6/24/2022 - Niagara wrote:

Staggering.

3/19/2022 - Niagara wrote:

solid effort as always from Hundred Acre. $600 worth? You be the judge, but for me, HA is closing in fast on Not Worth It. i know it's early, blah blah blah, but after you've had enough great wine you can tell this will never be profound, just very very good.

3/19/2022 - Niagara wrote:

drank this too early. not showing its potential. intense regret.

3/19/2022 - Niagara wrote:

probably should be a little better for the price, but darn good wine all the same.

3/16/2022 - Niagara wrote:

Still one of the great ‘bargains’ of the wine world, if such a thing exists.

2/13/2022 - Niagara wrote:

Mind-boggling.

1/1/2022 - Niagara wrote:

So many fines in this one the wine was turbid, even after careful decanting. Odd.

12/19/2021 - Niagara wrote:

huge waste of money. poor value at this price point. alcohol/heat predominates.

12/13/2021 - Niagara wrote:

Not one but two bottles of this in same lot were terribly flawed. One corked so badly you wouldn’t believe, and the other having had some secondary fermentation. Lot # DEUW0618

11/17/2021 - Niagara wrote:

Excellent wine, still ‘reasonably’ priced compared to equivalent first-rate Napa.

11/7/2021 - Niagara wrote:

overpriced -- would be an excellent Total Wine Staff Selection, but not worth the money and the trouble to get it.

11/7/2021 - Niagara wrote:

hollow in the middle

11/4/2021 - Niagara wrote:

Tart, acidic; not a lot of dimension. Short finish.

11/4/2021 - Niagara wrote:

My mind is boggled.

11/2/2021 - Niagara wrote:

Insanely good.

10/23/2021 - Niagara wrote:

A rare disappointment from Scarecrow. Shallow and insubstantial, short finish. Pleasant but forgettable. This is compared to previous vintages of Étain, some of which have been nearly as good as the grand vin, and even when not the case this wine has been sufficiently different in character from the grand vin as to be an entirely different wine. This is the first vintage IMO that announces itself as a 'second wine', Scarecrow Lite. Still of course very young, and so in a year perhaps it'll come into its own, but again that's not been the case with this wine in past vintages where this wine has been exuberant and ready to drink on release. Scarecrow is my favorite producer these days, bar none, but this one misses the very high mark they have set since the beginning.

10/23/2021 - Niagara wrote:

young still, maybe a little too young. not the 2013 though -- that is the better wine

10/21/2021 - Niagara wrote:

staggering. mind-boggling. nectar of the gods. Such an amazing value at this price point.

10/11/2021 - Niagara wrote:

Not sure I see the value here. Decent but not a $200+ wine IMO.

10/9/2021 - Niagara wrote:

badly corked.

10/5/2021 - Niagara wrote:

wow, did I get over my skis with that effusive screed about the bottle I opened a year and a half ago. Maybe I had only started to wear a medical mask and figured that couldn't go on very long. Anyway, it's not that good. Sorry.

10/4/2021 - Niagara wrote:

Lovely, restrained, polite feminine-styled (think Ch. Margaux) wine. a thoughtful wine and not to be swilled. do decant carefully b/c this one throws a lot of sediment and toward the last ounce or so was getting pretty turbid with fines.

10/4/2021 - Niagara wrote:

A year later, this is settling down nicely. Still young and a bit grippy, but not exceedingly so. depending on your taste it could be ready to go, or can certainly profit from another year or two, either way.

9/28/2021 - Niagara wrote:

Delicious wine, but IMO a strangely short finish for a wine at this level. Seemed to drop away like a cracked tuning fork.

9/24/2021 - Niagara wrote:

I normally love Bulgheroni’s wines — some of my favorites — but I thought the alcohol in this was almost enough to set my eyebrows on fire. Do not drink this near an open flame!

9/24/2021 - Niagara wrote:

Out of balance, too much alcohol.

9/19/2021 - Niagara wrote:

Extraordinary.

9/18/2021 - Niagara wrote:

Not really holding up terribly well. Drink up.

9/16/2021 - Niagara wrote:

Ho hum. $250 a bottle? Nosirreebob, as the Who said, won’t get fooled again.

9/16/2021 - Niagara wrote:

Very disappointing. Kind of a Sweet Tarts thing going on here, and very turbid. Didn’t taste flawed per se but not up to the Pavots experience.

9/12/2021 - Niagara wrote:

good but not great for some reason.

9/9/2021 - Niagara wrote:

last one of these ... sadly. special stuff.

9/9/2021 - Niagara wrote:

Dang. Just dang.

9/5/2021 - Niagara wrote:

i expected more from the '14 HA's than I've been getting. Compared to BOND, Promontory, etc., a swing and a (rare) miss.

9/5/2021 - Niagara wrote:

a very good wine, but not a great wine, and not equal to its competitors from the vintage nor up to its price point.

8/30/2021 - Niagara wrote:

Good wine, but not the 2014. The 2014 is best Promontory yet, IMO.

8/29/2021 - Niagara wrote:

Absolute perfection. OUT.STAND.ING.

8/26/2021 - Niagara wrote:

2011 vintage proved that even the great Jayson Woodbridge can’t give more in the bottle than Nature will allow. Muted, dusty rose sort of wine, never puts on weight after opening. Quite nondescript and drinkable with food, but won’t command attentiion like most every other HA wine will.

8/21/2021 - Niagara wrote:

in some sort of dumb phase? neither fish nor fowl ... not young, but not mature. awkward.

8/21/2021 - Niagara wrote:

excellent and drinking well in its youth. i tend to favor Schrader wines young ... although of course ageworthy they seem like wines best enjoyed in their exuberant youth.

7/22/2021 - Niagara wrote:

very odd. this flashy muscle car ran out of gas. It was exciting when young but now it feels fat and plodding.

7/22/2021 - Niagara wrote:

$30 wine with a $200 tag.

7/1/2021 - Niagara wrote:

Must admit after two bottles of this, separated by a year, that it simply may be too young. It has neither the exuberance of youth, nor the gentled thoughtfulness of older age. Not to anthropomorphize excessively, because those values do not always correlate directly to the human population, but it’s the metaphor I’m sticking with until a better one comes along.

6/21/2021 - Niagara wrote:

Nice.

6/17/2021 - Niagara wrote:

Very likely the best white wine I’ve ever had.

6/17/2021 - Niagara wrote:

Wanted to find something special here, and failed.

6/17/2021 - Niagara wrote:

This one has all the subtlety of a punch in the mouth. Too much of everything at this stage. Needs many years — perhaps decades — to settle down.

6/17/2021 - Niagara wrote:

Lovely stuff.

6/14/2021 - Niagara wrote:

decent, and a steal at the price.

6/14/2021 - Niagara wrote:

too expensive for mid-grade.