"Our American Wine of the Year, the RAEN Royal St. Robert 2023, is a complex, concentrated and ageworthy red from a cool-climate vineyard located just a few miles from the Pacific Ocean....The RAEN wine at No. 1 culminates 12 years of effort by the Mondavi brothers and their winemaker, Melanie McIntyre, on the Sonoma Coast. They made a brilliant range of 2023s, including two perfect-scoring wines from this highly anticipated vintage. It was a long, cool and peaceful growing season that seemed perfect for producing the kind of well-balanced, acid-energized wines that we love. And it delivered."