Honey and pear aromas might tease you into thinking this is going to be a fruity wine, but the flavors say otherwise, offering strong heating-oil notes and finishing with mouthwatering balance and stony notes. The stunning minerality of the Doctor vineyard really comes through.——J.C.(3/1/2009)—— 89

Exotic, offering up scents of oranges and apricots, then folding flavors of melon and spice on the palate. It’s broad but basically balanced; round yet with adequate acids, picking up hints of citrus pith on the finish. ——J.C.(10/1/2009)—— 88