2017 Wine

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 93 points: A blend of Zinfandel, Petite Sirah, Syrah and Grenache, aged eight months in 30% new French oak, the deep garnet-purple colored 2017 Red Blend 8 Years in the Desert bursts forth with blackberry pie, warm cassis, licorice...

Decanter, 95 points: Peaches, lemons, red apples and tropical fruit leap from the glass. Quite a textural Sauvignon Blanc with sweet grass, grapefruit, nut and subtle honey flavours and a rich and creamy palate. An interesting example with...

jebdunnuck.com, 93 points: The 2017 Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc from Ferrando offers a beautiful minerality as well as rich, full-bodied aromas and flavors, ample honeyed notes, remarkable purity, and a great finish. It's rich and textured, yet also...

Luca Maroni, 99 points: Its natural and technical talent of fruity fragrance gives this wine a wonderful oenological and oxidative integrity of its juicy and chlorophyllic grape flavors. Its thick and dense consistency, its citrusy scent, always...

Wine Enthusiast, 93 points: (93 points) Grown on the producer's Home Ranch, this offers flavors of juicy peach, stone and white flower, with the midpalate bringing tangy tones of Meyer lemon and grapefruit. Balanced through and through, it shows...

jamessuckling.com, 92 points: This is so lovely with the strawberry and cream character but also so much minerality in the form of slate and chalk. Medium-bodied, this glides rather effortlessly on the palate but still shows flavorful notes of peaches...

jamessuckling.com, 93 points: Pungent passion fruit and fragrant melon, Tahitian lime citrus, this really takes sauvignon to another place for Marlborough, exposing the edgy, exciting and minerally possibilities whilst embracing the rampant intensity...

jamessuckling.com, 91 points: Big morello cherry and blueberry fruit as well as hints of earth and spices (and restrained oak!). Moderately tannic. A clean finish. Rather fascinating. Easy to drink now.

Wine & Spirits, 92 points: “This feels like fine Italian cashmere,” said tasting director Sarah Sutel Looper when she tasted this wine. A pale rosé based on mourvedre, with small amounts of grenache and cinsault, it’s reticent at first, needing...

Wine Enthusiast, 90 points: A wallflower when compared to other, more aggressively aromatic Kiwi Sauvignon Blancs, this wine offers hints of citrus, stone fruit, flowers and grass on the nose. The palate is of most interest here: It's linear and...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 91 points: The 2017 Single Vineyard Taylors Pass Sauvignon Blanc continues this vineyard's fine tradition for producing aromatic, distinctive Sauvignon Blanc. It combines hints of crushed tomato leaf and nettles with passion fruit...