Rating: 93, Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine: This powerful, full-sized youngster is absolutely rife with incisive Cabernet fruit and claims an abundance of loamy, cola-like complexities as well. It is slightly supple and quite full on the palate and shows a tag-end of heat to its nominally tannic finish, yet its ragged edges are not out of keeping with expectations for a young Cabernet Sauvignon, and its depth and keen focus are the hallmarks of a serious, eminently age-worthy effort that will grow for years.

Rating: 91, Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine: Starting out in the nose with a wealth of sweet oak piled high atop a full measure of very deep and well-defined, distinctly currant fruit and laced with complexing elements of briar, black tea and loamy soils, the Cloudy's Vineyard bottling delivers persistent, very potent, varietal flavors that stay in fine focus even as high ripeness makes its mark. Like its cellar mates, it is a wine that makes no apologies for ripeness, but it is steady and structured with tightening tannins signaling fine potential for age. It is so richly fruited that it should be drinkable in as few as five years, but it is likely to be far better once another eight to ten have passed.

Rating: 91, Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine: The 2012 Missouri Hopper comes from a lot that proves that structure and size are not antithetical, and this weighty wine toes the line of being almost, but not quite, over the top. It is full and obviously extracted, and it fights with both tannin and heat, but it is so deep in concentrated, cassis-like fruit that it succeeds handily. Its early inklings of briar, loam, graphite and dried flowers are harbingers of increased complexity to come, and, while an admittedly brash youngster, it is in all ways a serious Cabernet Sauvignon that will reward a lengthy stay in the cellar.