Red Wine from North Coast

Wine Enthusiast, 97 points: So delicious now you can hardly keep your hands off it. Blackberry tart ripe blueberry cassis milk chocolate licorice and sweet smoky cedar flavors flood the mouth dramatically huge and memorable and lasting long into the...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: The 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon Howell Mountain is loaded with dark, brooding intensity. Graphite, pencil shavings, mint, plums and black cherries emerge from a wall of powerful, yet well balanced tannins. Layers of rich...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 93 points: The Cabernet Franc-based 2009 Red Blend Terres Melees wraps around the palate with serious depth and richness. This is one of the more approachable of the Derenoncourt 2009s, but there is plenty of the trademark textural...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 91 points: Revana's 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon presents an intriguing and highly attractive melange of plums espresso menthol tobacco and sweet spices. This is one of the softer suppler wines of the vintage and as such it will drink...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC, 92 points: Bright ruby-red. Aromas of crushed blueberry violet spices and steak tartare. Concentrated and broad but quite backward with shy flavors of crushed dark berries and black olive. At once rich and quite dry in a style I...

Wine Spectator, 93 points: Big yet nuanced with tiers of cedar dark berry black licorice gravel and road tar this is intense chewy and tannic with an underlying measure of finesse and detail. Drink now through 2024.- J.L.

Connoisseur's Guide, 91 points: If not quite so sturdy as its Marin County mates below this wine offers a slightly more precise look at ripe cherry varietal styling and its firm yet supple mouthfeel with its slight tightness under a polished texture...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC, 96 points: Deep ruby-red. Vibrant nose offers cassis, blackberry, licorice, minerals, tobacco leaf and violet. Rich, tactile and deep, offering outstanding energy for the vintage. Boasts a rare combination of explosive fruit...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 96 points: The 2009 Les Pavots is absolutely fabulous. Mocha espresso spices plums and blackberries are just some of the many notes that jump from the glass in this seamless striking wine. The 2009 boasts exceptional textural...

Wine Spectator, 90 points: Pleasantly earthy, with a cedary edge to the core of dried dark berry. Very complete, featuring nuanced flavors that touch on graphite and tar. Firms nicely on the finish. Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink now...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 93 points: The 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon is richer and deeper than the 2008. Black cherries, flowers, licorice and spices are some of the nuances that flow from this beautifully articulated wine. Dark spices, menthol and rose petals...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC, 95 points: Bright deep ruby. Very tight nose hints at black licorice bitter chocolate menthol and flowers. Wonderfully dense and rich in the mouth but with a medicinal reserve keeping the wine's fruit under wraps today. A...