8/31/2022 - Thralow wrote:

An outstanding bottle.

8/31/2022 - Thralow Likes this wine:

An outstanding bottle.

8/31/2022 - Thralow Likes this wine:

We did a blind amateur tasting against BlackBox Pinot; two people picked the BlackBox, and two selected the Marcassin.
Mickey
Donnie
Laura
Danielle

8/31/2022 - Thralow Likes this wine:

Did a blind amature tasting against BlackBox Pinot. Two people picked the BlackBox two picked the Marcassin.

8/10/2022 - Thralow Likes this wine:

Wonderful. Drank on the beach, at sunset, with Mickey.

11/27/2021 - Thralow Likes this wine:

Beautiful, ready to drink.

6/14/2021 - Thralow Likes this wine:

Better than the last bottle I had - a few years ago.

6/14/2021 - Thralow Likes this wine:

I love Amarone, and this is one of the best.

6/14/2021 - Thralow wrote:

One of the best wines in the world. Fight me.

5/2/2021 - Thralow wrote:

59% Cabernet Sauvignon
22% Merlot
10% Cabernet Franc
9% Petit Verdot

Strong thick, and chewy belies the blend.

3/22/2021 - Thralow Likes this wine:

The white that even people who hate whites will love.

2/10/2021 - Thralow Likes this wine:

I love this wine!

1/12/2021 - Thralow Likes this wine:

So I received a gift of Blackbox Chardonnay. The equivalent of six bottles in two boxes! I think they were making fun of me, but I have been drinking it since before Christmas. Not a bad wine and sure is easy to keep in the fridge. Finally, yesterday it's gone. Time to open this Kosta Browne. Wow! It's like being a virgin again—so much concentration, depth, length, width, and I began to sing:

It feels like the first time.
(It feels like the very first time) Don'tcha know it feels
(It feels like the first time) Oh yeah, it feels like the first time
(It feels like the very first time)

It probably only a 94, but it felt like 100.

1/12/2021 - Thralow Likes this wine:

Drank on my 57th Birthday. Both of us, still strong and beautiful after all these years.

7/27/2020 - Thralow Likes this wine:

Magnum with Dan, Christine & Linda

6/3/2020 - Thralow Likes this wine:

Great wine. A white to age if you like.

6/3/2020 - Thralow Likes this wine:

This wine, as old as I am, could be a 99. I don't usually drink wine this age. So I have little experience to compare. But I have drunk many a 98-100 point wine, and this was as enjoyable. One bottle left.

5/23/2020 - Thralow Likes this wine:

Even better the next day.

5/23/2020 - Thralow wrote:

Sometimes experiments don't pan out.

5/5/2020 - Thralow Likes this wine:

That look you get when you pull a runt from the cellar for some relaxed sipping. :-0 Turns out to be awesome.

5/5/2020 - Thralow Likes this wine:

My favorite Cabernet Franc.

4/21/2020 - Thralow Likes this wine:

Smooth and silky.

4/19/2020 - Thralow wrote:

Still great after all these years.

4/13/2020 - Thralow Likes this wine:

I continue the Quarantine tour of old Chardonnays. This one was harvested fifteen years ago - 2005! The world was a different place. The housing market was booming, and this wine still has that excitement—what a beautiful surprise. Fruity and now with the added complexity of age. It's as old as my daughter and without dissonant raging. The symphony of this wine is much more relaxing than the cacophony of hers.

4/12/2020 - Thralow Likes this wine:

How many people in the world drank a thirteen-year-old chardonnay today?

4/8/2020 - Thralow Likes this wine:

Brought to Amanda's house last night and paid $20 for it two decades ago. The kind of wine that makes me wonder why I will spend $200 (or more) for a cult wine. This Arther Earl was one of the very first bottles I bought and cellared way back when I was starting out trying to become a wine snot. That was a typo. Meant to be a "b" there, but it works.

3/20/2020 - Thralow Likes this wine:

Young, bright, I drank 1/3 of the bottle, alone, watching the first season of YOU on Netflix and social distancing. Like YOU, this wine is seductive and addictive (I did want to binge it all in one night - but wisdom prevailed). The vintage and show have tremendous potential. Yet, right now, the brightest note is overpowering.

So, for a wine of this price and pedigree, I kind of looked at it like a trust fund frat boy that is still finding himself but will buckle down and amount to something in about seven years and hit stride in twelve. That's a long time to wait, huh?

Other deeper flavors (characters?) need to step up. It needs to age, so the depth buried in there will appear.

I set the rest on the counter until later today. Compared to cellaring and frat boys (I've met), leaving the wine out in the air is kind of like forcing the kid to go off to war to speed up maturity. It might work, but it 's also dangerous.

2/9/2019 - Thralow wrote:

Silk

10/24/2018 - Thralow wrote:

Lovely, lovely, wine. New world grape from the old world.

10/24/2018 - Thralow wrote:

A lovely old Malbec. Smooth and velvety. No oxidation.

10/9/2018 - Thralow wrote:

Always amazing. Don't tell anyone.

10/9/2018 - Thralow wrote:

This seemed perfect. Not even the judge. Just a treat.

7/11/2018 - Thralow wrote:

Lovely and food friendly. Even stood up to carrot cake.

7/3/2018 - Thralow Likes this wine:

Surprisingly tasty. Velvety and full of fruit. Aging well.

7/1/2018 - Thralow Likes this wine:

Reliable

5/6/2018 - Thralow Likes this wine:

This could be 100. Just wonderful.

5/6/2018 - Thralow wrote:

Still young, but knew that going in. So a little green but lovely.

4/18/2018 - Thralow wrote:

Drinking wonderfully

4/13/2018 - Thralow wrote:

Always a special day when I open one of these from any year. This was one of my oldest. Velvet is a word used to describe wine. This fits that description as long as the velvet imagined is silk.

4/13/2018 - Thralow wrote:

Excellent, wine that impresses everyone who tries it.

4/13/2018 - Thralow wrote:

Fun wine (almost 10 years old) but it was juicy as ever. Shared with Mom and Uncle Ken.

8/14/2017 - Thralow wrote:

Sophisticated.

8/14/2017 - Thralow wrote:

much better than the first bottle I had a few years ago. Age improved it.

8/14/2017 - Thralow wrote:

This was a beautiful wine. I expected it to still need some more time in the cellar. I was wrong. A wonderful surprise.

5/4/2017 - Thralow wrote:

Cheery, happy and food friendly.

5/4/2017 - Thralow wrote:

Jammy wonderful finish. Everything I remember and expect from Quilceda Creek

3/19/2017 - Thralow wrote:

Sweet with a taste above its price. Goes great with Tennessee BBQ chicken.

2/27/2017 - Thralow Likes this wine:

under-rated and under-priced. I could drink this wine everyday.

12/11/2016 - Thralow wrote:

Should have let it breathe longer. But it was great in the end. Drank with Sarah Lamont, Sylvia, Danielle, Katie, Deanna

9/19/2015 - Thralow wrote:

Over the last few years, I have been drinking a lot of wines and not writing reviews. Because, well, it takes time. I have had some excellent wines from Quilceda Creek, Robert Craig, Kongsgaard, Saxum and other international wines that I do not want to look up in order to spell correctly. But, I must take a moment to write a note about this wine because I get to use the word sublime. The first few swallows were not optimal. A little funky... good, but not incredible. I thought, hmmm why am I saving these? Well, after about 15 minutes... the answer became clear. The bottle warmed slightly, from cellar temperature, a little breathing took place and this became the best wine I have had in a couple of years. A reminder of wonder for this jaded wine drinker. Thank you Elaine and Manfred Krankl.