90 Joaquín Hidalgo - Vinous Media

The 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon Don David emerges from the Calchaquí Valley. Dark garnet in color, the nose features notes of tomato marmalade, spice and ash. Indulgent and fairly rich, firm tannins and a compact structure combine to form a clingy mouthfeel. This is a flavorful high altitude Cabernet Sauvignon.

88-90 Jeb Dunnuck - jebdunnuck.com

Blueberry, violets, spring flowers, and some violet notes all emerge from the 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon Cs, a plush, ripe, rounded Cabernet Sauvignon offering soft tannins, terrific purity, and a great finish. It's going to be one hell of a house red. There are just under 200,000 cases of this, so it should be easy to find.

95 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

"A firm, wonderfully silky red with plum, berry, cherry and walnut aromas and flavors. It’s tight, very long and linear with tension and focus that goes on for minutes. Best ever? Drink after 2025."

94+ Monica Larner - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

"The Franco Pacenti 2015 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva (with 6,500 bottles made) is a dense and nicely concentrated wine with plush and rich fruit flavors. Blackberry, plum and wild cherry cede to spice, potting soil and blue flower. There is an underlying mineral component as well. Although this Riserva has integrated nicely in the six years since the harvest, the fruit feels fresh and youthful nonetheless. Give it a few more years in your cellar. Some 6,500 bottles were made."

89 Wine Spectator

There's a salty, racy counterpoint to the warm, rich fruit profile in this nicely balanced white, with warm spiced apple, hay and sun tea notes edged in fleur de sel and powered by succulent acidity. Open-knit and medium-bodied, with a savory dusting of dried thyme. Drink now. 23,000 cases made, 20,000 cases imported.

94 Wine Spectator

Lush and polished, with waves of cassis and blackberry compote pouring through, underscored by chocolate, espresso crema and roasted vanilla bean. Maintains a lush, velvety feel through the lengthy finish, where flashes of sweet tobacco and warm earth peek through. For the power Cabernet crowd. Best from 2024 through 2038. 22,226 cases made.

95-97 Joe Czerwinski - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

A 60-40 blend of Grenache and Mourvèdre, the 2018 Chateauneuf du Pape Deus Ex Machina features scents of brandied cherries and caramel. Full-bodied, plush, velvety and seductive, with tremendous length, this fits the mold of previous vintages, even if it's (a tiny bit) smaller scaled.

90 Antonio Galloni - Vinous

The 2014 Extra-Brut Mareuil-sur-Aÿ is bright and focused in the glass. Chalk-infused red fruit, white pepper, smoke and dried herbs are all nicely delineated. This is an especially linear style, with good persistence but less intensity on the mid-palate. It will appeal most to readers who enjoy nervy Champagnes. The 2014 is 100% Pinot Noir done entirely in barrel with no malolactic fermentation. I would give this a few years in bottle to see if a bit more mid-palate depth develops. Disgorged: June 2022.

91 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

Pure and fresh nose with a hint of stones and oatmeal to the lemon curd and green apples. Nicely saline on the medium-bodied palate with some grapefruit skins and white almonds in the finish. Drink now.

91 Robert Parker - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

Salvestrin's 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley comes largely from the winery's Crystal Springs Vineyard. A blend of 79% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Petit Verdot, 8% Malbec and 4% Merlot, it was picked between September 12 and September 21. Scents of ripe cherries, restrained cedar, mocha shadings and bright raspberries appear on the nose, while the palate is medium to full-bodied, framed by gently dusty tannins and finishing tart and refreshing.

94 Wine Enthusiast

A tiny touch of spritz helps disperse the wonderfully alluring and perfumed elderflower notes even more. They are coupled with citrus and woodruff for freshness. The dry palate lets these fresh aromatics speak, unburdened by sweetness, leaving us with a dew-fresh expression of grapey exquisiteness. With all its citrus verve this is hard to resist now but it has the stuffing to last. The finish is zesty and moreish. Drink now through 2028. Anne Krebiehl MW

100 Jeb Dunnuck - jebdunnuck.com

Every bit as good yet in a dramatically different style, the 2010 Château Haut-Bailly has a more chiseled, focused, inward style to go with the essence of Haut-Bailly-like aromatics of sweet red and black fruit, smoked tobacco, graphite, and crushed stone, with just a hint of background minty herbs. It's full-bodied, perfectly balanced, has flawless tannins, and a rare mix of power, elegance, and purity. It blossoms with air, and while certainly mature, it has another 2-3 decades of overall longevity ahead of it.

100 Jane Anson - Decanter

As ever when tasting the two together, the striking thing is the difference in character rather than quality between 2009 and 2010. This is tighter, more structured in its concentration, more broad shouldered, but still intensely impressive and full of pleasure. Neither are ready to go yet, but this feels like it will last longer, and feels extremely Haut-Bailly in spirit, with an elegant but complex personality, and a grip that doesn't make a big deal of its power but refuses to give up. Blackberry, bilberry, black chocolate and pencil. Harvest September 22 to October 14.

98 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

Great aromas of crushed blackberries with flowers and stones that follow through to a full body, with super silky tannins and a long, long finish. It fills your mouth with beautiful fruit and velvety tannins yet shows tension and form. This lasts for minutes on the palate. Structured and superb. Don't touch until 2020.

98 Robert Parker - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

Deep plum/purple, Haut-Bailly’s 2010 required some coaxing to appreciate its subtle notes of barbecue smoke, lead pencil shavings and creme de cassis as well as its touches of pomegranate and forest floor. The oak is pushed far into the background and the tannins are extremely silky, but the intensity of the wine is profound and the finish lingers for close to 55 seconds. This wine is ripe yet delicate, powerful yet stylish, and essentially resembles a remarkable fashion design from a house of haute couture. This wine needs a good 7-8 years of bottle age and should keep for 40-50+ years. This quintessential example of pure finesse, elegance, harmony and delicacy is combined into a wine that lingers intensely with near-perfect poise and character. Haut-Bailly’s ethereal character is virtually unmatched in Bordeaux. Normally, general manager/winemaker Veronique Sanders fashions a blend that approximates 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 37% Merlot and the rest Cabernet Franc. That was the exact blend of her 2009, and I doubt the 2010 deviates significantly from that.

96-98 Jeb Dunnuck - jebdunnuck.com

The 2020 Châteauneuf Du Pape Vieilles Vignes also saw some stems (the estate started keeping some stems with the 2016 vintage) and was 75% destemmed, with the blend being 70% Grenache, 20% Mourvèdre, and the rest Syrah, Cinsault, and Terret Noir. As usual, it’s a more powerful, black-fruited wine comparted to the Cuvée Chaupin and has lots of crème de cassis, liquid violet, crushed stone, woodsmoke, and peppery herbs. It displays the vintage’s purity and freshness yet brings the concentration as well as the structure. I’ll be shocked if it’s not in the handful of top wines in the vintage.

94 Antonio Galloni - Vinous

"The 2020 The Flight is classy and polished from the very first taste. Aromatic and understated, the 2020 offers a distinct feeling of classicism in its mid-weight structure. Crushed flowers, herbs and spice lead into a core of red/purplish fruit. The 2020 is a seriously impressive wine. Readers should expect a more lifted, restrained style than is the norm."