98 Decanter

Undoubtedly one of the best Chardonnays produced in America today, this is a gripping, textured wine with a richness of extraction offset by striking freshness. Stone fruit and pear flavours are cutting and pure, limned in subtle, savoury smoke and a gorgeously briney streak of minerality. A powerful, stately wine that should improve through this next decade and hold further still.

95 Erin Brooks - Robert Parker's the Wine Advocate

The 2019 Chardonnay VGW is a dynamic wine with purity and power, focus and generosity. It takes some time in the glass to segue from initial tones of flint and nori to a core of white peach, ginger and tangerine peel. The medium-bodied palate is tense and energetic despite its satiny texture, boasting gently exotic fruit and a touch of grip that drives the very long finish.

96 Jeb Dunnuck - jebdunnuck.com

The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Signature Series Reserve incorporates 95% Cabernet Sauvignon along with tiny amounts of Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc and spent 20 months in barrel. It’s another saturated purple-hued release delivering a monster bouquet of ripe blue fruits, cassis, liquid violets, charcoal, and graphite. It’s pure and has a lively, seamless, yet powerful, full-bodied mouthfeel, integrated yet substantial tannins, and a great finish. It’s a gorgeous bottle of wine that will also evolve for two decades if well-stored. Drink 2023-2043

93 Wine Spectator

A polished, creamy style, with enticing notes of plum sauce, blackberry preserves, melted licorice and dark cocoa that meld steadily through the loam-accented finish. Best from 2026 through 2036

95 Wine Spectator

An elegant red hallmarked by rose hip, strawberry, cherry and mineral flavors, with a bracing structure that sets the pace and drives the long, resonant finish. Overall, this is balanced, complex and long, with fine potential for aging. Best from 2025 through 2045. 555 cases made, 440 cases imported.

98-100 Lisa Perrotti-Brown - The Wine Independent

The 2022 Château Angélus is made up of 60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet Franc with a pH of 3.65. Deep garnet-purple colored, it prances out of the glass with flamboyant notes of red currant jelly, wild blueberries, cassis, and candied violets, followed by suggestions of jasmine tea, star anise, and crushed rocks. The full-bodied palate is impactful from first sip, yet slowly expands in the mouth, ultimately over-delivering on the nose's promise with layer upon layer of perfumed black and red fruits, supported by super fine-grained, silt-like tannins, finishing long and achingly shimmery.

98-99 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

So many beautiful primary fruit aromas. Al dente. Peaches. Very floral. Aromatic. Full-bodied and extremely fine tannins with length and beauty that show incredible depth. Superb brightness and reality. Exciting. Cabernet franc freshness and dynamics come through now, even though the blend is 60% merlot and 40% cabernet franc.

96-98 William Kelley - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

This estate's shift in the direction of gentler extraction and more reductive, less overtly oaky élevage continues, and this extreme vintage only underlines that. Fermented at cool temperatures (20 to 23 degrees Celsius), and with an increasing proportion of the wine's Cabernet Franc component matured in large wooden foudres, the 2022 Angélus wafts from the glass with deep aromas of dark berries and cherries mingled with hints of iris, licorice and pencil lead. Full-bodied, deep and seamless, with a layered core of cool, vibrant fruit, powdery tannins and a long, saline finish, it's a brilliant young wine in the making. The 2022 is a blend of 53% Merlot, 46% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot.

93 Monica Larner - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The 2019 Alto Adige Pinot Noir Riserva Anrar offers depth and careful sophistication with dark fruit, scorched earth, tar and licorice. The wine treads softly over the palate with concentrated fruit and delicate oak. You could hold this bottle or drink it now. Only 5,000 bottles were made.

94 Descorchados - Descorchados

This is from a selection of vineyards planted around 1945 in the Almahue zone of the Cachapoal Valley, and in a warm year like 2020, this wine shows unusual freshness. Harvesting early contributed in that sense, which makes the wine seem juicy and rich in red fruits. It was aged for a year, half in foudres and half in barrels of different prior uses, which has contributed a certain sweetness and spices to this charming and juicy carmenere.

91 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

Juicy, fruity red with aromas of raspberries, redcurrants, sour cherries, mushrooms and dried herbs. Medium-bodied with bright acidity and sleek tannins. Crunchy and delicious. Drink or hold.

92 Wine Enthusiast

Poised between fruit and wonderful old gold wood-aging flavors, the wine is rich and relatively sweet. Its dried fruit flavors are balanced by the wine's intense spice and acidity that comes from wood aging. Drink now

90 Antonio Galloni - Vinous

The 2022 Dolcetto d'Alba is one of the most distinctive wines in this range. Medium in body and translucent, the 2022 offers up an enticing mix of blue fruits, lavender, sage, mint and spice. A healthy dollop of stems (55%) adds layers of nuance without dominating the wine's balance.

94 Wine Spectator

"Delivers fabulous aromas of crushed red fruits, with leather, tar, tobacco and mint. Full-bodied, offering supersoft and silky tannins, as well as a beautiful polish. Open and luscious, with amazing richness of fruit and decadence at the same time. -- '89/'99 Bordeaux blind retrospective (2009). Drink now. 44,000 cases made."

93 Wine Spectator

"Exceedingly well-made and classy, with very focused blackberry and cedar flavors and a compact fruit and tannin structure. Best after 1997. (JS)"

93 Jeb Dunnuck - jebdunnuck.com

A blend of all the vineyards they work with (of which there are seven), the 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley sports a deep purple hue to go with classic Napa notes of blue fruits, chocolate, spicy oak, and tobacco. It's full-bodied, opulent, sexy, and undeniably delicious.

93 Roger Voss - Wine Enthusiast

Skin contact has given this rich wine its density. It is a full wine, hinting at spice and minerality. The wine's ripeness shows some aging potential. Drink this great wine from 2024. — Roger Voss