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(409 notes on 347 wines)

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Red
2/3/2024 - pryby Likes this wine:
92 points
Whoa this has gotten good. Still needs an hour decant - just an acid wall on open…. But after that and through the second day…. Strawberries for dayyyyzzzzz! Really beautiful.
Red
2018 Bedrock Wine Co. Heritage Wine Evangelho Vineyard Contra Costa County Zinfandel Blend, Zinfandel (view label images)
1/20/2024 - pryby Likes this wine:
89 points
Dark cherry, a little spice, sandalwood, maybe just a bit alcoholic heat. Enjoyable with tri-tip and grilled cabbage.
White
1/18/2024 - pryby Likes this wine:
93 points
Lemon curd, acidity is perfectly balanced, there was a really interesting spicy note as well - unusual for a Chardonnay - almost like nutmeg. Really good wine and in a great place right now.
Red
1/17/2024 - pryby Likes this wine:
95 points
Man is this good. Took a while to open up, but drinking on day two I can smell the nose of cherries, baking spices and olive about a foot away from the glass. Drinking beautifully. Gentle tannins, just the right acidity, and a long olive washed finish.
Red
1/7/2024 - pryby wrote:
Way too early. Wish I had read some reviews before popping…. This will be good in a few years. There is some really interesting black cherry, dark chocolate, coffee, and cedar on the nose. The palate is closed for business though — even on Day 2. Try again 2027?
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Red
1/5/2024 - pryby wrote:
88 points
Improved relative to my note a few years ago. Still reductive, but with air some raspberry and unripe strawberry emerged. Highly mineral.
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Orange
1/3/2024 - pryby Likes this wine:
91 points
Highly textural - a bit of zip on the tongue from mild tannins, and weighty.
Takes a while to open but fascinating aromas and flavors. Kumquat, spearmint, pine, lemon oil.
A wine to savor but versatile - went well with Turkish food on night one, and kielbasa and eggs on night two.
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Red
10/2/2023 - pryby Likes this wine:
93 points
These Domaine La Tache bottles were really good. This was the last of my stash. Meaty, gamey, bloody, olive tapenade, Rocking straight from the open, and held up beautifully over 2 nights. I so wish I could find more of these!!!
Red
8/22/2023 - pryby Likes this wine:
92 points
Classic D&R. As I drink down my stock of these wines I can’t help but appreciate the distinctive approach to an under appreciated varietal. This is like the Mourvèdre version of cool year cru Beaujolais. Crunchy, bright red fruit, great acid…. There’s something interestingly herbal tea-like as well.
Still very vibrant!
White
8/12/2023 - pryby Likes this wine:
93 points
Pretty special wine. I can see why this is considered a benchmark Gruner. Nose is peach, melon, cara cara orange, spearmint. Rich and mouth-coating, mineral and fruity - with melon and peach. Long, long finish.
White
7/16/2023 - pryby Likes this wine:
91 points
Surprisingly great BTG pour at Deadhorse Hill. First experience with Garganega. Stunning pear blossom nose, but noting sweet on the palate. Nice minerality and a notable complexity and mouthfeel that belies the price.
Red
6/26/2023 - pryby wrote:
83 points
I love almost everything Enfield does - including many vintages of this Haynes syrah. But this was a tough drink. Shrilly acidic, overpowering the normal fruit and floral characteristics of this bottling. Followed for 3 days, but so unbalanced, it’s hard to see this one turning around unfortunately.
Red
6/3/2023 - pryby Likes this wine:
90 points
From the list at Feiice. Still very youthful, red cherry, medicinal herbs. Very nice with lasagna.
Red
5/25/2023 - pryby Likes this wine:
93 points
This was really good. Tertiary flavors of earth, mushroom, leather, and roasted meat. But there is still a very nice spine of juicy, just ripe cherry, with plenty of acidity. Held wonderfully over two nights.
Red
4/22/2023 - pryby Likes this wine:
92 points
Still great. Bright red fruit and minerality for days.
Sorry I’ve only got one left!
Red
4/22/2023 - pryby wrote:
88 points
Interesting to see the variation across notes. This bottle was all dark fruit and sous bois, low acidity. To me it was fine, but felt a little tired. Bottle was decanted about an hour before drinking.
Red
4/5/2023 - pryby wrote:
89 points
Enjoyable but not especially memorable. Very light bodied, mineral, red fruited, a bit bretty. Minimal finish.
Red
2/27/2023 - pryby Likes this wine:
93 points
This was lovely - consistent with recent prior notes. Every time I worry these are over the hill, I open one that reaffirms their greatness….
Red
2/25/2023 - pryby Likes this wine:
94 points
HOLD.
On day 4, this was absolutely beautiful - kaleidoscopic fruits on the nose and palate…plum, peach, apricot.
On open, the wine was good - but could tell there was a lot more the bottle just was not giving up.
I imagine this will be spectacular with a couple years rest.
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Red
2/5/2023 - pryby Likes this wine:
89 points
This is in a very nice place. I disagree with many of the recent notes in CT - at least for this bottle. Plenty of red fruit, a bit of pyrazine - but not too much, nothing dried out….this is really juicy.
White
2/4/2023 - pryby Likes this wine:
93 points
This was advertised as Jura style, but to be honest did not come across very oxidative. Perhaps a slight nuttiness to complement the lemony goodness. But what really played wonderfully here was the texture - just perfectly weighted…substantial but not heavy, and offset with terrific acidity. This felt like a very expensive bottle in that way.
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Red
1/29/2023 - pryby wrote:
87 points
This bottle really disappointed, after high hopes from my first couple bottles a few years ago. There is still a feral, meaty note here that comes across on the nose and briefly on the palate. Unfortunately, nothing much else develops - a bit musty/mousy, and a short drying finish.
Maybe a bad bottle? But my experience was similar to many of the more recent reviews.
Red
1/21/2023 - pryby Likes this wine:
91 points
Very nice - spicy, earthy, dark berry fruit.
Red
1/11/2023 - pryby Likes this wine:
93 points
So, so good. Regrettably the last of my 2014s. This was the wine that got me truly hooked on Cru Beaujolais. Just perfect tart fruit, sunshine and tiny bit of funk.
Red
1/7/2023 - pryby Likes this wine:
95 points
This wine came out guns blazing with a beautiful raspberry aroma. Juicy, red fruited. Great balance of acidity and modest tannin. Super fun, super gulpable. Didn’t last long!
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White - Sparkling
12/14/2022 - pryby wrote:
The most champagne-like of the Lauer Reserve bubbles I’ve had over the years. Much smaller bead, higher acidity, minimal sweetness, no funk. Not sure if the Grande Reserve designation reflects fundamentally different winemaking approach, different grapes, or just the year, but a very different and more “serious” wine here. Maybe “better” by objective standards, but some of this wine’s distinctiveness is missing.
White
2012 Bedrock Wine Co. Cuvée Karatas Sonoma County Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend (view label images)
12/11/2022 - pryby Likes this wine:
91 points
Bought from Bedrock library release in 2020. This is not normally my cup of tea… Very, very rich, but without being cloying. There is a toffee/caramel like element here, but it doesn’t read as sweet. In the release email, Morgan used the descriptor “figgy” which is dead on here. Not sure how this would relate with food, but as a holiday season nightcap it was really lovely.
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White
12/10/2022 - pryby Likes this wine:
95 points
Really spectacular. Rich and full but still speaking of the sea. You taste the oyster shell - but at this pint in the wine’s evolution it’s more like an oyster shell broth if that makes sense.
Wish I had more. I’ve got to believe this is at or near it’s peak. Gorgeous stuff.
Red
12/5/2022 - pryby Likes this wine:
93 points
This was fantastic. No detailed notes but the wine was complex and delicious. More on the red fruit spectrum, earthy, great acidity.
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Red
10/16/2022 - pryby Likes this wine:
92 points
This opened nicely - higher toned than typical syrah, I suppose befitting the cold climate at Alder Springs, but with a nice touch of olive and something floral. After 3 days however, this is something absolutely unique. The acidity still there, but surrounded by a powerful and unmistakable flavor of smoked meat - beef rib off a Texas barbecue pit…
White - Sparkling
10/6/2022 - pryby wrote:
88 points
My second and last bottle. Over the past two years, this has finally come together to become a coherent wine. Still very citrus-driven and not terribly complex, but the acid and bubbles have calmed, making this an enjoyable wine with food.
Red
9/25/2022 - pryby Likes this wine:
92 points
Delicious wild strawberry aroma straight off the bat.
Very fruit forward but not in a cloying way. Great balance of mineral, red fruit, herbal aromatics, and terroir.
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Red
7/18/2022 - pryby wrote:
87 points
This was a bit of a miss for me - the first of the Yeah! wines I’ve felt that way. The acidity is just out of balance with the fruit, even after 2 days, just too overpowering.
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Red
7/13/2022 - pryby Likes this wine:
93 points
This was really fantastic on day 2. My second bottle and sorry it was my last. It was pretty closed on opening but after 24 hours it really broke out into a beautiful dilineation of the early styles of these two fantastic winemakers - meaning Hardy’s incredibly crunchy, zippy, juicy and mineral D&R style Mourvèdre; and John’s awesome way with tannic texture and mouthfeel in on the ever so slightly stemmy Pinot.
A cool collaboration - would love to see them do it again some day…..
Red
6/26/2022 - pryby wrote:
86 points
This is an ok wine, but very little that speaks to Cornas - or for that matter the Northern Rhône I was looking for olives, iron, florals, but got some oak, and rather generic black fruit.
White
5/31/2022 - pryby Likes this wine:
93 points
This is fantastic stuff Really electric chenin.
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Red
5/8/2022 - pryby Likes this wine:
94 points
After 6 hours decant (which was very impactful). Really excellent. Earthy, herbal, and brightly acidic.
Red
4/25/2022 - pryby Likes this wine:
92 points
This is a very good wine, but still very young and highly structured. I hope I can remember to leave my last bottle for another 3 years at least
Red
4/19/2022 - pryby wrote:
88 points
This was just fine- sharp acidity, sour cherry. Maybe a little bit of mousiness muting the fruit. There was a weird pomp and ceremony around the bottle which was puzzling - wood box, scroll containing a certification of the age of the vines…. Not that any of this should go into a tasting note, but for all the ceremony you’d want a truly transcendent wine.
White
4/4/2022 - pryby Likes this wine:
92 points
I really enjoy this wine. Juffer’s recent note is dead-on. Lots of interesting oxidative nutty, saline notes. But now something akin to a cidery fruit in the foreground.
Red
4/3/2022 - pryby wrote:
I normally love the Kutch pinots…. This was probably the most disappointing I’ve had. Maybe way too early??? But I’m not sure I see the makings of something much better over time.
From the open it was thin, with very high acid stealing the show from a light raspberry and cherry flavor (almost aguafresca-like). I had hoped it would evolve over 24 hours, but if anything, the acid calmed down but the fruit virtually disappeared - leaving a very inoffensive but forgettable drink.
Very uncharacteristic… I’ve got one more of these, which I will hold for quite a while longer before trying again.
Withholding a score on this as it is just so unusual vs what I’ve seen from this winemaker.
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Red
3/29/2022 - pryby Likes this wine:
91 points
Took a few hours to come out of an initial shrill phase…. but a really nice wine. The tart strawberry and raspberry is still there , but now sitting atop an undertone of damp earth.
Red
2/22/2022 - pryby Likes this wine:
94 points
This was a knockout. Deep red fruit, a bit peppery, great acid, good structure, long finish Might it be better if you wait another 3 years? Sure, but it so good now….
Red
2/20/2022 - pryby wrote:
87 points
Austere is the word that comes to mind. Highly mineral and herbal. More structure than typical for Cru Bojo. No fruit to be found. Maybe a phase, given other notes from years prior? Will give my other bottle some time before opening.
White
2/4/2022 - pryby wrote:
86 points
Really not impressed. Seemed tired/flabby with faded fruit. Maybe a poor bottle - but none of the acid or verve that some others described. I was hoping for more lift-off from this wine…
Red
12/17/2021 - pryby Likes this wine:
90 points
Great feral cab franc nose -herbs, stewed tomatoes and peppers, muted red fruit. This bottle had an off taste in the finish that marred it on day 1. After 48 hours, the off note was gone and the wine was delicious as previous bottles, if a bit thin.
Not sure if this wine has much longer to run. I’d drink up if I had more.
Red
12/9/2021 - pryby Likes this wine:
90 points
Not quite as intense as my note from 3 years ago. This was still savory and chewy and earthy - a good old world Syrah experience
Red
12/3/2021 - pryby Likes this wine:
94 points
A great cab. Lean, with just a bit of purple fruit, earth, herbs, chocolate, coffee. Fantastic with a good aged NY strip.
White
11/30/2021 - pryby wrote:
flawed
I’m really struggling with this one. I don’t know if it is flawed?, but I’m finding it really unenjoyable. There is a distinct rubbing alcohol smell which hides anything fruity or floral that may be there. It is quite different from the Riesling “petrol” nose. I don’t think I’ve encountered it before. The wine is virtually weightless/watery on the palate. There are hints of jasmine, ginger, underripe peach - but mostly everything subsumed to the smell. Finish is virtually nil.
Red
10/23/2021 - pryby Likes this wine:
93 points
Often I find petite sirah to be ponderous. This was anything but….
You feel the weight of the grape, but still very light on its feet. Like Bootsy Collins on the bass. Plum and plum skin, dusty, a bit stemmy/green, white pepper. Great lift on the long finish from a jolt of acidity.
Noticeably better on tbe second day as it opened up.
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