We are pleased to announce that our Howell Mountain Vineyards 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon received a Gold Medal & 92 point rating from American Fine Wine Competition.
We are pleased to announce that our Howell Mountain Vineyards 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon was awarded 92 Points from Wine Enthusiast Magazine!
We are pleased to announce that our Howell Mountain Vineyards 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon received a Double Gold Medal & 92 point rating from American Fine Wine Competition.
We are pleased to announce that our Howell Mountain Vineyards 2017 Old Vine Zinfandel received a Gold Medal & 93 point rating from American Fine Wine Competition.
We are pleased to announce that our Howell Mountain Vineyards 2016 Beatty Ranch Zinfandel received a 90 rating from Wine Enthusiast:
“Structured tart red cherry and orange peel accent a robust grip of tannin and weighty power in this bold wine, made in small amounts from the mountain site. Black pepper, licorice and cola contribute spicy seasoning against the bigger notions of fruit and texture.”
- VIRGINIE BOONE, WINE ENTHUSIAST MAGAZINE
We are pleased to announce that our Howell Mountain Vineyards 2015 Beatty Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon received a coveted 1-Puff rating from Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine:
“True to the sturdier, slightly tougher norms of Howell Mountain Cabernets, the winery's solidly constructed Beatty Ranch bottling teases with touches of minerally complexity but is, in the main, fairly closed-in and brooding once past its moderately intense, ripe currant aromas. It is presently beat up by more than a bit of back-palate tannin, but, even if dissuasively astringent at the moment, it conveys an always-convincing sense of fruity substance and depth that raises real optimism for age. Hasty drinking is best avoided, and, although a minimum of five or six years of patience is recommended, another half-dozen could pass before it rounds into its best.”
We are pleased to announce that our Howell Mountain Vineyards 2015 Petit Verdot received a Gold Medal and 96 points from the American Fine Wine Competition.
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“Hauntingly dark in the glass at first site, our 2015 Howell Mountain Petit Verdot exhibits the classic characteristics of this highly tannic, black fruit grape. The light crop and smaller than normal berries produced a dense, chewy, full structured wine with firm tannins. On the palate, the hints of blackberry, blueberry and earthy, cigar box and leather notes fought its way through the tannins. This wine continues its dark fruit decent into the palate and finishes with a long mouth-drying finish with firm tannins and gripping acid, begging for this wine to be cellared up to 12-15 years.”
We are pleased to announce that our Howell Mountain Vineyards 2016 Old Vine Zinfandel received a Gold Medal from the 12th Annual American Fine Wines Competition.
We are pleased to announce that our Howell Mountain Vineyards 2016 Old Vine Zinfandel received a 91 point rating & Two Puffs from Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine:
Ample ripeness, as this well-made Zinfandel so capably demonstrates, need not come at the cost of balance and polish, and, when met with as much deep and energetic fruit as is on display here, is no liability. The wine is quite full in body but is not sprawling or oversized, and its linear, very long-lasting flavors are marked by a striking sense of varietal purity and early gleanings of further layering to come with age. We see it deepening and becoming even more interesting with time, and, while not at all difficult to taste now, it is sure to reward a good half-decade of keeping.
