2021 Picayune Cabernet Sauvignon Starry Sky Vineyard, Knights Valley
San Francisco Wine Panel 96+ Points
This is a deeply concentrated, tightly focused and altogether classically styled Knights Valley Cabernet.
2022 Pilcrow Cabernet Sauvignon Granite Lake, Howell Mountain, Napa Valley
SF Wine Panel Score 97+ Points
Young, gutsy, boldly Howell Mountain in fruit and minerality, with a nose of dark cherry, red cherry pie, red licorice, iron ore, crushed rock, caramel, baking spice and vague suggestions of dried herbs.
2022 Pisoni Estate Pinot Noir, Santa Lucia Highlands
Decanter 94 Points
Sourced from low-yielding blocks on the Pisoni Estate—one of the highest elevation vineyards in the Santa Lucia Highlands at approximately 396 metres — where vines are rooted in decomposed granite soils with schist and quartz, and shaped by heavy fog influence.
2021 Poggi Cabernet Sauvignon Two Palms Vineyard, Calistoga, Napa Valley
San Francisco Wine Panel Score 97+ Points
Gorgeously ripe and in chiseled focus, the aromas of this beautifully rendered Cabernet center on black cherry, red currant, cassis, black raspberry, cranberry sauce, mace, cedar, toffee and vanilla.
2019 Prima Materia Sangiovese Kelsey Bench, Mendocino
San Francisco Wine Panel Score 92+ Points
Complex and varietal, the nose of this tasty and graciously balanced bottling melds scents of strawberry galette, dark cherry, dry dark rose, star anise, baking spice and a hint of dry golden fig into an immediately appealing harmony.
2019 The Prisoner Wine Company Prisoner Red HALF BOTTLE
Wine Spectator
88 Points
Jammy, a touch sweet and loaded with toasty oak, offering easy accents of cinnamon and spice.
Promontory Proprietary Red Wine Napa Valley 2015
Wine Advocate
98+ Points
Composed of 100% Cabernet Sauvignon, the 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon displays a deep garnet-purple color and is a little sluggish to reveal its fragrant core of plum preserves, crème de cassis, blueberry compote and Morello cherries with accents of stewed Darjeeling tea, underbrush, cloves and tobacco leaf plus a waft of pencil shavings.
2022 Quilceda Creek Cabernet Sauvignon, Columbia Valley
San Francisco Wine Panel Score 96 Points
This is a young Cabernet, with impressive character, but a hint of youthful reticence.
2015 Quintarelli Cabernet Alzero
Vinous
95 Points
The 2015 Cabernet Alzero is loaded with varietal character, bursting from the glass with a dark blend of black fruits, savory herbs, pencil lead and crushed stone.
2015 Quintarelli Recioto della Valpolicella Classico
Vinous
94+ Points
Dark ruby with purple hues, the 2015 Ricioto della Valpolicella Classico is youthfully coy, requiring coaxing to evolve in the glass.
2021 Racines Pinot Noir Santa Rita Hills Cuvee
San Francisco Wine Panel Score 94 Points
This notably youthful Pinot, a blend of 4 well-regarded vineyards: La Riconada; Rancho La Vina; Wenzlau: & Sanford and Benedict, is destined to be elegant, refined and focused.
2023 Raen Pinot Noir Royal St Robert, Sonoma Coast
San Francisco Wine Panel Score 97+ Points
Complex, energetic, wonderfully elegant and well-focused at opening, this terrific Pinot Noir offers sharp piquancy, grip, minerality and impressive tension as well.
2013 Revenant Proprietary Red Wine, Napa Valley
San Francisco Wine Panel Score 94 Points
This is a classy Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Petite Verdot blend that reflects its gutsy vintage and is now mature.The aromas and the flavors that follow are a melange of cassis, black cherry, dark plum, cola, rose, date sugar, clove, toffee, five-spice, leather and licorice root.
2012 Revenant Proprietary Red Napa Valley
NVWE Notes: Darkly aromatic, this complex 2012 Bordeaux blend offers scents of rich forest earth, dark pipe tobacco, mahogany and dry red rose in support of tart red cherry, dark plum and cherry brandy fruit notes.
2020 Ridge Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Estate, Santa Cruz Mountains
90 points Jeb Dunnuck
The 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate comes all from the estate Monte Bello Vineyard on the eastern side of the Santa Cruz Mountains, which is much warmer than the western side of the region.
90 points Jeb Dunnuck
The 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate comes all from the estate Monte Bello Vineyard on the eastern side of the Santa Cruz Mountains, which is much warmer than the western side of the region.
Ridge Geyserville Alexander Valley 2020
Wine Spectator
92 Points
Deeply structured and briary, with a mix of red and black fruit accented by licorice, dill and savory underbrush flavors.
2021 Ridge Vineyards Monte Bello Santa Cruz Mountains MAGNUM
Wine Advocate 96 Points
2021 marks the start of a new era at Ridge, now under the stewardship of Trester Goetting and longtime Ridge veteran John Olney following the departure of veteran winemaker Eric Baugher.
2021 Ridge Vineyards Monte Bello Santa Cruz Mountains
Wine Advocate 96 Points
2021 marks the start of a new era at Ridge, now under the stewardship of Trester Goetting and longtime Ridge veteran John Olney following the departure of veteran winemaker Eric Baugher.
2021 Ridge Geyserville Zinfandel Blend Alexander Valley
Vinous
94+ points
The 2021 Geyserville hits the palate with a burst of dark red/purplish fruit, sweet spice, lavender, chocolate, dried herbs and American oak.
2021 Ridge Vineyards Petite Sirah Lytton Estate
Wine Advocate 92 Points
The 2021 Petite Sirah Lytton Estate opens with initial touches of tar and struck flint that give way to black cherries and currants, wild thyme, pencil shavings, coffee grounds and earth.
2021 Ridge Zinfandel Pagani Ranch, Sonoma Valley
San Francisco Wine Panel 95 Score
This bottling is always intense in fruit, always spicy, and admirably consistent.
97 points Zinfandel Chronocles
Winemaker's Notes
Deep ruby in color with aromas of black cherry, dark plum, sarsaparilla, baking spices, toasted oak, and lavender.
2022 Ridge Lytton Springs Dry Creek Valley
Wine Spectator 95 points
Like a beast that's been tamed, this red is genteel and polished on the outside but dark and fervent deep down, with expressive flavors of blackberry, briar patch, savory anise and pepper.
