David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.5

Bruce Phillips and his wife were pouring their 2021. Talked w/ him at length. Very nice couple.

The 2021 showed well young with room for improving with 10-25 years in bottle and beyond. It showed some evolution, wasn’t all primary. Elegant, very well balanced with excellent structure and finish. Drink 2033-45 properly stored.

The general Napa consensus on 2022 vintage will be a story of did you pick before or after the 6 days of extreme heat during the harvest window. One producer told me his would add 5% of 2023 to some of his 2022’s, which is allowed. He mentioned that he was going to add 15%. But, I think he just misspoke? Get ready for an amazing 2023 vintage from Napa. It was a cooler, not hot-hot, which was a near perfect growing season for long slow even ripening. Some say a vintage of a lifetime and others would only say exceptional.

The Saturday-Sunday Pavilion tasting at Pebble Beach Food & Wine is an excellent four hours to taste a lot wine, taste curated dishes from chefs from all over the country and meet the people behind the bottle. These short ribs were one of the top two or three things I tasted at the Pavilion Saturday. — a month ago

Chris Shultz

8.9

I’ve had a few bottles of this. It’s $12-14, first of all. The first night it comes off as a pretty basic bistro wine. Good acid, small tannins with some tack, straight up blackberry, very juicy. The next day the fruit turns more to ripe sour cherry and violets explode in the nose, it gets really perfumed. There is a perfect roasted green pepper note (which I happen to love) and Lots of spice on the finish the second day. — 4 years ago

Angela Luhrs

8.9

This wine tasted better the day after the bottle had been opened. — 3 months ago

Andy Hock

9.1

Leather, prune, spice. Light body and mild tannin. 2000 drinking well in 2020. Elegant — 3 years ago

Richard List

9.7

Just fabulous over lunch at Chez Bruce. — 4 years ago

Rich Lownes

10

Just great juice. 2014 vintage still with plenty of fruit left. Just drinking very nicely right now. Lighter Burgundian style. Will be hard to find but get some if you can!😎 — 5 years ago

Nicole Ruiz Hudson

9.2

Damn good Syrah.

N: freshly crushed blackberry, black pepper, pine needles
P: fresh but deep blackberry juice, dark plum, mixed. Olive tapenade, and a touch of smoky meat — a year ago

Andy Hock

8.9

Cedar, baking spice. 2011 drinking well in 2020. — 4 years ago

Jim McCusker

9.4

Fantastic. — 5 years ago

with Vanessa

Martinez

9.0

Grapefruit, subtle oak, — 5 years ago