| Winery | Special Designation | Vintage | Varietal | Rating | DateTasted | Notes | Buy Again? |
| Trader Joes | Diamond Reserve Oakville Napa Valley Lot #05 | 2022 | Cabernet Sauvignon | 91 | 7/24/2024 | Immediately on nose you get a touch of gentle oak, blackberry, blackberry leaf, black plum, black cherry, cassis, leather and oyster shell minerality.
The tannins are grippy but nearly ripe with berry notes, acid is med+, the body is full, the finish is satisfyingly long, the alcohol is high.
Give it a little time to open up. Its young but had its legs already. Ready to drink. The nose can be a little elusive, but it has plenty of fruit. Where it shines is the decent concentration and a satisfying complexity on the palate. The acidity, the sweet tannins and the tart fruit balance each other out.
And as it breathes, we got a really pretty phreesia sweet spiciness on the nose and palate that wasnt there at first. Kicked the rating up to a 91. | y |
| Beaulieu Vineyard | Carnegie | 2021 | Pinot Noir | 91 | 7/22/2024 | | y |
| Beaulieu Vineyard | Reserve Napa Valley | 2019 | Malbec | 92 | 7/22/2024 | | y |
| Beaulieu Vineyard | Clone 6 | 2018 | Cabernet Sauvignon | 95 | 7/22/2024 | | y |
| Beaulieu Vineyard | Clone 4 | 2018 | Cabernet Sauvignon | 96 | 7/22/2024 | | y |
| Beaulieu Vineyard | Clon169 | 2020 | Cabernet Sauvignon | 95 | 7/22/2024 | | y |
| Beaulieu Vineyard | George de la Tour Private Reserve | 2018 | Cabernet Sauvignon | 97 | 7/22/2024 | | y |
| Beaulieu Vineyard | Hewitt Vineyard Rutherford, Napa Valley | 2019 | Cabernet Sauvignon | 97 | 7/22/2024 | | y |
| Domaine de la Charbonniere | Chateauneuf-du-Pape | 2020 | Chateauneuf-du-Pape | 93 | 7/22/2024 | The wine is a chateauneuf-du-pape textbook example. It has all the classic notes of berries, cocoa, game, licorice and plum. Get it on Wine.com for $49.99. | y |
| Tres Sabores Winery | Ingrid and Julia Rose | 2023 | Rose Blend | 90 | 7/22/2024 | Zin and Petite Sirah | n |
| Tres Sabores Winery | | 2023 | Sauvignon Blanc | 89 | 7/22/2024 | | n |
| Tres Sabores Winery | Thing Cap Blend | 2022 | Blend (Red Table Wine) | 91 | 7/22/2024 | St Laurent and Malbec | y |
| Tres Sabores Winery | | 2022 | St Laurent | 91 | 7/22/2024 | | y |
| Tres Sabores Winery | Por Que No | 2022 | Blend (Red Table Wine) | 90 | 7/22/2024 | Zinfandel, Petite Sirah, Petite Verdot and Cab | y |
| Tres Sabores Winery | Rutherford Perspective | 2021 | Cabernet Sauvignon | 90 | 7/22/2024 | | y |
| Tres Sabores Winery | | 2014 | Zinfandel | 91 | 7/22/2024 | | y |
| Turnbull | Josephine | 2023 | Sauvignon Blanc | 90 | 7/22/2024 | | y |
| Turnbull | Oakville Reserve | 2021 | Cabernet Sauvignon | 93 | 7/22/2024 | | y |
| Turnbull | Fortuna Vineyard | 2020 | Cabernet Sauvignon | 95 | 7/22/2024 | Intense, concentrated, lovely wine. | y |
| Turnbull | Amoenus Vineyard, Calistoga | 2018 | Cabernet Sauvignon | 94 | 7/22/2024 | Intense, concentrated, lovely wine. | y |
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