96 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

Golden apple, yellow plums, and a touch of banana peel followed by chamomile tea leaves, hawthorn, browned toast and seductive sweet baking spices. Medium- to full-bodied and creamy textured with soft acidity that beautifully balances out the wine. Very precisely framed with underlying herb and mineral layers. Aged for 11 months in 60% new French oak. Predominantly from the vineyards in Oakville. Drink or hold.

92 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

Crushed seashells, chalk, salted lemons and sliced apples on the nose. Bone-dry salinity brings out plenty of briny austerity on a textured, medium-bodied palate. Pithy and gastronomic in the finish. I like the fact that this is not a fruity but rather a bony albarino. Bring on the oysters! Drink now.

91 Antonio Galloni - Vinous

The 2020 Capbern remains quite the powerhouse, but it has come together well. Punchy red berry fruit, kirsch, gravel and white pepper all meld together in a Saint-Estèphe of class and personality. There's real depth and plenty of character. This is very nicely done. Tasted two times.

91 William Kelley - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The 2020 Capbern offers up aromas of sweet cassis, plums, pencil shavings, loamy soil and licorice, followed by a medium to full-bodied, rich and seamless palate that's polished, penetrating and dynamic. It's a blend of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 1% Petit Verdot and the balance Merlot, produced by Vincent Millet and his team from Calon Ségur.

90 Antonio Galloni - Vinous

The 2022 Rosé of Pinot Noir Hopkins Ranch is a gorgeous aperitif-style Rosé to drink now and over the next year or two. Creamy and expressive, the 2022 is impeccably balanced from start to finish. Today, it is absolutely irresistible.

96 Decanter

Dark red color with purple tints. Powerful nose with concentrated fruits (black cherries, blackcurrant) and spices (pepper, cinnamon and licorice). Great intensity on the nose ; black cherry, blackberry, forest fruits. Spice. Earthiness. Full and concentrated, offering magnificent fruity and spicy aromas. The long and round finish with good mouthfeel is typical of the Cairanne appellation.

92 Decanter

"Fresh fennel and gently floral aromas. This has a rounded, oval shape in the mouth, like a marble pebble. Very smooth and polished, but not oaky. Plenty of intensity of flavour, it’s concentrated and long – way better than most Côtes du Rhônes. So impressive. Really generous and very southern Rhône in style, but so fresh and pure. Just lovely. A blend of Clairette, Roussanne, Bourboulenc, Grenache Blanc and Viognier.

90 Joe Czerwinski - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

Equal parts Clairette, Grenache, Roussanne and Viognier, the 2022 Cotes du Rhone Blanc la Gerbaude is a bit simple and direct, but it boasts charming fruit (pear and citrus), a silky feel in the mouth and a crisp, refreshing finish.

89 Wine Spectator

Shows good concentration and freshness, with alluring spiced peach, blueberry and watermelon flavors revealing nice texture and savory character. Ends with a note of lanolin and a pleasing bitter kick on the lemony finish. Grenache, Syrah and Cinsault. Drink now. 900,000 cases made, 400,000 cases imported.

93 Erin Brooks - Robert Parker's the Wine Advocate

The 2021 Christo is a blend of 68% Syrah, 20% Grenache, 8% Petite Sirah and 4% Viognier. The nose features fresh blackcurrant and blueberry aromas with tones of cast iron, violet, sagebrush and conifer. The full-bodied palate is chalky and refreshing with restrained, mineral-driven fruit and a long, perfumed finish. Give it 2-3 years in bottle or a couple hours in a decanter.

91 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

"Nicely neutral and mineral nose with delicate white fruit, sliced apples and almonds. Crisp, chalky acidity that develop on the refreshing, crunchy, medium-bodied palate. Fresh and slightly saline finish. Drink now."

92 Wine Enthusiast

Honeydew melon and blood orange aromas are almost equaled by the wine's pronounced toasted filbert and mineral notes. This is a lithe and nimble Chardonnay, with its crisp texture and lemon zest-pine needle flavor combination. A faint fennel flavor appears on the finish. Excellent value here.

92 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

This is dusty and mineral with notes of apples and guava as well as white pepper, ashes and crushed stones. Dried herbs, too. The palate is sleek and polished with attractive textural feeling and a juicy core of fruit. Flavorful finish. Drink now. Screw cap.

95 Wine Enthusiast

For its weight, this wine is also elegant. Rich, lush Merlot fruit flavors have a sense of restraint, self-contained and already delicious. The ripe berry flavors promise a wine that will have opulent fruit as well as structure. Drink from 2026. Roger Voss

93+ Luis Gutierrez - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The 2023 Albariño, which represents their take of the vintage, was produced with grapes from 165 hectares of the 14 hectares they own. It goes back to the alcoholic degree of 2021, 12.5%, compared with the 13.5% of 2022. 2023 seems to be somewhere in between those two previous vintages: cooler and with a better distribution of rain than in 2022 but with warmer temperatures than 2021. The wine is still very young and primary, a little reductive even, with a balsamic hint that should go away with a little more time in bottle. This matures in stainless steel with lees until it's bottled. It has varietal notes of white flowers and grass. It's fresh and balanced, light to medium-bodied, easy to drink, sapid and tasty, with an almost salty twist in the finish despite its young age. It has a pH of 3.2 after going through full malolactic. There will be around 95,000 bottles, but not all the wine has been bottled yet, kept in stainless steel with the lees and the natural carbonic gas. The bottle I tasted was bottled in May 2024, but all bottles have the bottling date on the back label.