The winery’s special barrel selection, this is a robust, full-bodied and intensely concentrated wine, grippy, layered and ultimately bright. Raspberry and strawberry flavors wrap around silky elegant tannins and integrated oak,showing a hint of clove and cardamom on the finish.

This lovely, crisp wine is fermented in stainless steel. Herb, cedar and garrigue elements meet a juicy, sublime mid-palate, finishing on highlights of lemon peel and cassis.

McLaren Vale Delivers Top Mediterranean Styled RedsAn attractively floral edge to the nose with savory, terra cotta-like notes, leading to rich red berries and red plums. The palate is powerful and focused, showing some muscle behind the blackberries and red plums and sturdy, fine-tannin texture. Drink or hold. Screw cap.

McLaren Vale Delivers Top Mediterranean Styled RedsA very intense nose with instantly complex aromas of dried spices, dried wood, licorice and sappy blackberries and plums. There’s a direct delivery of strong, fine tannin and a core of succulent, redder plum and berry flavors. Concentrated and bedded in deep at the finish. Drink or hold. Screw cap.

McLaren Vale Delivers Top Mediterranean Styled RedsThis has an intense delivery of redcurrants, raspberries and red plums with an attractive, leafy and bracken edge. The palate has a core of wild red berries with some chocolate also in the mix. Juicy, engaging and flavorful. Drink or hold. Screw cap.

McLaren Vale Delivers Top Mediterranean Styled RedsIntense aromas of ripe dark berries, purple olives, violets, intense cedary oak, forest wood, leather and tobacco. The palate is dense, concentrated and packed with dark-berry flavors. Bold tannin chew. Needs time for the oak and tannin to settle in. Try from 2024. Screw cap.

Sonoma: Another Brilliant Vintage in 2018Coming from plots ranging from 850 to 1,000 feet in elevation and brought up in 50% new French oak, the 2018 Chardonnay Red Point is another rocking wine, offering buttered apple, brioche, spicy wood, and crushed stone-like aromas and flavors. Textured, medium to full-bodied, and with a great blend of opulent and elegance, drink bottles over the coming 5-7+ years.

Sonoma: Another Brilliant Vintage in 2018Coming from the Far Coast and Seascape Vineyard (both on the Sonoma Coast), the 2017 Pinot Noir Land's Edge Vineyards has a spicy, complex, incredibly attractive style that shows lots of upfront red and black fruits, dried herbs, and loamy earth aromatics, medium to full body, a rounded, supple texture, and a great finish. It's a great value play in this portfolio and I'd happily drink bottles over the coming 7-8 years.

Sonoma: Another Brilliant Vintage in 2018Buttered lemons, acacia flowers, toasted brioche, and a touch of pineapple all define the 2017 Chardonnay Sevens Bench Vineyard. Coming from a vineyard in the cooler Carneros region of Napa Valley, it has terrific ripeness as well as brilliant purity of fruit. Its acidity is nicely integrated, and while it's already hard to resist, it's going to evolve for a solid decade.

Sonoma: Another Brilliant Vintage in 2018Brought up in 40% new French oak, the 2017 Chardonnay Fog Dance Vineyard comes from the Green Valley portion of the Russian River and has an exuberant, upfront array of tropical fruits, caramelized pineapple, white flower, orange blossom, and brioche. This beauty is rich and opulently textured, with its oak pushed all the way into the background, and follows with a great finish. It's brilliant stuff.

The 2017 Chardonnay Seascape Vineyard, from a site next to Coastlands, is one of the most compelling wines in this range. Clean mineral notes frame citrus peel, white flowers, mint and crushed rocks. Vivid and finely cut, the Seascape will appeal most to readers who enjoy energetic Chardonnays.

Elegant aromas of toasted brioche with almond cream and white-peach compote make for a stunning nose on this bottling by Winemaker Jill Russell in one of her first complete vintages for the brand. There is a great sizzle of lime zest acidity to the sip, which gives way to creamier flavors of nectarine and crushed macadamia nut.

This excellent Pinot offers aromas of dried cherry, toasted sage and roasted strawberry that lead into a palate that’s snappy and light, yet with tons of weighty stuffing. Flavors of bright raspberry and wild thyme lead into a vanilla-kissed finish.

This impressive wine possesses just over 16% Merlot and touches of Malbec, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc. Using a small percentage of new French oak, it offers dusty texture and well-defined flavors of dark cherry, plum, rock and earth. A sweetness of oak doesn’t get lost in the overall structure and cohesion.

Mineral-driven and bright in acidity, this wine is smooth and supple, integrated and complex. With length and breadth, its forceful flavors of dust, juicy black cherry and dried herb combine effortlessly into toasted oak and a length of nutmeg and black pepper.

With the ease and verve of a wine minimally handled, this red shows fragrances of plum, rhubarb, blueberries and fistfuls of flowers followed by earthy, more mineral nuances. Yangarra’s signature tightrope walk of elegance and power on the palate creates a yin and yang effect that weaves taut, fine tannins through delicate fruit and nuanced texture.

The nose is dense soy-like tapenade with mixed herbs and underbrush. The palate is a lush black currant, mineral and blue plum. The core is beautifully polished black plum. Drink 2020 - 2026.

The nose is subdued herb and dusty underbrush perfume with spiced black stone fruit, beautifully poised currant. The palate entry is ripe and expansive with densely-structured plum and supple berry nectar in the core. Drink 2020 - 2026.

The nose is a juicy, herbal plum and sandalwood. The palate entry is a deeply flavored black fruit, spice with saturated core of cocoa and supple, lingering blueberry. Drink 2020 - 2026.

The nose is a lean rhubarb and pomegranate with underlying hard cherry candy and allspice. The palate entry is bright, firm red fruit and cedar showing beautiful raspberry and spice vibrancy through the core. Drink 2020 -2027.

Barbara Banke purchased the Field Stone estate in 2016, bringing its ancient petite sirah vines—survivors from 1894—into the Jackson Family Wines portfolio. Graham Weertsharvested the fruit from those vines when it still retained freshness, its dark flavors brisk and austere as a cold desert night. There’s a green note of agave to the flavors of deepredpeach and black-skinned blueberry, the fruit filling a vast tannic structure, remarkably nimble for a wine of this size. It’s the kind of wine that’s so big you can’t really take all of it in at once, but it’s not overpowering or heavy, just mysterious and anxious to rest in the cellar for years.

USA, Oregon: Searching for Hidden Gems from Willamette Valley's 2017 VintageMedium ruby-purple, the 2016 Pinot Noir The Sum is scented of Earl Grey tea, tar, loamy earth, lavender and garrigue with black currants and black cherries at the core and hints of smoked meats and peppercorn. Medium-bodied and silky, it offers an intense dark fruit core with grainy tannins and seamless freshness on the very long, savory finish.

Seeing 20/20 – Sonoma & Anderson Valley New ReleasesThe 2017 Pinot Noir Jory Hills Vineyard is an extroverted, luscious Pinot loaded with character. Black cherry, plum, lavender and spice come together in a bold, creamy Pinot endowed with plenty of richness and exuberance. The Jory Hills, from Oregon's Willamette Valley, is a bit out of place in this range of Anderson Valley Pinots, but it is undeniably impressive.

Seeing 20/20 – Sonoma & Anderson Valley New ReleasesThe 2017 Pinot Noir Land's Edge Vineyards is one of the more refined and pedigreed wines in this range. Rich and deep, yet also finely cut, the 2017 captures the magic of the coastal sites that go into the blend. Inky purplish fruit, sage, lavender, mint and spice all build as this super-expressive Pinot shows off its pedigreed personality. The 2017 is so nicely done.

Seeing 20/20 – Sonoma & Anderson Valley New ReleasesThe 2017 Pinot Noir Fog Dance Vineyard is creamy and voluptuous in the glass, with tremendous richness. A wine of real substance, the Fog Dance is going to need at least a few years to come together. Red and purplish fruit, pomegranate, blood orange, lavender and star anise build as this potent Pinot shows off its multi-faceted personality.