Dark, deep and dense with a rich and extracted nose of fully ripe cherries that accurately predicts the comparatively big flavors that follow, the Hudson Vineyards bottling is the weightiest and most fully stuffed of the Davies lot, and it more than makes up in staying power and sheer fruity strength for what it may lack in finesse. That said, it is not a clumsy or unbalanced wine, and its sights remain fixed on concentrated cherries throughout. It will take to age nicely and will grow for a half-decade or more, and, whether enjoyed now or later, it is Pinot that wants drinking with heartier foods. - Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine (October 2017)

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The 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Jamie has a sensational nose of rich blackcurrants, spice box, Christmas fruitcake and earth. By far the richest and most complete and multi-dimensional of the wines, but also twice the price of everything else. This is a beauty with super-smooth tannins, big full-bodied opulence and loads of red and black fruits, flowers and spice. Drink it over the next 15-20 years. - Wine Advocate (December 2015)

....there is plenty of intensity and breadth in the plush, rich flavors, along with plenty of Diamond Mountain structure that sweeps across the palate. The 2013 finishes with striking aromatics and class, but it needs time to fully come together. - Vinous - Antonio Galloni (October 2015)

Aims big but ends elegant, with a rich, well-defined core of currant, anise, graphite, cedar and tobacco flavors. Firms throughout and is best-served by short-term cellaring. Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec and Petit Verdot. - Wine Spectator (Web Only - 2017)

Blended of 65% Chardonnay and 35% Pinot Noir coming predominately from Sonoma, the 2009 J Schram Rose has a very pale salmon/amber color and pronounced potpourri, kirsch, apple pie and cinnamon stick nose. The palate is very fine and fresh, with evolved fruit and autolytic notes layering on the complexity, finishing long and harmonious. - Wine Advocate (October 2017)

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An especially deep-gold color and enticing, expansive aromas indicate the extra aging time this Pinot Noir-based bubbly went through. Ripe pear, honey and toasted-almond notes weave across the palate as a rich mouthfeel is picked up by fine yet persistent bubbles. It is a delicious, mature wine that shows how complex and rewarding California sparkling wine can be with time. Keep through 2022. - Wine Enthusiast (November 2017)

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A blend of 80% Cabernet Sauvignon,17% Malbec and the rest Petit Verdot, this is another gorgeously elegant, beautiful wine with terrific purity, plenty of blue, red and black fruits, some floral notes, medium to full body, supple tannins and a layered mouthfeel that builds incrementally to a long, long finish. This superb wine represents a perfect style between the elegance of Bordeaux and the ripeness and exuberance of a Napa Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink it over the next 20 years. - The Wine Advocate (December 2016)

The 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon J. Davies is the most powerful and tightly wound of the wines I saw. Firm Diamond Mountain tannins give the wines much of their distinctive personality. Graphite, smoke, licorice, black cherry, lavender and savory herbs develop in the glass, adding considerable complexity. Bright saline notes give the wine a final burst of energy on the close - Vinous (December 2016)

Makes an assertive statement, with rich, loamy earth, dark berry, licorice, mocha and crushed rock flavors, holding focus and gaining depth and nuance. Maintains complexity from start to finish. Best from 2019 through 2030. - Wine Spectator (October 2017)

Sourced mainly from Napa with some Mendocino, Sonoma and Marin fruit, the 100% Chardonnay 2006 Blanc de Blancs LD has a captivating nose of honeyed toast, dried apricots, preserved lemons and quince paste with touches of cashews, incense and anise. The palate explodes with decadent savory and spice layers, supported by the racy backbone and seamless, brut-level dosage, finishing with fantastic length. - Wine Advocate (October 2017)

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From a site on Howell Mountain, the 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Red Cap is an exotic wine. Orange peel, rose petal, smoke and bright red-toned fruit are some of the signatures. The Red Cap is a delicate, at times ethereal, Cabernet that emphasizes understated finesse above all else. - Vinous (December 2016)

Cabernets from Howell Mountain are more often than not cut from sturdy cloth and can be unforgivingly tannic when young, but the new Red Cap bottling from Davies is an uncommonly refined version that trades sinew for suppleness and finesse. It is solidly Cabernet in focus and fruit and shows lovely accents of sweet oak and dusty soil to its ongoing message of very deep and sustained currants. Its hard-to-miss sense of layering and terrific palatal length are the certain signs of even better to come, and, if those short on patience will find lots to like in the shorter term, those with the self-discipline to wait for another five-plus years will be handsomely rewarded. - Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine (December 2017)

Pure and rich, this is focused on dense dark berry, mocha, licorice and cedary oak flavors. Packs a wallop, yet has touches of grace and finesse if you look. Best from 2020 through 2032. - Wine Spectator (October 2017)

Suave, silky and sophisticated, the 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Winfield Vineyard captures all the finesse of the vintage. The flavors are bright and nicely focused throughout, with plenty of creaminess and texture. Bright red cherry fruit and pomegranate, rose petal and sweet spice notes wrap around the silky, polished finish. - Vinous (December 2016)

This is a beauty. Beautiful blueberry, black raspberry and blackcurrant fruit mixed with incense and spring flowers are followed by a medium to full-bodied wine with silky tannins, a layered complexity and texture, a long finish and beautiful purity and elegance. This combines power, finesse and gracefulness into a substantial and flavorful wine to drink now and over the next 15 or so years. - Wine Advocate (December 2016)

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Made entirely from Chardonnay grapes grown in one site, the inaugural vintage of this cuvée is delicious. It offers a rich core of almond paste flavor, with inviting peach, apple and pear fruit tones, all while remaining light, bright and highlighted with wet stone and gravel. - Wine Enthusiast Buying Guide (July 2017)

Emphatically Blanc de Blancs in its firm, tight, brisk, yeasty, rich and austerely refined construction, this impressive bottling hits all the expected marks on the pathway from its precise aromas to its small and insistent bubbles and misses not a beat across the palate. It simply crackles with Blanc de Blancs vitality and can stand alone as an incisive sipper but perhaps is even better suited for service alongside a tangy, savory selection of nibbles. - Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine (December 2017)

Sparkling rich and bold, with a hint of age and complexity, offering apple skin, ginger and roasted almond flavors. Drink now. - Wine Spectator (July 2017)

This pretty, floral wine made entirely from Chardonnay grapes from this site is both creamy and crisp. It offers impressive length, acidity and stoniness, accenting its focused green apple flavor. As it opens, it takes on a richer honey like tone that adds further complexity and deliciousness. - Wine Enthusiast Buying Guide (July 2017)

Sparkling rich and luxurious, with fresh ginger and apple tart aromas and alluring lemon and roasted almond flavors. Drink now. - Wine Spectator (July 2017)

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Nicely autolyzed on the nose with a well-married mix of freshly baked bread, roasted lemons and green apples that is carried forward in its very dry, deceptively deep flavors, Schramsberg's Brut reveals a little more layering and range with each sip. It shows a certain lively Blanc de Blancs sensibility albeit with an added measure of yeasty richness, and its mousse is as constant as it is fine and creamy. It is a wine that will shine as an aperitif or a first-course companion, especially if seared scallops are on the night's menu. - Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine (October 2016)

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Showing nominal, ripe cherry fruit on the nose as well as a touch of sweet oak and a few scattered notes of savory spice, the Davies Ferrington Vineyards Pinot follows with a slightly silky entry and then takes on a nice bit of vinous grip. Its flavors are both fruitier and more energetic than its initial aromas suggest with sustained, well-stated themes of raspberries and cherries hanging on and on at the finish. There are bigger, more flamboyant Pinots around, but this one earns the nod for its vitality and fine focus, and its balance and careful composition guarantee upwards of a half-decade of steady improvement. - Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine

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Among the richer wines of the new Davies bunch and a Pinot that exhibits considerable fruity depth, this one from the Goorgian Vineyards is mouthfilling wine of fine concentration, yet it never once threatens to be too much of a good thing. It is optimally ripened with deft highlights of oak and sweet soils to its ongoing themes of black cherries, and it finishes with a light touch of tannin that signals its best days lie a few years down the line. If it is impressive now, it will be more so with age, and it is sure to reward three or four years of patience. - Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine (October 2017)

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From the very first sniff, this incisive Pinot Noir impresses with its precision and depth. It is beautifully focused on ripe, red cherry fruit with sweetening accents of crème brûlée, and, while quite rich, it never threatens to be too much of a good thing. It is not an especially big wine, yet it is one with fruity richness to spare and, even though very young, it is so well-balanced and polished that it is thoroughly enjoyable now. That said, it is bound to get better with time in the cellar, and three or four years of patience will be repaid by handsome dividends. - Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine

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No less rich and fruity than the richest and fruitiest of its many mates, but a wine that earns top honors in its family by dint of its solid structure and exemplary balance, this one impresses for both its potency and keen focus and is an eminently collectable Pinot Noir that will evolve beautifully with age. It is moderately full-bodied and slightly supple in feel with the first gleanings of varietal velvet starting to show, and, if not so backward that it cannot be poured now, it is a wine whose very considerable best is well worth waiting a few years for. - Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wines (October 2017)

This is a concentrated, fleshy coastal wine, weighty in oak and tannin. The vibrancy comes via well-defined layers of cherry, wild strawberry and forest, with wisps of black tea and cardamom knocking on the door. - Wine Enthusiast (March 2018)

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Precise, ripe cherry fruit sits center stage in both the expansive aromas and moderately deep flavors of this well-focused Pinot, and, while still very young, it already impresses with its sense of polish and careful composition. It is not a dramatic wine of great potency and extract, but it is a persistent and varietally confident one, and, although inviting and wholly delicious stuff right now, it has the vitality and deft balance to age effortlessly for some three to five years. - Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine (October 2017)

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Another beautiful wine from the Davies Family. Dense ruby/purple with crème de cassis, licorice and spice, the wine cuts a medium to fullbodied mouthfeel, but has superb purity, and impeccable balance. Nothing is out of place, the tannins silky, the acidity offers vibrancy and the fruit is pure and present. This is a beauty to drink over the next 15-20 years. - The Wine Advocate (December 2016)

From the producer's mountain estate, and blended with 7% Malbec, this wine is chalky in blue fruit, with a hearty back-palate of tannin. The grit softens in the glass, revealing nuanced elegance and shades of nutmeg, cherry and blueberry brightness. - Wine Enthusiast (September 2017)

Charming and agreeable, with raspberry, blackberry, anise, cedar and sage flavors. Ends with a dash of toasty oak that adds dimension and length. Drink now thrugh 2027. - Wine Spectator (June 2017)

Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon has a pronounced nose of crushed black currants and black cherries with hints of dried bay leaves, chocolate box and tapenade. Medium to full-bodied, the palate is well crafted with vibrant black fruits that fill the mouth and are nicely framed by grainy tannins, finishing with some spicy hints and oodles of freshness. - The Wine Advocate (October 2017)

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This blends vineyards from across the valley, successfully capturing a compact and full-bodied explosion of black cherry and chocolate that benefits from bright, balanced acidity. Though offering depth and concentration, it finds a focused freshness that adds length and breadth. - Wine Enthusiast (September 2017)

The 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley) is soft, open-knit and quite accessible. Dark cherry and plum fruit, along with hints of leather and savory herbs flesh in this pliant, beautifully crafted Cabernet Sauvignon from vineyards in Oakville and Rutherford. - Vinous (December 2016)

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This off-dry sparkling is made from 78% Flora, 13% Pinot Noir and 9% Chardonnay. It works in its inviting, rich array of stone-fruit and tropical accents, met by a floral underbelly of inviting aroma. Creamy, voluptuous and well-made, it'll pair well with spicy dishes and is perfectly refreshing and delightful on its own. - Wine Enthusiast (November 2017

Lush and creamy, yet balanced, with lively acidity, this offers vibrant lemon and orange sorbet flavors, with spice accents. - Wine Spectator (October 2017)

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Expressive watermelon and strawberry aromas open to crisp yet rich flavors of red apple and spiced vanilla. - Wine Spectator (October 2017)

...but even better is the outstanding NV Mirabelle Brut Rosé, 64% Pinot Noir and 36% Chardonnay. This shows a light pink color, beautiful delicate notes of strawberries and currants, crisp acids, a fresh, lively zesty style and medium body. - Wine Advocate (December 2015)

Where once the Mirabelle bottlings were priced with the big winery entry level efforts, now it has grown up and sits just above that tier. And, here, in the pink version, it succeeds as a distinctly fruity and friendly offering with all the juicy exuberance that California grapes can bring to the party. Its aromas are pleasantly outgoing and its open, well-balanced flavors make it a wine to remember when choosing a bottle of bubbles for all sorts of happy occasions from tailgating to birthday celebrations. - Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine (October 2016)

A light touch of sweetness combines with ripe apple and pear flavors to make this full-bodied wine from Schramsberg taste rich and mouth filling. Layers of fruit and light spices spread across the palate and linger on the finish. - Wine Enthusiast (November 2017)

Ripe and intense with juicy fruit and lively acidity; fresh and bright. - Tasting Panel (March 2015)

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