91 Points | International Wine Cellar , May/June 2012

(15.5% alcohol, from a blend of clones 337 and 7):  Bright ruby-red.  Wild aromas of raspberry, blackberry, leather, licorice, smoke and game.  Lush and large-scaled, with a slightly liqueur-like quality to the black raspberry and creamy oak flavors.  Finishes with big but ripe tannins and a lingering chocolate liqueur flavor.  The rather muscular clone 7 tannins are always slow to evolve, notes winemaker Bob Foley.  Still a bit reduced today and worth following.  (My sample of the Petite Sirah was distinctly porty and too chocolatey-hot for me.)

92 Points | Wine Spectator