Dave Dal Farra

Baettig Vino De Viñedo Los Parientes Pinot Noir 2020, Do Traiguén, Valle Del Malleco

Domaine Grand Veneur Les Origines Châteauneuf Du Pape 2001

Just finished our last bottle and it was drinking beautifully. Complex, long, incredibly balanced, food friendly, delicious and it doesn't ask you to put up with any harsh/stinky/foul barnyard components like so many Rhones with this complexity do.

Classy stuff, so sad the case is gone.

Lenz Moser Prestige Trockenbeerenauslese 2008, Prädikatswein, Burgenland (375ml)

Tasted Nov '14

Still fresh, complex, smooth and quite rich. Excellent value in a style reminiscent of Late Harvest but with much greater depth. Walks the tight rope between very interesting and accessible, nice stuff.

Cave Spring Csv Riesling 2015, Cave Spring Vineyard, VQA Beamsville Bench, Niagara Escarpment

Fantastic, with allot of life left. Great aged complexity, unusually high quality. Where many Cave Spring Rieslings often lean on lemon and acid and can be austere, none of that to be found here. Rich without come across as a sweetie

Heredad De Urueña Santo Terroir Tempranillo 2012, Vino De La Tierra De Castilla Y León

Ontanon Gran Reserva 2001

Still holding but time to drink up. Starting to brick around the rim so not an old fogey, and it still displays a Peter Pan brightness but it's past the point where any additional complexity from age would compensate for fading charms

Sottimano Langhe Nebbiolo 2013, Doc

I rarely come across badly corked wines these days (it was carefully cellared), unfortunately this was one of them. Putting up a rating only to highlight that quality control should be better in a $30 wine.

Behind the wet cardboard you could still detect significant cedar and ruined cherry elegance.

Helfrich Gewurztraminer 2010, Ac Alsace

Still Fantastic and holding after all this time, but softer and not as perfumed

A great wine

Romain Duvernay Vacqueyras 2009

Still ripe, full, and balanced but drink up.

Bischöfliche Weingüter Trier Scharzhofberger Riesling Kabinett 2012, Prädikatswein