94 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

Precise and translucent aromas of red cherries, pencil shavings, blood oranges and rose petals. The palate is refined and polished, with vivid red fruit and chalky, mouthwatering tannins. There’s nervy tension and real drive, with great aging potential. Delicious. Drink or hold.

95 Antonio Galloni - Vinous

The 2022 Chardonnay Bien Nacido Vineyard is bright, aromatic and penetrating, with terrific cut that drives right through the mid-palate and finish. Lemon confit, slate, crushed flowers and white pepper all race through the mouth. This taut, expressive Chardonnay has so much to offer. Gavin Chanin certainly got the most out of his fruit from I and L Blocks.

94+ Matthew Luczy - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

Always one of the finer renditions of this site, the 2022 Chardonnay Bien Nacido Vineyard leads with a poised, focused nose that highlights this site's signature bouquet of white pepper set against a stony, citrus-curd backdrop. The palate combines floating precision with grounded depth, finishing with an intensely focused mineral spine supported by powerful dexterity. Given this wine's track record, it will reward a year or two in bottle and deliver a beautiful drinking experience over the next decade. Drink: 2024-2032

93 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

Bright aromas of flowers, cedar and currants follow through to a medium to full body. Slight, silky tannins that give the wine beautiful form and length. Better in 2021 when the wine comes together..February/2018

97 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

Lush black- and blue-fruit aromas with underlying notes of licorice, crushed stones, bitter chocolate and pencil. The palate is seamlessly integrated with firmly framed tannins and bright acidity, leading into a mineral, earth-driven finish. Made from 100% cabernet sauvignon with an average vine age of 20 years. Delicious. Drink or hold.

96+ Joe Czerwinski - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

Slated for release in September 2025, the 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon Coombsville is a dark, brooding, savory effort, its cassis fruit underscored by hints of crushed stone and pencil shavings. It's medium to full-bodied, tight and focused, framed by soft, dusty tannins and finishing long and elegant.

97 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

Another unique, soulful wine from Comando G that is full of dried herbs, thyme, grapefruit, mineral, wild berries and white pepper. This is also one of the palest in color with an orangey hue, yet super ethereal and nuanced. Tangy and chalky on the palate with a medium body, with great precision and purity. The long, mineral finish goes right into your soul. Drink now or hold.

95 Luis Gutierrez - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

Slightly darker, deeper and less ethereal on the nose than usual, the 2020 Las Umbrías has a lot of grip on the palate and is an earthier vintage of Umbrías, not the ethereal wine like the 2018, despite being the year with less alcohol (13.5%). It was a high-yielding year, and they picked the grapes during heavy rain, so they had to dry the grapes with warm air before putting them in the vat. Umbrías is possibly their most fragile grand cru, and it suffers under certain conditions. It seems to have suffered a bit in 2020, but it still has the elegance of Umbrías, the iron-like sensations from Rozas de Puerto Real and the balance and subtleness in a more earthy way. 2,559 bottles and 40 magnums were filled in March 2022. 2023-2030

98 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

Sit back and enjoy this Unico if you are going to open it now. Exotic spices and touches of balsam and cumin come up after the unleashing of blackberries, chocolate, iron, incense and violets. So fine-grained and polished, with a mouthful of velvety tannins that are so cohesive, close-knit and still reactive. Impeccably structured, it’s vertical before going extremely long and linear. A consistent Unico that seduces with a hint of iron-like minerality and rusticity. Drink on release or hold.

98 Ines Salpico - Decanter Magazine

Very whole and round with a generous width on the mid-palate offset by an assertive energy, supported by vivid acid and a well-presented tannic framework. An interesting counterpoint to the more chiseled linearity of the 2014 iteration. With all elements very much in their right place, but fruit still unapologetically punchy, it'll be interesting to see how this evolves as tertiary complexity softens the primary and secondary vividness. Cocoa powder, dry tobacco leaves and seaweed hover over juicy plum, dark cherry and black olive. Very long, spicy finish with lingering tapenade and salty liquorice.

97 Luis Gutierrez - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The 2015 Único comes from a year with a fast ripening, and they had to harvest early to keep the crunchiness of the fruit. This was the first harvest produced 100% by winemaker Gonzalo Iturriaga. The aging was five years in oak, one and a half years in barrels and three and a half years in oak vats. It's a big year, produced with 96% Tinto Fino and 4% Cabernet Sauvignon. It's ripe, with 14.5% alcohol, a pH of 3.88 and 4.8 grams of acidity. The grapes are cooled down for one day, the bunches are selected and then fermented with a pied de cuve in vats. It's a ripe and concentrated vintage, classical modern Vega Sicilia nose, expressive, aromatic and open, with notes of dark cherries, spice, cigar box and a medium to full-bodied palate with abundant fine-grained tannins, with good balance and the rustic elegance of the best Ribera del Duero. In 2015, they produced 84,184 bottles, 3,645 magnums and some larger formats, less than 2014, which was the largest production of Único ever. It was bottled in May 2021.

90 Wine Enthusiast

"Dark plum, mahogany and toasted-wood aromas lead the nose on this bottling from a vineyard atop Mount Madonna. The palate is savory and very sticky in structure, showing blackberry, elderberry, toasted-wood and milk-chocolate flavors. -MK"

92 Wine Spectator

Generous and elegantly structured, with raspberry and guava flavors accented with tarragon and black tea as this moves toward refined tannins. Drink now through 2032. 5,941 cases made.

93 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

A juicy, friendly and rather rich wine, this exudes strawberries, raspberries and sour cherries on a smooth, mildly tannic texture. It's medium bodied, mouth-filling and enjoyable. Drink or hold.

90-92 Matthew Luczy - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

Tasted prior to bottling, the 2023 Pinot Noir Sta. Rita Hills is dark-fruited, woody and faintly floral, with a sappy, anise-driven side that appears with aeration. The palate is surprisingly generous in texture with a twisted, sturdy and inward tannic profile that should soften and come together after bottling.