94 Points - Antonio Galloni, Vinous
92 points - Vinous
Powerful and virile in the glass, the 2012 Pinot Noir Kessler-Haak Vineyard boasts notable intensity. A firm spine of tannin gives the wine much of its personality and drive. Succulent red cherries, mint, exotic spices and wild flowers open up over time, but it is the wine's persistence and exquisite beauty that truly elevate it.
90 Points - Antonio Galloni, Vinous
Bold, rich and explosive, the 2013 Pinot Noir Las Hermanas Vineyard is a classic Sta. Rita Hills Pinot built on exuberant fruit and a real sense of flamboyance. The 50% whole clusters are nearly buried. Lavender, violet, cloves, new leather and licorice wrap around a core of blue/purplish-hued fruits. Even with all of its overtness, the 2013 retains striking freshness.
94 points - Wine Advocate
95 points - Jeb Dunnuck
92 Points - Antonio Galloni, Vinous
95 points - EDITOR'S CHOICE - Wine Enthusiast
There's extreme, maybe even obscene, amounts of cracked black pepper on the savory nose of this cool-climate expression, which comes from the same 12 rows each vintage. There are also scents of roasted beef, asphalt and a pinch of lavender. The pepper character coats the palate too, diced by lively acidity. This is, perhaps, the most pitch-perfect show of Côte-Rôtie in California to date. -Matt Kettmann
96 points - Jeb Dunnuck
93 Points - The Wine Enthusiast
93 Points - Wine Enthusiast
Elegant, meaning bright and fresh with notes of red fruit; cranberries, raspberries, and pomegranate, with more savory, umami, and wild flavors and aromatics behind the red fruit. Light bodied, fine tannin and bright acid give this wine length, focus, and a long finish. The 2017 Cargasacchi Vineyard Pinot Noir is crunchy and fun and drinking well right now.
94 Points - Wine Enthusiast
Las Hermanas Vineyard sits to the west of the Melville Estate Vineyard, just 8 miles from the ocean. It is planted on over six different soil types, all of marine origin. SAMsARA’s four rows of clone 115 Pinot Noir are located towards the top of the vineyard, where it is well-drained and aggressively sloped. This wine showcases loads of peppercorns, wild thyme, tobacco and pine-needle aromas ride across crisp raspberry fruit on the nose of this bottling by winemaker Matt Brady. Those herbal flavors dominate the palate as well, where wild chaparral tones meet with crunchy cranberry fruit. - Matt Kettmann
94 points - Erin Brooks, The Wine Advocate
93 points - Matt Kettmann, Wine Enthusiast
Our Reserve Syrah bottling from 2018 is a 2 barrel selection crafted for a powerful, complex wine that is more representative of the style than vineyard. This wine is meant to age, and held in barrel and bottle longer before release than any other Syrah we make. It's the best two barrels of the 2018 vintage, carefully chosen by our winemaker, Matt Brady. This wine jumps out of the glass with bold aromatics of bay leaf, peppermill, cassis and eucalyptus. These notes resonate on the palate with structure and texture that begs to be paired with a steak or cut of wild game. -Lily Hays, Direct to Consumer Business Manager
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95 points - Matt Kettmann, Wine Enthusiast
93 points - Wine & Spirits
94+ points - Antonio Galloni, Vinous
"The 2019 Pinot Noir Lotus is a selection of the best two barrels in the cellar. The Lotus is a bit more perfumed and lighter in body than most of the other Pinots, largely owing to generous use of stems here. It's a style that works especially well in 2019. Time in the glass releases a whole range of purplish, fruit, lavender, spice and menthol. I would give this a year or two in the cellar." -Antonio Galloni
94 points - Matt Kettmann, Wine Enthusiast
95 points - Erin Brooks, The Wine Advocate
94 points - Jeb Dunnuck
92 points - Antonio Galloni, Vinous
92 points - Matt Kettmann, Wine Enthusiast, Editor's Choice
91 points - Antonio Galloni, Vinous
95 points - Antonio Galloni, Vinous
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94 points - Antonio Galloni, Vinous
97 points - Matt Kettmann, Wine Enthusiast
96 points - Matt Kettmann, Wine Enthusiast
94+ points - The Wine Advocate
93+ points - Jeb Dunnuck
92 points - Matt Kettman, Wine Enthusiast
98 points - James Suckling
97 points - Jeb Dunnuck
94 points - James Suckling
93 points - Jeb Dunnuck
91 points - Matt Kettmann, Wine Enthusiast
93 points - James Suckling
97 points - Wine Enthusiast
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