5/4/2024 - VoVo Likes this wine:

This remains one of our favorite rosé wines. Bright, lively, friendly. High acid makes it a great wine with many foods.

5/4/2024 - VoVo Likes this wine:

This is a luscious, full, lively Syrah from Dehlinger. Bright fruit and sturdy backbone. A great accompaniment to food.

4/25/2024 - VoVo Likes this wine:

Pinot Noir is a hard grape for the very restrained style of Matthiasson. This restrained grape is handled delicately in this light tough expression of the varietal. Very clean, light and airy. Probably not to everybody’s taste, but interesting to drink this varietal as it is expressed in the hands of the truly talented Matthiasson.

4/24/2024 - VoVo Likes this wine:

Lovely. Bright. Complex. A great companion to many foods.

4/13/2024 - VoVo wrote:

Absolutely delightful straight out of the bottle! A clear, bright expression of what the Sonoma Coast has to offer.

4/13/2024 - VoVo wrote:

Unfortunately this is an over oaked wine from Anaba. We have two more bottles and will give them more time to see if the oakiness resolves. Usually Anaba delivers a very clean expression of all grapes, so we are hoping this was specific to this bottle.

4/13/2024 - VoVo wrote:

Bright! Well rounded! Like sitting down with a good friend on a spring day!

4/7/2024 - VoVo Likes this wine:

This is a spectacular expression of Santa Lucia highlands. Bright, fruity, complex (lovely limestone backbone). Let it breathe! Enjoy.

3/25/2024 - VoVo Likes this wine:

This is drinking well now and has many years left on it. A delicious, elegant Syrah with a lively profile of berries, herbs, and crushed violet. We just love Lagier Meredith and drink every bottle with appreciation for their expertise and the TLC they show in their wines. Be sure to decant.

3/25/2024 - VoVo Likes this wine:

Another delightful wine from Jolie Laide. Medium-bodied, full of floral and fruit complexity. A unique wine from a fantastic wine producer.

3/21/2024 - VoVo Likes this wine:

This is getting better with age. A lighter style, minty, with some eucalyptus steady refosco from Matthiasson. Bright and crisp and sturdy. Lovely.

3/21/2024 - VoVo Likes this wine:

Another beautiful wine from Lagier Meredith. Deeply complex. Floral, dark fruits yumminess. Still has a lot of years on it. Decant.

3/21/2024 - VoVo Likes this wine:

Great QPR on this very lovely, bright, and increasingly interesting Chardonnay from Buehler. Perfect with Boston butt pork roast marinated in Chardonnay and mustard and oregano and thyme.

3/17/2024 - VoVo Likes this wine:

Bright, acidic, minty, red berries, rose petals. This is drinking as a beautiful Pinot Noir from La Rochelle - we love the Santa Cruz mountains and this is a great expression of that appellation.

3/17/2024 - VoVo Likes this wine:

This was our favorite of a set of wines we tried from this producer. Sturdy, bright, complex. Great with red meat. It shines with a longer decant and definitely has age left on it.

3/15/2024 - VoVo Likes this wine:

Smooth drinking. Surprisingly good — they do a nice job with this relatively inexpensive wine. We were pleasantly surprised and enjoyed it with meatloaf.

3/15/2024 - VoVo Likes this wine:

Great QPR from this

3/13/2024 - VoVo Likes this wine:

We opened this too soon, so our advice is to wait. That said, this field blend is a gorgeous, complex, surprising wine that has whimsy and substance woven throughout. Rosy, minty, berry forward with delightful eucalyptus notes. Absolutely a winner.

3/9/2024 - VoVo Likes this wine:

A delicate, elegant and atypical expression of Merlot from Matthiasson. Very pleasant with complex flavor profile. Enjoy!

2/27/2024 - VoVo Likes this wine:

Lively, spritely, bright and acidic. A gorgeous food wine.

2/24/2024 - VoVo Likes this wine:

This is drinking well. Be sure to decant so it comes into its own. Definitely a go-to food wine!

2/10/2024 - VoVo Likes this wine:

This is a decent gsm made in a riper style than we generally love, but it is reliably good and the various flavors are well integrated.

2/10/2024 - VoVo Likes this wine:

This is a solid, not overly boisterous, Cab blend from Mullan Road Cellars. With cab Sauv, cab franc, and merlot, this blend has a lovely complexity that is surprisingly mellow and well resolved. We opened it and let it come to temperature for two hours, but did not decant. Decanting would give better results up front, we think.

2/7/2024 - VoVo Likes this wine:

This is getting better with age. Deep and well integrated blackberry and forest fruits. It paired well with butternut squash, Canadian bacon and whole wheat penne pasta.

1/31/2024 - VoVo Likes this wine:

This is a relatively high-acid, quaffable, well balanced straight out of the bottle Syrah from Dehlinger. A true crowd pleaser.

1/28/2024 - VoVo Likes this wine:

This is a deeply delicious, somewhat tannic, high acid, beautiful Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir. We decanted for two hours. This wine has lots of time left on it. Here is what we taste: blackberry, orange peel, slate, light tobacco, and a lovely, well integrated, long finish.

1/17/2024 - VoVo Likes this wine:

This definitely needed time and air to open up. It threatened to be insipid at first but wait…with time it came into its own. Bright, fruity, complex.

1/16/2024 - VoVo Likes this wine:

Wonderful wine for a perfect QPR! A blend of five indigenous grapes from. Corsica. Light to medium body, beautiful ruby color, I’d say it is most like a match up of Sangiovese with more acidic island-typical grapes. Based on two prior reviews, this apparently isn’t to everybody’s liking. If you like Blaufrankisch or other more northern varieties, you’re more likely to find this pleasing

1/14/2024 - VoVo Likes this wine:

A lovely California style Carignan from Big Basin. Dark fruits, forest floor and sage all in the mix here. Very bright and acidic. We had it with spaghetti and red sauce. Probably would have benefited from a pairing with a little more fat..maybe sausage or bacon also in the sauce for example.

1/14/2024 - VoVo Likes this wine:

This is getting better with age. If only that applied to humans as well! Deep, luscious, fully expressive. It’s amazing a coastal Syrah can be this richly robust.

1/10/2024 - VoVo Likes this wine:

This is a gorgeous wine after a good decant. Lovely deep color, bright berry and red plum against a sturdy backbone. On the fuller side of medium bodied. We have two more bottles and I think this will only improve with age. Can’t wait.

1/6/2024 - VoVo Likes this wine:

Absolutely excellent by any measure. Still drinking nicely … we opened but did not decant, and let it come to temp before drinking with a brats, potatoes, root vegetables dinner. Absolutely delightful.

1/1/2024 - VoVo Likes this wine:

Beautiful, lush, smooth.

12/30/2023 - VoVo Likes this wine:

This is. Bright, berry-forward, nicely balanced Pinot Noir from Gros Ventre. Gallons speaks of it as tightly wound and gamey, but we got none of those unpleasantries. Perhaps age has done the wine well. The entire group thought it superb on a night out with friends.

12/28/2023 - VoVo Likes this wine:

This wine is drinking well now. Bright, lemon, lime, sage and, per Galloni’s perfect word choice, texture! Very good QPR.

12/28/2023 - VoVo Likes this wine:

Delightful!

12/28/2023 - VoVo Likes this wine:

An exuberantly exquisite wine from Occidental. Elegant, fruit forward and slightly earthy. The color and clarity alone are enough to wow anyone who loves Pinot Noir.

12/27/2023 - VoVo Likes this wine:

Absolutely delicious. Luscious fruits, gorgeous color, accompanied by a lively sophistication.

12/26/2023 - VoVo Likes this wine:

Wow. We can’t say enough positive about this beautiful, well-balanced, exuberantly smooth wine. Galloni calls it unctuous, and we absolutely agree.

12/26/2023 - VoVo wrote:

This is absolutely an amazing sparkler. It has everything you could want — citrus, yeast, and full, bright bubbly flavor. So yummy!

12/23/2023 - VoVo Does not like this wine:

This wine may have been very good at one time, but it is definitely over the hill. Our fault for not drinking it earlier. It would pair perfectly with prunes. Unfortunately, we tried pairing it with salmon.

12/23/2023 - VoVo Likes this wine:

Wow! Another gorgeous sparkler from Under the Wire. Complex, bright, slightly yeasty. We loved this one.

12/23/2023 - VoVo Likes this wine:

Wow. Absolutely spectacular. This is a truly refined, well balanced, gorgeous Pinot Noir from Selyem. A strong mineral backbone gives structure and beauty to the complex fruits.

12/20/2023 - VoVo Likes this wine:

We thought this drank like an old school, funky Italian wine with volatile acidity that diminished over time. Other reviews make us want to go back and try it again, perhaps letting it get more air before drinking. Funky, slightly bubbly, and a little dusty. Interesting and not your run of the mill Italian import.

12/20/2023 - VoVo Likes this wine:

Nice QPR. Slightly carbonic. Not a typical Italian red, and definitely enjoyable.

12/20/2023 - VoVo Likes this wine:

Decent but not well integrated.

12/19/2023 - VoVo wrote:

This wine is perfectly drinkable.

12/16/2023 - VoVo Likes this wine:

Lovely, smooth and bright.

12/14/2023 - VoVo Likes this wine:

Absolutely delightful. Emblematic Anderson Valley Pinot with all of the luscious fruits and bright notes you would expect from this excellent winemaker.

12/14/2023 - VoVo Likes this wine:

Good QPR. Drinks smooth right out of the bottle. Perfect with red sauce Italian food.