Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments More... |
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White |
2016 Arnot-Roberts Falanghina Handal-Denier VineyardDry Creek Valley more |
10/25/2020 - Tritioch Likes this wine: NRBeautiful tonight and much improved over my last bottle. |
Red |
2014 Force Majeure Parabellum Rhone Varietal BlendRed Mountain Red Rhone Blend more |
9/7/2020 - Tritioch wrote: NR61% Syrah, 39% Mourvèdre. 15.1% Alc |
Red |
2011 Turley Petite Syrah Pesenti VineyardPaso Robles Petite Sirah more |
9/2/2020 - Tritioch Likes this wine: NRDark, with some seriously funky Asian spices, sandalwood, eucalyptus, blueberries, black cherries, and a distinct salinity. |
Red |
2017 Arnot-Roberts Zinfandel KirschenmannLodi more |
8/30/2020 - Tritioch wrote: NRAggressively green on the nose with fresh sliced bell peppers, tar, fresh smashed raspberries with loads of seeds. Opens with some site to reveal a pretty if bizarrely delicate raspberry and soft rose petal nose. |
White |
2012 Dönnhoff Felsenberg Riesling Großes GewächsNahe more |
8/23/2020 - Tritioch Likes this wine: NRSlithering salinity, damp stone, metallic minerals, lemon juice and lime zest, prominent fresh rosemary and sage. The palate is largely sheathed in a citrus-crystalline-salinity at the moment yet tantalizing hints of stonessence, white pineapple, and tree fruit notes peak through. launches into a prolific finish with salivating saline-citrus acidity. |
Red |
2013 Quilceda Creek CVR Columbia ValleyRed Bordeaux Blend more |
8/17/2020 - Tritioch Does not like this wine: 70 pointsDay 2: Absolutely disgusting Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
Red |
2013 Quilceda Creek CVR Columbia ValleyRed Bordeaux Blend more |
8/16/2020 - Tritioch wrote: NRDecadent German chocolate cake and confectionary vanilla sugar on the nose. Hints at the the opaque depths to come. violets, creosote. Brutish (15.2% alc) black fruit compote yet still opaque behind a wall of tannins, charcoal and grilled meat and violets. What lurks in the depths is inscrutable at present. 4% Petit Verdot is overly dominant at the moment. Finishes with crushing tannins. |
Red |
2016 Bedrock Wine Co. Syrah North Coastmore |
8/1/2020 - Tritioch Likes this wine: 92 pointsBrooding, smoked meat, enveloping dark fruit, creosote, and eucalyptus. Glowing eyes staring out ominously from the darkness. |
White |
2014 Pierre Frick Riesling SteinertAlsace Grand Cru more |
7/29/2020 - Tritioch Likes this wine: 88 pointsSmoky, lemon curd, golden apple slices, honey and fennel on the brash & ripe nose. Smoky lemon curd notes repeat with musk melon, bushels of golden apple slices. Starting to show some oxidative mushroom/umami notes adding complexity. Has a notable creamy heft but carries it well with crackling metallic stone mineral and saline acidity. Falls a bit short on the finish. |
Rosé |
2010 R. López de Heredia Rioja Rosado Gran Reserva Viña TondoniaGrenache Blend, Grenache more |
6/7/2020 - Tritioch Likes this wine: NRSmashed fresh red & black cherries, slightly oxidative hints of soy sauce, crushed seashells, wet forest earth and sous bois. Strawberry jellies, watermelon candies, smashed cherries, oxidative sous bois. Loads of stone mineral. LONG finish. Strawberry jellies, smashed cherries |
Red |
2016 Glaetzer Shiraz BishopBarossa Valley more |
6/1/2020 - Tritioch Likes this wine: 88 pointsDay 2 for this bottle: Much Better, 88+ |
Red |
2016 Glaetzer Shiraz BishopBarossa Valley more |
5/31/2020 - Tritioch wrote: NRDark smashed berries (blueberry and black raspberry), vanilla, black pepper, and a feint roasted meaty character. Loads of blueberry skins in the mouth with a distinctly shrouded overall character. Finishes with tight tannins reinforcing the perception on the palate that this needs to sit in the cellar for several more years before it will give up any secrets it may be hiding. |
White |
2018 Kilikanoon Riesling Killerman's RunClare Valley more |
5/29/2020 - Tritioch Likes this wine: 90 pointsFresh white peach slices with all the fuzz on the skins, tart kiwi fruit slices drizzled with honey. White flowers, wet stone and feint petrol. Hints of sulphuric gas that need to age out or blow off. |
White |
2015 Kilikanoon Riesling Killerman's RunClare Valley more |
5/24/2020 - Tritioch Likes this wine: 91 pointsCandied lemon peel, freshly cut Granny Smith apple slices, honey baked apple sauce, sea spray. Lemon custard, surprising depths still largely concealing a lot of nuance. Funky stone mineral. Loads of jellied tree fruits. Hints of lime pop in the background. Great acidity keeps the medium+ weight moving right along. |
Red |
2014 Turley Zinfandel Mead RanchAtlas Peak more |
5/20/2020 - Tritioch Likes this wine: 93 pointsImmersive perfume of rose petals, smashed raspberries and cherries. Time in the glass reveals licorice, bark spice, and underbrush notes. Dark and inviting. Mild woodsy tannins still holding on clip a bit of the front palate. Loads of berry fruit but not cloying explode into a profusion of dark rose petal, licorice, tar, sous bois notes, and mocha notes. Mocha kicks off the finish with butter cocoa notes lingering throughout a berry compote. |
Red |
2013 Turley Zinfandel Pesenti VineyardPaso Robles more |
5/15/2020 - Tritioch Likes this wine: 90 pointsDisconcerting level of wine penetration on the cork for a wine only 7yrs past vintage, an increasingly common problem I’ve noted in Turley bottlings both mailing list and from retail. (This bottle purchased via Turley mailing list and stored in cellar since). |
Red |
2016 Pax Syrah Sonoma HillsidesRussian River Valley more |
5/13/2020 - Tritioch wrote: 82 pointsForward floral and black raspberry notes mingle with prominent wet stone characteristics and worrisome vegetal aromas. Vegetal aromas clarify with some air to include charred herbal notes and eucalyptus, yet fail to integrate with the fruit aromas yielding a disjointed nose of aromas at odds with each other. Surprisingly light in the mouth with a similar profile of dueling high toned red fruit and black raspberry alongside wet stone, potting soil and charred herbs. The word “neutered” comes to mind. Pleasant on the finish with a reminiscence of freshly picked blackberry finally managing to gain the upper hand over feint grilled herb notes. Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
White |
2013 Dönnhoff Gewürztraminer trocken Private ReserveNahe more |
5/3/2020 - Tritioch Likes this wine: 91 pointsBottle Nr. 061/778 |