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Red Burgundy of purity, grace, and power is generally unheard-of for under $30. But the 2017 Frédéric Magnien Bourgogne Rouge defies expectations, and is easily one of the most accomplished, haunting red Burgundies we’ve offered all year. It’s a bright, juicy wine with aromas of black cherries, raspberries, and earth, and a palate singing with raspberries,…
There’s a reason Michael Pozzan’s wines have earned a recurring role on the wine lists of such internationally respected chefs as Michael Symon and Masaharu Morimoto. It’s because few wineries can produce such regal bottles from the Russian River Valley at such populist affordability. Remarkably, even though Pozzan’s eponymous 2017 Pinot Noir delivers classic Russian River…
On our annual Presidents’ Day weekend golf trip to Pebble Beach, the only thing more thrilling than playing that iconic course is tasting through the equally iconic wine list at Monterey’s legendary Sardine Factory. Developed by famed Master Sommelier Fred Dame, The Sardine Factory’s cellar defined what became one of the most influential wine lists…
We’ve been hankering for an allocation of the Ojai Kessler-Haak Pinot Noir for years. It’s a bottling we love for its nuanced expressivity and aromatic complexity, but because of the site’s low yields, the cupboard’s always been bare when we’ve come calling. So when our friend, winemaker Adam Tolmach, mentioned in passing that he had…
With only 209 cases produced, Fe Ciega Pinot is one of Ojai Vineyard’s most limited—and most coveted—bottlings. It almost never makes it off the Santa Barbara coast, so we made the six and a half hour drive down Highway 101 a few months ago to pry some of the 2017 away from proprietor Adam Tolmach…
The 2017 Prince Hill Estate Reserve is unlike any Pinot Noir in the Willamette Valley—and for far more reasons than one. Grown from coveted Burgundy clones of Pinot Noir smuggled into the United States decades ago and hand-crafted by Oregon winemaking royalty, it’s a single-vineyard wine with the stamina, flavor, and cellar potential of a…
This is the third vintage of Quartz Reef’s fabulous single-vineyard Pinot Noir we’ve sold, and it’s a knockout, lavishly perfumed with black raspberry, plum, and black cherry. The tasting team couldn’t wait to get their hands on it, with vivid memories of the swaggering 2013 and the epic length of the 2015—both best-sellers among Wine…
Ask any critic about the greatest Pinot Noirs of California, and one name is sure to come up: Rhys. Eric Asimov of the New York Times proclaimedRhys to be “among the best American Pinot Noirs” a decade ago—after just three vintages—and the benchmark winery’s reputation and rarity have only grown since. Jancis Robinson said Rhys…
For years, we heard rumors about Boar’s View, Fred Schrader’s Pinot project, grown right above the legendary cult Pinot Marcassin. Many of our favorites come from near this prime location in the “True” Sonoma Coast: the fog-draped, towering redwoods and steep hills near Cazadero, where wines like Hirsch, Flowers, and Martinelli’s Blue Slide Ridge are…
Schramsberg is America’s most iconic sparkling wine producer. They’ve been the standard in Napa since the ‘60s and still haven’t relinquished the crown, making wines that combine Champenoise technique with a California flair to produce bubbles that belong in the same breath as the Grands Marques with a style all their own. Their Pinot-based Blanc…
Described by Vinous as “one of the prime sites for Pinot Noir in the New World,” the Willamette Valley site that supplied the 2017 State of Mind LS Vineyard Pinot Noir is the one that managed to inspire renowned Master Sommelier Larry Stone—and our early bet on this terroir is paying off big time for Wine…
A month ago when the phone rang, it was Twomey’s Matt Duncan (who’s family also produces Cabernet-icon Silver Oak) calling with an exclusive invitation to visit the new winery that his family just purchased in Anderson Valley. We cleared our schedule. For two hours, with Matt driving, we chatted non-stop about the magnificence of Anderson…
Wind and fog are what make Sonoma’s top Pinot Noirs intense, silky wines worthy of $75 or more. And 100-point icons Philippe Melka and Maayan Koschitzky tapped two of the region’s windiest, foggiest sites to craft the 2017 Westwood Sonoma County Pinot Noir—a stunning bottle that stands shoulder-to-shoulder with Pinots twice the price. In 2017,…
With its stellar terroir and perfect positioning in one of the Willamette Valley’s most prestigious neighborhoods, Winter’s Hill has just about everything its world-class neighbors like Archery Summit, Domaine Serene, and Domaine Drouhin do. Except the lofty price tag. In an era when finding anyWillamette Valley Pinot for under $25 is a coup, this estate-grown…
The way-overperforming nature of this $15, 92-point 2018 Angeline Pinot Noir Russian River Valley will surprise no one who’s claimed our offers bearing the Martin Ray or Courtney Benham labels in the last year: Angeline is Benham’s Russian River-based outpost, and in classic Benham fashion, it delivers outstanding value in every lip-smacking bottle. This Pinot…
When Rollin Soles founded Argyle in Dundee in 1987, he was taking an unspeakable risk. The state’s Pinot Noir industry was barely 22 years old. Beaux-Frères and Shea Vineyard had not been planted yet. To place all his chips on sparkling wine back then was nothing short of…well, nuts. Traditional method sparkling wine—the way they…
Robert Redford came into Napa Valley’s iconic Tra Vigne restaurant on a busy Friday night, perusing a wine list that contained cult Napa Cabernets and French icons galore. But he’d arrived seeking one bottle: Black Kite. He gave it his personal stamp of approval, telling the servers “This is a wine you have to know,…
We had just finished tasting through a lineup of winemaker Noah Dorrance’s elegant offerings—high-priced single-vineyard Pinots from heralded Sonoma sites sporting rave reviews and scores to match—when he quietly pulled out a bottle of his brand new project. “One more,” he said. “Try this.” Dazzling ruby hit our glasses, and lively aromatics soon followed. Playful…
Colin Gordon and Tim Beranek met working at Kosta Browne in 2010. Four years later—after both served a stint under Thomas Rivers Brown at Outpost—they founded Bydand Wines, named after an old Scots word meaning to “stand and fight.” That uncompromising spirit informs just about everything they do, especially when it comes to what vineyards…
The Kid is one of our newer Napa Valley acquaintances, a young guy we’ve gotten to know just in the last year. A tall, garrulous, ballcap-wearing former finance guy who ditched the office world for the wine life, the first thing he told us was that he’s been a member for years—something we verified the…
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