Red Wine from North Coast

Antonio Galloni's Vinous, 95 points: The 2013 Red Blend Mernet Reserve, Keenan's Merlot/Cabernet Sauvignon blend is striking. Like so many wines in this vintage, however, it probably won't be ready to drink for a number of years. Still, there is an...

Antonio Galloni's Vinous, 95 points: The 2013 Red Blend Mernet Reserve, Keenan's Merlot/Cabernet Sauvignon blend is striking. Like so many wines in this vintage, however, it probably won't be ready to drink for a number of years. Still, there is an...

jamessuckling.com, 97 points: An aromatic and complex red with currant, white-chocolate and rose-petal character. Full-bodied, tight and polished. Fine and long. Beautiful now but will improve in time.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: The 2013 Firebelle Proprietary Red is a blend of 76% Merlot, 19% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Petit Verdot. This wine shows loads of roasted espresso notes mixed with white chocolate, plum, black cherry and currant. The wine...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 91 points: The 2013 Proprietary Red Blend Elevage, a blend of 53.3% Merlot, 33.3% Cabernet Sauvignon and the rest Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc, comes in at 14.8% natural alcohol. Deep ruby/purple, beautiful fruit and an elegant...

Vinous, 94 points: Here in its first vintage, the 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Sacrashe captures all the best qualities of this site and the Hall style. Waves of intense dark fruit, gravel, mocha, spice and leather build as this virile...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 98 points: 98+ The 2013 Insignia (their 40th vintage) is a blend of 88% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Petit Verdot, and the rest Merlot, Malbec and Cabernet Franc. This wine is aged 24 months in 100% new French oak barrels, and the...

Antonio Galloni's Vinous, 94 points: The 2013 Mekerra, a Cabernet Franc/Merlot blend, is powerful, dense and concentrated, with a real sense of power and overtness. Black cherry, plum, mocha and graphite are some of the notes that flesh out as the wine shows...