Color: pale yellow
Smell: quince, lemon, crushed stone, and lime
Taste: star fruit, lime, green apple, lemon, with notes of chalk & slate lingering on the palate
Overall: This took about 4 hours to open up. At close to 12 hours open this has finally settled and is quite lovely

Color: Golden Yellow
Smell: Crushed stones, intense minerality, honey, lemon, lime, quince, flint, and unyielding floral notes.
Taste: citrus notes interwoven with subtle hints of honey, candied ginger, quince, jicama, and a melange of green and tart apples with kiwi, lime, and white grapefruit delicately but forcefully present.
Overall: rarely have I experienced a wine that was so intense and captivating that it was clearly beyond any other Riesling I've had before. Tasted over the course of 5 hours, this only became more complex and difficult to describe with time. I think it's fair to see why people wax & wain about this bottle of wine. I would love to have more, I don't honestly know if I can justify the price, but this experience was something I don't expect I'll be having again in the near future!

Color: Ruby
Smell: Anise, blackberry and cherry.
Taste: Black cherry, blueberry, faint anise, and hints of earth notes
Overall: Good acidity, moderate tannin, and I think I'd really like it if it wasn't for the overwhelming anise on the nose and palate.

Traditional scents of baking bread, apples, and lemon. Nice and complex with depth that is difficult to put to words.

Tasted side-by-side with the 2006. This was tight, and didn't budge much over the course of the night. Still outstanding!

Color: copper orange
Smell: strawberries & creme, baguette, blood orange, tarragon, and other fleeting scents that are hard to put words to.
Taste: apple, pink grapefruit, lime, kiwi, biscuit, and a hint of caramel
Overall: This is just lovely, and a true joy to drink. However, I'm more reserved in my opinion of this getting to taste it over two days instead of just having a taste like my first experience a little over a year ago. I'm glad to have another bottle of the '99.

Color: pale yellow
Smell: show-stopping scents of tropical fruits, honeycomb, and floral notes that are almost perfumed they are so beautiful.
Taste: this was a HUGE disappointment! Now open almost 14 hours and some subtle favors of lemon and pie crust with a hint of banana and meringue linger.
Overall: to say I've never had a Viognier like this is absolutely true...but this was just such a big disappointment on the palate that I was crushed. If the palate is ever as complex as the nose, I'd be in love! I rated this "very good" because the nose was so complex that I'm still just sitting here smelling it...if not for the nose this would just be a "good" wine