| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments Comment Date Community Score More... |
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2013 Rhys Chardonnay Horseshoe VineyardSanta Cruz Mountains more |
8/13/2018 - Jbird73 Likes this wine: 94 pointsVery nervous after pulling cork and having seepage about 75% of the cork...initial worry with a sniff inside the bottle and then poured a glass. The glass is fantastic. Hoping that I don't have to update in another 30-60 minutes that it changed rapidly. Have a handful of these and hoping it is a one-off. The cork was flush so not protruding like the other review. I look forward to these bottles from Rhys and this one hits it all right now, beautiful light gold in color, intoxicating nose, great acidity, just great stuff. |
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2012 Copain Chardonnay Laureles GradeCarmel Valley more |
11/3/2015 - Jbird73 Likes this wine: 92 pointsSimilar in color to previous note but the palate is different. No more sharp acid taking the forefront. This is now really firing for me with that great balance of acid and fruit. I pick up some honey as well as tart citrus and the finish is great. Better now than a year ago. Just Coravin'd a glass to check on this last bottle but think it's time to go grab one more glass....
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| Red |
2013 Turley Zinfandel JuvenileCalifornia more |
4/25/2015 - Jbird73 wrote: 87 pointsA bit of prune on the nose. Very primary fruit with not a lot of acid or tannin so more flabby than I like. It wasn't horrible just not like the outstanding other Turley zins I have enjoyed.
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| Red |
2010 Larkmead Vineyards Cabernet SauvignonNapa Valley more |
9/20/2014 - Jbird73 Likes this wine: 90 pointspretty good stuff here but for this price I know I could do better (Myriad, R-M, etc...)
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| White |
2012 Aubert Chardonnay UV-SL VineyardSonoma Coast more |
5/15/2014 - Jbird73 wrote: 93 pointsCoravin Pull #1 - 2nd Aubert from 2012 and let me just say that if you drink this immediately after pouring you will get a vastly (and I mean vastly) different wine than if you wait an hour. Initially it is very acidic and masks a lot of the beautiful nuanced layers of fruit. I love a laser-like grand cru chablis but this is just too much acidity for my palate.
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| Red |
2008 Cobb Pinot Noir 30 Month Barrel Aged Rice-SpivakSonoma Coast more |
11/15/2013 - shaferguy91 wrote: 92 points2 hour decant
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| Red |
2010 Lagier Meredith SyrahMt. Veeder more |
10/16/2013 - Jbird73 wrote: 91 pointsVery dark in color and opaque. Nose smacks of menthol out of the bottle. One hour into a decant and starting to get the pepper and dark fruit. Very full bodied in the mouth with a rush of acid on the finish. Tannins are still quite present. Why didn't I wait another 2 years to drink this. Score is based on opening now. Wait wait wait. I don't know how this wouldn't be better in 2-4 more years. I still enjoy this but I bet this shines with more time.
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| Red |
2010 Sandhi Wines Pinot Noir Sanford & Benedict VineyardSta. Rita Hills more |
10/3/2013 - shaferguy91 wrote: 90 pointsA little too much green to rate any higher with me. 1 hour decant. |
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2007 Rhys Pinot Noir Alpine VineyardSanta Cruz Mountains more |
6/19/2013 - Jbird73 Likes this wine: 92 pointsFirst off this is really good stuff. Decanted for about 30 minutes and notes are on first glass. Light purple in color. Nose screams ripe fruit. Fruit (plum, cherry) hits at the very tip of the tongue through mid-palate. This is quite dry and a little dusty. Thirty second finish. I can't wait for glass 2 in another 30 minutes.
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| Red |
2010 Sandhi Wines Pinot Noir Sanford & Benedict VineyardSta. Rita Hills more |
5/17/2013 - shaferguy91 wrote: 91 pointsDecanted 2 hours. Better than last bottle.
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| Red |
2008 Scherrer Winery Pinot Noir Russian River Valleymore |
1/17/2013 - shaferguy91 wrote: 92 pointsDecanted 1 hour.
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2011 Wind Gap Wines Pinot NoirSonoma Coast more |
11/25/2012 - smphelps wrote: 85 pointsObviously a bit of an outlier here, but the overall inpression was one of a nice non-distinct largely generic Pinot Noir. Pretty ruby, floral nose, murky mid-palalte of predominatly red fruits. 12.4% alcohol. Needed more crispness to achieve a greater degree of finesse and elegance.
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Comment posted by Jbird73:
8/18/2018 8:20:00 AM - We saved a little for day 2 and it lost the acid and was flat/flabby. That is not common for me with Rhys. Day 1 was great and given a few other comments I think it may be best to consume these this year and not risk it. High class problem!