We are pleased to announce that our Howell Mountain Vineyards 2016 Petit Verdot received a coveted 1-Puff rating from Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine: 

“It is no secret that Petit Verdot can be fairly tough, and this one serves as a ready reminder of that fact, but, in this case, the wine counts enough well-ripened fruity stuffing on the positive side of its ledger sheet to raise optimism that, with time, it will grow out of its present tannic rusticity. Hurried drinking is ill-advised here, and, even if gentility is unlikely to ever be one of its virtues, it will be an interesting and far friendlier wine if left undisturbed in the cellar for another five or six years.”