94 Revista Adega - Revista Adega

A red blend composed of Touriga Nacional (60%), Touriga Franca (25%), and Tinta Roriz (15%) grapes, aged for 18 months in French oak barrels. In a warmer year like 2022, it shows good concentration of ripe red and black fruits, with its excellent acidity and tense, fine tannins providing fluidity to the wine and overall structure. Structured, yet harmonious and refined, it has a succulent and persistent finish with toasted, earthy, floral, balsamic, sweet spice, blackberry, and plum notes.

93 Tim Atkin, MW

A blend of 60% Touriga Nacional, 25% Touriga Franca and 15% Tinta Roriz, aged for 18 months in mainly used French oak, with slightly longer maceration than the other reds in the range, this is super fresh and refined. It combines juicy red berry fruit with softening tannins and impressive elegance at its core. Clearly Douro in character yet remarkably precise and accessible, it balances structure and drinkability and it will continue to age well. 2026-2032

94 Erin Larkin - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The 2022 Basso Grenache is ferrous and floral, and the palate follows with loads of graphite tannin. This is silty and exotically spiced, with a cavalcade of sumac, pomegranate and paprika dolce. It's a gorgeous wine. The fruit here was handpicked from a dry-grown vineyard in Blewitt Springs, and it is sensational. Tannins are the calling card of Steve Pannell's Grenaches and are undoubtedly what makes the wines great. That and the inherent freshness the wines. Bottled with 30 parts total sulfur, 14.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.

91 Falstaff Magazine

Very pale yellow-green, silver reflections. Nuances of yellow tropical fruit, some pineapple, lime zest, mineral touch. Lean, taut, white stone fruit, fine acidity, salty aftertaste, subtle fruit sweetness on the finish, versatile companion at the table.

93 Cameron Douglas, Master Sommelier - CamDouglasMS.com

Very bright purple and ruby core colours and pink rim lead to a bouquet and palate filled with scents and flavours of boysenberries and raspberries, red licorice and red currant, some peppery spice and clove qualities. An abundance of tannins and backbone of acidity offer a grand structure and mouthfeel. Well made, youthful still and delicious. Best drinking from 2024 through 2029.

95 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

A lovely white with green mangoes and pineapple, white flowers and a hint of flint. Medium to full body with depth, intensity and plenty of fruit. Tangy at the end. Very complete.

100 Antonio Galloni - Vinous

The 2020 Pavie Macquin is sensational. Rich, dark and explosive, the 2020 balances the natural richness that is such a signature of the estate with a level of energy and vibrancy I have not seen here in the recent past. The result is a towering, imposing Pavie Macquin that hugely delivers. In this vintage, regisseur Nicolas Thienpont did not use the Cabernet Sauvignon, so the blend is 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc, with the Franc lending aromatic presence, energy and depth. What a total knock out!

98 Jeff Leve - The Wine Cellar Insider

Deeply colored with a showy nose packed with smoke, espresso bean, flowers, licorice, black cherries, plums and chocolate. The wine is rich, full-bodied, deep and concentrated with layers of sensuous, flamboyant, silky fruits that express purity, depth and complexity. The lingering finish builds in intensity finishing with intriguing touches of citrus peel, red pit fruit, and dark chocolate. In a few years, this could be even better. Drink from 2025-2055

98 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

I have never had a Pavie Macquin like this. It’s so fresh and vivid with black cherry, currant and raspberry character, as well as citrus. Some mineral and spice. Salt, too. The palate is full and linear with a verticality that takes you so deep and long. Endless. Transparent. Drink after 2028.

97 Georgina Hindle - Decanter

Vivid and vibrant nose, full of rose petals, lilac floral edges, strawberries and black cherries. Forward, expressive, perfumed, alive. Sensual on the palate, smooth, velvety soft, intense but well balanced with a gorgeous plush, mouthful of ripe tannins. Really very good with the right intensity, structure and push. Powerful but controlled, poised yet plush, wild and raw yet pretty too with tons of energy and St-Emilion glamour. Has a core of juicy, bright red fruits with a grainy, herbal edge to the strawberries, a lovely bitterness, and edges of liquorice, slate and wet stone - nuanced and aromatic. I love this, they haven't pushed too far and the acidity is brilliant. Clean and precise.

97 Lisa Perrotti-Brown - The Wine Independent

Composed of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc, the 2020 Pavie Macquin is deep garnet-purple in color. It bursts with bold notions of baked plums, boysenberries, and fresh, juicy blackberries, plus hints of Indian spices, violets, and clove oil. The full-bodied palate explodes with vibrant black and blue fruits, supported by super-soft tannins and a lively backbone, leading to a long and perfumed finish on this beautiful wine.

96+ Jeb Dunnuck - jebdunnuck.com

The dense purple-hued 2020 Château Pavie Macquin checks in as a blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc from yields of 31 hectoliters per hectare and a selection of 85% of the production. Incredibly pure cassis and blueberry fruits as well as complex spring flowers, liquid violets, white truffle, and a liqueur of limestone-like minerality define the aromatics, and it's medium to full-bodied on the palate, with ultra-fine tannins, the vintage's pure, focused, structured profile, and a great finish. As in most vintages, this beauty is not for instant gratification and needs 7-8 years, if not a decade of cellaring to show its potential. It's another true vin de garde from the team of Nicolas Thienpont (Stéphane Derenoncourt also consults) that readers will love to have in their cellar.

91 Wine Enthusiast

Crunchy green apples meeting white peaches while four grapes show how tradition learns new tricks. The palate rides with textured grace, where Grechetto's cut and Viognier's curves prove Orvieto knows when to shake things up. — Jeff Porter

94 Jonathan Cristaldi - Decanter Magazine

The 2022 Ackerman Cabernet Sauvignon from Coombsville is a powerful and muscular wine with mulberry, cassis, black olive, and black liquorice aromatics. These notes transform beautifully on the medium-to full-bodied palate, which is finely delineated. The firm, fine tannins frame a deeply penetrating core of red berry fruit and spices, complemented by the classic cool Coombsville wild herb character and a lengthy finish of graphite and loamy earth. A truly lovely effort in 2022.

94 Joaquín Hidalgo - Vinous Media

"The 2024 Tempranillo comes from Ribera del Duero. It opens with blackberry, fresh plum and a reductive hint, framed by dark fruit purity and a touch of blood orange. Dry and juicy, with fine reactive tannins and polished primary fruit, it balances Ribera’s brutalist side with a more elegant one. Easy to fall for at the price."

95 Jeb Dunnuck - jebdunnuck.com

The flagship Cabernet Sauvignon dominated (there's a splash of Cabernet Franc) 2014 Apex is straight up gorgeous on all accounts! Classic notes of blackcurrants, licorice, toasted spice, tobacco and graphite all emerge from this deeply colored, medium to full-bodied, layered, even sexy Cabernet, and it's undoubtedly the greatest vintage of this cuvee to date. I put this wine just behind the Ridge Mont Bello Cuvee (it's made in a more fresh, elegant style, however) for the top Bordeaux blend of the Santa Cruz Mountains.

94 Antonio Galloni - Vinous

The 2014 Apex Gist Ranch Estate is essentially the best four barrels of Cabernet Sauvignon off the property. Explosive, powerful and tannic the Apex hits all the right notes. Inky blue and purplish fruit, crème de cassis, menthol, lavender and sweet spices hit the palate in a sumptuous, structured Cabernet endowed with real pedigree and class. The 2014 Apex is the best wine I have tasted from Lexington yet.

90 SavorNW

This Red Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon presents complex aromas of cedar and baking spice that mix with concentrated notes of black fruit and hints of pipe tobacco, vanilla and dried herbs. On the palate, it delivers a rich, velvety mouthfeel with flavors of ripe plum and chocolate finding a pleasing balance with a pop of tart black cherry before an earthy finish hinting at violet and cocoa. Gold Medal 2025 SavorNW Wine Awards.