A small pour at a tasting. Nice brioche, spice, slightly nutty, and citrus. A crowd-pleaser.

Pop and pour, debated a short decant, which might be beneficial, but I had too many other things to do. Dark a small pour at a tasting. This has intense creamy golden fruit, some caramelization or toffee, spice and oak. Nice today, but I will open the next bottle in 1+ years, and I hope the oak is integrated further.

Pop and pour, I thought this was good right out of the bottle. A small pour at a tasting. This is just a rockin' Rivers Marie pinot, and consistent with their style. Spicy fruit, orange peel, cranberry, wet stones. My last bottle, and showed better than 8 months ago.

Pop and pour, drank a small glass at a tasting. While not a bruiser, this zinfandel seemed relatively more big and fruity for a Scherrer. It is gushing with red fruit, also has vanilla, some pepper, underbrush. I have one bottle left and I'd like to see where this goes in 2 years.

1 hour decant, drank a small glass at a tasting. There is no question this is Napa cabernet, but it isn't as amped up as its brethren. On the other hand, it doesn't have anything of interest to replace that crazy intense perfumed fruit that so many cabs have, so it comes off as just a muted napa cab. I'll see how this ages, hoping for more complexity in 3-5 years.

2 hour decant, drank a small glass and then an even smaller glass 1 hour later. This is a big wine. Mostly red fruit, cherry, raspberry, some chocolate. The tannins are still somewhat firm and there is some alcohol on the finish. Good now, but I will try not to open another until 2020+.

Pop and pour, drank a small glass at a tasting. This wine is delicious and it has no structure. Big rich gobby red fruit, no acid, no noticeable tannin , but we'd just drank a 2009 BV Latour reserve. There is some vanilla oak. This is a Pamela Anderson wine. Tasty fluffy black cherry, cassis, black currant. This was a pop and pour because it was opened by our gracious host who'd been instructed NOT to open any more bottles, but he apparently couldn't help himself and opened this anyway. A great wine to try, I'd like to see how it develops with a couple more years or a decant.

5 hour decant and 3 hour slow o, drank a small glass at a tasting. This wine seemed to be in a good spot. It manages to be big and balanced at the same time, which is always an impressive feat. This is not my preferred style of wine, but it's hard not to like this. The fruit is red although it turns to darker aspects of black currant and black cherry. Good spice, minerals. To me, This seemed as good or better than the 2008 James Berry I had 2 years ago that was also the overwhelming wine of the night. I kind of wish I had more, but I don't. 94+

Decanted 3.5 hours, drank a small glass towards the end of tasting - which is where this wine belongs. The nose is quite special, leaher, garrigue, animal musk, damp rich black earth, some alcohol. The palate is more in-your-face bruiser Turley, Port-like in intensity, weight and flavor. I enjoyed this wine more than I thought I would, mostly for the nose.

Consisent with previous note of 2/13/2016.