This year my group and I tasted almost 1200 wines. We tasted, smelled, and swished a boatload of wines, so to come up with our “own” Top 25 wines of 2024, that are “the greatest” is not easy. But as always, we try to do our best! My group of 13 wine swishers, smellers, evaluators, and my friends of Bacchus carefully assessed the wines and came up with the following final list!
Congrats to everyone!
1 – Cattleya 2022 Syrah “The Initiation” Santa Lucia Highlands – 97 Points
2 – Mail Road 2021 Pinot Noir Mt Carmel Vineyard, Santa Rita Hills -100 Points
3 – Hobel 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon “The Joist” Napa Valley – 99 Points
4 – Arbe Garbe 2022 Malvasia Bianca “Catie’s Corner” Russian River Valley – 96 Points
5 –Bevan 2022 Ontogeny Proprietary Red Napa Valley ~ 98+ Points
6 –DuMOL 2022 Ryan Pinot Noir – Russian River Valley 98 Points
7 –Paul Lato 2022 “Stand By Me” Pinot Noir Drumm Canyon Vyd, Santa Rita Hills – 97 Points
8 – Argot 2022 Pinot Noir “Bastard Tongue” Sonoma County 97 Points
9 – Hudson 2022 Chardonnay “Estate” Carneros Napa Valley 98 Points
10 – Crocker Starr 2023 Sauvignon Blanc, A.V.A. Napa Valley 96+ Points
11 – Cattleya 2022 ”The Goddess” Pinot Noir, West Sonoma Coast – 97 Points
12 – Continuum 2021 Bordeaux Blend Sage Mountain Vineyard, Napa 100 Points
13 – Switchback Ridge 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon “Estate – Peterson Vineyard Napa 97+ Points
14 – Spottswoode 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon “Estate” Napa Valley~ 100 Points
15 (tied) – Hayfork 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon “Lewelling” St. Helena Napa Valley 95 Points
15 (tied) – Melis Family 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon “A2” Rutherford, Napa Valley – 95 Points
17 – Herman Story 2021 Casual Encounter GSM 97 Points
18 – Paul Lato 2022 “Done and Done” Chardonnay Rincon Vineyard, Arroyo Grande 97 Points
19 – Pisoni 2022 Estate Chardonnay, Santa Lucia Highlands 96+ Points
20 – Scarlett 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon “Estate” Rutherford, Napa Valley 95 Points
21 – Shared Notes 2023 Sauvignon Blanc Les Leçons des Maîtres, Russian River V. 97 Points
22 – Cresta Velia 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon “Rutherford” Napa Valley 96+ Points
23 – Mail Road 2021 Chardonnay “Mount Carmel” Santa Rita Hills – 96 Points
24 – Shypoke 2021 Charbono ‘Le Corbeau” Estate, Calistoga – 95+ Points
25 (tied) – Paloma 2019 Merlot Estate Spring Mountain, Napa Valley ~96 Points~
25 (tied) – Walter Hansel 2022 Pinot Noir “Cuvee Alyce” Russian River Valley – 96 Points
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