92 Points, Wine Enthusiast: "The vineyard is 1,800 feet up the mountain and the wine was made by Randy Dunn’s (Dunn Vineyards) son, Mike. Howell Mountain produces some of California’s densest, most ageworthy red wines, and this big, dry, tannic Pet is a sure cellar candidate. Packed with blackberry, coffee, plum, leather and spice flavors, it should start to open up by 2009 and improve for several years after."

91 Points Connoisseurs' Guide: "While it is simply not in the nature of Petite Sirah to be elegant or refined, this immensely extracted and deeply flavored wine pushes all the limits of varietal bluster and size. It miraculously managers to counter its hard-charging tannins with an amazing amount of equally tenacious and well-defined, pepper-tinged blackberry fruit..."

Groezinger Wine Company: "To actually have the chance to taste a wine from the Park Muscatine Vineyard is a small miracle in and upon itself. To have one from the 2003 vintage made by the Dunn’s is an act of God. This is what petite sirah is supposed to be. Big and bad, ...gripping tannins...plethora of spicy, earthy black fruits stomps on your palate like a grand finale at Riverdance.  This could age and develop for 20 years+..."