The #1 Wine ranked in the Wine Spectator Top 100 listing for 2017

Everything I want in a dessert wine and more. Liquid French pastry in a glass. One of my favorite wines the entire day and the absolute best finish with some almond pastry.

Beautiful, elegant, graceful Bordeaux. Whomever said Merlot was not worthy is an idiot. This wine sings.

I've had Altesino a couple times and knew the minute I had a sip, I loved it. Tasted twice on another occasion with consistent notes. 

Why is Brunello beautiful? Because of wines like this one. I learn the potential for Sangiovese when I drink wines like Casanova di Neri

Lovely structure and grace for a wine this young and lean

#8 is Textbook modern style Napa Cabernet

#59 - A sleeper of a wine for great value. Developed tannins and forward fruit

#74 - Probably the best white wine I had all day. Real depth

This was a monster of Modor Darkness! Clocked in at #93 on the list, it thumped every other Cab around it with its power and richness.

#77 This was one of the best values of the entire tasting. Great tasting and in my humble opinion, better than the #1 Merlot that day.

#75 - I sense a long life in this wine with beautiful structure early giving way to subtle elegance in the next 5 years

#12 - Gotta give respect for any Zinfandel that makes it into the Top 25 much less near the Top 10. And a California appellation! It's a good drinker for sure.

#14 and 98 Points. Probably the toughest wine for me to judge as it hit my nose with crazy tart fruit and hints of spicy complexity (or VA). It's what the mouthfeel did to sell me on it. It was just crazy complex, bold, subtle, confusing. Everything in a glass, poetry, theater, action. I knew nothing of this wine prior to trying it.