Wine Blog
Welcome to the Sipped Reviews wine blog. The reviews you see here are partly appearing because we love to taste, tear apart and review wines. We taste a huge variety of wines from all over the place. We don’t really focus. If a great wine comes our way, we review it. So, what you see will seem completely random, these reviews come from an eagerness to continue exploring wine, viticulture, oenology, geology and climate. Every glass is an education.
Why ratings? I like to see a rating on a wine simply because it means someone else has taken the time to share their view, and also, I’m not blindly purchasing a wine. Now, I might not agree with the rating after I taste it, but at least I have some data to go on to give me some idea of the quality of the wine I’m thinking of purchasing. So, take it or leave it. Our ratings tend to be more conservative than others and, ALL of the wines rated here were purchased by us. None of these wines were gifts given to elicit a better rating. FYI.
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ARCHIVE #2: Reviews from February 23, 2024 to July 23, 2024
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ARCHIVE #5: Reviews from December 11, 2025 to April 20, 2026
ARCHIVE #6: Reviews from April 20, 2026 to July 2, 2026
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ARCHIVE #7: Reviews from July 2, 2026 to October 19, 2026
Wine
Vintner: Sans Liege
Description: The Adversary Central Coast
Vintage: 2023
Varietal: Mourvedre
Notes: Raspberry, tomato, blackberry, cranberry, cinnamon, cedar, mint, cocoa, vanilla, coriander seed, crushed wet rock, nutmeg, ginger, brioche, black pepper and dried California hillside herbs.
The palate has ample minerals, beautiful berry and herbs with full concentration and intensity that send the finish on this wine into the minute+ range. The tannins, acidity and flavors are a perfect structural storm that will allow this wine to age well.
This wine provides a plush mound of beauty containing earth, berries, herbs, baking spices and baked goods. It has the best of all worlds.
I cooked Bang-Bang salmon, rice and broccoli. This wine paired with beautifully with the mayo, Thai chili sauce and sriracha blend that coated the salmon.
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Rating: 96
Date Tasted: 10/22/2026
Vintner: Bacigalupi
Description: Frost Ranch, Russian River Valley
Vintage: 2024
Varietal: Pinot Noir
Notes: This nose is lovely. There is strawberry, cranberry, pomegranate, loquat, cola, coriander seed, lilac and soil. The nose has full concentration that gives it a kind of Jello feel.
The palate has lovely loquat acidity, minerality, concentrated, intense fruit. And all of these send the berry finish a long way. But the best thing on this palate is viscous texture — as though someone has removed some of the water from the wine leaving a thick richness of berry fruit that is really amazing. You don’t get this in many wines.
This wine can be described in one word: PLUSH.
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Rating: 95
Date Tasted: 10/20/2026
Rating: 94
Date Tasted: 10/20/2026
Vintner: Bacigalupi
Description: Bloom Ranch, Russian River Valley
Vintage: 2024
Varietal: Pinot Noir
Notes: This one has cranberry, black pepper, raspberry, fresh cremini mushroom, tomato and a hint of lime.
The palate has medium tannins, high acid, med+ concentration and intensity. And the finish is long. The flavors are lovely, accentuating the berry fruit, crisp acid and warm tomato, which gives is a great bottom end.
Bloom Ranch is obviously a lovely place, with lovely grapes, making lovely wine that has very unique nose and a bright palate with interesting flavors that lay outside of the usual box.
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Vintner: Bacigalupi
Description: Russian River Valley
Vintage: 2024
Varietal: Pinot Noir
Notes: Bright raspberry, strawberry and cherry fill out the nose. There are some baking spices in there, lilac and wet soil.
The palate shows light tannins, high acid, med+ concentration and intensity and a med+ finish full of bright with acid, raspberry and strawberry. It can use some time. It is very young. We tasted it and then came back to it after an hour. It opened up nicely.
We love these regional blends. Sometimes they are better than the individual vineyard wines.
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Rating: 94
Date Tasted: 10/20/2026
