Reserve, North Coast – 2004 – 93 points – Connoisseurs’ Guide to California Wine
93 points
“On the verge of true grandeur yet a little on the angular, sharp side at the margins, this rather outgoing, almost powerful sparkling wine suffers no shortfall of personality, and there will be plenty of takers for its immensely toasty, developed, explosively bubbled approach. It charges into power from the first sip, and neither its mousse nor its complex, toast, soy, lemon rind flavors give any quarter from front to back. We are put in mind of Bollinger’s Grande Année and comfortably recommend this wine as its American peer to any who like that French grand mark.”
Reserve, North Coast – 2004 – 93 points – Connoisseurs’ Guide to California Wine