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Santa Cruz Mountains: The Compelling 2018s & 2019s (May 2022)

The 2020 Lytton Springs is a very pretty wine. Bright floral and spice accents open first. Silky and medium in body, with plenty of persistence and fine balance, the 2020 is pretty impressive, especially for the year. Zinfandel character really drives the feel in 2020. A burst of red/purplish fruit, rose petal, cinnamon and dried…

Seeing 20/20 – Sonoma & Anderson Valley New Releases (Jan 2020)

The 2018 Pinot Noir Freestone Occidental is a truly remarkable wine. Maybe that is the vintage, or the added complexity the vines are acquiring with time, but the 2018 Freestone Occidental makes me incredibly curious to taste the rest of the 2018s. Bright, focused and beautifully sculpted, the 2018 is a wine of total elegance…

Servants of the Seasons: Burgundy 2021 (Jan 2023)

The 2021 Morey-Saint-Denis 1er Cru is a blend of Les Charrières, Les Millandes, Les Ruchots and Clos Sorbé picked on 27 and 28 September. This has a well-defined bouquet, the stems perhaps less noticeable compared to the Morey Village. The palate is medium-bodied with fine depth, quite tensile with finer tannins than the Village, though…

Dance the Quickstep: Burgundy 2020 (Dec 2021)

The 2020 Morey-Saint-Denis 1er Cru is quite taut at first, responds to aeration to reveal brambly black fruit, rose petal and light tea leaf aromas. Pretty, delicate and refined. The palate is medium-bodied with crunchy red fruit, fresh and vibrant, very focused with a precise, saline finish that gets the saliva flowing. This might lack…

Herding Cats: Burgfest 2020 – The Reds (Oct 2024)

The 2020 Morey-Saint-Denis 1er Cru has a fragrant bouquet: rose-petal-tinged red fruit, fine delineation, quite focused and stylish, with just a touch of animal fur developing with time in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy red fruit. It’s not the most complex Morey, but it’s fresh and saline, with an insistent grip and…

Cellar Favorite: Château Latour: 2022 New Releases (Jan 2022)

The 2016 Les Forts de Latour is the clear highlight among these new releases from Latour. The first thing that is evident about the 2016 is the pedigree of the vintage. Undisputedly great. Readers will find a potent, dark Forts de Latour endowed with massive concentration and tons of depth. The 2016 won't be ready…