87-89 Neal Martin - Vinous Media

The 2022 Pernand Vergelesses Rouge Les Fichots 1e Cru has a backward nose that needs encouragement in the glass, revealing dark berry fruit mixed with graphite and a whiff of gunpowder (that smell you get after a firework has taken off). The palate is medium-bodied with a fleshy entry and moderate depth. This is lightly spiced, with an earthy finish that doesn't quite deliver the panache of Rollin's Les Cloux tasted alongside. Tasted at merchants' 2022 Burgundy tastings in London.

92 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

Tightly knit and focused, featuring dark cherries, fresh herbs and subtle oak spice. Medium-bodied with a linear profile and firm, yet finely integrated tannins. Long and slightly chewy finish. Drink or hold.

92 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

Olives, currants, graphite and dried herbs on the nose of this savory and mineral red. Lots of pencil-shaving character on the palate, which is medium- to full-bodied, fine-grained and focused. Cabernet sauvignon and merlot. Try in 2027.

93 Antonio Galloni - Vinous

"The 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate Papa's Knoll, Buehler's top bottling, is packed with blackberry, mocha, espresso and lavender. A kick of sweet French oak lends an exotic flair. In 2022, the Papa's Knoll is quite forward, which only adds to its immediacy and allure."

91 Eric Guido - Vinous Media

"The 2023 Montepulciano d'Abruzzo Ilico wafts up with sweet sage, stone dust, white smoke and wild blueberries. Racy acidity guides polished red and blue fruits across rounded textures. Tannins firm up the licorice-tinged finish."

90-93 Jasper Morris, MW - Inside Burgundy

100% destemmed, 20% new wood, one new barrel in five. More lees were retained for the elevage, to add a reductive character so as to delay the need to add sulphur. A fine mid purple. The nose remains on the reductive side. Good tension and much cleaner fruit on the palate, with fine persistence. Drink from 2030-2035. Tasted Nov 2024.

94-96 Neal Martin - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The Château de Fargues 2014 has an opulent, rounded and powerful bouquet that delivers a payload of botrytized fruit that is precise, upholding the de Fargues style, hints of mandarin and Clementine developing in the glass. The palate has a huge weight in the mouth: a fine line of acidity with layers of clear honey, marmalade and a dash of ginger on the finish. This represents an immensely pure Château de Fargues with enormous length and intensity. Superb.

95 Antonio Galloni - Vinous

"The 2024 Pinot Noir Fox Creek Vineyard is a seriously beautiful wine. It emerges from a site in Carmel Valley planted on granitic soils at 1,100 feet in elevation. Dark, layered and resonant, the Fox Creek Pinot is superb. There's gorgeous depth and textural resonance here. Wild cherry, iron, tobacco, menthol, licorice and rose petal build effortlessly through the mid-palate and into the finish. The 100% stems are beautifully woven into the wine's fabric. Superb."

99 Jeb Dunnuck - jebdunnuck.com

The 2019 Syrah Lorraine is ultra-classic and is about as textbook an example of this cuvée as I can recall. Black raspberries, cassis, spring flowers, and baking spices all flow to a full-bodied, round, velvety textured, utterly seamless Syrah with ripe tannins, a great mid-palate, and a gorgeous finish that keeps you coming back to the glass. It's impossible to resist today (and I see no need to delay gratification), yet it will continue to deliver the goods any time over the coming 20-25 years.

94+ Lisa Perrotti-Brown - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Bettinelli Sleeping Lady Vineyard comes skipping out of the glass with bright notes of kirsch, redcurrant jelly and blackcurrant preserves, giving way to a more serious earthy/savory undercurrent of smoked meats, crushed rocks and wild fungi. The medium to full-bodied palate delivers fantastic freshness to the densely laden red and black fruits, supported by ripe, grainy tannins, finishing long and savory.

95 Eric Guido - Vinous Media

The 2018 Valpolicella Classico Superiore Ca' del Merlo wafts up with an incredibly pretty, savory bouquet of dried Mediterranean herbs, geranium and citrus-tinged wild strawberries. It displays depths of ripe red and blue fruits underscored by crisp mineral tones as rosy inner florals arch across the palate, all over a core of tantalizing acidity. The finish is floral and long, leaving a tart sensation of raspberry as hints of lavender fade slowly. This is a supremely elegant and refined vintage for Ca' del Merlo.