Top 100 Wines in 2024
 

Top 100 Wines of 2024

We’re proud to announce that our 2022 Rosella’s Vineyard and Garys’ Vineyard Pinot Noirs have been named to three Top 100 Wines of the Year lists by leading wine publications. As our highest-rated vintage in over two decades, the 2022 wines represent the culmination of years of care in the vineyard and cellar. Reflecting on this milestone, we’re deeply grateful for our loyal community—for your stories, your support, and your shared enthusiasm for ROAR. Here’s to continued joy, discovery, and connection in the year ahead.

Rosella’s Vineyard was the first we planted and surrounds our family home, making this recognition especially meaningful. This marks the second time Rosella’s has earned a spot on a Top 100 list, first honored by Wine Spectator for the 2012 vintage. Garys' Vineyard was our second vineyard planted, and this makes its fourth time getting awarded a top 100 award from ROAR.

Jeb Dunnuck

#19 Top 100 Wines of 2024; 96 points

2022 Rosella's Vineyard Pinot Noir
"From a cooler site in the middle of the SLH appellation, the 2022 Pinot Noir Rosella's Vineyard offers more mulberry and wild strawberry fruit as well as a beautiful core of sappy flowers, violets, and underbrush. I love its overall purity and precision, and it's medium-bodied, has ripe, polished tannins, integrated acidity, and a great finish. It's up with the creme de la creme of the appellation, and it's going to have at least 10-12 years of prime drinking. It benefits from air if drinking any time soon." Jeb Dunnuck

Wine Enthusiast

#27 Top 100 Wines of 2024; 97 points

2022 Garys' Vineyard Pinot Noir
"From a vineyard named after the region’s pioneering pair of Garys, this utterly satisfying bottling begins with aromas that blend umami-focused hints of soy, shiitake and smoke with fresh fruit and flower scents. Solidly chalky in texture, the palate delivers Bing cherry and pure blackberry flavors cut by steady acidity." Matt Kettmann

Antonio Galloni's Vinous

#44 Top 100 Wines of 2024; 96 points

2022 Garys' Vineyard Pinot Noir
"Hailing from one of the premier sites in the Santa Lucia Highlands, planted in 1996, the 2022 Pinot Noir Garys' Vineyard is flat-out gorgeous. Beautifully rendered, it boasts generous fruit density, crystal-clear delineation of flavors and bracing structure. Fully destemmed, the 2022 finishes with a ton of persistence in its dark berry flavors, even darker cherry, black licorice and black sage. The 2022 leaves behind a fine web of powdery tannins, neatly wrapped up with a little bow on top, concentrated, effusive, and ready to rock. What a complete package. This may be the red wine of the vintage in the SLH." Billy Norris