John Gilman 93 pts! This the same wine as the unreleased Carricante that I reported on last year. Kevin Harvey and his team have decided to release the first vintage as a simple Bianco, saving the Carricante labeling for future vintages and slightly older vines. Readers may recall that the Rhys team planted these vines on Centennial Mountain in Sonoma several years ago, but this is the first commercial release. The extra year of bottle age has allowed the wine to really blossom, as it now offers up a lovely bouquet of green apple, green olive, a bit of pear, spring flowers, a bit of raw almond, a lovely base of minerality and a topnote of beeswax. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and soil-driven in personality, with a good core, a lovely girdle of acidity, fine focus and grip and a long, youthfully complex and very promising finish. This wine is certainly approachable out of the blocks, but Carricante ages effortlessly and this wine is still a puppy at three years of age. I would opt to cellar it for another three to five years and really let it start to hit on all cylinders. If curiosity gets the best of you and you choose to open a bottle now, decant it for an hour, as it really stretches its wings with some air! (Drink between 2023 - 2045)