April 8, 2018 - Elegant and clean. Wouldn't have guessed skins without the label. A silky plush bablbing brook. Really pretty.
November 1, 2017 - a bit orange wine like.
October 23, 2016 - Notes from day 2. Slightly hazy. Aromas of melon/citrus as Tooch mentions, maybe a touch of vanilla or cotton candy. The flavors are primarily melon with hints of prickly pear cactus, stone fruit and citrus. Light but smooth texture with a fairly long melon finish. Light acidity/minerality add structure. A unique wine that I rather enjoy. Drinking well now but I see no reason it won't last another couple of years.
March 11, 2015 - Firm, fresh, and delicious. Semillon from D&R is unlike anything else...beautiful combination of fresh melon tones with some lime and lemon. Weightless, although the skin contact gave it really nice texture.
January 10, 2015 - For me this is more interesting and fun as opposed to real serious complexity, notes of lemon yeast?(certainly orange wine reminessent) and subtle ginger, palate is quite light with medium acidity and not a lot of fruit it is hard to derive any real satisfaction from it
November 17, 2014 - This will go down as one of the most memorable wines of my wine-drinking life. First off, how I discovered it: inexplicably sitting on a shelf in a little grocery store/market in rural South Carolina during a pit stop on the way back from the beach last summer. How the hell it got there is beyond me. Then there's the look of the wine: cloudy-but-luminescent yellow with small specks of floating detritus, like freshly squeezed lemonade. Then how it smells: like a kaleidoscope of unexpected and compelling aromas. Lemon, yes, but an unmistakable smell of the ocean, like the little crabs washed up on the beach at low tide, with a bit of olive brine thrown in for good measure. Finally, the taste and texture: savory, salty, grippy, and fresh, but with generous fruit just the same, so there was no feeling of austerity or severity. What a strange little marvel this was; completely outside my frame of reference but precisely the kind of wine discovery that makes this hobby so exciting.
October 31, 2014 - cloudy, very aromatic with that natural yeast bretty smell... lots of skin aromas... citrus, very herbal... no new oak... no obvious malo. on the palate very fresh with high acidity, moderate midpalate weight. balanced wine, good length, good intensity, ok complexity. wine has finesse a fine texture, not really very semillon to me. this is a very unique and distinctive wine... it feels underripe and the “natural” fermentation smells are a bit strong for me... people will either love it or hate it i suspect. drink now.
October 15, 2014 - Much better integrated than a bottle nine months ago. The fruit and the savory herbal phenolics are now much more of a piece, and show best after about an hour and when the bottle has warmed a bit. Remarkably complex but easy to drink, and great with food. Yum.
October 15, 2014 - Low impact flavors (white peach, nectarine) and persistence. Showing medium freshness, wet stone minerality. Still think I liked this best shortly after release for its fruit.
September 27, 2014 - Table greats, autolytic year. It almost reminds me of certain craft beers. Dry dry dry. Very complex long finish.