5/12/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Clear colorless, thick tears
Pungent melon aromas
Dense cantaloupe melon flavors, fairly heavy, moderate sweetness.
Big stuff

5/9/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Fairly light clear ruby
Pungently aromatic with crushed berry and earthy notes
Lightish, but quite juicy palate with a moderately bitter finish.
A bit chunky and rustic seeming, but quite tasty

5/4/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Clear light green gold
Bright tart lemon plum aromas and flavors
Light citrusy finish. Nice and delicious.
Seems like it has the bones to last

5/2/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Bright gold
Light nose
Crisp apple pear fruit, lightly leesy
Color perhaps a tad advanced, but this particular bottle is otherwise lovely tonight

4/30/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Clear relatively light ruby
At first glance, this seemed like light regional Bourgogne, but with 45 minutes the nose opened up dramatically with haunting earthy flavors, bright choke cherry acidity
Quite nice, needs significant airtime

4/29/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Bright clear ruby
Bright cherry aromas and flavors
Great acidity.
I concur with others assessments that this almost seems more like a new world Sangiovese.

4/28/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Fairly deep ruby colored, clear, not quite opaque.
Ripe darker berry flavored, a bit rustic and chunky in the finish, but a flavorful, fairly full bodied zin. 15.1%

4/27/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Light green gold
Bright tart apple aromas
Light and rather sweet tart lime apple flavors
Enough acidity to keep this from getting cloying. Short finish, but quite süffig.

4/25/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Rich gold colored.
Ripe nose with some petrol and botrytis.
Just off-dry sweetness, 11%
Balanced acidity, but without the bones for longer aging.
Drink up while this is still so lovely.
A great surprise and qpr

4/24/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Dark inky (opaque) ruby black.
Ripe dark berry fruit, still with moderate tannins, but the fruit makes this quite approachable.
Quite tasty now, probably better with time.

4/24/2024 - cos65 wrote:

Deep opaque ruby
Dense stuff with particularly meaty rustic feel.
Pleasant and tasty enough, but I’d serve on the cooler side. Almost a prickly feel to the tongue
Mostly neutral oak
50% Montepulciano, 35% Aglianico, 15% Tintilia

4/21/2024 - cos65 wrote:

Big ripe restaurant chard

4/17/2024 - cos65 wrote:

Ruby with a hint of color suggesting some age
Bright lovely cherry nose on first whiff which faded quickly.
Bright acidity and seeming a bit lean and not quite austere on first look. Not such a charming wine.
Maybe better with time in the glass

4/14/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Inky black wine, one of the deepest I’ve seen, with deep purple tears.
Huge grapey blackberry aromas and flavors.
While nowhere near elegant this is a huge, delicious Cali Malbec. Some big tannins on the backend, but this really quite remarkable and tasty now. Reasonable balance for such a large wine worth a visit if you appreciate larger styled wines

4/13/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Deep purple black.
Quite rich and full of dark fruit, rather alcoholic with a still grippy tannic finish.
Quite nice, but may be better when this softens up a bit more

4/11/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Not quite brilliantly clear green gold
Huge pineapple and clove aromas and flavors, full bodied, rich, as good as cali chard gets if you appreciate the bigger style. Completely resolved and not reason to wait.

4/10/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Nearly clear, fairly deep ruby garnet, looking like a bit of age.
Mostly dark fruited, yet restrained fruit,
Full bodied and showing some alcohol
Fairly bitter tannins in the finish at first look.
Seems to need some time.
With all the structure, this seemed more Nebbiolo to me.

4/5/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Light bright ruby.
Light crisp red berry flavors with a moderate bit of oak, that doesn’t detract.
A very nice dry restaurant Pinot that tastes real.

4/4/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Bright red fruit, dry and refreshing style
Lovely pretty wine

4/4/2024 - cos65 wrote:

Big restaurant styled cali chard. Easy

4/3/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Clear bright ruby with a moderate amount of sediment. Tart choke cherry aromas and flavors and a taut finish in the first look. Needs air.

With 2 hours of air this smooths out considerably with lovely ripe cherry flavors

4/2/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Dense clear ruby black
Ripe but manageable black cherry and dark currant aromas and flavors.
Nice balance and mouth watering acidity.
Nice stuff

4/1/2024 - cos65 Does not like this wine:

Nearly opaque, unclear the cepage on this wine.
Very sweet, this tastes remarkably similar to the current release of Dubonnet. Chocolate, Vanilla, berry, oak. Easy going down, but rather cloying and artificial tasting

3/31/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Clear garnet
Totally tertiary with the slightest hint of prune.
Mostly iron, a touch of iodine with still some drying tannins. For those who like older wines

I’d suggest a decant and drink up.

Much better with two hour decant, this may hold up much better than the initial look suggested

3/30/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Bright and fresh, but fairly rustic.
Bone dry, medium weight, bitter tannic finish.
Not for the long haul.

3/26/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Deep clear ruby black.
Bright aromas and flavors of black cherry, almost candy like in the finish.
Bone dry, but not austere, a delicious second wine
Slightly bitter finish

3/23/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Opaque ruby black.
Dark currant and violet nose
Dense rich fruit and a good amount of structure
Tasty stuff, better with some time 91+

3/22/2024 - cos65 Does not like this wine:

Clear ruby garnet (looks older than stated age…)
Light aromas of earth and overripe watermelon
Light candied watermelon flavors with a bitter finish.
Varietal, but not much more.
Bottle says 13.8% which seems about right, though website say 15.2%

3/21/2024 - cos65 wrote:

Deep clearly ruby black.
A bit of VA which took a while to blow off, I’d recommend a vigorous decant.
Some nice cherry flavors, but a bit simple.

3/18/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Bright, vibrant ruby purple
Darker fruited, young.
Seems a bit clumsy at the moment, but quite tasty.
YFS

3/17/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Clear ruby garnet
Ripe strawberry and cola fruit
Bright acidity, medium alcohol and medium light tannin.
Nice

3/17/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Deep clear ruby purple with a ton of sediment
Ripe dark currant fruit.
This a quite a nice 2nd, just a bit off balance
YFS

3/16/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Huge big ripe and intense.
Lovely drinking now, but this seems ageless.
Some oak, but more than enough fruit and intensity to cover.

3/16/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

From 375
Surprisingly big and ripe.
Lovely drinking.

3/16/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Brilliant clear ruby garnet
Leathery tertiary flavors and aromas
Great acidity. Still alive, completely resolved.
Still on its long peak
Lovely old wine if you like the style.

3/16/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Bright yellow gold
Pineapple and saline minerally flavors
Juicy yet restrained.

3/15/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Light yellow gold.
Light orchard fruit aromas and flavors, nice acidity and very easy going down.

3/14/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Medium ruby purple, not quite clear.
Light berry aromas
Tart berry, almost sweet tart flavored
Lowish alcohol in this category makes this a rather refreshing change.
A bit rustic and chunky

3/10/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Pleasant, slightly flabby pouilly. Pleasant, but could use a bit more zip.

This flesh out a bit with 2 hours

3/10/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Light gold. Citrus peel, bright acidity
Quite easy and delicious

3/9/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Light yellow gold
Bright tart saline fruit with some celery notes
Tireless drinking, worth a visit, especially for those who don’t mind the acid.

3/8/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Chunky rustic cherry fruit.
Very easy to enjoy

3/7/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Opened blind, I thought it was overly light, smoky and advanced and thought 10+ years old. With an hour of air, this opened up beautifully, rich. Hold.

3/6/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Light yellow gold, fresh and crisp with just enough flesh. Great at this price point.

3/5/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Big ripe easy CdP.
A bit chunky, I’d serve slightly cool

2/27/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Pale straw gold.
Rather fragrant lychee, muscat notes
Off dry with nice fruit and acidity.
Blind, I was convinced this was a higher quality Alsatian blend.
Lovely and tasty, but this seem atypical for classic Sauvignon? Or perhaps I haven’t had enough Sancerre lately… ?

2/27/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Pale yellow gold.
Ripe flavors, great acidity.
Very nice at cellar, not fridge temp.
Ripe pear, lovely balance

2/27/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Big dark (opaque) grapey stuff.
Tasty powdery SWEETart flavors. Enough acidity and a surprisingly tannic finish.
This does feel a bit heavy and I worry could get a bit tiresome.

2/27/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Very cool stuff. Light salmon colored.
Fresh pithy pear and dry apple flavors.
Fresh acidity and a bit of phenolic bitterness on the finish. Worth a look

2/26/2024 - cos65 Likes this wine:

Light yellow
Some light briny grapefruit and lemon pith.
Decent balance. Easy