“Open-textured and welcoming, this brims with gorgeous currant, plum, boysenberry, star anise and cream flavors, lingering on the finish unencumbered by tannins or excess oak. A gorgeous wine that should develop with age.”
-Harvey Steiman
“Each year, Wine Spectator editors survey the wines reviewed over the previous 12 months and select our Top 100, based on quality, value, availability and excitement. Since 2009 was a year of economic retrenchment, we focused closely on value to choose our newest list from more than 17,000 wines.”
-Editors, Wine Spectator
"I look through a year's worth of tasting notes and select one wine from each of 100 wineries for inclusion. This ranking is not done strictly by the numbers, though I scored all these wines 90 points or higher on the 100-point scale."
-Paul Gregutt, The Seattle Times