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2 Hall Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley Kathryn Hall Vintage: 2008
Score: 96 points, Rls Price: $90
2,450 cases made
California
With a successful real-estate empire, Craig and Kathryn Hall didn’t take any shortcuts with Hall estate, which comprises several hundred acres in vines spread over six vineyards in Napa Valley. The 2008 Kathryn Hall Cabernet is a blend from four of the sites. Winemaker Steve Leveque added a splash of Merlot to round out the texture and heighten the aromatics. The wine captures the essence of Napa Cabernet yet is distinguished from other great 2008 Cabs by its seamless texture, wonderful focus, purity of flavor and persistent finish.
3 Domaine Huët Vouvray Moelleux Clos du Bourg Première Trie Vintage: 2009
Score: 96 points, Rls Price: $69
760 cases made
Loire Valley, France
The nearly 15-acre Clos du Bourg vineyard features a mix of clay, silt and pebbles over limestone subsoils, producing this Loire Valley domaine’s richest expression of Chenin Blanc. If weather permits, as it did in 2009, beneficial Botrytis cinerea (noble rot) dehydrates the late-ripening grapes, whose fresh acidity counterbalances the resulting sweet wine’s concentrated fruit and spice notes. This Première Trie represents Huët winemaker Noël Pinguet’s top selection of hand-harvested grapes.
4 Campogiovanni Brunello di Montalcino Vintage: 2006
Score: 96 points, Rls Price: $50
7,000 cases made
Tuscany, Italy
The 50-acre Campogiovanni estate in Montalcino was acquired in the early 1980s by Chianti producer Agricola San Felice. About 30 acres of vines, the oldest of them planted in the mid-1960s, are used for its Brunello. Winemaker Leonardo Bellaccini replanted other parcels in 1982, 1988 and 1997, using both selection and clones. This red, aged three years in large, Slavonian oak barrels and one year in bottle, benefited from the excellent 2006 vintage.
5 Dehlinger Pinot Noir Russian River Valley Vintage: 2008
Score: 95 points, Rls Price: $50
1,050 cases made
Sonoma County, California
Tom Dehlinger was one of the early true believers in Pinot Noir from the Russian River Valley. The family’s 45-acre vineyard is on a ridge of red gravelly soil 13 miles inland from the coast. From the start, the emphasis has been on small amounts of hand-worked, barrel-aged wines made with the aim of extracting, developing and preserving maximum flavor from the grapes. This rich, layered 2008, from estate fruit, made a challenging vintage look easy.
6 Baer Ursa Columbia Valley Vintage: 2008
Score: 95 points, Rls Price:$35
1,095 cases made
Washington
Winemaker Lance Baer founded Baer Winery in 2000, producing his wines in Woodinville, Wash., using grapes from Columbia Valley vineyards. After his death in 2007, his sister Lisa and his father, Les, took the reins and hired consulting winemaker Erica Orr. Baer’s signature wine, Ursa, Latin for “bear,” has always been impressive for its suppleness and pure flavors. The 2008, a blend that focuses on Merlot and Cabernet Franc, is the winery’s best wine yet.
7 Quinta do Vallado Touriga Nacional Douro Vintage: 2008
Score: 95 points, Rls Price:$55
2,188 cases made
Douro Valley, Portugal
The Ferreira family, once best-known for Port, branched out to table wine in 1995 at this estate overlooking the river Corgo. (They later sold the Port house.) Vallado’s team includes cousins João Ribeiro, Francisco Ferreira and consulting winemaker Francisco Olazabal, who also works at his family’s Quinta do Vale Meão. Rather than a blend of grapes, this wine is a rare single-variety Touriga Nacional, a tricky grape to fully ripen. But the 2008 is dark and concentrated, with finesse.
8 Domenico Clerico Barolo Ciabot Mentin Ginestra Vintage: 2006
Score: 96 points, Rls Price: $90
1,500 cases made
Piedmont, Italy
This Barolo comes from 13.5 acres in the Ginestra cru of Monforte d’Alba, the southernmost commune of the Barolo zone. Owner Domenico Clerico took over the business from his father, who sold his grapes directly to the local cooperative, in 1976. Clerico purchased the Ginestra parcels in 1981; the first vintage of this wine was 1982. Since its debut, Ciabot Mentin Ginestra has consistently been one of the Barolo appellation’s finer bottlings.
9 Alain Graillot Crozes-Hermitage La Guiraude Vintage: 2009
Score: 94 points, Rls Price: $55
650 cases made
Northern Rhône, France
A selection of Graillot’s best lots and bottled in exceptional vintages only, La Guiraude is 100 percent Syrah from vines planted on alluvial soils in the heart of the Crozes plateau. The warm, dry 2009 growing season produced an early harvest of ripe grapes balanced with fresh acidity. Second-generation winemaker Maxime Graillot fermented with stems and aged the wine 80 percent in used oak and 20 percent in vat for one year, to add complexity and structure without masking the fruit.
10 Château de St.-Cosme Gigondas Valbelle Vintage: 2009
Score:94 points, Rls Price:$58
1,175 cases made
Southern Rhône, France
In 2009, proprietor Louis Barruol cofermented Grenache with 10 percent Syrah in cement vats before aging this wine in a range of used barrels. The fruit is sourced from 80-year-old vines in five vineyards. The 2009 vintage began with a devastating spring hailstorm that reduced buds and, ultimately, yields, by 50 percent. Hot, dry weather followed, and the remaining grapes ripened fully with additional concentration and tannins. As a result, the wine delivers noticeable power and structure, ideal for cellaring.