Our Wines

Rating: 94
Bright ruby-red. Expressive nose offers black cherry, black raspberry, coffee, smoked meat and minerals. Essentially silky in texture but juicy and youthfully tight, with terrific purity of dark fruit and mineral flavor. This impressively intense wine seems more primary today than the reserve claret. Finishes very long and minerally, with building, fine-grained tannins. These top 2004 cuvees boast terrific acidity for the vintage and are likely to evolve slowly.

  

Rating: 90
Medium to dark ruby; attractive, intense, toasty, raspberry and black cherry fruit aroma with overtones of sweet oak and a hint of butterscotch; full body; rich, textured, concentrated, dark cherry fruit flavors with overtones of creamy oak; full tannin; lingering aftertaste. Needs a good three to five years of bottle aging. Oak verged on being excessive. Very highly recommended.

Rating: 95
Youthful tannins star in this young wine. The wine is dry and balanced, with a fabulous core of blackberry, cassis and smoky oak. With a drop of Petit Verdot, which adds a touch of violets, this is one of the best high mountain Cabs of the vintage. Too dry and toughly astringent to drink before 2010; should develop well through 2016, at least. Cellar Selection. 

Rating: 94
Enormously rich oak may lead the way here, yet beneath its sweet veneer of vanilla, caramel and cream, this very deep and impressively stuffed wine shows plenty of optimally ripened currants and black cherries along with deft touches of loamy earth and lightly peppery spice. It is presently closed off by lots of abrasive astringency, and it is not one for drinking any time soon, but, given the  seven to ten years of patience that its structure commends, it will evolve into a profound Cabernet of enormous appeal.