87 Jeb Dunnuck - jebdunnuck.com

The 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate Grown offers a solid, balanced, medium-bodied style as well as notes of red and black fruits, tobacco, and dried herbs. It’s made in a narrower, focused style and should keep for 7-8 years.

88 Wine Enthusiast

A fuller-bodied style with notes of vanilla and cedar adding to the blueberry and black-currant flavors, supported by well-integrated tannins.

92 Wine Spectator

Juicy and inviting, with tasty raspberry and mulberry notes infused with pine forest, red tea and wet earth accents. Keeps the fleshy, juicy feel through the lightly toasted finish. Drink now through 2028. 21,000 cases made.

97 Mark Squires - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The 2018 Xisto, released only in certain years, is a blend of 40% old vines (70 years), 30% Touriga Nacional and 30% Touriga Franca from vines planted in 1987, all aged for 20 months in 85% new French barriques. It comes in at 14.5% alcohol. As gorgeous as the regular Tinto is, this is a step up, or two. It is a bit oakier but also more polished and better structured. It's easily as delicious, although the oak covers up some of that these days. This is approachable now because the tannins are very ripe, but it will be even better in a couple of years. That will allow some chance to pull in more wood. It does tighten a bit with air, so aging it can't hurt. It should age well. It has some things to prove in the cellar, but I'm leaning up today. There were 7,000 bottles produced.

87 Antonio Galloni - Vinous

The 2020 Howell Mountain Cuvée is a powerful, tannic wine. Bruising tannins are hard to get past. I am not especially optimistic about the future for this wine. The blend is 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 33% Merlot and 2% Malbec.

95-100 John Gilman - View from the Cellar

‘Domaine Huët’s 2022 Vouvray “le Mont” Moelleux is another prodigiously beautiful young wine. The bouquet is deep, precise and shows a lovely touch of exotica in its aromatic constellation of sweet quince, pear, orange blossoms, white lilies, honeysuckle, chalky soil tones, honeycomb and bee pollen. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and a bit sweeter in personality than the le Haut Lieu Moelleux, with stunning depth at the core, a fine girdle of acidity, great focus and grip and a long, complex, seamlessly balanced and dancing finish. Great juice. 2023-2085+’

98 Kerin O'Keefe - kerinokeefe.com

"The 2019 straight Brunello from Ciacci Piccolomini d’Aragona is a beauty, starting with its heady scents of red berry, dog rose, spice and Mediterranean scrub. Full-bodied and loaded with finesse, the smooth palate delivers juicy red cherry, cracked peppercorn and licorice alongside tightly-woven, refined tannins. Juicy acidity keeps it balanced and fresh. Drink 2027–2039."

95 Monica Larner - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

"There's no mistaking this wine for anything but Brunello. The Ciacci Piccolomini d'Aragona 2019 Brunello di Montalcino shows beautiful continuity, crescendoing on the nose and palate in synchronicity. There are aromas of grilled watermelon, red cherry, garden herb and violet, and there is a charred note that recalls the toasted oak. The bouquet balances out beautifully, but you do get considerably more power on the palate thanks to the oomph of 15% alcohol and young tannins that get under your gums. Give this wine a few more years of bottle age. Production is 66,915 bottles in addition to 4,500 smaller formats."

93 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

Fresh and characterful vermentino that offers notes of apples, white peaches, raw almonds and peach pits. A lot of flowers, too. Medium- to full-bodied, focused and structured with good volume and delicious fruit. Dry, juicy and minerally with a lingering finish. Hints of licorice. Drink now or hold.

89 Eric Guido - Vinous Media

The 2022 Fiano di Avellino is understated with white flowers, stone dust and nectarine. There’s a pretty inner sweetness up front that’s complicated by mineral-tinged acidity as crisp orchard fruits cascade throughout. This finishes with a salty flourish and lime nuances.