Wines

99 Points! Wow, so intense, layered and firm, this wine wraps sinewy tannins around generous red and black fruit. So ripe and rich in aromas of blackberries and sour cherries, then bitter chocolate, dense black currant and black licorice flavors. Great structure for further aging. Drinkable now and best from 2030. - JamesSuckling.com

Grape Whisperer, Ruben Solorzano planted the first test vineyard that would pave the way for the other GREAT PLACES vineyards back in 2007. After being inspired while helping Renee Rostaing prune his steep Côte Blonde parcel in Côte Rôtie, Ruben crammed 6,000 pre-clonal Syrah vines onto one beautiful hillside in marching rows of diagonal posts directly above Ballard Creek. This one-acre block, today known as Great Places, Ruben Solorzano, is the founding member of the Great Places Quartet.