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94 Points Wine & SpiritsThis young bottling manages to walk a line between youthful raciness and a breadth that defines the winery’s house style, combining generous pineapple scents and toasted nuts with a lemony, pulse-quickening...

95 points Wine Enthusiast"This is a great appellation wine blended with small amounts of Merlot, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc. Cedar, char and celery salt accent tight, refined tannins that grip the palate with intense flavor and texture. Black...

96 points Robert Parker's Wine Advocate"The 2021 Pinot Noir Sta. Rita Hills has a medium ruby color and pretty scents of cinnamon stick, aniseed, iron, underbrush and charcuterie with a core of red cherries and cranberries. Medium-bodied yet very...

91 points Wine Enthusiast"This bold and full-bodied wine offers dark-chocolate, vanilla and blackberry flavors on firm tannins for a big mouthfeel. Powerful and concentrated, it should improve from 2025 through 2030." Vinous Reverie NotesCalifornia...

  91 points Wine Spectator"Sleek, with cassis and plum notes laced with subtle alder and tobacco notes. The polished finish has a pretty flicker of savory. Drink now through 2027." Tasting NotesAromas of black cherry and ripe plum are layered with...

Vinous Reverie NotesPaul Lato was born and raised in Krakow then settled briefly in Spain and then onto Toronto where he became a decorated sommelier in the best restaurant in Toronto. In 1996, he went to California’s central...

92 points Wine Enthusiast"Pale-pink in the glass, this rosé is redolent with chalk, river-rock and cherry aromas on the nose, touching both the fruit and mineral camps. It's clean and crisp on the sip, where a citrus-powered acidity cuts sharply...

Vinous Reverie NotesBlend: 90% Mourvèdre and 10% Syrah. Mourvèdre shines in the volcanic and granitic soils of this high elevation region, surrounded by Ponderosa Pines and manzanita. Whole cluster fermentation and...

95 points Vinous"The 2018 Chardonnay Parker West is laced with the essence of crushed rocks, lemon peel, white flowers and white pepper. This is an especially taut style, but there is also plenty of fruit depth to keep things in balance. This is such a...

95 points Wine Enthusiast"This Syrah is massive and steely, wrapping its concentrated black-fruit, sour cherry and black-pepper flavors in firm tannins and acidity. It has the sense of being just underripe, so there's a tension between the nascent fruit...

91 points Robert Parker's Wine Advocate"The 2017 Dry Riesling Classique is whole-cluster pressed, then fermented with indigenous yeasts and aged in a mixture of 57% neutral French barriques and 43% stainless steel for about eight months. It comes in with...

Vinous Reverie NotesWinery: This Burgundian-style pinot is crafted from vineyards in Mendocino, where the cool climate of the valleys makes for exquisite pinot varietals. This wine is aged for 30 months in 5% new French Burgundy oak barrels -- the...