2021 Anthill Farms - Pinot Noir Anderson Valley Baker Ranch Vineyard

2020 Chateau Branaire Ducru - St. Julien

The 2020 Branaire-Ducru was so alluring en primeur, but is very shy today. That said, some of that youthful exuberance has given way to the characteristic Brainaire finesse. Dark red cherry, spice, grilled herbs, menthol and licorice emerge, but only w...

2020 Chateau Beychevelle - St. Julien

2020 Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot - St. Emilion

The 2020 Beau-Sejour Becot is a dense, powerful wine. A rush of black cherry, plum, chocolate, new leather, licorice, spice and sweet oak builds as this towering, vertically explosive Saint-Émilion opens in the glass. This is an especially broad, expansiv...

2017 Bastide St. Dominique Chateauneuf du Pape Les Hesperides

Mostly Grenache from Pignan with small amounts of Mourvedre and Syrah, the 2017 Chateauneuf Du Pape Les Hesperides offers a ripe, complex style that carries beautiful notes of black raspberries, forest floor, bouquet garni, leather, and ground pepper. Thi...