2019 Jolie-Laide Valdigué Rosé Rosewood Vineyard Mendocino County
The Valdigué grapes for this rosé were whole-cluster pressed and fermented with ambient cultures in a mix of neutral oak, stainless, and concrete vessels….
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2020 Gallica Cabernet Franc Napa Valley
Gallica’s Napa Cab Franc is ruby purple with blue-fuchsia glints. The wine has a perfume of violets and black plums, and the first palate…
2017 Smith-Madrone Riesling Spring Mountain Napa Valley
This is an estate Riesling, dry-farmed. The wine has firm acidity and is the color of a lemon drop with greenish glints. The fragrance…
2019 Frank Family Vineyards Chardonnay Carneros
Frank Family sources the Chardonnay for this bottling from a range of estates in cool-climate Carneros. The wine was barrel fermented and aged for…
2020 Gallica Estate Rosé St. Helena Napa Valley
Silken, spicy Napa rosé
2019 Pax Mahle Wines Mission Somer’s Vineyard Lodi
One hundred and twenty years old. Let that sink in.
2018 Birichino Chenin Blanc Old Vines Jurassic Park Vineyard Santa Ynez Valley
This old-vine wine hails from a vineyard Birichino winemakers John Locke and Alex Krause describe as a dinosaur boneyard. The pair ferments the grapes…
2018 Birichino Old Vine Cinsault Bechthold Vineyard Mokelumne River Lodi
Plummy, elegant old-vine Cinsault
The Hilt Estate 2018 Pinot Noir and Chardonnay
A pair of wines from Sta. Rita Hills
Domaine Carneros Le Rêve 2012 and 1992
Domaine Carneros founding winemaker Eileen Crane recently retired after thirty years at the helm, handing the reins to another experienced wine maker and executive,…
2017 Domaine Carneros Estate Pinot Noir Carneros
Friendly, plummy Pinot noir
2017 Mi Sueño Chardonnay Carneros Napa Valley
Lavish but lemony Chardonnay