98 pts - Wine Advocate
["he Wine Advocate (May 2018): 98 Points. “The 2002 Monte Bello is stunning, bursting from the glass with an expressive nose of ripe blackcurrants, crème de cassis, dried cherries, burning embers, pencil lead, loamy soil and a perfumed top note of lavende
96 pts - Wine Spectator
["Fully in its secondary phase now, with a gorgeous core of mulled red currant and boysenberry fruit and long, supple threads of singed alder and sagebrush, all backed by subtle chalky minerality through the finish. This is very perfumed without losing it
94 pts - Vinous
["(74% cabernet sauvignon, 18% merlot and 8% petit verdot) Deep, full ruby. Explosively perfumed nose combines black raspberry, violet and dark chocolate. Wonderfully layered and penetrating, with expressive flavors of raspberry, currant, bitter chocolate