5/26/2024 - Satoshi Nakamoto Likes this wine:

Dried red fruits, orange zest, toast, and fruit pith. Moderately lean with some fruit. My big house rose preference goes to Cristal, but certainly not complaining about having this.

5/27/2024 - wwolf1 Likes this wine:

Un joli vin assez parfumé, un peu sérieux mais bien fait. Jamais déçu avec ces vins.
15/20

5/24/2024 - 4vino wrote:

past its prime

5/27/2024 - Mbad77 wrote:

One to revisit in several years. Has quite sharp and acidic attack but softens quickly in the mouth.
Could be quite lovely and will come back to this one

5/27/2024 - Kike Sola Likes this wine:

76% Tempranillo, 20% Garnacha and 4% Viura from a selection of the oldest vineyards on the farm, on floors of frank-sandy structure and with a surface layer of 40 cm of white boulders. Fermentation with indigenous yeasts in concrete deposits and subsequent aging for 18 months in oak barrels (60% new French oak and 40% second-use American oak). Ripe fruit, floral, toasted, smoke, vanilla, with a lot of freshness, juicy, elegant, long and persistent. Great wine!!!

5/27/2024 - djhammond Likes this wine:

Not quite up there with my previous bottles, and unfortunately my last, but what a wine. At its best it is nudging a perfect score. One of the greatest vintages from my favourite right bank estate. The Merlot and Cabernet Franc combination is irresistible. Taste profile is as per previous notes.

5/27/2024 - doctormark30 Likes this wine:

Drank from my cellar. Smooth, velvety. Delicious. Can drink now. Can’t get any better

5/7/2024 - hoservin Likes this wine:

Popped and poured. Aromas of red cherry, red plum, spice and earth. Cherry, plum, spice and earth on the palate. Well structured and balanced with a very long finish. Medium bodied. Served with baked salmon and garlic herb butter.

3/20/2024 - oldwines Likes this wine:

Tasted at the Barolo and Barbaresco World Opening, NYC. Softer tannins than the Serralunga/classico cru. Quite forward and approachable yet pure and balanced. Cherry, roses amd earth. Seems like a great wine for a restaurant list that is soft and forward yet showing Nebbiolo typicity.

5/27/2024 - henrygjeffreys Likes this wine:

Deep brown colour,
Intense nose, leather, burnt toffee, dark chocolate,
Flavour explosion! Dried apricot and fresh stone fruit, layers of dark chocolate, leather and old wood. Lots of wood tannin.
Very very long. Lingering bitter chocolate.

5/27/2024 - RJWallis Likes this wine:

Incredible fruit!!!

5/27/2024 - Jobu wrote:

Grassy nose with lemon. Lemon lime fruit with some white peach and melon, and that grassiness on the end. Good lip smacking acids.

5/20/2024 - SoleModel23 Likes this wine:

Really overdelivered my expectations! What a complex, and different bottle that drank/drinks well above it's weight class! Stupendous Quality:Price Ratio at the $30 a bottle purchased for on Last Bottle. No hurry to drink at all.

5/26/2024 - Satoshi Nakamoto Likes this wine:

Sweet peach, spring minerals, subtle florals. A tickle on the tongue from light bubbles. Delicious!

5/8/2024 - eb1202 Likes this wine:

similar notes

5/27/2024 - henrygjeffreys Likes this wine:

Woody nose, camphor, tobacco, touch spirity,
Dry, savoury, woody, some tannin, walnuts, bitter dark chocolate and espresso coffee, orange peel.
Sturdy Cognac.

5/26/2024 - yasha Likes this wine:

this wine just stunning after 90 min. opening.

3/20/2024 - oldwines Likes this wine:

Tasted at the Barolo and Barbaresco World Opening, NYC. This Classico cru is lovely and approachable. Balanced, with pure cherry, slightly herbal and full of floral notes. Seems really nice.

5/27/2024 - SixHedgehogs Likes this wine:

Full red, hints of brown and orange. Aroma of oak, musk, flowers, leather, cherry. Deeply complex flavour of plum, mulberry, oak and roast beef, with touches of cherry, apple and vanilla. Bone dry, mellow tannin, balancing acidity. A food wine. Great with roast Spring lamb.

5/27/2024 - Neras Likes this wine:

Solid rosé with depth

5/27/2024 - Cake & Fine Wine wrote:

Another day, another great Ridge. Concentration of a flamethrower; held by a ballerina. Well structured with complexity and great length. And such a spectrum of fruit with, a cool menthol undertone. If 2019 Ridge Zinfandel was a guitar solo, it would be Dave Gilmour - Comfortably Numb. I really really love these wines. Decanted for two hours, drank over two days…probably a 95 on day 2.

5/14/2024 - eb1202 Likes this wine:

similar notes

5/27/2024 - henrygjeffreys Likes this wine:

Aromatic nose, tobacco, menthol, orange peel, fudge and chocolate - lots going on here.
Very smooth, sweet fruit, apricots, dark chocolate.
Mellow. Quite ridiculously drinkable.

5/27/2024 - TomTCam Likes this wine:

Clean nose of blackcurrant, liquorice, vanilla & cloves; medium intensity. High tannins. High acidity. High alcohol. Palate as nose. Long, intense.

Balanced, long, medium intensity, medium complexity. A good wine.

5/5/2024 - hoservin wrote:

Aromas of apple, tropical fruit, lemon peel, spice and coconut. Apple, lemon, spice, vanilla and mineral on the palate. Long, creamy finish. Well balanced. Served with shrimp scampi.

3/20/2024 - oldwines Likes this wine:

Tasted at the Barolo and Barbaresco World Opening, NYC. Traditional style. Fermented in multi use wood (75%) and steel, then aged in Austrian and Transylvanian oak botti. Light and fresh though tannic. Needs time in the cellar but I think this could emerge beautifully with time.

5/27/2024 - catlady Likes this wine:

Had with ribs withs rub. Perfect pairing. Easy drinking right now.

5/27/2024 - henrygjeffreys Likes this wine:

100% Grillo
orange blossom on the nose
Vanilla, tannic, cinnamon and coconut
Intense and concentrated. My favourite of the Curatolo wines.

Made with maceration of the skins. Aged in French and American oak.

3/20/2024 - oldwines wrote:

Tasted at the Barolo and Barbaresco World Opening, NYC. Clean, mostly traditional production. Long fermentation, maceration, malo in steel over 30-55 days. Aged in 50HL botti for 20 months. Very tight and unyielding. Plenty of structure but it will take some cellaring to allow the fruit to come through.

5/27/2024 - Endodr Likes this wine:

This is one of those wines that tastes dead when just opened. Initially, it tasted and smelled like cheap jug wine. I abandoned my glass and moved on. When I returned to the wine 1 1/2 hrs later, wow! A melange of citrus, pear, bees wax, and oak. Medium bodied with nice acidity.

5/27/2024 - ElmarV Likes this wine:

Runder Wein

5/27/2024 - eb1202 Likes this wine:

similar notes, maybe one point more than 3 1/2 years ago, still quite tannic, I decanted almost 2 hours and then the wine is smooth and silky.

5/27/2024 - henrygjeffreys Likes this wine:

Big salty nose, orange zest,
Tangy, salty, touch of caramel and orange blossom.
Good.

5/4/2024 - hoservin wrote:

Decanted for one hour. Nose of violet, blackberry, currant, mocha, spice and crushed rock. Blackberry, currant, mocha, crushed rock and baking spice on the palate. Very long, layered finish. Full bodied. Served with hickory smoked, reverse seared porterhouse steaks and a black truffle, blue cheese compound butter.

5/25/2024 - 408racer wrote:

Amazing for 50 years! Celebrated my 50th birthday and this wine was extremely well recieved. Still packed some fruit.

5/27/2024 - DenG wrote:

Drink by 2032

5/27/2024 - henrygjeffreys Likes this wine:

Rich nose, orange and toffee
Gentle, almonds, touch of alcohol heat.

5/27/2024 - Condrieu82 Likes this wine:

Nice pale pink color, good acidity, lots of raspberries and strawberries on the palate, with a nice ending tinged by persistent acidity and some spice. Perfect when served chilled. Great poolside sipper.

5/27/2024 - henrygjeffreys Likes this wine:

5 year old Marsala
Delicate, off-dry, delicate. Quite nice.

3/20/2024 - oldwines Does not like this wine:

Tasted at the Barolo and Barbaresco World Opening, NYC. Way too modern, oak hides all the terroir and Nebbiolo character. Not for me.

5/27/2024 - SLOFred Likes this wine:

This wine is flawless. Dark, dark purple, slight oak on the nose and first flavor, very soft tannin, medium body. Drink up.

5/26/2024 - calimo Likes this wine:

Wow. i knew i really liked this Twisted Oak Graciano, but i hadn't had the 2018 vintage. i drank this side by side against the 2017, and kinda liked this better...at least with the dinner we had last night. it went GREAT with smoked reverse seared peruvian spiced chicken thighs. The wine really popped with the char and the spices on the chicken. Was really awesome! spicy, somewhat earthy flavors...medium finish. Recommend! i now need to go back and try the 2017 as a stand alone wine...

3/20/2024 - oldwines Does not like this wine:

Tasted at the Barolo and Barbaresco World Opening, NYC. Very modern style, too much oak, purity lost. Not for me.

5/27/2024 - scottmedsker Likes this wine:

Very, very tight and tart upon opening. 30 minutes in decanter opened it into a lush, deep, balanced taste of cherries and plum. A favorite at the price point.

5/27/2024 - henrygjeffreys Likes this wine:

Lemon/ orange blossom nose
Off dry, sweet delicate, pretty.

5/27/2024 - henrygjeffreys Likes this wine:

Burnt orange and caramel on the nose
Wow! Intense acidity. This is incredible. Big almonds!
Love this.

5/27/2024 - henrygjeffreys Likes this wine:

Lemony nose - smells like essence of grillo
Lean, fresh and mineral. Nutty finish.
Great stuff.

5/27/2024 - henrygjeffreys Likes this wine:

Nutty orange fruit on the nose
Just a little dirty, like an oloroso, citrus
Tangy, absolutely bone dry, intense, almonds on the finish. Salty and long.
Very good.

5/27/2024 - henrygjeffreys Likes this wine:

Sweet orange blossom on the nose,
Pure and fresh with almond on the finish.
Makes a great port substitute.

5/25/2024 - SoleModel23 Likes this wine:

Did not meet my expectations for being rated 97 points. I think it was pleasant, but nothing to write home about. Above average for the price point of below $20. I'm sure it will be better in a couple years, but not much upside in my opinion