April 7, 2024 - Honeyed with tremendous acidity and balance. Beautiful.
December 2, 2023 - ESTG Year-End Tasting (Newcastle, WA): Deep, dark brown. Intense botrytis. It still packs the acid but is almost gelatinous in texture. It is shocking how rich this is.
November 7, 2023 - Deep golden brown color. Oddly luminous. Pours into the glass like a light syrup. The nose is pronounced with gentle petrol and soft candied fruit aromas. Dense and viscous on the palate. Pleasant acidity and delicious dark honey and fruit flavors. Stellar now, this can age gracefully from here. No hurry to drink them. Tasted over three days. I love this!
December 31, 2019 - Sweet! In the many senses of that exclamation. Sort of like carmelized apricots made into a syrup. Liquid dessert, though the texture was practically gelatinous.
May 15, 2019 - They are unique. At their peak they are on of the expressions of a dessert wine. They balance acid, sugar. This is so full. The texture a viscosity are incredible. .
May 12, 2018 - Displays a very dark color, even considering the age (16 years when tasted). Viscosity is super high, noted by everyone at the table. Displays nicely botrytis nose and elements of honey and stewed fruits but the mouth was much drier than I was expecting (not a bad thing at all). Medium finish, not tampered with by any meaningful level of acidity which cost it a few points in my opinion. Tasted alongside Peller Cab Franc Icewine 2013 (so not exactly comparable) but most liked the Peller. I'd buy this again given the nuance of flavors, which are very nicely paired with fresh fruit.
December 10, 2017 - Wine Flock Intro Retro - Cabs (Jordan's): The nose here is all pineapples. Thick, rich and tasty on the palate with more pineapple and pineapple cream. Pretty simple, but tasty. Apparently this isn't technically wine given the alcohol is so low.
December 10, 2017 - Chicago Wine Flock..."Bordeaux and Cali Cab from Jordan" (Chez Whitehead - Northbrook IL): Tasted double blind. Rich and incredibly concentrated and unctuous, but I found it frankly simple and slightly one-dimensional, even while certainly tasty.
October 31, 2017 - Is this a wine? Colour is brownish, texture is dense, taste is sweet and deep with candied fruits galore, orangepeel, incredibly rich. Holds 4,5 pct, so I guess the answer is no, it's not a wine. But it's great stuff. #Palægade #Fogheads
November 13, 2016 - Double Blind 1990 Bordeaux with a Big Infusion of Show Stealing Old Napa (Jason and Tracy's, Mpls, MN): Drank a small pour from 375ml. 80% Scheurebe and 20% Welscherieslings. This is a handful, lovely nose of syrupy, apricots, pineapple, orange, burnt sugar, spiced apple. The palate is very dense, syrupy and candied, there seems to be acid, but this just goes over the top for me. A little will go a long way. 89+ to 90pts.