5/7/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Decent Graciano, just don’t like the tar and slight bitterness these tend to have and the slightly cloying fruit.

5/5/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Great acidity and salinity. Great nose with a touch of delicious funk. Great food wine, no flab, no nonsense just delicious Chablis. Lovely wine.

5/5/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Wow what a wine! Big wine, almost drinks like a red.
Very floral and grassy, great minerality, limestone and flint. Some wood, and nice tannin, great acidity and focus and extremely long finish.

5/5/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Drinks like a big buttery Napa Chardonnay, think Lewis or something similar. Very good but not my style, rich and a bit flabby…rubber notes and buttered popcorn, jellybeans vanilla bean, just not enough acidity at all for me, still very tasty

5/5/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Nice nose of tropic fruit but lighter body almost watery, not much depth, short finish. Disappointing

5/5/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Not much complexity, rather boring, disappointing

5/5/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Wonderful nose, drinking very nicely. Old school in the best way.

5/4/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Decent cheap Pinot, solid flavors, some more acidity would do wonders but alas

5/2/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Drank at Biba with Maria & Jason,
Last sip was the best. Lots of licorice

4/26/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Drinking nicely, still a bit of alcohol noticeable but not off putting

4/25/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Nice

4/24/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Delicious, drinking nicely.

4/21/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Still drinking well

4/7/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Sweet but tasty

4/4/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Really really good right now, in a sweet spot, still showing fruit but also plenty of secondary characteristics too. Great value.

4/3/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Drinking nicely, good acidity, sour cherry, very good but a bit flat.

4/1/2024 - Joelene wrote:

This bottle showed even better with great acidity, grip and focus. Best within first hour. After two hours the acidity sifted too much and this got a little fat and flabby.

4/1/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Delicious, soft silky mouthfeel, black fruit, blueberry too, no noticeable alcohol, still some acidity. Guess Aussie Shiraz blind. A fine example, still drinking very nicely

4/1/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Drinking very well right now. Bell pepper notes along with tobacco, leather and wild cherry. Prob at peak

3/31/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Drinking well, still has life but prob slightly past peak

3/31/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Drinking well, classic Bordeaux, fairly austere but still some fruit, not overripe or cooked at all like some 2003’s

3/29/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Wow, this is very spicey, heavy pepper notes like bell peppers and jalapeños, also leather and cherry mushrooms and moss. Drinking really well, still has decent fruit, nice acidity and resolved tannins.

3/29/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Drinking very nicely. Serious old cdp… I’d say drinking at or just past peak

3/25/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Still drinking well

3/23/2024 - Joelene wrote:

This needs air, great nose but first sip seemed almost flawed, after an hour or two really blossomed and out in weight and some fruit. Spicy and skanky. Delightful…

3/23/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Prob a touch past prime but drinking well, little fruit, more savory with grippy acidity

3/21/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Too young

3/5/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Drinking very nicely. Basically pop and pour, great fruit intensity. Lively acid and long finish.

3/4/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Drinking well

3/3/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Drinking well.

3/1/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Drinking well, nice nose of lilacs, topsoil, potpourri and plums. A touch of funk, good mouthfeel, medium to low acidity but it works, some grip left not fully resolved… good qpr

2/26/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Sweet blueberry fruit. Big wine, very tasty but obvious unnecessary alcohol…. Hot

2/26/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Probably still needs time, very balanced wine but perhaps a tad boring right now. Came in 3rd out of 4 Washington Reds in a blind tasting. Recommend hold or long decant as the last sip was the best.

2/26/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Wow what a nose of glue, rubber cement, sweet tobacco and game. Delicious wine, with plum and cherry fruit, very Northern Rhone like. Had also some Burgundy ish qualities. Well made wine in a very enjoyable style. Drinking perfectly from open but also held if not improved with long decant.

2/26/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Very Bordeaux like or even almost Brunello like. Good acidity, and freshness. Incredible nose of pine, cedar, leather and potpourri. Delicious wine.

2/23/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Solid albeit young… lots of upside, well made, hold

2/19/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Drinking well

2/19/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Drinking really well right now. Guessed Cab blind. You really have to let these Pride wines age, great reward…

2/19/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Drinking great, a mix between a Brunello and a Barolo in style. Great acidity, very dry, plenty of old school tertiary notes.

2/15/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Drank @ Secrets Akumal w/ Ronald & Mel, drinking well, very smooth, dark fruit, cassis, licorice, chew tobacco, leather and mint/eucalyptus… also that typical Melchor green pepper, balanced wine…

2/12/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Big wine, young, needs time but lots of potential, a bit green still but well made

2/6/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Still drinking nicely

2/4/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Old world nose, drinking nicely with some drying tannin….

2/2/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Good…

2/1/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Perfectly aged IGT, drinking very nicely, cloudy but not too crazy with sediment. Secondary and tertiary flavors galore!

2/1/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Delicious, great nose, old school, very CDP like. Deinking perfectly

1/29/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Solid, good qpr

1/29/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Way too young right now, needs time or a long decant

1/29/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Surprisingly still very nice, cork in perfect shape. Fully resolved and fully mature, probably past its peak but very enjoyable. Muted wild cherry fruit, menthol, a touch of barn at first and some pepper and spice. Still nice acidity and grip, tannin fully resolved. Interesting and pleasant experience.

1/27/2024 - Joelene wrote:

Still lots of fruit, new world style.