Stunning nose of Amalfi lemon, yellow peach and mirabelle. Very straight and sleek, with serious stony minerality and enough creaminess wrapped around this to prevent the wine from feeling austere at any point. Spot-on balance... Read More
The 2020 Syrah Hudson Vineyard T Block is a dense, brooding wine. Black fruit, spice, gravel, menthol and dried herbs add to an impression of gravitas. There is plenty of depth, obviously, but the 2020 is not especially refined... Read More
Rocking aromatics of spiced cherries, spring flowers, forest floor, and sagebrush all emerge from the 2020 Pinot Noir Fiddlestix Vineyard, a pure, medium-bodied, elegant, gorgeous, balanced Pinot Noir from a cooler valley floor... Read More
The 2020 Châteauneuf Du Pape is terrific, offering classic darker berry fruits as well as peppery garrigue and sappy flower notes. As with the Boisrenard release, this has plenty of tannins and structure, but it’s... Read More
A more elegant and cooler array features notes of various dark berries, spice, earth and a floral top note. The delicious, intense and well-detailed flavors exude a bracing salinity on the youthfully austere and noticeably firmer... Read More
A blend of 58% Syrah, 31% Cabernet Sauvignon and 11% Petit Verdot, the 2020 Optimus has a deep ruby color and a deep core of red and black cherries, chargrill, thyme, charcuterie and desiccated violet. The full-bodied palate is... Read More
Instantly impressive, the 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon Feather opens to silky, fresh and fleshy dark red and black fruit tones with picturesque rich and ripe notions that sashay out of the glass with elegance, power and precision.... Read More
This is also sufficiently ripe to partially display fruit from the yellow side of the spectrum along with spice, citrus confit and floral scents. The rich and solidly concentrated medium-bodied flavors are at once succulent yet... Read More
Brilliant aromas are faintly flinty but bursting with lime curd, lemon oil, quinine, spearmint, white peach and ginger. Tensile, juicy and crisp, there is saline, stony minerality stretching out long with fine texture and a lingering... Read More
The 2020 Ultreia Valtuille is truly amazing and more so next to the unusual 2019. This is floral, expressive, fresh and balanced, with incredible elegance. There's a lot of precision here, they picked on exactly the right... Read More
Ripe redcurrants, cedarwood, leafy herbs, and hints of tobacco all emerge from the 2020 The Highlands, a spicy, complex, medium to full-bodied red with fine tannins and a silky, layered, elegant style. I'm a fan of this red,... Read More
The current release of their second wine is the 2020 Epu. It's selected from the same terroir and vineyard in Puente Alto, one of the most reputed places for Cabernet Sauvignon in Chile, but from the younger vines (five to... Read More
Contrada Guardiola always stands out in the Passopisciaro cru line-up for its seamless expression of the territory and the 2020 vintage is no exception. Cherries and cherry blossoms meet blood and bricks, graphite and gunpowder... Read More
A masterpiece from an almost unknown vineyard site. The cool and deep nose pulls you into this very concentrated and supple dry riesling GG that has so much power, packed into a sleek silhouette. Long, silky and chalky finish.... Read More