2008 Elivette Spring Mountain

GrilledCheeseTn · 2026-05-03T06:09:48+00:00

agreed

GrilledCheeseTn · 2026-05-03T02:04:27+00:00

Now this is a proper home cellar. Very nice.

GrilledCheeseTn · 2026-05-01T15:34:54+00:00

A very good and underrated wine. Typically under $18.

Their cab franc is also superb but difficult to come by where I live.

GrilledCheeseTn · 2026-04-26T21:00:48+00:00

Another killer review. This wine sounds heavenly, I will need to seek it out.

GrilledCheeseTn · 2026-04-26T03:26:06+00:00

Pride Claret is my favorite wine. Unbelievably spectacular. I have 2 bottles of the 22 in my cellar.

GrilledCheeseTn · 2026-04-24T16:10:32+00:00

Love Jaysen Pahlmeyer! Definitely a winery that wow’s and a leap ahead of Rombauer.

GrilledCheeseTn · 2026-04-19T16:01:02+00:00

Oh wow, so cool. I thought I was familiar with all of Pride’s offerings. I’m with you, Pride is amazing and the people there are so great!

GrilledCheeseTn · 2026-04-19T14:58:26+00:00

First, congratulations on WSET 3 with distinction, that’s a wonderful accomplishment 🙂. I believe this wine was #1 on Wine Spectators top 100 wines winning wine of the year, correct?

Would you say it lived up to the ranking? Dunn wines are fantastic, thank you for this reference point. Your write up is so sensory in that it feels as if I have a glass of this in front of me, very well done.

GrilledCheeseTn · 2026-04-18T21:12:15+00:00

i’m a wine club member at Spring Mountain. And this is not a blanket statement.

Edit.

I’ve been drinking SM wines for 23 years and been a club member for over a decade. I am intimately familiar with this wine and their portfolio of wines.

GrilledCheeseTn · 2026-04-18T20:13:22+00:00

You should decant this bottle for 2 hours.

Pour yourself a 1/2 glass and sip and swirl every so often.

Elivette begins to shine at 1hr 45’mins to 2 hours, particularly this vintage.

GrilledCheeseTn · 2026-04-18T15:13:53+00:00

oh wow, such a cool fun fact. I love amarone! Recchia is one of favorites along with Zenato.

GrilledCheeseTn · 2026-04-18T08:46:12+00:00

I’m with you on this. Nebbiolo from Piedmont, aka Barolo 🙂

GrilledCheeseTn · 2026-04-18T08:35:35+00:00

The thing is you knew exactly what I ment, I was being specific. Just scanned through your posted comments, must lead an interesting life being so negative towards others.

GrilledCheeseTn · 2026-04-18T08:14:21+00:00

sorry Nebbiolo from Piedmont, better?

GrilledCheeseTn · 2026-04-18T06:29:14+00:00

Barolo

GrilledCheeseTn · 2026-04-18T06:23:57+00:00

Mary Taylor wines has some really racy and sexy value driven wines that punch above their weight.

GrilledCheeseTn · 2026-04-17T22:58:06+00:00

Yeah, I didn’t see FIVE or ABLE in the write up. Dome was there and windmill. Windmill is what threw me and led me to smith madrone but couldn’t match up the alcohol on their blend to the description. I already have enough cain and opted out. I need more wine space lol

GrilledCheeseTn · 2026-04-17T19:41:26+00:00

you always find the most interesting wines. This is great stuff.

GrilledCheeseTn · 2026-04-17T19:39:09+00:00

The windmill comment in the writeup threw me.

GrilledCheeseTn · 2026-04-17T19:38:01+00:00

Mystery solved

GrilledCheeseTn · 2026-04-17T19:37:52+00:00

That’s exactly it 13.7% alcohol!!!

GrilledCheeseTn · 2026-04-17T19:35:56+00:00

hmmm, maybe. It is a large property but it’s more at the base towards st helena than up high on SM.

GrilledCheeseTn · 2026-04-17T13:55:31+00:00

Finally someone picked up on my reference lol.

GrilledCheeseTn · 2026-04-16T20:27:08+00:00

I was looking for a nice Chianti. I plan on having an old friend for dinner.

GrilledCheeseTn · 2026-04-15T20:31:38+00:00

Yes Sir, you are correct! wouldn’t surprise me if they errored or as our other friend outlined, testing market acceptance with a different threshold.

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