The Approach Earns Perfect 100-Point Score from Cristaldi

Written By Dave Sutton

Vintner Dan Kosta admiring a bottle of The Approach 2023

Blue Rhino is pleased to recognize a notable achievement in the world of fine wine: the 2023 vintage of The Approach has received a perfect 100-point score, a distinction that reflects exceptional craftsmanship and an uncompromising commitment to quality.

The recognition, awarded by respected wine critic Jonathan Cristaldi, honors not only the wine itself but the intentional philosophy behind its creation.

Produced entirely in magnum format and limited to just five barrels, The Approach is a passion project from vintner Dan Kosta and winemaker Shane Finley. Every element—from vineyard selection to final blending—was approached with a singular objective: to create the best possible expression from the sites and components available, without concession to scale or convention.

“The Approach represents the best blend we can make from these sites—the best wine we can create,” Kosta explains. Widely regarded as a winemaker’s wine, the 2023 vintage stands as a precise, expressive, and age-worthy result of passion meeting discipline.

The Approach 2023 is available in extremely limited quantities through GrailByDanKosta.com.

At Blue Rhino, we invest in opportunities defined by scarcity, craftsmanship, and long-term value creation. The Approach exemplifies these principles—purpose-built, uncompromising, and produced at a scale that prioritizes excellence over expansion. It reflects the same mindset we apply across our portfolio: disciplined execution, respect for the craft, and patience to build enduring value.

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Dave Sutton

Dave Sutton is a leading authority today on Transformational Marketing– enabling businesses to reach, connect and engage with customers in a way that gives them a reason to care, a reason to buy, a reason to advocate and, most important of all, a reason to stay. He is the founder of TopRight, LLC– a Transformational Marketing firm that helps companies move to the top right quadrant of their competitive frame, and corner the markets where they choose to compete. TopRight’s 3S Playbook model of the right Story, the right Strategy, and the right Systems turns sales transactions into customer experiences that connect and communicate why you do what you do and what difference it makes for your customers. Dave is also the co-author of Enterprise Marketing Management: The New Science of Marketing- the ground-breaking book considered to be the definitive statement of a new business discipline designed to create sustained, profitable, organic growth.

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