NV Billecart-Salmon Brut Réserve
Wine Advocate
90 Points
Based on the 2018 vintage, Billecart's newly released NV Brut Réserve incorporates fully 53% reserve wines, up from just over a third in the past, and incorporates the usual 40% Pinot Meunier in the blend.
2023 Birichino Grenache Besson Vineyards, “Old Vines”, Central Coast
San Francisco Wine Panel Score 93 Points
This delightful bottling is gorgeously fruity-floral to the nose, where vibrant scents of grenadine, blood orange, violet, Mr.
2023 Birichino Riesling Wirz Vineyard, Cienega Valley
San Francisco Wine Panel Score 91+ Points
This bright and focused old vine Riesling is dominated start to finish by both floral and fruity notes that are elegantly forthcoming.
2024 Birichino Grenache Besson Vineyards, Central Coast
San Francisco Wine Panel Score 92+ Points
Bright, focused and attractively intense if at first a hint youthfully shy, the nose of this very seductive Grenache unfolds scents of fresh raspberry and strawberry, with undercurrents of pink peppercorn and violet.
NV Bisol, Crede, Prosecco, Conegliano-Valdobbiadene Superiore
Decanter 90
Today owned by the Lunelli Group, Bisol is a long-established winery in the area, founded at the beginning of the 20th century.
2021 Bjornson Pinot Noir Isabel, Eola-Amity Hills, Oregon
San Francisco Wine Panel Score 95+ Points
This is an elegant, stylish Pinot Noir with focus and immediate appeal.
2022 Blue Farm Pinot Noir Gap’s Crown Vineyard, Petaluma Gap
San Francisco Wine Panel Score 97 Points
Bright, rich, forthcoming and structured to age, this is an impressive Gap’s Pinot.
2007 BOND Pluribus Napa Valley Red Wine
Wine Advocate
RP 98+ Points
The 2007 Pluribus (the highest elevation vineyard of all these parcels) exhibits tell-tale Spring Mountain characteristics of acacia (or is it violets?) flowers interwoven with blueberry liqueur, black raspberries, cassis and crushed rocks.
2021 Bonneau Chardonnay Catherine Vineyard Carneros
San Francisco Wine Panel 92 Points
This rather European-styled Chardonnay is pretty, soft-edged and gently creamy to the nose, where firm white and yellow peach, baked apple, preserved lemon, vanilla wafer, and nutmeg scents find a genteel harmony.
2016 Booker "Ripper" Grenache, Paso Robles
Wine Spectator
93 Points
Densely structured yet blanketed in polished veneer, offering bold blackberry, smoky pepper, garrigue and river stone accents that take on speed toward broad-shouldered tannins.
2019 Brancaia Il Blu Rosso
Wine Advocate
95 Points
A terrific blend of 80% Merlot, 10% Sangiovese and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, this is an organic red blend from the forested hills of Tuscany. The 2019 Il Blu is recognized by its modern blue label (and fun orange capsule) and its contemporary winemaking style.
2022 Brewer Clifton Chardonnay 3-D Vineyard, Santa Rita Hills
San Francisco Wine Panel Score 97 Points
Baked apple, nectarine, quince, poached pear, lemony custard and hazelnut meringue impressions along with a hint of coconut are all notable in the nose of this zesty yet opulent Chardonnay. It is at once creamy, bright, focused and wonderfully supple in the mouth, where all the promised flavors fan out on the palate and through a long finish.
2022 Brewer Clifton Pinot Noir Machado Vineyard, Santa Rita Hills
San Francisco Wine Panel Score 95+ Points
BC’s Machado is always a very attractive Pinot, and this vintage opens with focused dark cherry and black raspberry scents at center-stage, with pretty blood orange, canela, star anise and licorice root notes in support.
2021 Brick Barn Rosé of Cabernet Franc Santa Ynez Valley
San Francisco Wine Panel Score 92 Points
Showcasing fruity, floral and savory contrasts, the nose of this subtly complex Rosé centers on aromas of bottled red cherry, watermelon and strawberry supported by undercurrents of pink rose, white pepper and a hint of mace.
2023 Broc Zinfandel Wirth Vineyard, Green Valley, Solano County
San Francisco Wine Panel Score 92+ Points
This intense Zin is notably young yet it already pours-forth its seductively juicy aromas in fine focus.
2023 Brooks Note Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast
San Francisco Wine Panel Score 92+ Points
Bright, rich, notably spicy and full of tightly-wound, youthful fruit, this classy Pinot unfolds scents of red cherry, lingonberry and red raspberry, atied to others of cinnamon stick, mace, baking spice and dried orange peel.
2012 Bryant Family "Bettina" Proprietary Red Wine, Napa Valley
Robert Parker - Wine Advocate
96 Points
The seductive 2012 Proprietary Red Bettina offers up a more Margaux-like femininity compared to the overwhelming power and richness of the Bryant Family Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon.
2019 Buoncristiani Malbec Napa Valley
Vinous
93 Points
The 2019 is one of my favorite wines in this range, as it so often is. Buoncristiani does a tremendous job in coaxing superb textural richness out of their Malbec while avoiding the jamming heaviness that is sometimes an issue with the Cabernets.
2021 CalStar Sauvignon Blanc Russian River Valley
San Francisco Wine Panel Score 90 Points
Bright, pretty and forthcoming the nose of this refreshing white poises scents of honeydew melon, lime sorbet, lemon grass and a hint of white pepper above a richer backdrop of fresh gooseberry.
2022 Campion Chardonnay, Bien Nacido Vineyard, Santa Maria Valley
San Francisco Wine Panel Score: 91+ Points
Rich honey and baked apple aromas dominate the nose of this fine and age-worthy Chardonnay, while toasted hazelnut and emerging stone fruit scents appear in support.
2023 Campion Chardonnay Greengate Farms, SLO Coast
San Francisco Wine Panel Score 91 Points
Citric zest and saline mineral notes combine to bring extra brightness to this vivid Chardonnay, while fresh green apple, quince, lemon peel and creamy oak scents make the aromatic package complete.
