Andrew Cullimore

9.5

Lighter ruby core quite wide garnet rim . Quite exotic red berries with dried spices, damson plum , needs time to open up . Touch of tobacco and cigar box. On the palate more mineral with very elegant spiced red fruits , good acidity , very rounded suave tannins . Long and well balanced finish — 10 months ago

Doug Powers

9.4

Cassis, blackcurrants, cigar box in this lovely, still youthful Bordeaux, really nice balance, seems very fresh still, long finish, terrific bottle!! — a year ago

with Jim

Andrew Belzer

8.9

Leather, cigar box, with some acid and sling bitterness on the finish — 3 years ago

Garen Staglin

9.5

Eucalyptus, and cigar box. Cellared direct from winery. Holding up extremely well. Last bottle. 🥵 — 4 years ago

Paul Koplitz

9.0

Best box wine I’ve had. Worth every penny. — 6 years ago

Rob lupella

9.4

Good. Flavors of tobacco. Lighting but not in bad way. Will buy again — 6 years ago

John Hubbell

9.4

Love the he nose. Great balance with leather, spice and cigar box. This sill has some life — 7 years ago

with Jim, Allison and 1 other

Sam C

9.9

Love it! Classy as fuck! You yuppies get this in a blind taste test and ... I lost my train of thought. — 8 years ago

PJ

9.5

Great way to warm up on a 20 degree night! 🍷 — 9 years ago

Lisa Kinser

10

Great with Thanksgiving dinner! — 10 years ago

Jakub Kalinowski

9.6

Perfectly evolved & peaking right now.
This is classical Bordeaux heaven!
Sous-bois, dusty wardrobe, pencil shavings, cigar box and (still!) some black currant. Surprisingly fresh on the nose and even fresher on the palate. Light medium body, the tannins completely mellowed and fully integrated, vibrant juicy acidity.
This is poised, so elegant, so drinkable and with amazing depth. And with bright freshness. What a delight!
A singing beauty!! — 10 months ago

Gina Baretela Thompson

9.6

Had pilot noise but not an option I'm app. Dangerous wine, smooth and tasty. — 2 years ago

Ron Siegel

9.4

This was still youthful at 16 yrs showing good balance with notes of dark fruits, expresso, graphite, smoke, leather, spice box & tobacco. One of my favorite Cali producers that offers a Bordeaux styled wine. — 3 years ago

Mattias Söderberg

9.2

Red fruit, lesthery nose!! — 4 years ago

with Andreas

John A

9.5

Sometimes words are not enough...truly fabulous. Still has two decades of life. Blue and black fruits. Still a dark purple that gives no hint to its age. Black currants, tobacco, spice box....phenomenal effort. Lucky to share this with Julia and to have one more bottle left. — 5 years ago

Mark Flesher

9.3

This wine had some tobacco and earth FUNK after it was opened up. The herbaceous and tobacco ash note on the nose was almost identical to the 1980 Beringer State Lane cab. This did blow off after an hour, but the wine was less fruit than I thought it would have been. Lots of dark figgy jam. Tobacco and cigar box. I'm sure the fruit came back after I left, but this would have been 2 hours after opening and just didn't have the time to see this one though, hence the "NR" rating. Impressed by this wine, and probably one of the older Monte Bello wines I've been able to drink. — 7 years ago

with Benjamin

Weijie Shi (Jay)

9.0

Black fruits, cedar box, liquorice, cigar box, menthol. Huge structure, chewy tannin, slightly green on the palate, 30s finish. Need more time. 2012 vintage — 8 years ago

Juan Munoz-Oca

8.9

Cigar box, a bit reduced at first but opens up to lovely dry fruits — 9 years ago

Sean Fischa

9.1

My new house wine — 10 years ago

Liz Weidner

9.9

Delicious but $16. — 11 years ago

Tom Garland

9.3

2 hour decant(decent fine/chunky sediment). A majestic purplish dark magenta color. On the nose: bursting from the glass are notes of red and black fruit, charred wood, milk chocolate, some mint, touch of cigar box. Taste: smooth, delicate, elegant wine with red berries/plum, leather, gravel, herbaceous, mocha, and a spiced tobacco medium plus finish. YUM! Drinks well with the decant, but no hurry, time to go. — a year ago

with Brenda

Eric L.

10

Russell hit a home run with this 2011. Wow! — 2 years ago

William Goldsmith

9.7

Elegant as Bevan goes. Not quite Parker 100 but quite good, esp for 2011. I’ve raised the rating twice. — 4 years ago

with Harry and Ryann

Jonathan Toobi

9.3

Love this unfiltered red blend, gallivanter, nice acidic start and berry finish, light to medium bodied, really tasty and easy drinking, — 4 years ago

Michael Sixbey

8.9

Good wine but needs to breathe a bit first — 6 years ago

Colin Cahoon

9.4

Classic Rioja. Dark cherry and blackberry nose with cigar box in the background. More dark cherry, plum, leather and mocha on the palate. Chewy tannins and lingering acid through the finish. Powerful but balanced from start to finish. — 7 years ago

Scorewine

Wine writer http://www.israelwines.co.il

9.0

A fantastic 2002, this lovely wine shows once more that today there aren't really bad years in Bordeaux, this Pontet Canet was well structured rich and tempting. Deep red, tempting rich multi layered nose ripe cherries, black current, coffee, cigar box, and tea leaves, full rich body, dry tannins, full of black fruit, high acidity and a long chewy finish. Was worth the wait, my score 90. Drink to 2022 — 8 years ago

Rease Kirchner

9.0

This is amazing. 4 bottles of wine in a keg box for so cheap? And the wine is delicious? I am in love. — 9 years ago

with Maria

Lisa Burch

9.0

Tasty and inexpensive. — 10 years ago

Rachel Hughes

9.0

Shiraz (70%), Cabernet Sauvignon (23%), Merlot (7%)
2009
Padthaway, Australia — 12 years ago