Accolades - Recent Scores and Reviews
Milliarium
2007 Pinot Noir
Split Rock Vineyard
Score: 91
Source: Wine Enthusiast
Review:This is a very dry, silky and elegant Pinot Noir. It's not shy, offering rich cherry, red currant, mocha, bacon and sandalwood flavors that finish in a swirl of spices. Good now, and should develop bottle complexities over the next six years. - S.H. (12/15/2009) - 91
Nicholls
2006 Pinot Noir
Santa Maria Valley
Score: Gold
Source: 2008 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition
Patel
2007 Sauvignon
Napa Valley Cabernet
Score: 95
Source: Wine Advocate
Review:The 2007 Proprietary Red No. 1, a blend of 86% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Merlot, and 6% Malbec, has beautiful and exceptionally pure creme de cassis notes intermixed with spring flowers, spice, and flowers. The complex aromatics are followed by a flawlessly constructed wine with full-bodied richness. The elegance, purity, and texture build incrementally and last a long time on the palate. The cascade of creme de cassis fruit almost reminded me of the kind of fruit and texture one sees in more recent vintages of Pontet-Canet or some of the brilliant Cabernet-based wines from Lewelling in Napa Valley. This wine is drinkable now, as many 2007s are, but capable of two decades of cellaring.
PerryMoore
2008 Cabernet Sauvignon
Napa Valley
Score: 90
Source: James Suckling
Review:Very fruity with dried fruits and plums and lots of alcohol but delicious and soft. Better in 2013.
PerryMoore
"Paradii" 2008 Cabernet Sauvignon
Napa Valley
Score: 91
Source: James Suckling
Review:Beautiful aromas of dark currants and minerals with hints of mint follow through to full body, with ultra-integrated tannins and a long caressing finish. Very fine Cabernet. Drink after 2013.
PerryMoore
2005 Cabernet Sauvignon
Dr. Crane Vineyard
Score: 94
Source: Wine Enthusiast
Review:An Incredible Hulk of a wine. Ripe, powerful, dense and young. So big, it feels heavy, almost clumsy, now. Fully dry, with a fine fusion of sour cherry, black currant, green olive, dark chocolate, violets and smoky new oak. Better after 2011. Cellar Selection. -S.H.
