You make a good point Dave. However…you are reviewing specific wines from specific vintages. Even if there are personnel changes later, the wines are the wines; they too change over time. You are capturing a specific moment of production. Kari and other winemakers may move on but unless you update for later vintages, she did make these particular wines and deserves acknowledgement, IMHO.

That would be you, Kari Auringer of course! Making excellent balanced wines. Perhaps it sounds a bit odd as the winemaker is an integral part of any winery, but after visiting & tasting with more then 1,100 Napa wineries/producers to date, I’ve learned to not list the winemakers in my reviews (with certain exceptions such as the owner is also the winemaker) as winemakers tend to change rather often and it becomes extremely challenging to keep up with this. I listed a number of winemakers in my early reviews that have moved on – for those reviews I keep update ONCE that they used to make wine there, but I don’t continue to add info on the new winemaker(s).

Wine reviews are a particular moment in time that last. But trying to constantly update winemakers as they move around the valley, that is just not another aspect I need or want to update my notes with.