2022 Parcel One Petite Sirah Sonoma County

2022 Parcel One Petite Sirah Sonoma County

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Parcel One

Petite Sirah
Sonoma County 2022

2022 Parcel One Petite Sirah Sonoma County

The 2022 Tom Eddy Parcel One Petite Sirah shows a different side of a winemaker known for Napa Cabernet Sauvignons that ask for time and attention. Here he turns to Petite Sirah from Sonoma’s celebrated Kick Ranch Vineyard, producing a wine of serious depth and concentration. It balances dense blackberry fruit, smoked spice, and firm mountain structure with a composure that keeps everything remarkably well judged from start to finish.

Kick Ranch sits high above the Sonoma Valley floor, where rocky volcanic soils and cool Pacific breezes come together. The site gives Petite Sirah power and freshness at once, along with thick-skinned intensity and natural structure. That combination brings the 2022 Parcel One a lively energy that many wines in this category simply lack.

Tom Eddy has never chased flash or early drinkability. His reputation rests on structure, balance, and longevity, and those same qualities define this bottle. It delivers the dark, saturated intensity Petite Sirah lovers seek, yet it stays controlled and polished enough to invite another glass. At $36 against the $55 winery price, this is one of those wines people will wish they had bought more of once it’s gone.

Parcel One
Petite Sirah
Sonoma County 2022
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“The Parcel One 2022 Petite Sirah from Sonoma opens with floral notes, violets, forest floor, ripe plums, boysenberries, a hint of black pepper, and dark chocolate. On the palate, the wine has flavors of dark cherry, black currant, bittersweet chocolate, spice, and graphite minerality. The wine has smooth, almost powdery tannins and balanced acidity that bring freshness and lead into a lovely finish, cascading through the characteristics of a classic Petite Sirah.”

93 Points

2022 Domaine du Chancelier Bourgogne Cote d'Or

2022 Domaine du Chancelier Bourgogne Cote d’Or

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Domaine du Chancelier 

Bourgogne Côte d’Or “
En Coulezain” Vieilles Vignes 2022

2022 Domaine du Chancelier Bourgogne Cote d'Or

Domaine du Chancelier’s “En Coulezain” Vieilles Vignes shows exactly why Bourgogne Côte d’Or has become so compelling lately. Sourced entirely from the region’s classic vineyards and drawn from old Pinot Noir vines, it delivers a level of depth and definition that feels a clear step above what you usually find at this price.

The “En Coulezain” site does most of the heavy lifting. Old vines naturally limit yields, building concentration and structure from the start, while the Côte d’Or soils add concentration and a fine mineral line. In the cellar, the approach stays refreshingly straightforward: preserve that natural balance and simply let the wine hold its shape.

In the glass, it all comes together beautifully. Bright red fruit, subtle earth, and a delicate mineral edge flow through with fresh acidity and a steady, composed structure. It is balanced and precise right away, opening quickly yet continuing to unfold with time in the glass.

Domaine du Chancelier 
Bourgogne Côte d’Or ”
En Coulezain” Vieilles Vignes 2022
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“The 2022 Domaine du Chancelier Bourgogne Côte d’Or “En Coulezain” Vieilles Vignes offers aromas of cherry cola intermixed with wild and exotic mushrooms, freshly turned earth, light wood spice, and crushed stone. On the palate, this linear-styled wine displays crunchy red fruits and red berries backed by saline minerality. It features focused, penetrating fruit, lively, mouth-quenching acidity, and vivid freshness. Elegant and complex, it is worthy of your attention and cellar.”

94 Points

2022 Lewis Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve Napa Valley

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Lewis

Cabernet Sauvignon
Reserve 2022
Napa Valley

Built with conviction, Lewis Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2022 captures the essence of Napa through power shaped by discipline. Sourced from the most compelling vineyard parcels and guided by a relentless pursuit of polish, it reveals a wine where intensity is not accidental, but carefully constructed.

Time in barrel refines and amplifies its character, with 19 months in French oak shaping both texture and aromatic complexity. Behind it lies a winemaking philosophy that prioritizes impact without sacrificing structure, where richness is never accidental but the result of deliberate choices at every stage. This is where Lewis separates itself, crafting wines that are as intentional as they are expressive.

The result is a wine that transcends vintage, defined instead by its completeness. It reflects a winery that has spent decades refining a singular voice, one rooted in richness yet sharpened by experience. In the 2022 Reserve, that voice is unmistakable: confident, composed, and built to endure.

Lewis
Cabernet Sauvignon
Reserve 2022
Napa Valley

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“Aged for 19 months in 75% French oak barrels, the 2022 Reserve bottling elevates its profile with similar blue fruit and blackberry preserve character, enhanced by more pronounced toasty oak spices. This wine dials up the tannin tension to the maximum, delivering a robust and powerful expression. Muscular and brooding, it boasts intensely saline-laced tannins with a dark chocolate quality. The dark fruit character is more pronounced, with hints of kirsch adding complexity. Everything in this Reserve bottling feels amplified, offering loads of pleasure in 2022. Best paired with hearty braised meats to complement its intensity and structure.”

94 Points

2022 Post & Vine Carignane Lodi California

2022 Post & Vine Carignane Lodi California

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Post & Vine

Carignane 2022
Mule Plane Vineyard
Lodi, California

2022 Post & Vine Carignane Lodi California

The Post & Vine Carignane sets itself apart by returning to something California doesn’t always prioritize: its own history. Drawn from old vines in Lodi, it carries a natural depth and balance that doesn’t need shaping, only preservation. Under Rebekah Wineburg, the wine reflects a deliberate choice to step away from modern excess and allow the vineyard to define the outcome.

Mule Plane Vineyard exists as part of California’s earlier chapter, where Carignane was planted for durability, not prestige. Decades later, those same vines now offer something far more compelling: depth shaped by age, and structure that forms naturally. That continuity gives the wine its foundation, connecting it directly to a farming style that has largely disappeared.

That foundation allows Rebekah to do what she does best: step back. After years working at estates like Rudd, Staglin, Ornellaia, and Quintessa, her approach is intentional. She applies that experience not to shape the wine, but to protect it, guiding it so that what defines it remains intact from start to finish.

Post & Vine
Carignane 2022
Mule Plane Vineyard
Lodi, California

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“This dark red colored Carignane from Post & Vine opens with a forest floor and red raspberry bouquet with hints of nutmeg and pencil shavings. On the palate, this wine is medium bodied with integrated medium plus acidity. The mouthfeel is well-balanced, smooth, and fresh with nice tension. The flavor profile is spiced red plum and stony minerality blend with notes of red licorice and oolong tea. We also detected hints of cranberry and lingonberry. The finish is dry, and its flavors, acidity, and moderate fine-grained tannins stick around for a very long time. We would pair this outstanding value Carignane with poached salmon with wild rice and raspberry vinaigrette or roasted lamb with rosemary. Enjoy – KWGTP”

93 Points

2022 Saddleback Zinfandel Calistoga Napa Valley

2022 Saddleback Zinfandel Calistoga Napa Valley

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Saddleback

Zinfandel 2022
Calistoga, Napa Valley

2022 Saddleback Zinfandel Calistoga Napa Valley

Calistoga Zinfandel takes on a deeper, more resonant voice in the 2022 Saddleback Cellars offering, where old vines translate warmth and intensity into depth and composure. The fruit arrives with presence, carried by a steady sense of control that shapes power into structure, revealing a wine defined by precision, balance, and composed authority.

The foundation lies in carefully selected old-vine sites in Calistoga, where smaller yields concentrate flavor while preserving energy. These mature vines bring layered depth, capturing both the warmth of the valley floor and the lift that defines the region at its best. This interplay gives the wine its sense of movement, where richness and freshness exist in seamless alignment.

What emerges is a Zinfandel of striking precision, its structure holding firm from the first impression through a long, composed finish. That control reflects the influence of Nils Venge, who has spent decades shaping wines that balance power with poise. That legacy comes through in every detail in this release, directing intensity into a form that feels both enduring and complete.

Saddleback
Zinfandel 2022
Calistoga, Napa Valley
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“Plump and brooding, with deep and ripe blackberry, cassis, licorice and toasty spice flavors that finish with briary tannins. Drink now through 2032. 782 cases made.”

92 Points

2022 Gritsch Riesling 1000-Eimerberg Austria

2022 Gritsch Riesling 1000-Eimerberg Austria

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Gritsch

Riesling 2022
1000-Eimerberg
Federspiel, Wachau – Austria

2022 Gritsch Riesling 1000-Eimerberg Austria

Rooted in centuries of continuity, Gritsch’s 1000-Eimerberg Federspiel Riesling draws its identity from one of the Wachau’s most enduring estates. The Mauritiushof in Spitz traces its origins to the 13th century, when it served as a place for monks to collect grapes along the Danube. In the hands of the Gritsch family since 1799, it stands today as a rare link between medieval viticulture and modern precision.

That continuity is tested and affirmed on the steep terraces of 1000-Eimerberg, a dramatic hillside rising above Spitz that defines both the challenge and character of the wine. The slopes are precipitous and unforgiving, leaving no room for shortcuts and requiring every vine to be worked by hand along ancient stone walls. This physical rigor shapes the wine’s profile, yielding fruit marked by focus, energy, and natural tension.

Dry and measured at 12.5% ABV, the 2022 vintage expresses the 1000-Eimerberg site with striking clarity. The wine moves with lift and purpose, its structure guided by natural acidity and restraint rather than weight. What lingers is a precise imprint of place, a Riesling that translates steep terraces and careful hands into a focused, articulate whole.

Gritsch
Riesling 2022
1000-Eimerberg
Federspiel, Wachau – Austria

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“The 2022 Riesling 1000-Eimerberg Federspiel is perfumed with zesty citrus tones, reminiscent of Seville orange peel. The palate is brilliantly pure and ripe, dancing in on light feet and charming with its rounded citrus ripeness. This is smooth, fresh, enticing and totally charming. Light in body and relatively mild, this is a wine to entice skeptics to Riesling. (Dry)”

90 Points

2022 Random Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon Mt. Veeder

2022 Random Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon Mt. Veeder

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Random Ridge

Cabernet Sauvignon
Mt. Veeder 2022

2022 Random Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon Mt. Veeder

At 2,000 feet above sea level, where Napa and Sonoma meet along a jagged ridgeline, Random Ridge occupies a realm defined by exposure. Winds sweep across the Mayacamas. Soils thin to fractured rock. Vines dig deep or fail. This is not comfortable farming. It is mountain viticulture at its rawest. The wines carry the imprint of that altitude, concentrated and structured, shaped by a place that refuses excess.

That intensity was no accident. In 1980, Bill Hawley began pioneering this remote site, clearing and planting ten acres the following year on slopes many would have left untouched. Now decades into maturity, the vines root through shallow, well-drained soils that naturally limit vigor and yields. From those conditions comes natural concentration forged in the ground itself.

Above the fog line, ripening unfolds with deliberation, and that composure defines the 2022 vintage. Nearly 100% Cabernet Sauvignon, sharpened with a touch of Cabernet Franc, it delivers compact, dark-fruit flavors layered with a savory, mineral edge inseparable from its rocky origins. The finish lingers, steady and assured, echoing the wind-swept ridgeline from which it came.

Random Ridge
Cabernet Sauvignon
Mt. Veeder 2022
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“The Random Ridge 2022 Mt Veeder Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon is supple and expressive, opening with layered dark fruit aromas of black cherry, ripe plum, and blackberry, savory notes of bay leaf, wild mushroom, warm spices, an earthy core of forest floor, and graphite. On the palate, concentrated yet finely balanced fruit is framed by polished structure, with nuances of dark chocolate and freshly grated nutmeg adding depth and complexity, with a distinct mountain-grown fruit tension.”

94 Points

2022 Ponzi Vineyards Pinot Noir Willamette Valley

2022 Ponzi Vineyards Pinot Noir Willamette Valley

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Ponzi Vineyard

Pinot Noir 2022
Laurelwood District
Willamette Valley

2022 Ponzi Vineyards Pinot Noir Willamette Valley

Founded in 1970 by Dick and Nancy Ponzi, Ponzi Vineyards helped define modern Oregon wine. Long before the Willamette Valley earned global acclaim for Pinot Noir, the Ponzis believed in its potential. The 2022 Laurelwood District Pinot Noir carries that conviction forward with five decades devoted to place, precision, and an unwavering faith in Oregon’s promise.

Ponzi sources this wine predominantly from its estate vineyards Avellana, Aurora, and Linda Vista, all within the Laurelwood District. Beneath the vines lies fractured basalt capped by layers of windblown loess, soils that shape architecture as much as flavor. The wine delivers a fine mineral tension that speaks directly to its origin.

The cellar work sharpens that expression. Ten percent whole-cluster fermentation adds aromatic lift, while ten months in French oak refines the tannins and adds polish. Bottled by gravity to preserve purity, the wine finishes with focus and persistence, carrying Laurelwood’s signature tension from first impression to final note.

Ponzi Vineyard
Pinot Noir 2022
Laurelwood District
Willamette Valley
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“The 2022 bottling of the Ponzi entry-level Pinot Noir punches well above its weight class. The savoury and earth-driven elements buoy the dark fruits that predominate on the wine’s finish. Rich soil notes and dried violets introduce the effusively aromatic wine, with hints of smoky clove and freshly turned soil. The palate offers redolent muddled blackberries with mint, whisps of graphite mineral tones and a finish of warm spices.”

94 Points

2022 Salus Cabernet Sauvignon Rutherford Estate

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Salus

Cabernet Sauvignon
by Staglin Family Vineyard
Rutherford Estate 2022

2022 Salus Cabernet Sauvignon Rutherford Estate

 

Some estates define a place so completely that their story becomes inseparable from the soil itself. On the southwestern edge of Rutherford, where a century and a half of viticultural history lies layered in gravel and clay, the Staglin family continues a legacy first planted in the 1860s. Each vintage conveys that sense of place, making it unmistakably Staglin and setting the bar for Rutherford excellence.

At the helm is winemaker Fredrik Johansson, whose precision and judicious winemaking define the modern Staglin style. Trained under Thomas Rivers Brown and guided by vineyard maestro David Abreu, Johansson shapes the estate’s organically farmed fruit into a Cabernet Sauvignon that radiates purity and structure.

Power meets intention in this wine. Beneath its layers of fruit lies a more profound generosity: the Staglin family’s ongoing commitment to healing the mind. Through One Mind, each bottle of Salus extends that mission, bridging the worlds of fine wine and philanthropy with rare authenticity while donating 100% of its profits. In the Staglin tradition, greatness is measured not only by acclaim but also by compassion. Bravo!

Salus
Cabernet Sauvignon
by Staglin Family Vineyard
Rutherford Estate 2022

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“Staglin Salus Estate Rutherford Cabernet Sauvignon 2022: This Rutherford Cabernet Sauvignon displays a deep ruby color with impressive concentration. The nose reveals black and blue fruits, graphite, pipe tobacco, crushed stone, and red rose petals, offering complexity without excess. On the palate, blackberries and boysenberries dominate, supported by a deep, lush, and powerful structure. The oak is balanced and integrated, adding depth rather than overwhelming the fruit. Intense and concentrated, it finishes long and elegant, with fine tannins suggesting 15-20 years of evolution. A strong effort from Staglin. Drink 2026-2042.”

96 Points

2022 Duckhorn Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley

2022 Duckhorn Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley

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Duckhorn

Cabernet Sauvignon
Napa Valley 2022

2022 Duckhorn Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley

From its earliest days, Duckhorn Vineyards has approached Napa Valley Cabernet not as a showpiece, but as a discipline. The 2022 vintage carries that philosophy forward, shaped by decades of experience and a conviction that greatness lies in proportion. Its strength comes from a deliberate balance of mountain and valley-floor fruit, yielding a wine that feels assured, composed, and unmistakably rooted in place.

That balance is established well before the cellar. By drawing from both mountain and valley-floor vineyards, the blend captures Napa Valley’s natural balance between structure and generosity. Mountain fruit brings linear intensity and aromatic lift, while valley-floor sites contribute breadth and texture. Together, they form a cohesive expression that feels layered and dimensional.

In the glass, the wine offers both immediacy and promise. Its structure and harmony invite enjoyment now, while its depth and freshness point to a long, measured evolution in the cellar. Every element feels deliberate, resulting in a wine that is authentic, grounded, and deeply satisfying from first impression through the finish.

Duckhorn
Cabernet Sauvignon
Napa Valley 2022
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“Bright and refined with aromas of blackberries, cassis, fresh tobacco, crushed stones and dark chocolate. The palate is full-bodied and polished with fine tannins and vibrant fruit. Defined and balanced with a touch of minerality. Drink or hold.” 

92 Points