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90 Points and One Puff awarded to our 2018 Beatty Ranch Zinfandel.

90 Points and One Puff awarded to our 2018 Beatty Ranch Zinfandel.

We are pleased to announce that our Howell Mountain Vineyards 2018 Old Vine Zinfandel received a 90 point rating and “One Puff” from Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine.



90 Points awarded to our 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon

90 Points awarded to our 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon

We are pleased to announce that our Howell Mountain Vineyards 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon received a 90 point rating and “One Puff” from Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine.



90 Points awarded to our 2018 Old Vine Zinfandel

90 Points awarded to our 2018 Old Vine Zinfandel

We are pleased to announce that our Howell Mountain Vineyards 2018 Old Vine Zinfandel received a 90 point rating and “One Puff” from Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine.



Two-Puffs & 92 point rating awarded to our 2016 Primitivo Clone Zinfandel

We are pleased to announce that our Howell Mountain Vineyards 2016 Primitivo Clone Zinfandel received a 92 point rating from the Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine.

As is the case with both of its equally well-made cellarmates, this is a very deep and impressively filled wine that is rife with concentrated, ripe raspberry and black berry fruit, yet it goes a step further when it comes to complexity and is accented with sympathetic elements of spice and dusty soil. It is, at present, a bit tight at the finish with both acidity and tannin making themselves known, but it will relax and round into fine shape with a few years of age, and we expect it to evolve and improve for at least a half-dozen more.