Keeping the juice on skins in a large ceramic egg for 170 days provides extraordinary texture that defines a sinewy mid-palate and a sexy tang on the finish. The polished but vigorous tannins shape a strict palate framework defined by sharp graphite seams and high-toned cherry perfume, but sinewy muscle adds edgy tension.

A bright, deep ruby-red in the glass. Blueberry, dried herbs and violet aromatics. Just shy of full-bodied, with bright blueberry fruit, nori and saline-mineral notes, layered with great complexity across the tongue. The tannins are fine and firm and there’s a lick of brightening acidity that drives and lifts it to a very long and bright finish. A wine that will offer great rewards for years to come.

I can unequivocally say that Greg Brewer's wines deliver more value per dollar than any other winery I know. A Chardonnay that stuns on the nose and on the palate with notes of ripe yellow apple, fresh peach, Meyer lemon oil, matchstick, toasted salted hazelnuts, and yellow wildflowers. Round and dewy on the palate, with perfect acidity that doesn’t overpower the lovely fruit flavors and saline finish. Editors Choice and Best Buy.

Bright floral and black-cherry aromas with some ripe strawberry. Medium-bodied with firm tannins and a fine, linear finish. Tensioned and real. Lovely ripeness of fruit with a polished texture. Gorgeous now, but will age beautifully, too.

A layered Champagne that shows length and focus, with a creamy texture and very fine bubbles. Juicy, lightly chalky and long. Just a hint of phenolics that keeps it framed and attentive. 7.5 years on the less. Seriously dry at the finish. Best sparkling wine from Oregon? Drink or hold.

This golden yellow colored Chardonnay from Copain is impressive. It opens with a fragrant and inviting butterscotch, vanilla, oak, and Barlett pear bouquet. On the palate, this wine is full bodied with medium acidity. The mouthfeel is balanced, round, and very rich. The flavors profile is a delicious pear, pineapple, and butterscotch blend with notes of oak. I also detected some hints of minerality, almond, and lemon zest. The finish is dry and its flavors and pleasant acidity are very nicely extended. This terrific Chard would be perfectly fine on its own for California Chard lovers. With food I would pair it with Chicken St. Timothy.

Ink black at the core to a deeply-tinted ruby-red rim. A rich and complex nose, mixed berries and oak spices lift from the glass. Voluminous and weighty, the fruit concentration is impressive yet doesn't fall into the jammy spectrum. Equally, the oak complexities are unmistakeable, but everything is in remarkable harmony and balance for such a young wine. A prodigious length and it finishes with a clean vibrancy and a hint of mint freshness that belies its previous intensity.

The gorgeous lift of eucalyptus swings alongside the most tender red fruit. Think redcurrant and tart but exquisitely intense tart, red cherry. The palate is pristine, bright, vivid with that bright red fruit that seems to radiate from a profound core. Everything remains light and bright, nothing is heavy, yet there is such beautiful depth. This pull of Pinot with ease.

Sinewy structure meets harmony and polish in this red, which offers vibrant raspberry and blueberry flavors that take on accents of violet, crushed stone and dusky spice. Finishes with refined tannins. Drink now through 2031. From Oregon.

Lots of black olives with some conifer and mushrooms. Raspberries, too. Full-bodied with soft and round tannins. Really savory. Juicy. Drink now.

Aromas of white peaches with hints of apples and stones. Medium to full body with a creamy texture and tangy acidity. Wonderful, agile layers and mouth-feel. Hint of peach pie at the end. Unique character. Drink now or hold.

Lead pencil and dark fruit with wet earth. Purple fruit, too. Full-bodied with velvety tannins. Solid as a rock and gorgeous. Black olives at the end. Big and attractive. Needs time to open, but already beautiful.

This is soft and round with juicy fruit. Blackberry, stone and gunflint. Full-bodied with firm tannins and an intense finish. Opens at the end with savory character. Green olives. Drinkable now, but better in 2025.

This is aromatic with fresh herbs, such as basil and sweet tobacco. Medium to full body with lead-pencil character, creamy tannins and a long, bright finish. Dusty at the end with some mahogany. Fine, polished furniture-like undertone to this. Drink or hold.

Lots of lead pencil, iodine and black fruit on the nose. Some dried fruit, too, following through to a full body with a rich, juicy palate with lightly toasted oak and spice at the end. This needs another four or five years to come completely together.

Bright pure-grape character with citrus and blackberry aromas and flavors. Medium body, fine and fresh tannins with lemony and stony undertones. White volcanic-stone minerality. A new second wine from Anakota. Drink or hold.

Alluring notes of violets, licorice and chocolate-dipped raspberries lead into a ripe and cushioned core full of life. There's a pleasing texture to the wine, a gliding tannin with a fine chew. A warming alcohol glow appears on the finish. This is heady and vibrant with dimension.

The 2019 Syrah from Ex Post Facto was made entirely with whole clusters and spent, "a zillion years in the fermenter, as always," quips winemaker Greg Brewer. It's fantastically expressive this vintage, with pure scents of red and black currants, cracked pepper, mint, coffee beans and wildflowers. Medium-bodied and silty in texture, its intense, spicy fruits are perfectly ripe, and fresh acidity adds crunchy appeal on the long, layered finish. Yum!

Pale ruby-purple, the 2019 Pinot Noir Hapgood is scented of raspberries and pomegranate with touches of licorice, iodine and earth. The medium-bodied palate offers bright, pure citrus flavors, a gently chalky texture and great uplift and length.

Medium ruby, the 2019 Pinot Noir Machado is scented of blackberries, aniseed and citrus peel with loads of fine, earthy accents in the undercurrent. The palate is chalky, fresh and detailed, with a very long, spicy finish.

Made from a section of the vineyard planted in 1991 at 2,400-feet-elevation, this wine is concentrated and full of intensity, impressive on every level. Powerfully built to age and evolve, it shows defined layers of dried herb, rock and blueberry, with an underlying crispness and crunch to the texture. Enjoy best from 2027–2037.

Grown on clay-loam soils, with tough ironstone rocks running through, this wine is the most savory and brambly of Giant Steps’s single-vineyard Pinots. A thicket of red and blueberry fruit entwines with white pepper and other savory spices, dried roses and meaty bass notes. In the mouth, fleshy fruit is again met with lovely spice, cinched by fine tannins. There’s freshness, structure and elegance here that makes this a complete wine now, but one that could cellar until around 2032.

Impressive, rich and fleshy, with blackberry, blueberry and huckleberry notes at the core, but shows tremendous depth, concentration and polish. Features accents of bittersweet chocolate, espresso, salted caramel and rosemary, with velvety tannins on the finish, with the flavors gaining extra torque and momentum. Drink now through 2038.

Appealingly briary yet refined in structure, this Zinfandel slowly unfurls handsome cherry and blueberry flavors, which take on roasted sage, green peppercorn and licorice notes toward zesty tannins. Drink now through 2031.

Peter Fraser and Michael Lane rely on a gravelly outcrop of ironstone in the midst of their sandy soils to farm their flagship shiraz. In 2018, that parcel gave a wine of sunny intensity and athletic grace, its mineral power resonating within the frame of the oak tannins, its fruit continuing to gain layers of freshness over the course of days. Panelists described the wine's complexities before turning back toward its fruit, which ranges from "black currant pastilles" to "plum leather and blueberry leather," before the fresher elements of those fruits come forward with air. A great vintage of Ironheart, this should age for decades.