4/2/2024 - Chris Keller wrote:

Plum, leather, blackberry, cherry cough syrup , cocoa, burnt sugar baking spices and vanilla. Velvety oaky and rich. Delicious.

4/1/2024 - Chris Keller wrote:

Cherry, raspberry, vanilla, leather, cocoa, cranberries, bitter earth and baking spice. Velvety mouthfeel nice fruity finish. Drink now - 2029.

2/20/2024 - Chris Keller wrote:

Cranberry, rubber, licorice, bell pepper, cherry, underripe plum, Nicaraguan tobacco the white pepper stuff maybe Honduran, and dusty dry mineral. Good stuff complex with a nice velvety mouthfeel. Still a bit young would probably do better with some age. Finish is robitussom.

2/18/2024 - Chris Keller wrote:

Notes of cooked blackberry, cooked blueberry, Craisin , pie crust, vanilla bitter baking spices and leather. Velvety and smooth on the palate and a long finish. Delicious and understated. Drinking beautifully now.

1/23/2024 - Chris Keller wrote:

Notes of olive, leather, cassis, vanilla, prune, blackberry, and tobacco come through. This wine has more time but it is starting to show its age drink now or hold for another decade. 95 classic!!

11/21/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Tasted from a Magnum still well alive and kicking delicious. Raspberry, cherry, strawberry, cola, forest floor, rose petal and beautiful tannins. Drinking spectacularly due to format but wow!!

10/8/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Really ? Did these guys even drink this juice ? Notes of cherry, currant, plum, oak and leather maybe with a touch of curry.

10/6/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Notes of earth, flowered and old fruit like dates, cherry and currant.

10/5/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

This stuff is awesome everything you want in a California chard during winter and fall huge amounts of oak melon, vanilla oak, melted butter, squash flower and citrus I know you’re thing boring but yes it’s lemon and honey again. Everything is laser focused and did I say huge ? Awesome!!

10/5/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Very ripe big and hedonistic this wine screams with oak, currant, plum, blueberry , manly musk, graphite, underbrush, velvet in the mouthfeel, tobacco, vanilla and coffee notes along with nutmeg. Great juice. Long finish.

10/5/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Straw lemon pear melon lemongrass and split oak and cream with a great mouthfeel and a honey finish.

10/4/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Raspberry gelato, cranberry, tart cherry, earth and chalk, along with oak in the finish which starts as almost medicinal as cough syrup mixed with baking spice, campfire and vanilla.

10/3/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Notes of vanilla, blackberry, cherry, currant, tobacco, ,leather, cedar and a velvety mouthfeel with a long delicious finish. Classic duckhorn delicious.

10/2/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Blackberry, cherry, plum, white pepper, dry wood, vanilla green bell pepper, mineral. Big and a bit hot and heavy but still well constructed.

10/1/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Very ripe notes of blackberries, plum, patent leather, vanilla, sage, underbrush and plum.

9/29/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Notes of cherry, raspberry, strawberry come through along with earthy mineral, cream and baking spice.

9/28/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Notes of apples, grapefruit, mineral and pear. With a long delicious finish

9/27/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Melon, honey, lemon, green apple, mineral, straw and oak notes come through on a wine that is rich on the palate and has a long rich finish. Delicious!!

9/26/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Bar cherries, strawberries, raspberries over shortcake with whipped cream yet it’s dry and full of delicious minerals and bitter spices like nutmeg.

9/24/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Dark cherry, black raspberry, cola, Java chip, graphite, blackberry jam, nutmeg and a buttery oaky finish that is long lasting spectacular. Big and hedonistic I would not expect this wine to hail from Oregon.

9/24/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Melon, wildflowers, green apple hard candy, mineral And Lemon honey hard candy in the finish. Balanced and refreshing. Very dry and unique.

9/23/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Notes of raspberry, cherry, cola, strawberry mineral, Kirsch, bubble tea, underbrush, rose petal and nutmeg. Very well put together with a nice oak buttery toast note in the finish.

9/8/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Currant, dark cherry and bitter blackberry or pomegranate with notes of graphite tobacco dark chocolate and mint. Very big and not yet composed. The mouthfeel is velvet.

8/7/2023 - Chris Keller Likes this wine:

Raspberry, cherry, cola, plum, rose petal, and mineral. Come through in this shocker of a Pinot from Michigan. Spectacular!!

8/6/2023 - Chris Keller Likes this wine:

Honey, lemon, muskmellon, straw, pineapple, pie crust, come through in this very good Riesling winery I had no knowledge of prior to purchasing this bottle. A little spritz to her on the palate keeps it lively and fresh. Delicious.

6/18/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Cherry, currant, blackberry, vanilla , Virginia tobacco, , leather, sage, white pepper. Young and sexy!!

6/17/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Lemon Italian gelato, muskmellon, pineapple, not overly oaky, with stone mineral and just a touch of fresh cut herb spice. A very nice wine from the Russian River Valley.

6/15/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Cherry cough drop, raspberry , cranberry sauce, leather, creme brûlée, nutmeg, vine branch, and alluvial soils. This wine is surprisingly light on the palate and sings on the long finish.

6/14/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

A wine to drink now nothing really complex here just notes of current, blackberry, earth,prune, mineral, split wood, turmeric and a subtle sweetness as it opens up. The finish is long and enjoyable.

6/13/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Notes of straw, fig, honey, oak, and green apple,mineral, nutmeg, pear and creme brûlée. Come through in this very nice summer drinking Chardonnay. For a Carneros chard not what I expected.

6/12/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Fruit forward with notes of cherry, vanilla, cola, raspberry,boysenberry, lingonberry, mineral, radish and white pepper with a surprisingly long finish.

6/11/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Cassis, plum, blackberry, leather, mineral, and pepper maybe. With velvet tannin. Not impressive but a good third bottle on the day.

6/11/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

White flower petal, glycerine, honey, lemon pineapple, lively acidity, sweet oak, orange marmalade. Mineral forward and light but full of flavor. A great hot weather sunny day chard.

6/1/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Plum, strawberry pie, whipped cream, raspberry, wet oak, and mineral. Very nice yet simple on the palate maybe had some better years. Along with a soft sweet not hot jalapeño. Again zero heat. And past it’s prime.

5/26/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Opulent curvy and hedonistic this wine is full of dark fruits. Notes present are huckleberry, blackberry, dark luxardo cherry , vanilla, flourless chocolate cake. Allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg and minerals. A huge full wine in a decadent style. Love this wine.

5/22/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Blackberry, huckleberry, boysenberry,plum, Pine, underbrush, wasabi. Tight and young I would recommend a long decant at this stage. Full of jolly rancher characteristics.

5/21/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Cherry, raspberry and watermelon jolly rancher, mineral, flower petal rose, and wildflower honey.

5/10/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

This is a classic wine on first impression to last notes of musk, plum, blackberry, dark cherry, vanilla oak Virginia oriental and Latakia tobacco and earth along with worn out lather like it’s falling apart. Very long and beautiful.

5/9/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Coffee bean, vanilla, boysenberry, blackberry, huckleberry, tobacco, and a long finish with licorice. Great stuff has 4 more years at least.

5/2/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Melon, pear, honey, lemon straw very enjoyable. With woody oak notes in the finish

4/9/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Strawberry, cherry, raspberry jam, mineral, and dark chocolate.

4/5/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Gushing and ripe in the best ways huge and juicy raspberry, rose petal, cherry, cola, mineral this wine is great plump and sexy in the best ways.

4/3/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Dried Oak, white flower petal, creme, lemon, honey, green apple, pie crust.

4/2/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Rinsed raspberry, strawberry, and cherry, mineral, cola, vanilla, honey.

4/1/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Pomegranate, plum, currant, spicy dry underbrush, velvety tannins red licorice

3/27/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Barnyard black cherries leather cassis fennel and prune. Will age for another 5 years.

3/19/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Barnyard, pomegranate new leather, currant,underripe dark cherry, underbrush, and a cleansing refreshing minelarity with a short creme frieche finish. A nice day drinker as opposed to it’s older sibling meant for nights.

3/12/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Still very tight and almost patent leather or rubber bootish biter of leather, pomegranate, prune, plum, earth, and light notes of oak, creme brûlée and raspberry skin.

3/7/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Musky earthy Bordeaux smell with gravel currant plum underbrush cherry.

3/6/2023 - Chris Keller wrote:

Split wood underbrush currant blackberry pie and a palate of dry currant, plum and blackberry. Finishes very dry and medicinal full of drying tannin but then turns into baked blackberry pie with ice cream. Fun wine easy drinker.