92 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

"Blackberries, cassis, cherries, lemon peel, dried lavender, walnuts, bark and baking spices on the nose. Medium to full body with tight, chewy tannins. Dark and structured. Fresh, delicious finish. Drink from 2024."

91 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

"Ripe berry and cherry aromas with some vanilla undertones. It’s full and juicy with a big palate and a creamy finish. Layered, if a little old-school. Drink or hold."

95 Monica Larner - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

With mineral notes, flint, bright cherry, waxy lipstick, red fruits instead of dark fruits and fragrant rose, this is a multifaceted Nebbiolo. The Oddero 2021 Barbaresco Gallina remains fruit-driven and floral too, and it's graciously not weighed down by oak spice or toast. In fact, it reveals angular and focused tones throughout. It offers good complexity and tannins that need food. Production is 6,000 bottles.

90 Wine Advocate - Wine Advocate

The Chiroubles cuvée reflects the team's unwavering dedication to the steep, sandy soils of the region. The 2022 Chiroubles unfolds with lush aromas of bramble fruits, tangy raspberries, cherries, hibiscus, Indian spices and dried herbs. While more introspective on the palate than on the nose, it possesses a stealthy demeanor, displaying concentration and agility with an energetic presence. Medium-bodied, it is buoyed by ripe acidity and fine-grained tannins that gently tease the cheeks, tied together with notes of spice and cracked peppercorns that lend additional piquancy.

90-92 Neal Martin - Vinous Media

The 2020 Pouilly-Fuissé Vers Cras 1er Cru comes from vines planted the same year as the Les Resses with the same élevage, though here the soil is more calcaire. Hints of toffee apple on the nose, orchard fruit and orange blossom, perhaps missing the killer focus of the Les Resses at the moment. The palate is well balanced with fine acidity, good depth with orange rind, sour lemon, grapefruit and light peachy notes towards the finish. The aromatics need to just step up their game to match what is a very fine palate.

94+ Lisa Perrotti-Brown - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Bettinelli Sleeping Lady Vineyard comes skipping out of the glass with bright notes of kirsch, redcurrant jelly and blackcurrant preserves, giving way to a more serious earthy/savory undercurrent of smoked meats, crushed rocks and wild fungi. The medium to full-bodied palate delivers fantastic freshness to the densely laden red and black fruits, supported by ripe, grainy tannins, finishing long and savory.

94 Robert Parker - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

"Even tasted from half-bottle, the 2017 Bandol still needs a few more years in the cellar to be at its best. A blend of 94% Mourvèdre and 6% Grenache, it's a deep, dark, richly tannic offering with intense notes of plum and cola and a pleasant, herb-laced dose of strawberries and redcurrants. Full-bodied and sturdy, it nevertheless turns silky and elegant on the long, licorice-tinged finish."

95 John Gilman - View from the Cellar

Domaine Huët’s 2022 le Haut Lieu Demi-Sec is a gorgeous young wine. The wine offers up a beautifully refined and nascently complex aromatic constellation of sweet quince, apple, bee pollen, white lilies, orange blossoms and a refined base of chalky soil tones. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and fairly reticent out of the blocks, with a superb core of fruit, stunning soil inflection, zesty acids and laser-like focus on the long, pure and impeccably balanced finish. Historically, this bottling would always offer up a few years of early generosity before closing down for a period of hibernation, so I would expect it to continue to blossom over the next year or two and offer a window in which to drink it with great pleasure in its youth, before shutting down again for a while. The extraordinary backend lift and purity from start to finish clearly indicate that this is a great, great young vintage of le Haut Lieu Demi-Sec.

93-95 Neal Martin - Vinous Media

The 2021 Léoville-Barton was picked from 27 September until 7 October, matured in 60% new oak. The alcohol is 13.12%. It has a clean and pure bouquet with blackberry, bilberry, cedar and hints of shucked oyster shell: focused and very well delineated, classic in style. The palate has a smooth and cohesive entry, very well-knit with beautifully integrated oak. Crisp acidity with the perfect amount of tension on the classically-styled finish, this Léoville Barton demonstrates the advantages of their brand new cellar (even though the reception was not finished in time!) I cannot see any reason not to own a few bottles of this in your cellar.

93-95 Jeb Dunnuck - jebdunnuck.com

From a château that consistently makes it into my personal cellar, the 2022 Château De Pez is terrific, with a floral, perfumed, complex style delivering ample cassis and riper black fruits, notes of chocolate, graphite, and licorice, full-bodied richness, ripe yet building tannins, and a great finish. Tasted on multiple occasions, it's a powerful wine from this team that stays beautifully balanced and elegant.

92-94 Neal Martin - Vinous Media

The 2022 Château de Pez (limited to 18,000 bottles due to hail damage in June) has a very pure nose with something of a Burgundian allure: a mélange of blue and black fruit, wilted violet and graphite borrowed from down in Pauillac. The palate is medium-bodied with finely-chiseled tannins. Exquisite balance and poise, very harmonious with an intense yet paradoxically tender finish. Bon vin. Tasted twice with consistent notes.

94 Jane Anson - Inside Bordeaux

Austerity is your friend in an En Primeur sample as long as there is juice and fruit, and here you have both things in abundance. Brilliant wine, absolutely one to look out for, has steely minerality that offsets the plump fruit character and intense tannic structure, this is concentrated but understated, everthing in proportion. First time on the Place this year, as before it was sold via an exclusivity. First vintage with new cellar also. Tasted twice, this is a buy. 26hl/h yield, half of usual, 50% new oak for ageing.

91-93+ Lisa Perrotti-Brown - The Wine Independent

The 2022 de Pez, a blend of 59% Merlot, 38% Cabernet Sauvignon, 2% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Petit Verdot, is deep garnet-purple in color. Notions of baked black plums, blueberry preserves, and fruitcake jump from the glass, followed by hints of Chinese five spice and potpourri. The full-bodied palate is packed with black fruit preserves layers, supported by firm, rounded tannins and plenty of freshness, finishing long and lifted. It will be aged for 18 months in 50% new oak. pH 3.8.

92-93 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

Firm and linear red with a vivid and juicy dark-fruited core and fine, polished tannins. Medium-bodied. Mellow finish with some creaminess to it. Hints of crushed stones and walnut at the end.

91 Wine Enthusiast

This shows wonderful tension between the fruit, floral and spice details, with concentrated acidity and pinpoint focus. It is a wine that will please most people without too much fuss, but still complex and long enough to keep you coming for more.

92 Wine & Spirits

A field blend of seven local Portuguese white varieties, this “mechanical orange” is António Maçanita’s riff on a skin-contact white. He presses the grapes, leaving them with about 15 percent of the juice, then lets those grapes rest for a week before pressing them again—using only the juice from the second pressing for this wine. It ferments with ambient yeasts in stainless steel, without the addition of sulfur until fermentation is complete. Open a bottle and you’ll find that dried apricot and blond caramel are the calmer side of this wild, microbial party in a glass: tannic and volatile and a bit crazy-extreme, a radical, deeply orange wine with kombucha notes and a lot of flavor dimension. Pour it with mushroom-and-kimchi toast, or go for something meaty.

90 Mark Squires - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The 2020 a Laranja Mecânica is basically an orange wine, although classified as a "curtimenta," referencing skin contact with the juice. It is a field blend of typical grapes (like Arinto, Roupeiro, Verdelho, Antão Vaz, Alicante Branco and Fernão Pires) from vines ranging from 25 to 50 years in age. It comes in at 12.5% alcohol. A rather gentle and understated orange wine, this is beautifully balanced this year. Then, it adds dried peaches and apricots on the finish. It's still a bit different and not for everyone, not exactly your typical white, but it doesn't go overboard in power or eccentricity. It's well done this year, but it is certainly something you will need to drink with a food pairing. It should hold reasonably well, but I'd drink this on the younger side, no matter how longer it theoretically lasts. There were 8,395 bottles produced.

90 Roger Voss - Wine Enthusiast

The name of the wine means clockwork orange, the producer's interpretation of an orange wine, rather than a movie. With a golden color and a texture that derives from long maceration of the grape skins, the wine is about structure as well as perfumed white and yellow fruits.

91 Mark Squires - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The 2020 Reserva Conde de Vimioso is a blend of 40% Touriga Nacional, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Castelão and the rest Aragonez and Trincadeira, all aged for 18 months in a 70/30 mixture of second-use and new French oak. It comes in at 13.9% alcohol. When last seen, this was still nice for the price but a tad under the winery's normal performance and curiously mute. Some extra time in bottle has allowed it to wake up and flesh out. It seems fuller-bodied now but also more interesting in terms of its structure. The tannins are more aggressive (although not hard) and the fruit is more expressive. Compared to my first look at this, it seems like a different wine, so let's assume the first bottle had some issues, whether travel shock or something else. In any event, this is showing well now, and it can still improve if you give it a year or two to develop.