Dr Snake MD

9.7

Attempting to accurately capture the depth of this cali cab is like putting socks of a rooster- you get scratched and your cock gets angry. Don’t let the fight dissuade you though because the cigar box nose lifts you towards a state of transubstantiation as medium minus acidity beckons you towards a bed of tannins. — 9 months ago

Gina Baretela Thompson

9.6

Had pilot noise but not an option I'm app. Dangerous wine, smooth and tasty. — a year 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

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

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

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

Jonathan Schleifer

9.5

Delicious Barossa Shiraz. All the better when my sister-in-law schleps it from Oz for me!

— 9 years ago

PJ

9.5

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

Lisa Burch

9.0

Tasty and inexpensive. — 10 years ago

Liz Weidner

9.9

Delicious but $16. — 11 years ago

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 — 9 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

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

Paul Koplitz

9.0

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

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

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

Sean Fischa

9.1

My new house wine — 9 years ago

Lisa Kinser

10

Great with Thanksgiving dinner! — 10 years ago

Rachel Hughes

9.0

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

RBS

9.0

Bright, tart with notes of dried apricot and a mild saline finish. — 2 years ago

Andrew Belzer

8.9

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

Mattias Söderberg

9.2

Red fruit, lesthery nose!! — 4 years ago

with Andreas

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

Natalie Farrigan

9.5

Tangerine queen. Strawberries, peaches, lilies, lavender, watermelon, tangerine. Great with the smoked pork tacos I had tonight. — 8 years ago

Lisa Hallgren

9.6

1976 Vintage. Pretty amazing. Iron & earth, tobacco, cigar box, straw, dried prunes, and dried savory. All the good stuff. — 9 years ago

Juan Munoz-Oca

8.9

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

M. Sidney Beckman

9.0

Terrific, easy drinking wine with a full fruit body. — 10 years ago

Red Wine Lovers

10

Coravin magic. Wine is shining — 11 years ago