100 pts - Wine Advocate
["The soon-to-be-released 2006 A Shot in the Dark is composed of 96.5% Syrah and 3.5% Viognier from the 11 Confessions Vineyard in the cool Santa Rita Hills. Performing better from bottle than it did from barrel, this prodigious red exhibits incredibly ve
98 pts - Wine Spectator
["This transforms into an amazingly detailed wine, deep, rich, layered and full-bodied, musclebound yet graceful. It's packed with dense, focused and pure mineral, blackberry, toasty oak and roasted coffee flavors that end in a long cascade, veering into
96 pts - Vinous
["(includes 3.5% viognier) Inky violet. Captivating, varietally expressive nose melds cassis, boysenberry, olive tapenade, cracked pepper, licorice and Indian spices. Suave, velvety and deeply concentrated, with restrained sweetness for a wine with this m