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Anyone receive their wines yet or know when they're shipping? Hi Paul, I'll reach out to you via e-mail. I have started shipping to the midwest and east coast recently, but it's possible your e-mail wasn't on the main distro list. Thanks for speaking up! Cheers, Jason Got them. Thanks for the quick...

I'm interested, as I felt that Ian's reports pushed open some new frontiers at Vinous. I also appreciate that he's seemingly quite inquisitive and doesn't mind real research (as evidenced by his Native Grapes of Italy book) but he tends to write with an enthusiast's romantic enjoyment of wine. It's ...

Paul Miller wrote: ↑April 1st, 2021, 2:57 pm Anyone receive their wines yet or know when they're shipping?

Hi Paul,

I'll reach out to you via e-mail. I have started shipping to the midwest and east coast recently, but it's possible your e-mail wasn't on the main distro list. Thanks for speaking up!

Cheers,
Jason

Andrew Hall wrote: ↑March 29th, 2021, 5:40 pm Underland is awesome. In there, he hangs out with Merlin Sheldrake who published last year "The Entangled Life" which is a fantastic overview of the research and the speculation on plant-fungus-plant communications. Highly recommended.

all i needed to hear. buying it now

I sent a bunch of people a book called Underland with Berserker Day packages. There's a chapter (4, The Understorey) which made me recognize what little I know about soil life and explores mycorrhizal networks. If you're like me, your jaw will be on the floor. It makes the ideal of tilling and monoc...

i'm a fan of this wine and the cabernet franc as well. i like the fragrance and "chalkiness" in their malbecs. it was their cabernet-franc heavy prestige wines that made me seriously wonder if cab franc was capable of greater things in argentina than malbec.

not 5, but then, i quite like Italian white wine Tramin Stoan Tiefenbrunner Feldmarschall Muller Thurgau Marisa Cuomo Fiorduva Franz Gojer Sauvignon Vodopivec Vitovska Les Cretes Chardonnay de Bartoli Zibibbo Kofererhof Kerner Nossing Muller Thurgau Elena Walch Gewurztraminer i Clivi Ribolla Gialla ...

Great people and probably the best bang for the buck in all of California wine IMO

i've had one of their whites which was pretty good. what is the grape here? mondeuse?

I like these sort of wines quite a bit when grilling (both during and with the meats). Would you compare this to any other producer in the region stylistically?

Sold this wine for a full decade and I'll be damned if it wasn't the hardest hand-sell in Zin history. Like all others have said, it's old-school Mountain Zin and it appealed to the exact same three people who were really into J Swan Zin. Lloy loved it. Hi Jason. Hadn't thought about Loy and Judy i...

great post!! now i want some!

cheryl beat me to it. SWM is best in class. although @coolwinekidzonly is worth following too

Mourtaou = Cabernet Pfeffer; on my list to try. I'm sure that Tom Hill can recommend some wines. Not Tom Hill but can recommend Ser Winery Cabernet Pferrer (http://www.serwinery.com/) and Kenneth Volk (https://www.volkwines.com/). The Volk website seems out of date and am not sure if the winery is ...

agreed. and the also-excellent oupia minervois is just a few bucks more. i've probably had a hundred bottles of it over the years and it always delivers.

i used to sell a domestic abouriou made by luddite cellars in the mid 2000's. the source was the gibson-martinelli vineyard which is in green valley near jackass hill. i don't know if there's any abouriou left there. luddite was made by steven canter, who was quivira's winemaker for some time but i ...

chiming in to agree. electric juice.

sounds f'ing delicious.

holy sh1t man. congratulations!

Stephen and Jason, thank you!! Jason's wife, too!

luckert's basic silvaner is about $25 and is reliably excellent. i also like ostertag's VV in most vintages and is right around there as well.

You're more versed with the subject than I!

Michael Martin wrote: ↑February 27th, 2021, 6:53 am Reordered from Stereophonic. Great, unique wines.

Much appreciated, Michael.

My SO is a ridiculously knowledgeable wine lover, especially when it comes to Italian wines. I'll have more of the bottle, but I make sure she tries everything because she's curious and sharp. Blanc de Blancs and aged Italian wines are how I stay in good standing.

in my experience, trevallon always tops daumas gassac. thanks for the notes!

sick. good news. thanks.

I believe most of Wiest's portfolio was absorbed by the German Wine Collection, which appears to be made up of Rudi alumni.

Gunderloch is imported by David Bowler I believe.

Last I saw Bruder Dr. Becker was brought in by Dee Vine but I don't believe that's the case any longer.

i bought some of those old rolet pinot magnums from envoyer.

Adam Tolmach's Syrahs have been reliably great for as long as I have been tasting wine. I have never been good about keeping them this long though!

I thought you wanted to write a script that auto-generated hype-laden sales e-mails.

thanks for taking the bullet. i've never had a bottle of guiberteau breze that wasn't assertively young. still delicious though

I'd think that you might have some fun exploring right bank Bordeaux, as well as some of the better wines from Cahors (Malbec) and Madiran (Tannat). I'd second the suggestion for nice CDP wines, but bigger Northern Rhone Syrahs could be good too! Beyond that, there's a lot of great value to be had i...

hi doug, i believe i saw a thread here recently discussing this issue. if i recall correctly, everyone else is in the dark as well.

Stereophonic Une Autre Fin Est Possible Syrah John Sebastiano Vineyard 2018 Blackberry, blueberry, black olive, pepper, fresh herbs, rare beef, five spice, sandalwood, and black earth. The upfront sweetness of the first day is less apparent on the second. Instead, it is more savory while still main...

Fronton Le Roc Folle Noire d’Ambat 2019 : 15,5/20 – 3/2/2021 14°. Négrette. Typé, jacinthe, fruits noirs, réglisse, épices. Matière de beau volume (avec une discrète accroche terrienne/tannique), mûre mais sans lourdeur, expressive/gourmande, corsée, sauvage mais nette. Une réussite. Note : rare cé...

Fronton Le Roc Folle Noire d’Ambat 2019 : 15,5/20 – 3/2/2021 14°. Négrette. Typé, jacinthe, fruits noirs, réglisse, épices. Matière de beau volume (avec une discrète accroche terrienne/tannique), mûre mais sans lourdeur, expressive/gourmande, corsée, sauvage mais nette. Une réussite. Note : rare cé...

Thanks for taking the bullet. I'd be interested in trying a more finessed version of a Bartolo wine but this sounds pretty severe atm.

All three could be nice - they're pretty different styles! I don't have experience with these particular wines but in general: The savoie would be the classic pairing, fruity, soft and unintrusive - and useful if you have cornichons and onions along with the cheese - but probably the least complex o...

D@vid Bu3ker wrote: ↑February 20th, 2021, 6:27 am That’s a producer name you don’t see much anymore.

I thought the same exact thing. I remember them because I believe Lingenfelder Riesling was the first Riesling I ever had - I think maybe it was Thiese selection at the time but I'm not too sure.

I've had several recent vintages of the bella vigna pinot and I consider it actually a good value. I suspect it has something to do with being the home for a lot of the fruit from their fort ross area holdings. The fruit character is much more blue/red than i remember from the beginning of the last ...

Imported out west by Oliver McCrum, who is the most reliable source of Italian value under $25 on the planet.

When the 10's were released, we did a full vertical from 03-10. At that time (Must have been 12 or 13), the 03 was kind of anomalous in the expected way and the 04 was beginning to develop. Every other vintage was unchanged in taste from release. I do remember from its youth that the 06 Chavaroche w...

Michael, your note gave me a moment of BerserkerDay envy. Why didn't I add this to my cart?! It also gave me the impetus to open up an Aglianico https://www.wineberserkers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3204237#p3204237 which I enjoyed. A Sebastiano syrah is next on deck. Thanks for posting! [cheers.gif...

well now that comes as a surprise!

Thanks for posting your notes, guys! Glad people are enjoying them.

Thanks Michael! Glad it will be useful! Enjoy the wines

1958?!?? I never would have imagined!

i'd say yes it is a wine of special character. it ages really well in my experience. pricing can't really be debated because it's a speculator's wine now. but pialade, pignan and rayas are cut from one cloth and the des tours wines are cut from (an also excellent) other.

I'd say that roughly 50% of my collection is at least a decade from maturity. Another 30% needs 5-10 years. That said, I'd open probably 99% of them without really stressing it. At the beginning of the pandemic, I started what I called the "Winter Is Coming" philosophy of cellar management...

Jason I just pulled the receipt. I paid $73 for the 2016 monvigliero, not discounted. Is yours imported by RWC? Wholesale was $50 as recently as 2013, meaning $75 standard SRP. I doubt it has gone down since then, so maybe it's a diff regional importer? In any event, great price for a great wine. E...

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