" - 95/100 Wine Enthusiast
This is such a gorgeous wine
it has terrific purity and integrated acidity
While untuously-textured with remarkable sweetness
all kept focused by a firm
2005 Sloan Proprietary Red Spanish " - 95/100 Wine Enthusiast"This vineyard, high above the Rutherford AVA, on the gorgeous hillside not far from the famed restaurant and hotel Auberge du Soleil, has produced a winner in my retrospective of 2005s. This is clearly a great terroir, and that comes through in this savory, broad, expansive, pure 2005 Proprietary Red from Sloan. Offering black raspberry and blackcurrant fruit, silky tannins, notes of forest floor and spice box, and loamy soil undertones, the wine is