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Failla 2010 Estate Vineyard Chardonnay (Sonoma Coast)
- Editors' Choice
- $44
Shows classic, full-throttle notes of tropical and citrus fruits, pears and sweet green apples, combined with strong minerality and complex layers of buttered toast, honey and creamy lees. The description alone hardly does justice to the wine’s beauty. The acidity is perfect, the oak deftly applied, the finish long and completely satisfying. Winemaker Ehren Jordan…
— S.H.
(7/1/2012)
Failla 2006 Vivien Pinot Noir (Sonoma Coast)
- Cellar Selection
- $70
This small- production wine showcases the wild, feral and lonely personality of this winery’s extreme coastal mountain location, offering the most exotic flavors that are hard to describe. Asian pears, pomegranates, Dr. Pepper cola, red currants, licorice, bacon and rare berries like mulberries and loganberries come to mind. It’s softly delicious and drinkable now…
— S.H.
(12/31/2009)
Failla 2010 Occidental Ridge Vineyard Pinot Noir (Sonoma Coast)
- $60
This is an astonishingly good Pinot Noir that immediately shows the Sonoma Coast virtues of dryness, acidity, firm minerality, complexity and age worthiness. Flavors abound, with dominating notes of sour cherry, persimmon, cinnamon spice and sweet oak. It’s rich and refined, pure, and a great expression of the cool 2010 vintage. Drink now–2020.
— S.H.
(12/31/2012)
Failla 2010 Hirsch Vineyard Pinot Noir (Sonoma Coast)
- Editors' Choice
- Online Exclusive
- $65
This shows the trifecta of winemaker Ehren Jordan’s deft hand, the fabulous Hirsch Vineyard and the wonderful 2010 vintage. Even if you knew nothing of the wine’s pedigree, you’d be dazzled by its sheer richness of raspberry, cherry, cola and herb flavors, plus the firm, stone-driven minerality, the dryness, the feral mountain hints, the acidity and the overall…
— S.H.
(2/1/2013)
Failla 2008 Estate Chardonnay (Sonoma Coast)
- Editors' Choice
- $42
From the wildest, most remote and exotic stretch of the Sonoma Coast: you can taste the salt of the sea in this wine, as you can in a Manzanilla Sherry. It gives a tang to the lemondrop, pear and honeysuckle flavors, with their lick of cold granite. So pure and vibrant, so savory, so compelling. Grows more fascinating with every minute in the glass.
— S.H.
(6/1/2010)
Failla 2007 Estate Vineyard Syrah (Sonoma Coast)
- $56
This tremendous Syrah is one for the cellar. It’s explosive in flavor, offering a mouthblast of peppery blackberries, roasted meat, red licorice, pomegranates and smoky cedar. There are even suggestions of dark chocolate, cassis and minerals as well as sweetness, although it’s absolutely dry. It has the most beautiful tannin-acid balance that launches it into…
— S.H.
(12/31/2009)
Failla 2006 Estate Chardonnay (Sonoma Coast)
- $42
There’s a lot going on in this complex Chardonnay. The balance strikes you first, with crisp, zesty acidity cleansing the palate and preparing it for the onslaught of flavor. Then a tsunami of grilled pineapples, Meyer lemon pie filling, crème brûlée, butterscotch and vanilla hits. So devastatingly good, you can’t keep your hands off it.
— S.H.
(12/1/2008)
Failla 2007 Chardonnay (Sonoma Coast)
- $42
A spectacular Chardonnay grown in Failla’s estate vineyard, high in the mountains above the Sonoma Coast, and open to the Pacific’s cool winds. The pineapple custard, tangerine, lemon tart and mineral flavors are compellingly delicious, while crisp coastal acidity adds a refreshingly clean tang. This is a grand cru wine.
— S.H.
(8/1/2009)
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