93 Monica Larner - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The La Gerla 2017 Brunello di Montalcino is silky and polished, offering a nice perspective on a vintage that was not always easy to navigate. This wine manages smooth integration with none of the rougher spots that can sometimes occur in hot and dry growing seasons. The bouquet shows nuanced detail with wild berry, forest floor, grilled herb and wild rose. The wine is firm on the palate with tight stemmy tannins.

94 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

Aromas of cooked apple, ginger, spice and hints of dried mango. Ginseng. It’s full-bodied with lovely creamy texture of fine bubbles and a flavorful finish. Spicy at the end. Drink now.

93 The Tasting Panel

Aromas of rich golden apple and vanilla bean lead to toasty oak, lemon zest, and salty minerality. Vibrant acidity is a focal point on the palate, along with a refreshing bright and clean finish

93 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

Full-bodied with a silky texture and lots of raisin and sultana character. Dense spice and some shellfish mineral, too. The fine-grained tannins drive the palate and provide a long finish. Nicely done, to drink now or hold.

93 Wine Spectator

"Lovely aromas and flavors of ripe black cherry and currant fruit, graphite, toast and candied Meyer lemon zest are set in this racy Champagne, with a refined, finely detailed mousse. The mouthwatering finish is long and spicy. Drink now through 2022."

91+ John Gilman - View from the Cellar

"While I am not certain that there are still different bottlings of this wine for different markets, it was certainly the policy of the Grandes Marques up until very recently to have slightly different versions of their non-vintage Bruts for various locales. I am guessing that the bottling of Bollinger 'Speciale Cuvée' for the American market still has a touch more dosage than the French bottling (the US almost always used to get sweeter versions of Brut than other markets), as this seemed to have its steely structural elements just a bit more buffered out of the blocks, and though the two wines are quite similar qualitatively, there is little doubt that for immediate drinking, this is the more pleasurable version than its French counterpart. The bouquet is excellent, offering up scents of apple, warm bread, a touch of orange zest, lovely minerality and a gentle topnote of smokiness. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, crisp and beautifully balanced, with refined mousse, crisp acids and excellent length and grip on the complex and poised finish. To my palate, the dosage here is perfectly measured to seamlessly buffer the lovely acidity here and the wine just dances across the palate. High class non-vintage Brut. 2013-2025+." (08/13)

90 Allen Meadows - Burghound

"An expressive and attractively layered nose offers up notes of brioche, yeast and baked apple scents. Much like the Brut Rosé the effervescence is prominent to the point of being foamy yet it is not aggressive as the bead is quite fine on the moderately complex, round and delicious flavors that deliver fine if not truly exceptional persistence on the intensely yeasty finish." (09/12)

90 Wine & Spirits

"At every turn of flavor, barrel-fermented base wines add opulence to this Champagne with scents of apple wood, ginger and mustard seed balancing the youthful fruit. The flavors buzz with acidity and richness, a contrast of green apple with broader notes of baked apple; the texture is creamy, the finish completely clean. The wine’s structure is substantial enough to serve with sliced, seared beef filet at a holiday party." (12/13)

90 Eric Guido - Vinous Media

The 2020 Montepulciano d'Abruzzo Ilico opens with a burst of crushed blackberries, underbrush and ashen stone. It's silky-smooth with polished red fruits that form beneath an air of inner violet florals. This finishes long and staining yet only lightly structured with a bump of residual acidity that maintains a lovely balance.

90 Wine Enthusiast

Strikes of shale and salt lend spice and earthiness to ripe, concentrated flavors of plum preserves and black-cherry pie filling here. A blend of Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre, it's a warming, full-bodied red with a plushness of texture and very fine, furry tannins on the finish. Ready now but should drink at peak through 2026.

93 Wine Spectator

An expressive burst of aromas of deep dark fruits lead into layered tones of lifted red fruit and a soft, luscious mid-palate. A juicy, vibrant entry with notes of black cherry, black raspberry, fig, baking spice and fresh Santa Rosa plum, is interwoven with supple, textured tannins and acidity on the long, complex finish. Winemakers Notes

96 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

"Intense aromas of dark cherries, oak bark, black truffles and violets. It’s full-bodied and chewy with firm, silky tannins and beautiful length and focus. Dark-chocolate and forest-floor flavors with just a hint of toasted oak and smoke. Really attractive. Try after 2022, but already a beauty."

96 Luca Gardini - GardiniNotes.com

"With this Riserva of great finesse, the Campogiovanni estate is again at the top. On the nose, aromas of undergrowth, blackberry jam with touches of aromatic herbs, bay leaf above all. Closing on the scents of licorice. Taut mouth, savoury tannins with officinal taste returning at the end."

91 Eric Guido - Vinous Media

"The 2023 Rosato Vetere Limited is a total pleasure on the nose, mixing sweet spices and strawberries with hints of candied lime. This is zesty in character, with crisp orchard fruits and green melon that swirl along a stream of vibrant acidity. A tinge of minerality lingers as the 2023 finishes incredibly fresh and long, leaving a gentle tannic crunch that makes for a lovely punctuation."

98 Decanter

Beautiful mid-deep amber/tawny colour. Complex aromas of nuts, figs and apricots. Silky smooth and very refined, extending to suave complexity. Lithe and delicate, long, fine and wonderfully poised – a near-perfect combination of the freshness of youth melded with the complexity of age.- Richard Mayson

95 Wine Spectator

A juicy, energetic version, with mouthwatering damson plum, cherry and blackberry coulis flavors darting through, accented by iron and white pepper hints. There's some floral lift on the finish that marries deftly with the fruit, as does the bright, chalky minerality. Best from 2023 through 2035. 200 cases made, 20 cases imported. — JM

93 Luis Gutierrez - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The 2022 Viñedos en San Vicente de la Sonsierra was produced in the same way as the 2021 that I tasted next to it, trying to express finesse and purity in a warmer and ripe year. The wine has similar parameters, 13.9% alcohol. It's surprisingly fresh and harmonious for a 2022, close to the 2021 from the same village, with some floral hints and a seamless palate, juicy and with round tannins. 15,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in September 2024.

93 Wine Enthusiast

"Instead of white Burgundy, serve this Sancerre. A nose of golden fruit greets you on the nose, along with restrained sweet baking spice, golden apple, ripe Bosc pear and hints of caramelized quince and brioche. The creamy palate delivers acidity that enlivens the entire length of the taste. Drink now–2028. -RS"

94 Wine Enthusiast

"From one of the properties owned by the Bonnie family of Malartic-Lagravière, this wine has rich spice and a polished sheen of ripe tannins and black fruits. It is worth aging further and drink from 2025. — Roger Voss" (Cellar Selection) 

92 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

"Lots of dried black fruit and cherries on the nose with lightly exotic notes of dates, as well as light spices and dried herbs. Full-bodied with loads of black licorice coating the firm tannins and giving a long, savory finish. A little rough at the edges just now. Needs a bit of time to integrate better. Best from 2023."

89-90 Luis Gutierrez - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The very pale and delicate 2023 Rosado was still in tank, waiting to be bottled. 2023 was also a very ripe year, resulting in a challenging vintage. It's a combination of Garnacha and Viura. It has 13.4% alcohol and is still a bit reductive. They managed to keep the freshness, with moderate alcohol and a dry, chalky mouthfeel, clean, tasty, serious and long. This is a very gastronomical rosé. There will be some 300,000 bottles of this released.