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Cambria
2019 Julia's Vineyard Rosé of Pinot Noir
88 Points Matt Kettmann, Wine Enthusiast Magazine

Strong aromas of cotton candy, strawberry bubblegum and baked peach flesh show on the nose of this bottling. The flavors fall in line with those prominent pink touches, picking up more strawberry and ripe plum along the way.

Kendall-Jackson
2018 Vintner's Reserve Pinot Gris
88 Points Jim Gordon, Wine Enthusiast Magazine

Very fruity and nicely polished, this medium-bodied, unoaked wine offers fresh peach and apple flavors and a rounded texture. A light buttery, earthy aroma starts it off before the fresh fruit moves in.

La Crema
2016 Pinot Noir Green Valley
88 Points Virginie Boone, Wine Enthusiast Magazine

This is an intensely savory and herbal wine, layered in green-tea and rhubarb flavors. The weight is full bodied, with an opulent structure and firm grippy tannin.

La Crema
2017 Pinot Noir Russian River Valley
88 Points Virginie Boone, Wine Enthusiast Magazine

This robust wine has a sweet nose of red cherry, cola and vanilla oak, the texture thick and viscously opulent. Baking spice highlights the finish.

La Crema
2017 Pinot Noir Los Carneros
88 Points Virginie Boone, Wine Enthusiast Magazine

This thick, concentrated red is velvety smooth and creamy on the palate, made in an opulent style that displays earthy stemmy wild berry fruit and black tea.

La Crema
2017 Chardonnay Arroyo Seco
88 Points Matt Kettmann, Wine Enthusiast Magazine

Sharp, somewhat angular aromas of lime pee, wet stone and lanolin show on the nose of this bottling. Apple and lemon-peel flavors are quite brisk and tart, leading into a marmalade-on-toast finish.

Siduri
2018 Pinot Noir Santa Barbara County
87 Points Editor, Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine 1 star

Here, again, Siduri has come up with a nicely balanced wine that displays a good deal of fruity purity, yet, it is fairly straightforward and neither as rich nor as involving as its more generously filled companion from the Russian River Valley. Although it promises a bit less in the way of increased layering with time, its well-defined fruit and firm, food-worthy structure will hold it in good stead for three or four years.

Hickinbotham
2017 The Peake Cabernet-Shiraz
95 Points MaryAnn Worobiec, Wine Spectator

Aromatic, detailed, generous and plush, featuring notes of cream soda and milk chocolate that add a touch of polish to the concentrated kirsch, spiced plum and blueberry flavors at the core. The details of cigar box, espresso and palo santo show appealing precision, exhibiting harmony on the long, expressive finish. Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz. Drink now through 2035.

Château Lassègue
2019 Lassègue
94 Points Jane Anson, Decanter

Rich plum in colour, this grips right from the off, and moves slowly and carefully through the palate, revealing brambly blue and red fruits, and a lovely sense of energyand uplift. Extremely good quality, with sage and saffron edges alongside layers of fine tannins that close in towards the finish, slowing things down even more. Thiswill age well, and is an elegant yet concentrated wine.

Maggy Hawk
2017 Unforgettable Pinot Noir
93 Points Kim Marcus, Wine Spectator

Complex and deeply flavored, with loamy notes to the dark cherry, plum tart and wild berry flavors, which are broad-textured and robustly spiced. The dense, powerfully structured finish lingers, revealings smoky touches and sanguine richness. Drink now through 2025.

Hickinbotham
2017 Elder Hill Grenache
93 Points MaryAnn Worobiec, Wine Spectator

Offers a memorable mix of pure raspberry, cherry and pomegranate flavors that are lush and polished, set on a velvety frame, with notes of chai tea, white pepper and fresh sage, showing terrific harmony on the long, expressive finish. A hint of freshly grated nutmeg lingers. Drink now through 2035.

Hickinbotham
2017 The Nest Cabernet Franc
92 Points MaryAnn Worobiec, Wine Spectator

Juicy, plump cherry and plum flavors are framed by black licorice, gunpowder tea, tobacco and fresh sage notes, set across a firm, muscular frame. The tannins become more toothsome on the finish. Drink now through 2035.

La Crema
2017 Sealift Vineyard Pinot Noir
92 Points Kim Marcus, Wine Spectator

Well-structured, with concentrated red fruit and berry flavors, supported by a vibrant lattice of acidity and tannins. Minerally midpalate, featuring savory richness that extends on the vibrantly spiced finish.

Siduri
2018 Pinot Noir Willamette Valley
91 Points Tim Fish, Wine Spectator

Vibrant and snappy, with fresh cherry, black tea and orange peel flavors that pick up speed toward refined tannins. Drink now through 2028.

La Crema
2016 Saralee's Vineyard Pinot Noir
91 Points Kim Marcus, Wine Spectator

Big and ripe, featuring concentrated dark cherry, plum and blackberry flavors that are well-knit. Minerally midpalate, with a lively and vibrant finish that offers concentrated cedar and spice notes.

Hickinbotham
2017 The Revivalist Merlot
90 Points MaryAnn Worobiec, Wine Spectator

Firm and savory, with good concentration to the toasted herb, cedar and cigar box notes that are muscular and taut. Notes of green tea, rosemary, loam and dried currant linger on the finish. Drink now through 2033.

Siduri
2018 Pinot Noir Santa Barbara County
88 Points Kim Marcus, Wine Spectator

Snappy, offering hints of licorice to the plum, dried raspberry and spiced cherry flavors. Cedar and spice notes show on the finish.

Yangarra Estate Vineyard
2018 Roux Beauté Roussanne
88 Points Huon Hooke, The Real Review, AUS

Light, bright yellow colour, with a metallic, steely note to the aroma, the palate likewise very taut and reserved, bone-dry and borderline austere. There's hints of candlewax and tealeaf, and a faint trace of nuttiness. The finish is very tight and ramrod-straight. It needs more time to reveal its 'true beauty'.

Yangarra Estate Vineyard
2019 Roussanne McLaren Vale
88 Points Huon Hooke, The Real Review, AUS

Stone fruit, quince, gently nutty bouquet, echoing barrel contact; dry and pleasingly savoury in the mouth. There is a touch of earthiness and the finish is very dry, tightly-composed and appetising. (Wild fermented and then aged for seven months in barriques and puncheons, 25% new. Certified biodynamic/organic.)

Vérité
2017 La Muse
99 Points Lisa Perrotti-Brown, Robert Parker Wine Advocate

“Our Malbec in 2017 was awesome, it usually gives the spice,” Pierre Seillan told me during the tasting of the 2017s with his daughter and one day successor, Helene. “But this year, we didn’t need it. The alcohol is only 14.2% this year—it has the energy, the minerality. I think it will age for 40 years at least. I think it is the best I’ve made.” Composed of 100% Merlot for the first time this year, the medium to deep garnet-purple colored 2017 La Muse rolls sensuously out of the glass with scents of black raspberries, Black Forest cake, boysenberries and cinnamon toast, followed by nuances of a garrigue, forest floor, beef drippings and clove oil. Medium to full-bodied, the richly fruited palate slowly builds in the mouth to a crescendo of black fruit preserves and exotic spice layers, framed by exceptionally ripe, round tannins and seamless freshness, finishing long and fragrant. Stylistically, it stands apart from previously vintages, possessing the same magical intensity, but with less weight and more pop.

Vérité
2017 La Joie
98+ Points Lisa Perrotti-Brown, Robert Parker Wine Advocate

“The Cab Franc was quite spectacular in 2017. There is a bit more in the blend this year,” Pierre Seillan told me during the tasting of the 2017s with his daughter and one day successor, Helene. A blend of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 16% Cabernet Franc, 10% Merlot and 4% Petit Verdot, the 2017 La Joie has a very deep garnet-purple color. It opens a little closed and broody, giving glimpses of blackcurrant cordial, espresso, charcoal and black truffles to begin, before blossoming out to a whole array of preserved black and blue fruits, dusty soil, crushed rocks and iron ore scents plus a waft of roses. The medium to full-bodied palate is built like a brick house, with firm, grainy tannins and a lively backbone supporting the muscular fruit, finishing very long and mineral laced. The alcohol weighed in at just 13.9% this year (14% on the label), making for a particularly elegant but no less impactful La Joie!

Vérité
2017 Le Désir
98 Points Lisa Perrotti-Brown, Robert Parker Wine Advocate

What was the secret to achieving such impressive ripeness for Cabernet Franc in 2017? Pierre Seillan's daughter and one day successor, Helene, told me: “We make a lot of passes through the Cabernet Franc blocks—more than the other varieties. We drop any fruit that is not ripening at the same pace. We don’t pull out too much leaves, we need those for the ripening.” Blended of 80% Cabernet Franc, 17% Merlot and 3% Malbec, the 2017 Le Désir has a medium to deep garnet-purple color. It comes galloping out of the glass with all the grace and precision of a thoroughbred, sporting notions of kirsch, potpourri, warm plums and wild blueberries plus hints of chocolate box, cardamom and star anise. The medium-bodied palate (just 13.9% alcohol) is at once powerful and wonderfully elegant, with firm, very fine-grained, exquisitely ripe tannins and bold freshness supporting the red and blue fruit layers, finishing with incredible length and depth. Wow!

WillaKenzie
2019 Estate Rosé
91-93 Points Jeffrey Kralik, The Drunken Cyclist

Light cotton candy pink. Luscious red fruit with some peach. Tartness a go-go with a chalky finish. More fruit here as well. Yowza. Excellent.

Cambria
2016 Julia's Vineyard Pinot Noir
90 Points Anthony Gismondi, The Vancouver Sun, CAN

Julia’s Vineyard was named for Julia Jackson back in 1988, 20 years after the original fog-covered Pinot Noir vines were planted at the Santa Maria site on ancient soils full of fossilized seashells, shale, limestone and sand. The vineyard site is unique in that it boasts one of the longest growing seasons in California, and with that comes consistency of quality. The fruit is always forward here with bright ripe black raspberry and blueberry aromas striped with cranberry, pomegranate, and sweet brown baking spice. A hedonistic, California Pinot Noir that entertains rather than confounds. Salmon, mushroom risotto, roasted chicken all work here. It’s a mix of clones including 4, 2A, 23, 667, 115, 777 and 828 that are barrel-aged for 8 1/2 months in French oak, 31 per cent of which is new.

La Crema
2017 Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast
89 Points Anthony Gismondi, The Vancouver Sun, CAN

Look for an earthy wild strawberry, sweet tobacco nose, and definitely on the cool side. On the palate, the fruit is all Pinot Noir — cherries and plums, with an earthy, spicy undercurrent. The tannin is negligible and easily manages most Pinot menu choices: duck, mushrooms, root vegetables, soft cheeses and pork. La Crema Sonoma Coast is a well made, large production Pinot of estate and grower vineyards, but all within the cool, marine swept boundaries of Sonoma County.