96 KEN'S WINE GUIDE - kenswineguide.com

This midnight purple colored Cabernet Sauvignon from Brandlin opens with a cassis, boysenberry, and pencil shavings with hint blueberry. On the palate, this wine is medium plus bodied and medium acidity. The mouthfeel is balanced, round, plush, and savory. The flavor profile is blueberry and stony minerality blend with notes of cedar and black currant. We also detected some hints of menthol and blackberry in the mix. The finish is dry, and its flavors and integrated dusty tannins, are very lengthy and pronounced. The Tasting Panel would decant this Cab with a very long time and then serve it with a well-marbled ribeye or seared duck breast"

95 Michael Franz - Wine Review Online

Terrific fruit — respectfully grown and vinified — then aged and finished with impressive skill. That’s what you get for your money in this wine, and it is a thing of beauty. To be clear, beauty is not what everyone seeks when buying premium wines from Napa, and if the automotive equivalent of what you’re seeking is a Hummer, you might be better off with another choice. But if a BMW is more your thing, this could be what you’re after in a current release at a high level. Fully 50% of the 110 barrels of this were new, but you’d never know that from the wine unless you had additional information about the toast level of the barriques or the time the wine spent in them, and the tech sheet I have at my disposal won’t enable me to clue you in on that. But really, given that the character of the finished product is what matters, who cares? Winemaker Steve Rogstad has managed to turn out a very serious and age-worthy Cabernet that places the pure core of fruit at center-stage, with all the winemaking accents right where they belong — as accents in the wings. As this opens with aeration, you can find the cooperage expressing itself with subtle spiciness and toastiness, but there is no icky vanilla or distracting charred notes in this wine — and I checked it again and again to assure that you won’t find them, either. The tannin management is as skillful as the wood influence, making this already wonderful with decanting and a pairing with fairly serious food — or just a nice piece of cheese.

94 Wine Spectator

Very expressive, with zesty anise and apple wood mixed with sassafras and sweet bay leaf flavors, all backed by a dense, polished core of blackberry and açaí berry fruit. Features a hint of tar that adds spine and textural contrast to the finish. Big all around, but everything is well-proportioned. Best from 2023 through 2038. 2,700 cases made.

93 Wine Enthusiast

Very ripe, lush, jammy fruit flavors give a lot of pleasure to this full-bodied wine as moderate tannins add good structure to the palate, firming up black cherries, cranberries and blueberries that show excellent depth. Best from 2025–2035.

95-97 Lisa Perrotti-Brown - The Wine Palate

Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2025 Malescot St. Exupéry prances out with gregarious notes of juicy blueberries and black raspberries, leading to hints of violets, mossy tree bark, and camphor. The medium-bodied palate is intense with shimmery blue and red berry flavors, supported by ripe, fine-grained tannins and great tension, finishing long and perfumed. Stunning!

95-96 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

A very structured red with black currants, blackberries and chocolate aromas. It’s full and flexing, with solid tannins and a long finish. Impressive. Better than 2022?

92 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

A vivid, structured and textured wine in which vibrant acidity merges with bold sliced apple and Bosc pear flavors. It shows brightness, lift and freshness that are especially appetizing. Medium-bodied and quite affordable. Drink now.

94 Jeb Dunnuck - jebdunnuck.com

The 2023 Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast is a medium ruby color and is fresh on the nose with notes of lifted spice, compact red berries, Bing cherries, roses, and sweet herbs. The palate is medium-bodied, with a polished and fine texture, a silky feel, and clean elegance through the finish. It’s a lovely and charming Pinot Noir with a lot of finesse to drink over the coming 8-10 years.

92 Andreas Larsson - Tasted by Andreas Larsson

Dark purple core and hue. A polished and modern style with balanced oak, the fruit is both ripe and fresh with fine grain and texture, good drinkability despite its youth with great length.

93 Wine Enthusiast

This Cabernet Sauvignon, with the extra oomph of Petit Verdot, showcases dark fruits, sweet ripe blackberries, spices, and resinous forest notes followed by a savory finish. Tannins are abundant while sheathed in a fine polish. Even so, this wine will benefit from decanting, a meal, or further time in cellar. Enjoy in two years and for another two decades.

94 Cameron Douglas, Master Sommelier - CamDouglasMS.com

A wine that has begun it’s perfect drinking window, still taut and precise with aromas of nut and spice, an amalgamation of tree and citrus fruits along with some bottle development. On the palate, dry, taut, intriguing and developing with core textures from acidity and fine tannins, there’s a citrus pith feel to the beginning of the fruit profile, then flavours of wood spice, nut and oatmeal. Dry, well made and ready to drink from day of purchase through 2027+.

90 Wine Spectator

Nectarine and white peach flavors mingle with dried apricot on a sleek, plump and juicy frame, with details of lemon zest and orange blossoms. Offers fresh acidity and roasted, salted hazelnut accents. Drink now. 800 cases made, 500 cases imported.

96 Wine Enthusiast

"This is a stellar dessert wine from Tuscany (the blend is Trebbiano, Sangiovese and Malvasia) executed in a vin santo style. It opens with a dark amber color and beautifully complex aromas of caramel, toasted almond, butterscotch and candied fruit. The mouthfeel is soft, silky and opulently creamy."

93 Decanter

"A smoky style that’s a touch herbal and meaty. Towards full-bodied, with good weight and texture. Quite a saline expression, ending on crisp raspberry acidity and quite strict tannins. Will always be a lean style, but should make interesting old bones."

93 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

"This generous and well-structured 2021 Chateauneuf has excellent raspberry and strawberry aromas for the challenging vintage, plus notes of floral aromas. Surprisingly fine tannins, too. Still very youthful and in need of a bit of time in bottle to reach ideal harmony, but the freshness at the finish is already delightful. A cuvee 75% grenache, 10% syrah, 10% mourvedre and 5% cinsault that were co-fermented, then matured in foudre. Drinkable now, but best from 2024."