2018’s Top 25 Wines!

It has been an amazing year of tasting, smelling & swishing wines. We tasted over 2700 wines this year, so to come up with our “own” Top 25 wines that are “the greatest” is not easy. But as always, we try to do our best! My tasting group of 16 wine swishers, wine smellers, wine “evaluators”, and my friends of Bacchus carefully evaluated the wines and came up with the following final list – For the first we could not decide on the Number 1 wine – we looked at all the criteria (Quality, Availabitliy, Dollar Cost Average) and each time our scores were the same. So we decided to award the “Wine Of the Year” to 3 Finalists! (PAUL LATO ,CARTE BLANCHE & YOUNT RIDGE )

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1 (TIED) – PAUL LATO 2016 PINOT NOIR “SUERTE” SOLOMON HILLS  – 96+ POINTS

1 (TIED) – CARTE BLANCHE 2015 CABERNET SAUVIGNON, NAPA VALLEY – 100 POINTS

1 (TIED) – YOUNT RIDGE 2017 “ESTATE” SAUVIGNON BLANC, NAPA VALLEY

4 – DuMOL 2016 CHARDONNAY RITCHIE VINEYARD “CHLOE” RUSSIAN RIVER – 97 Points

5 – HUDSON 2016 CHARDONNAY “ESTATE” CARNEROS NAPA VALLEY 96 Points

6 – HALCON 2016 PETITE SIRAH “TIERRA”– 96 Points

7 – TEXTBOOK 2016 CABERNET SAUVIGNON “MISE EN PLACE” NAPA VALLEY – 95 Points

8 – CROCKER STARR 2015 PRORIETARY RED “BRIDESMAID” NAPA VALLEY– 94 Points

9 – ARBE GARBE 2017 PROPRIETARY WHITE BLEND, RUSSIAN RIVER VALLEY – 94 Points

10 – CATTLEYA 2016 Pinot Noir “Donum Vineyard” 96 POINTS

11 – BEVAN TENCH 2016 CABERNET SAUVIGNON NAPA  ~ 98-100 Points

12 – REWA 2015 CABERNET SAUVIGNON “ESTATE” COOMBSVILLE, NAPA  – 96 Points

13 – BOOKER “MY FAVORITE NEIGHBOR” CAB BLEND 97 Points

14 – CASTIEL 2015 “CABERNET SAUVIGNON, NAPA (CELIA WELCH WINEMAKER) – 96 Points

15 – FOXTROT 2015 PINOT NOIR “ESTATE – FOXTROT VINEYARD” – 94 Points

16 PAUL LATO 2016 CHARDONNAY “BELLE DE JOUR” ~ 96 Points

17 – MC4 2015 CABERNET SAUVIGNON“Estate” NAPA VALLEY 94 Points

18 – GB CRANE 2016 “EL COCO” PROPRIETARY RED NAPA VALLEY 95 Points

19 – WALTER HANSEL 2015 CHARDONNAY “NORTH SLOPE” RUSSIANRIVER VALLEY

20– SCARLETT 2016 CABERNET SAUVIGNON ESTATE RUTHERFORD NAPA VALLEY

21 – 12c “G3” CABERNET SAUVIGNON BECKSTOFFER VINEYARD NAPA VALLEY

22 – MIKE & MOLLY 2015 “R.W. MOORE” ZINFANDEL, NAPA VALLEY

23 – SANS LIEGE XIV/XV PROPHETESS, SANTA BARBARA – 94 Points

24 – LA SIRENA 2017 MOSCATO AZUL (DRY), NAPA VALLEY

25 – LIMERICK LANE 2016 “ESTATE” ZINFANDEL RUSSIAN RIVER VALLEY95 Points