Perfect Pinot Noirs for your Holiday Table Wine Spectator: A chiseled red, with notes of underbrush to the dried raspberry and red currant flavors that feature accents of persimmon and pomegranate. Cardamom details show on the finish. Drink now through 2022.

Perfect Pinot Noirs for your Holiday Table Winemaker’s Note: The Nielson Vineyard’s location at the warmer, eastern end of the Santa Maria Valley accounts for the wine’s dark color and ripe flavor profile. Prior to fermentation, the Pinot Noir clusters were 100% de-stemmed and kept cold for 5 days to accentuate the naturally smooth texture of our estate grown fruit. Rose petal and dark cherry with hints of graphite and green tea.

Perfect Pinot Noirs for your Holiday Table Winemaker’s Note: Ripe blackberry and blueberry flavors are followed by notes of cranberry, cherry and pomegranate. With a balance of earth and baking spice, this wine offers firm tannins and a long finish.

2019 Holiday Bubbles Edition Robe: Deep gold robe, single-shaft pinpoint perling. Nose: Lemon, citrus, chalk, brioche nez. Bouche: Golden apple, citrus, bouche; smooth finish. Elegant, refined, well-structured.

Holiday Wine Guide: The LCBO’s best reds This is an easygoing and simply delicious pinot, especially with the holiday bird. Oak toast, spice and vanilla are generous, as is the rich core of red cran-cherry fruit. Mid-weight and smooth. Chill slightly.

Surprisingly finessed for a Cali pinot at this price. While still showing more aromatics and fruit than your classic Burgundy, as one would expect from California, the structure here is very European. Great core of acidity to keep the fruit feeling fresh, with a hint of mint on the finish. Very well done for this price.

Fruity and rich nose, mostly red fruit. Whoa. Tart and delicious on the palate: great fruit, a bit of depth. Fruity. Excellent.

Lovely nose of cranberry and the palate is equally delightful. Good juice. Really good juice. Excellent.

Oaky and dark fruit, a bit of smoke. Lovely on the palate with balance, fruit, tannins at the backend. Whoa. Excellent.

Rich and fruity, almost cherry-cola on the nose. Strawberry Kool-Aid on the palate. Did I mention “fruity?” Very Good to Excellent.

Go global with Christmas dinner wine picks (and get out there now!) Tous Ensemble, or “all together,” is a mix of fruit that gets a rare foot-treading in macro bins before this wine goes direct to press in whole clusters. The wine is coastal with crisp aromatics, and some floral and mineral notes. The intensity of California’s sun kicks in, adding hints of Meyer lemon, mandarin and tangerine streaked with pear, apple and very lively acid. The finish is long and persistent with a nutty, buttery undertone. Stylish and ready to drink.

KSRO Wine Guy Tom Simoneau’s 2019 Wines of the Year From long time Pinot Noir super star winemaker, Adam Lee, this Pinot comes from the Expansion Block at Saralee’s where every other row is planted to a different clone. Do not miss this Pinot Noir.

Let’s Talk Wine: A white Christmas Lush with good acidity this Chardonnay wine has citrus style aromas and lush flavors of pear, vanilla and almond butter.

Let’s Talk Wine: A white Christmas Bright citrus flavors and aromas of poached pear, lemon curd, baking spices with notes of orange blossom finish fresh and crisp.

Let’s Talk Wine: A white Christmas Clean and crisp with aromas of citrus and peach followed by green apple flavors.

USA, California, Sonoma: 2017 Vintage – Part 2 This will be the last vintage of the Monte Rosso vineyard for Arrowood moving forward. The 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Monte Rosso aged 32 months in 52% new oak and was bottled unfined and unfiltered. It's deep ruby in the glass, offering kirsch, blackcurrant liqueur, exotic spices, new leather, cedar and chocolate-covered cherries with an undercurrent of cast-iron pan, cured meats, aniseed and a classy framing of new oak. The palate is medium to full-bodied, silky and slow to unfold, blossoming with flavor layers. It has a frame of seamlessly woven acidity and finely pixelated tannins, finishing very long. This is a stunner! It's gorgeous now, but give it the few more years in bottle that it deserves. 171 cases produced.

USA, California, Sonoma: 2017 Vintage – Part 2 The 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Réserve Spéciale is a stunner! It was aged 32 months in 62% new oak and bottled unfined and unfiltered. It has a deep ruby color and is youthfully slow to open, unwinding to kirsch, crushed blackcurrants, blueberries, cedar, cigar box and iron layered with accents of grilled meats, rosewater perfume, dried herbs and classy new oak spice. Medium to full-bodied, it's silky in the mouth, slowly unfolding to mineral-laced fruits, with a chalky frame and great freshness, finishing very long. This should be very long lived. 643 cases produced.

USA, California, Sonoma: 2017 Vintage – Part 2 The deep ruby colored 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Knights Crown aged 32 months in 95% new oak and was bottled unfined and unfiltered. It opens to oodles of lilac, violet and exotic spice perfume with iron, cedar, cassis, cocoa powder, Morello cherries, black plum, aniseed, blueberries and grilled meats—so many layers! Medium to full-bodied, it unfolds slowly in the mouth, offering gobs of ripe, spiced fruits. It has great freshness and firm, chalky tannins, finishing very long. Gorgeous! This needs more time in bottle for sure. 224 cases were made.

USA, California, Sonoma: 2017 Vintage – Part 2 The 2016 Merlot Keyes Vineyard aged 18 months in 40% new French oak. It has a medium to deep ruby color and singular nose with loads of exotic perfume: candied violet, tapenade, powdered blueberry, boysenberry, mint chocolate, kirsch, roast plums—so classic and so layered! Medium to full-bodied, it's silky, intense, plush and seductive, unfolding its layers slowly and expansively. It has fantastically pixelated, ripe tannins and seamlessly integrated freshness on the very long finish. This is perfectly approachable now but will develop well in bottle. 500 cases produced.

USA, California, Sonoma: 2017 Vintage – Part 2 A selection of the best nine barrels of the vintage, the 2016 Pinot Noir Nine Barrels was aged 15 months in 58% new oak. It has a medium ruby color with aromas of spiced cranberry jelly, black cherry jam, shaved nutmeg and cinnamon stick with touches of pencil shavings, leather and smoked meats. Medium-bodied, silky, and intensely flavored, it offers loads of ripe fruits and savory accents. It has a firmer frame of grainy tannins and seamlessly woven freshness, finishing long and dense. This is a powerful Pinot Noir that's drinking beautifully now but will reward a couple more years of bottle age. 210 cases were made.

USA, California, Sonoma: 2017 Vintage – Part 2 A selection of nine of the best barrels of the vintage, the 2016 Chardonnay Nine Barrels has a pretty nose with shaved nutmeg, citrus blossom, baked apple, allspice, white peaches and a unique salted meat/umami core with honey-nut notes. It's medium to full-bodied, rounded and creamy with fantastic intensity of savory flavor layers, mouthwatering acidity and a very long, spice-laced finish. Lovely! 210 cases were made.

USA, California, Sonoma: 2017 Vintage – Part 2 Deep ruby-purple and youthfully shy on the nose, the 2016 Syrah Hawks Butte opens slowly to cassis, bay leaves, damp earth, baked blueberries and boysenberry with hints of mint chocolate, olive and beef drippings. Medium to full-bodied, it offers deep, intense flavor layers with a pleasantly chewy frame, seamless freshness and a long, very flavorful finish. This is gorgeous now but will reward a few more years of bottle age. 500 cases were made.

USA, California, Sonoma: 2017 Vintage – Part 2 The 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Revelation was aged for 20 months in 65% new French oak. Deep ruby, it gives up Morello cherries, crushed blackcurrants, roasted plum, cedar, pencil shavings and tobacco leaves with accents of violet, cocoa, eucalyptus and a classy frame of sweet spices. Medium to full-bodied, it's powerful and intense but plush and seductive, wrapped by granulated tannins and seamless freshness and finishes very long. This should age very well but is perfectly approachable now. 223 cases produced.

USA, California, Sonoma: 2017 Vintage – Part 2 Medium to deep ruby, the 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Vales Edge aged 32 months in 62% new oak and was bottled unfined and unfiltered. It opens with pure scents of cassis, garrigue, cedar, bay leaf, Morello cherries and warm chocolate with notes of beef drippings, red fruit sparks and violet. Medium-bodied and silky, it floods the mouth with pure, intensely flavored layers, plushly textured with pixelated tannins and seamless freshness, finishing very long. Wow! This is gorgeous and should develop in bottle well over the next 10 to 15+ years. 156 cases produced.

USA, California, Sonoma: 2017 Vintage – Part 2 The 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Smothers-Remick Ridge Vineyard aged 32 months in 45% new oak and was bottled unfined and unfiltered. It has a deep ruby color and takes its time opening up to scents of warm chocolate, cassis, hoisin and Indian spices with layers of lilac, bacon fat, pencil shavings, cedar, Morello cherries and a eucalyptus hint. Medium to full-bodied and silky, it offers intense and ripe fruits, still with a youthful robe of new oak. It has a juicy, plush frame with grainy-textured tannins and a long finish. This merits at least another couple of years in bottle. 322 cases produced.