| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments More... |
|---|---|---|
| White |
2014 Vincent ChardonnayWillamette Valley more |
12/4/2023 - stufis Likes this wine: 92 pointsMike in Atlanta has it right, even after all these years. Delicious Chard, bright, warms up nicely. Sadly our last.. Kudos to a Pacific Palisades native! |
| Red |
2009 Windy Oaks Estate Pinot Noir Proprietor's Reserve Schultze Family VineyardSanta Cruz Mountains more |
5/27/2022 - stufis Likes this wine: 92 pointsWell! Bought 6 at the winery in 2010-11-ish, drank one to test but this is the first of the remainiing 5, stored off-site since purchase. |
| Red |
2000 Windy Oaks Estate Pinot Noir Proprietor's Reserve Schultze Family VineyardSanta Cruz Mountains more |
12/5/2020 - stufis wrote: NREnjoyed this very well tonight with a savory pork t-loin, even accounting for Jim‘s penchant for 100% new oak back in the early days (!). Exceptionally long lasting on the palate and quite full – flavored. Our last, alas. |
| Red |
1967 Château Pontet-CanetPauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
8/20/2017 - stufis wrote: NRWhat a pleasant shock! Gifted from my then-girlfriend's dad, who was a long-term Zachy's employee (there is a Garney Eisner Room at the store marking his valued relationship with Don), this more than survived chronic abuse in closets, on a transcontinental flight, and worse! Cork was a challenge to remove. Muted palate that echoed Bordeaux more than stated it, and the palate was lengthy, showing appropriate flavors. Lasted the hour it was consumed without fading. Excellent! 1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
| White |
2005 Windy Oaks Estate Chardonnay One Acre Schultze Family VineyardSanta Cruz Mountains more |
1/14/2016 - stufis wrote: 92 pointsServed over 2 nites; astounding (in a positive way) development over the past few years. Still has the WOE-unique Chard aromatics (really not encountered in anyone else's Chards) followed by a miles-long finish. Color has darkened appropriately, but the whole thing is singing. |
| Red |
2009 Bedrock Wine Co. Old Vine ZinfandelSonoma Valley more |
11/14/2015 - stufis wrote: 91 pointsCompared nicely vs. a '12 Turley Old Vines at the same 6-person meal. Higher-toned than the T (which we all found to be quite an interesting variance...not sure which was favored among us...just...different), but balanced and just as rewarding; huge florals, and the lengthy impression on the palate was quite nice. |
| Red |
2007 Windy Oaks Estate Pinot Noir Diane's Block Klein Family Mountain VineyardSanta Cruz Mountains more |
11/14/2015 - stufis wrote: 92 pointsSinging on all cylinders. Floral aspects are huge, the palate is lengthy and satisfying. No oaky aspects of note, well-resolved re: tannins. A nice wine! |
| Red |
2001 Windy Oaks Estate Pinot Noir Proprietor's Reserve Schultze Family VineyardSanta Cruz Mountains more |
9/6/2015 - stufis wrote: 85 pointsOk...this was the "third leaf", the cork was a tad loose (using an ah-so), and those 2 things probably IMHO ("h"= hopeful) contributed to a rather dull offering. Hey, coulda been bottle variation, certainly an issue after so many years. |
| Red |
2004 Scherrer Winery Zinfandel Old and Mature Vines Scherrer Vineyard Alexander Valleymore |
8/22/2015 - stufis wrote: 93 pointsThis was tremendous...spicey, lengthy finish, round Zin flavors. No hint of age, other than the balance and nuance all of "us oldsters" bring to the table. The last of the lot, alas. On to the '05s next! |
| Red |
2001 Windy Oaks Estate Pinot Noir Proprietor's Reserve Schultze Family VineyardSanta Cruz Mountains more |
8/8/2015 - stufis Likes this wine: 92 pointsShockingly fresh after 11 years in my cellar, this exhibited a bit of oakiness but otherwise strutted the floral aromatics and lengthy finish that WOE Pinots all seem to have. I think Jim was using 50% new oak back then, since cut down to the 30s these days. Hardly any bricking to betray its age, this was very nice from what were then only 5-year old vines. |
| Red |
2005 Carlisle Zinfandel Carlisle VineyardRussian River Valley more |
5/30/2015 - stufis wrote: 91 pointsA worthy wine after almost a decade. Held its own, lengthy on the palate. nothing seemed to be absent. |
| Rosé - Sparkling |
2008 Schramsberg Vineyards Brut RoséNorth Coast Champagne Blend more |
5/24/2015 - stufis wrote: 91 pointsNicely balanced and floral, one could say "expected" for a Rose. The 33% Chard seemed prominent, but...eh. Really fine with Chicken piccata. $15 from the Heritage auction...huge win for several Schramberg bottles. |
| Red |
2009 Bedrock Wine Co. Old Vine ZinfandelSonoma Valley more |
5/23/2015 - stufis wrote: 84 pointsGoopy...goopy...goopy. Jeez, I haven't had a top-tier wine this out o' wack since Brian Loring's '06 Pinot Noirs! Then it was the season, the harvest, yadda yadda. ..a terrible vintage. But why now? This vintage? A shocker, I tells ya! 1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
| Red |
2007 Carlisle Zinfandel Dry Creek Valleymore |
5/8/2015 - stufis wrote: 91 pointsSlightly sweet note just expands on the wondrous palate; nose was a classic Mike Officer rendering...fulsome/deep. This is a balanced, long-thought-of wine. I daresay it is better than some of his '07 SVDs (I know...heresy). |
| White |
2001 Arcadian Chardonnay Sleepy Hollow VineyardSanta Lucia Highlands more |
4/18/2015 - stufis wrote: 86 pointsHoly smokes, Rick! This was a dis-jointed oak bomb! OK, so I'm jusat picking on the last poster...Also, we did finishe it (I do like my oaks at times) but I would have expected this to have been a lot tamer.. Fruit is still hanging on, and was noticeable, but pushed aside by that oak! Whatever other floral notes or pate-pleasing aspects I expected from a 13-year old wine were totally missing. |
| White - Sparkling |
2007 Schramsberg Vineyards Crémant Demi-SecNapa Valley White Blend more |
4/5/2015 - stufis wrote: 88 pointsShowing its age as it warms. Meh...probably held this for too long. |
| White |
2006 Ojai Chardonnay Special Bottling #1 Dry Solomon Hills VineyardSanta Maria Valley more |
4/3/2015 - stufis wrote: NRSpooky is right. The acid levels are still evident, but over two nights this was a beauty...better the 2nd night, I suppose. |
| Red |
2010 Big Basin Vineyards Pinot Noir Lester Family VineyardSanta Cruz Mountains more |
4/3/2015 - stufis wrote: 93 pointsShe sed it was a Windy Oaks, maybe even a (unnamed) bottle that goes for $90 bucks. I sed...nah, you're not worth that...if we had any. |
| Red |
2000 Turley Zinfandel Mead RanchAtlas Peak more |
3/21/2015 - stufis wrote: 94 pointsCan't get more sublime than this...lengthy finish complemented the Zin-specific notes on the nose & palate. 15.8% was not an issue. Overall this hardly tasted like a 14 year old Zin...or perhaps it did, when it's made by this producer! |
| White |
2006 Kurt Angerer Grüner Veltliner EichenstaudeKamptal more |
3/20/2015 - stufis wrote: 86 pointsdecent, but that's all. More a white wine than a GruVe. |
| Red |
2003 Arcadian Syrah Stolpman VineyardSanta Ynez Valley more |
2/28/2015 - stufis wrote: 93 pointsCould be the very best Arc Syrah we've had. Everything in it's place. Guessing it might start to taper off in 5+ years, but this is a beauty. The elegance of a Syrah made by a Pinot bigot! |
| Red |
1995 Beringer Vineyards Merlot Bancroft RanchHowell Mountain more |
2/27/2015 - stufis wrote: 93 pointsYep-this boy is still struttin' the stuf...lengthy on the palate, fragrant on the nose, and an aggressive attack to start things off. Tannins still present but in the mild-ish sense. |
| Red |
1996 Dehlinger SyrahRussian River Valley more |
2/21/2015 - stufis wrote: 93 pointsMi espose has a much better palate than I, so I blind-tasted her on this, our last of the vintage. "Youthful, fruit-forward, vibrant, really spicy, so I'd say a 2012 Zin, maybe one of the Turleys." |
| Red |
2008 Carlisle Zinfandel Sonoma Countymore |
2/1/2015 - stufis wrote: 90 pointsIn it's sweet spot, in more ways than 1...great on the nose, even better on the palate., with a lengthy finish and robust fruit profile supporting the alc level. No tannins to speak of at this point. Killer at $21 (my price point). |
| Red |
2006 Keefer Ranch Pinot Noir Keefer Ranch VineyardRussian River Valley more |
1/29/2015 - stufis wrote: 85 pointsDrank over 3 evenings. We debated if it was mildly corked, but were able to plow thru it over a few nites, so gave it a default 85. Fruit was pretty rambunctious for something mildly corked (!). 2 more, so the next reading should be telling. |
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