Neil Valenzuela

9.7

Deep purple color. Beautiful aromas of red and purple fruits, leather, dried herbs and spice. Layered with complexity, pencil lead and cigar box finish. Insanely good, glad I got to partake.

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🏅 98 Points - Jeb Galloni — 11 days ago

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

Norman Gennaro

9.6

Wife wondered why we don’t always drink this. Because my brother-in-law does not come over every day ;) — 4 days ago

Cameron Parry

9.4

Still holding up well. Many years left. Beautiful acid, balanced tannin. — 7 days ago

Richard Russell

9.0

Really good cab — 5 days ago

leon egozi

9.4

305 group annual 10 yr Napa cab retrospective — a month ago

Norman Gennaro

9.3

Maybach Materium 2015 - it was a big wine and was too big given all of the other French wines. — 3 days ago

Kevin Dale

9.4

McWilliams Oakville Vineyard, Oakville — 14 days ago

Kyle Fortman

9.0

Very good napa cab. Dark fruits and chocolate, but smooth with good structure, not overpowering but a good tannin finish. Bought at total wine for $55 — 24 days ago

David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.5

The Tench slightly better than the Sugarloaf. But, did show some light alcohol burn. — a month ago