smphelps below. This is a good pinot, but it's not spectacular. I suspect some of the gushing by other tasters is by folks who don't often venture north to Oregon, where pinots like this are much more frequent. Nice wine, enjoyable, but nothing particularly outstanding.
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2009 Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe Châteauneuf-du-Pape La CrauRed Rhone Blend more |
11/6/2012 - Anthony Lombardi wrote: NRDark garnet color. Typical Grenache heavy nose showing red berries and some pepper/herbal aromatics. The palate is exuberant & youthful with rich, bright raspberries accented with layers of black currants. Silky mouthfeel, concentrated & intensely fruited. Some good raw material which should mellow out in the next few years.
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2007 Dunham Cellars SyrahColumbia Valley more |
11/13/2011 - mreinitz wrote: 87 pointsThis is so different from my first bottle that I'm wondering whether they put in the wrong wine. Unlike the previous bottle there's no blackberry flavor at all -- instead the dominant flavors are black cherry and a strong vanilla oak component. Not bad, but not at all what I expected. Perhaps it's a phase.
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Comment posted by Michael Davidson:
9/20/2015 8:13:00 PM - It's always possible it was damaged in transit. Don't remember the origin of the bottle. I didn't rate it, but this was pretty awful.