Craig Becraft

9.4

 Elegantly caring its bottle age of close to 13 years golden warm, yellow fruit, a bit of almond and dark honey and seamless finish  with just the right acidity, — 24 days ago

Jake Hajer

9.4

Aromatic. Cola, sassafras. — 8 months ago

Josh Morgenthau

9.3

This is packed with strawberry, cherry, raspberry, and oh so cool minerals. A green minty spring aroma. Crushed granite on the palate. Elegant, textured, great acid, beautiful mousse. — 2 years ago

Philippe Jacob

9.1

Chardonnay 100% sabor muy pronunciado, quizá demasiado. — 4 years ago

with Sunil

Lee Pitofsky

9.4

Loved this! A beautiful, refined and elegant California Chardonnay. — a month ago

Shay A

9.4

My second set of wines to provide as part of a co-host event.

I picked these up during a visit to Morlet in the fall of ‘21. Sadly, these are the last of my initial stash. 58 semillon/36 SB/6 Muscat.

Poured blind for a group of 20 people at the end of a wine event, I was shocked that not one single person called this Cali. Many Sauternes, Barsac, and a few South African dessert wine guesses. It’s undeniably sporting botrytis flavors, but the richness has a wonderful spine of acidity. Honeyed mango, white peach and chock-full of orange blossom on the nose, there’s added candied spice and honeycomb on the palate. Didn’t pick up any nutty flavors (which I enjoy in Sauternes), but this was also fairly young. Extremely “fresh” for a dessert wine, if that makes sense. Best Cali dessert wine I’ve had, I think. — 4 months ago

E & K G

9.2

In a good drinking window with soft tannins and the red fruit and spice melding together well. Easy to pair with food. — 4 years ago

Vadim T

9.3

This is one overpowering Pinot Noir, even for California. Chewy mouthful of red fruit, with complexity supplemented by minor bitter chocolate. Runs on all eight cylinders. — 3 months ago

Paul T- Huntington Beach

9.8

3 day wine — 8 months ago

Shay A

9.4

On my first trip out to Napa (2015), Jarvis was one of the favorites, and so we went back in 2016 and again in 2018. We go to Napa every year, and it’s one of the only wineries we have visited multiple times.

This was part of a retrospective on 2012 Napa cabs, alongside Shafer HSS, Scarecrow, Morlet CdV, Bryant DB4, Dominus, Pulido Walker Melanson, Kapscandy, Buccella Cuvee Katrina Eileen and others. Definitely the most restrained.

For some reason, I always get a streak of green peppercorn on all of the reds from Jarvis. It’s not off putting, just a signature of the winemaking. I’ve never found these wines to be overblown/high alcohol. They aren’t quite Bordeaux like, but they are clearly in between current Napa style and a restrained bridge to Bordeaux. This 2012 was true to the above. Aromatics here has green peppercorn, tar, underripe black fruits and a very fragrant potpourri note. Even after being open a few hours this was strong with zippy acidity surrounded by pepper crusted blackberries, mocha, black cherries and even some leather (not Brett driven, though). Blind, maybe someone takes this to left bank Bordeaux in a ripe vintage…but the kiss of sweetness is hard to take away from Napa. Wonderfully delicious and complex Cabernet starting to enter a great drinking window.

— 2 years ago