Alpine, UT. Everything’s here. Fruit, Brett, pyrazines, layers of fruit. It dances on the palate. Medium body, lovely balance and polished texture on the finish. Ripe shades of white cherry, dried raspberries. The flavors open up more over time and dance with the Brett and mushrooms and stewed peppers. Herbal suggestions.
An early look! Sweet slight carbonic fruit. Cherry. Red fruit. Medium alcohol, strong acid and strong grippy chewy tannins - I really like the tannin texture. No pyrazines. It’s got some light herbs around the edges - brambly red cherry. Buttered cherry. Beautiful fruit overall - very different style to the White Rock vineyards Cab Francs. Will be excited to see how these evolve.
Clear white pepper! Ripe red cherry. Medium body. 12.5% alcohol. Lovely elevated acid. Nice texture. Medium minus tannins. Blackberry and dark cherry. Beautiful! Evolved a lot over the evening.
2020, disgorged April 2023. Sparkling Riesling. Dry and high acid. Hint of petrol. 12.5%. Very clean. Not a ton of autolysis. But it was aged 12-20m on lees. Interesting. Light and fresh.
USA, California, Central Coast, Santa Barbara County
Lovely apricot fruit, mineral. Nicely sweet - TBA style. Good mineral finish. High minus acid. Long. No botrytis notes. Light bruised green apple and light TDN.
14.6% medium plus ruby garnet Ripe. Savory. Has some classy Brett, some leaves. Very ripe red and jammy fruit. Fresh turned earth. Hints of olive. Black olives. Elevated acid - bright. Medium minus tannin - soft. For a $20 bottle this is quite a steal.
declassified fruit / shot wente vineyard - see notes
Ripe cherry jam. Slightly buttery. Elevated acid. Very racy. Low tannins. Transparent and alcoholic on the midpalate. Some light vanilla bean. 5% Syrah.
Cab franc 60% Merlot 40% It’s delicious. Some ripe green bell peppers. Dark cherry. Ripe and dark. Some sweet savory aged wine notes. It’s doing a classy old CA cab things. And also shows cab franc savory greenness and merlot chocolate. It’s nice.
2012 Mossik Cellars Cabernet Franc White Rock Vineyards 94 Points
USA, California, Napa Valley, Stags Leap District
Alpine, UT.
Everything’s here. Fruit, Brett, pyrazines, layers of fruit. It dances on the palate. Medium body, lovely balance and polished texture on the finish.
Ripe shades of white cherry, dried raspberries. The flavors open up more over time and dance with the Brett and mushrooms and stewed peppers. Herbal suggestions.
It’s just so beautiful.
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2023 Mossik Cellars Cabernet Franc Geyserville Vineyard 92 Points
USA, California, Sonoma County, Alexander Valley
An early look! Sweet slight carbonic fruit. Cherry. Red fruit. Medium alcohol, strong acid and strong grippy chewy tannins - I really like the tannin texture. No pyrazines. It’s got some light herbs around the edges - brambly red cherry. Buttered cherry. Beautiful fruit overall - very different style to the White Rock vineyards Cab Francs. Will be excited to see how these evolve.
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2023 Athénaïs Chardonnay Bourgogne 87 Points
France, Burgundy, Bourgogne
Reductive and sweet green apples. High acid. Creamy lees. Super nice. Ripe Meyer lemon. Really lovely. Strong acid.
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2023 Matthiasson Schioppettino 91 Points
USA, California, Napa Valley
Clear white pepper! Ripe red cherry. Medium body. 12.5% alcohol. Lovely elevated acid. Nice texture. Medium minus tannins. Blackberry and dark cherry. Beautiful! Evolved a lot over the evening.
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NV Matthiasson Chardonnay Sparkling Linda Vista 91 Points
USA, California, Napa Valley
This is beautiful. Lemon and pie crust. Good acid, length, midpalate flavors. lovely texture.
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2020 Peter Lauer Sekt Brut 88 Points
Germany, Mosel Saar Ruwer
2020, disgorged April 2023. Sparkling Riesling. Dry and high acid. Hint of petrol. 12.5%. Very clean. Not a ton of autolysis. But it was aged 12-20m on lees. Interesting. Light and fresh.
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2023 Matthiasson Riesling Sinskey Vineyard 90 Points
USA, California, Napa / Sonoma, Carneros
Lovely. Feinherb/kabinett style (light body, low alcohol, elevated acid, light, balanced sweetness). clear TDN. Hints of underripe lime, guava.
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2023 Weingut Hermann Ludes Mosel Riesling 87 Points
Germany, Mosel Saar Ruwer
10.5% very lightly sweet. Clean. Not as crisp or aromatic as the Matthiasson, which quite overshadowed this.
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2011 Tatomer Riesling B33R3N4USL3L3 Kick-on Ranch 89 Points
USA, California, Central Coast, Santa Barbara County
Lovely apricot fruit, mineral. Nicely sweet - TBA style. Good mineral finish. High minus acid. Long. No botrytis notes. Light bruised green apple and light TDN.
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2013 Frith "Frija's Rule" 88 Points
USA, California, Napa Valley
14.6% medium plus ruby garnet
Ripe. Savory. Has some classy Brett, some leaves. Very ripe red and jammy fruit. Fresh turned earth. Hints of olive. Black olives. Elevated acid - bright. Medium minus tannin - soft. For a $20 bottle this is quite a steal.
declassified fruit / shot wente vineyard - see notes
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2012 Frith Grenache 89 Points
USA, California, Napa Valley
Ripe cherry jam. Slightly buttery. Elevated acid. Very racy. Low tannins. Transparent and alcoholic on the midpalate. Some light vanilla bean. 5% Syrah.
Declassified fruit / shot wente vineyard
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2014 Frith Cabernet Franc Flanked by Ravens 90 Points
USA, California, Napa Valley
Cab franc 60%
Merlot 40%
It’s delicious. Some ripe green bell peppers. Dark cherry. Ripe and dark. Some sweet savory aged wine notes. It’s doing a classy old CA cab things. And also shows cab franc savory greenness and merlot chocolate. It’s nice.
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