90+ Point Wines: 2018

A fresh nose with good depth and complexity. Spiced cherries, berries, dark chocolate and touches of wet earth and mushrooms. Medium-bodied and succulent on the palate, with lots of juicy fruit and a very long, fine-grained finish.... Read More

This powerful red is hallmarked by forthcoming aromas of black cherry, blackberry, iron, tar and tobacco. Burly tannins prowl in the background as this unfurls to a long, detailed finish. Balanced in a broad-shouldered way.... Read More

A well-constructed wine that is ripe with black fruits and integrated tannins, this is in a good place for aging. Black-currant fruitiness is balanced by a dry, smoky core that holds promise. Drink this wine from 2026. Editors’... Read More

This grand chateau on its hillside surveys a 150-acre vineyard. The top wine from the estate, this is mainly wood aged, giving polish as well as perfumed black-currant fruitiness. With its ripe tannins, the wine will easily age.... Read More

Juicy and compact now, with dark currant, blackberry and fig notes at the core, surrounded by lots of warm earth, singed alder and tobacco leaf notes. Cast iron note helps extend the finish, with the fruit and earth notes keeping... Read More

This wine offers rich tannins and dense black fruits in equal proportions. The structure, with the dry core, shows great promise and the wine is definitely worth aging. Drink from 2024.

82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Merlot

Espresso crema and melted black licorice aromas give way to a lush range of cassis, plum reduction and blackberry confiture flavors that roll through with authority. Long finish is carried by a buried graphite note and hint of... Read More

Sharing the same provenance as our legendary Vintage Ports, our 2018 LBV is made using grapes from our best-performing plots at Quinta do Bomfim and Quinta da Senhora da Ribeira.

Aged in oak vats for up to six years before being... Read More

Dry River's 2018 Pinot Noir boasts scents of earth, cola and plum. It's plush and atypically soft on the medium-bodied palate—no doubt the product of a warm vintage—which makes it approachable now, yet it appears... Read More

Smoky cherry, raspberry, earth and iron flavors course through this dense yet lively red, with powdery, cocoalike tannins on the finish. Balanced and ready to enjoy. Sangiovese and Colorino. Drink now through 2028. 2,000 cases... Read More

A wine of two parts, offering a nose of restraint before a judiciously endowed, nicely weighted palate of savoriness and ample freshness. Far from a blockbuster, yet mitigating this to an extent with a chord of freshness, cherry... Read More

Made from the producer's estate Monument Ridge, blocks that rise from 400 to 2,400 feet, this balanced, elegant wine is refined and savory, with classic structure. Crushed rock, mountain sage, pine and dusty tannin support... Read More

Some musky undertones to the dried lavender, currants, sour cherries and chocolate. Full body with chalky tannins. A little rustic at the moment but will soften. Try in 2024.