91-93 Points | International Wine Cellar , May/June 2013

(from vines picked on November 2):  Good bright medium ruby.  Blue fruits, licorice, minerals and earth, complemented by sweet oak notes.  Densely packed and glyceral but bright too, with intriguing sweetness and excellent delineation of its black cherry and mineral flavors.  Finishes with suave tannins and noteworthy aromatic persistence.  Winemaker Thomas Brown noted that there was less botrytis pressure above the fog layer high on Howell Mountain in 2011, and that this vintage had the potential to produce wines with very good density of material.

91-94 Points | Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate