At least six months from our overview of Mi Sueño’s 2025 choices, we return to one in all our favourite Napa Valley vineyards to style a quartet of vintages launched this 12 months. Should you’re new to the positioning (or the wine), Mi Sueño (“my dream”) was based by Rolando Herrera, a Mexican-born winemaker who rose from winery laborer to cellar grasp in Napa Valley. Established in 1997, they produce small-lot wines reflecting Herrera’s private journey and Napa’s austere, trendy winemaking custom.
2022 Mi Sueño Tio Antonio Sonoma Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Assessment
That is Mi Sueño on the high of its recreation. Settling deep garnet into the glass, it opens with a winding set of aromas: black currant and raspberry giving option to an earthy, nearly savory fringe of oak, espresso and topsoil filling within the background. There’s a delicate rigidity on the palate between ripeness and restraint that retains issues transferring. It’s much less about quantity and extra about alignment: regular fruit framed by tannins and a barely bracing acidity whereas oak and hints of baking spice and occasional preserve every thing in test. The end lingers with darker tones together with a faint hint of olive tapenade because it fades. It’s a well-structured, approachable wine extra centered on composition than pageantry, and all the higher for it. Able to be loved now, but it surely deserves a special day worthy of each the bottle and the trigger for celebration. A / $105
2022 Mi Sueño Pugash Winery Sonoma Mountain Chardonnay Assessment
Heaps to like right here for die Chardonnay fanatics: golden apple, ripe pear, Meyer lemon, and a touch of peach, adopted by toasted hazelnut on the end. Ample minerality retains fruit from sprawling far and wide, and whereas there’s a contact of vanilla cream peeking by way of because it unfolds, it by no means crashes into syrup territory. Oak frames every thing properly, mouthwatering acidity retains the lights on, and the end carries orchard fruit and spice with ease. Fairly glorious stuff. A / $67
2022 Mi Sueño Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Assessment
Pouring a darkish ruby coloration within the glass and dense with a assured stride of cassis and black cherry, with notes of darkish chocolate, almond and grilled plum because it develops. It very a lot falls in keeping with the type of a basic Napa Cabernet, with agency tannins conserving the core intact whereas darkish fruit and baking spice give the end fairly a little bit of endurance. Bottles like these symbolize the distinction between a heavyweight prizefighter and one who trains with the only real intention of changing into a self-proclaimed influencer on social media. There’s a lot which could possibly be paired with this bottle and it doesn’t matter what, indulgence could be a the forefront. Nonetheless, that is going to evolve right into a strong A/A+ wine with about 5 years of cellar time. A- / $90
2023 Mi Sueño Los Carneros Chardonnay Assessment
Pouring a beautiful hue of gold, it presents notes of ripe pear, baked apples and lemon curd on the nostril. On the palate, nevertheless, it really shines with vivid acidity adopted by these pear and lemon notes accompanied by a faint oak observe and a contact of cream, however not the blunt-force wallop usually favored by Chardonnays that confuse density with seriousness. Lemon and apple are beneficiant on the end, but it surely tightens into minerality that preserve the entire affair from slumping sideways. That is extremely well-balanced and flavorful, demonstrating preserve fruit, oak, and minerality working collectively in concord. Loads of California Chardonnay goals for grandeur by quantity. This one will get achieves it with grace. A- / $55
2022 Mi Sueño Tio Antonio Sonoma Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
USD105
