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Drinking Window: 2025-2032 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 91 CT Region: Napa Valley, California ABV: 15.4% "Plush aromas of blackberry compote, graphite, blueberries and blood plums. The palate is full-bodied with finely integrated tannins and bright acidity, showing a generous, creamy texture and lingering notes of mocha and bramble berries. Fresh and polished for this hot vintage. Drink or hold." *James Suckling - Tasted January 2025
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Drinking Window: 2025-2035 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 95 James Suckling Region: Napa Valley ABV: 14.7-14.8%"A super creamy, delicious and detailed red with oodles of red fruit, silky tannins and a full body. It tastes pure, fresh, almost delicate, offering raspberries, cherry cream, blueberries, cafe au lait and subtle oak toast on the palate. A gentle, layered, pretty wine that seems not at all affected by the wildfire smoke that year. Drinkable now, but best from 2030."* James Suckling - Tasted: April 2025
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Drinking Window: 2025 - 2046 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 99 TP Region: Paso Robles ABV: 15.2% "Opulent with purity and charm, giving aromas of blackberry and cherry, fig, dark chocolate, sweet tobacco, cedar and licorice with a mineral undertone. The palate is full-bodied with finely integrated tannins, balanced acidity and a plush, layered mouthfeel with a silken, refined feel. A blend of 76% cabernet sauvignon, 16% cabernet franc and 6% petit verdot. Drink or hold." * James Suckling - Tasted: June 2026
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Drinking Window: 2023-2039 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 93 JS Region: Napa Valley, California ABV: 15.0% "A solid red with blackberries and dark chocolate, as well as crushed-stone character. Medium body and layered tannins. Attractive now, but give it time. Better in 2025." *James Suckling Tasted March 2022
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Drinking Window: 2025-2055 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 98 DE Region: Napa Valley ABV: 14.8% "Scarecrow’s M. Étain label – French for 'Tin Man' – debuted in 2008. "We wanted to create a companion label to Scarecrow utilizing the younger blocks, or cuts of Clone 337 that were too abundant for the flagship bottling," explains winemaker Celia Welch. The 2022 vintage is a blend of 87% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Malbec, 5% Merlot and 3% Petit Verdot, all sourced from the J.J. Cohn estate in Rutherford, aged for 18 months in 60% new French oak and bottled unfined and unfiltered. In 2023, the wine reads as quintessential Rutherford, opening with perfectly ripe boysenberry and cherry before building into classic site signatures of dusty minerality, unsweetened cocoa powder and a hint of bergamot. As Welch notes, there is also a subtle touch of sweet basil—a detail that captures Rutherford’s terroir beautifully, that dusty earth component edged with gentle sweetness. The palate unfolds with impressive density and richness, yet retains lift, carried by blue, black and red fruit and generous cocoa-powder tannins through the expressive finish. Utterly delicious and immediately drinkable, yet firmly structured to evolve gracefully. Farming in 2023 was overseen by Domenick Bianco, formerly of Joseph Phelps Vineyards." * Johnathan Cristaldi, Decanter - Tasted: March 2026
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Drinking Window: 2027 - 2045 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 95 RP, 95 CT Region: Napa Valley ABV: 14.5 - 15.7%
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Drinking Window: 2023 - 2035 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 95 CT Region: Napa Valley ABV: 14.8% "The 2016 Lake William reflects the totality of its provenance and the promise our founder first saw when walking the property. Each facet combines to provide a harmonic balance of freshness and energy. Deep impactful color and floral on the nose, elegant black fruit, smoke and wet stone are delicately woven alongside a sophisticated acidity across the palate. The density of fruit provides generous weight that leads to balanced tannin and a distinguished, vibrant finish." * Winery Notes
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Drinking Window: 2027 - 2045 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 95 JS Region: Napa Valley ABV: 14.7% "A classic Georges III with purity and refinement, giving aromas of black currants, wet stones, salt-cured meat and blackberries. The palate is full-bodied with mouthwatering, melting tannins, bright acidity, a luscious, mineral-edged finish and a savory, earthy undertone. Delicious, with plenty of aging potential. Drink or hold." * James Suckling - Tasted: Dec. 2025
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Drinking Window: 2027 - 2045 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 95 JS Region: Napa Valley ABV: 14.7 - 15.2% "This is bold and savory, with aromas of dark fruit, meat, licorice, wet stones and bitter chocolate. The palate is firmly structured with an impactful mouthfeel and an earth-driven finish. A bold wine that will benefit from aging, yet there’s plenty to like now. Drink or hold." * James Suckling - Tasted: Dec. 2025
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Drinking Window: 2025 - 2045 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 98 RP, 98 JA, 98 WS, 98 WA Region: Napa Valley ABV:14.5 - 15%"A terrific effort from a challenging vintage, Chappellet's 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon Pritchard Hill—94% Cabernet Sauvignon and 6% Petit Verdot—boasts expressive scents of cassis, blackberries, vanilla and caramel. It's full-bodied, supple, generous, deep and round, expansive on the palate and framed by soft, fully ripe tannins and hints of mocha on the lingering, velvety finish. Showy, impressive and delicious, it should drink well for a couple of decades." * Joe Czewinski, Wine Advocate - Tasted: Feb. 2025
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Drinking Window: 2023-2038 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 94 JS, 96 JD Region: Napa Valley ABV: 14.7% "Plenty of blueberry, dark chocolate and light vanilla character, but not overdone. It’s medium-to full-bodied with fine tannins and a linear finish. Drinkable now, but better in 2024." * James Suckling - Tasted: November 2021
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Drinking Window: 2025- 2045 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 95 RP, 97 WS Region: Napa Valley ABV: 15.7% "Dark-fruited aromas of mulberries, blackcurrants, violets, graphite and potpourri. The palate is full-bodied with firmly framed tannins and bright acidity, giving notes of mocha, blackberry bush, wet stones, dried herbs and raspberries. There is quite a mineral edge to this wine, with a underlying power. Drink or hold." * James Suckling - Tasted: January 2025
