Good medium bright ruby. Raw currant, smoke, leather, gunflint and earthy low tones on the nose, with musky espressoand truffle notes. Sweet and supple in the mouth, but with sound underlying structure and a suggestion of green pepper. Finishes with a riper chocolately note and good juicy persistance.

The beautiful 2000 Sauvignon Blanc Upper Barn is an exotic yet refreshing offering displaying copious quantities of white currants and melons presented in a fresh, medium to full-bodied style with plenty of glycerin and fruit. Enjoy it over the next 1-2 years.

Which comes from the old Gauer Ranch, is beginning to show its age. While still intact with plenty of buttery popcorn, tropical fruit, and sweet citrus, it requires consumption over the next 12 months.

An elegant style. Ripe and spicy, with pretty plum, wild berry, tea, herb, and cherry flavors and a ling, fruity aftertaste with mild, polished tannins.

Pay attention to this brand because the wines are truly remarkable. The 1994 Stonestreet Pinot Noir, a tangy and elegant Russian River Valley wine with smoky, complex and charming flavors.

A tangy and elegant Russian River Valley wine with smoky, complex and charming flavors.

Smooth in texture, with a pretty band of cherry, herb, spice and cola notes that are ripe and focused. Finishes with firm tannins.

Medium body, acid and fruit. Medium oak and tannin. Coffee, vanilla, berries, vegetables. Beautifully focused strain of berry fruit, soft in the mouth, but kept lively by acids.

Smooth, velvety and elegant, with a nice range of plum, currant, toast, cola and spice aromas and flavors. Very pretty to drink now through 1996 or 1997.

Smooth, velvety and elegant, showing nice plum, currant, toast, cola and spice character. Very pretty to drink now through 1996 or 1997.

"…exhibits a deep plum color, followed by knock-out aromatics of roasted coffee, chocolate, and berry/cherry liqueur. Rich, smoky, exotic, and hedonistic, it should drink well for a decade.

Saturated blackish red. Full-bodied. Highly extracted. Heavily oaked. Moderately tannic. Reminiscent of plums, brown spices, earth. Deep rich black fruit nose. Dense extracted mouthfeel with earthy richness and ample tannins in balance through the finish.

Dark ruby color with some opacity and a complex nose with scents of jammy red and black fruits, smoke, sausage and new oak. The wine is rich, full-bodied, and velvety-textured, with admirable extraction, but no harsh tannin or annoyingly high acid.

It may have a big batch of Merlot in its makeup, but this rich, ripe wine smells very much like a very good Cabernet. Its black cherry fruit tinged with olivey and sweet rooty, loamy notes leads to a very solid, supple wine in the mouth. Its ending tannin asks but a few years of cellaring

Revealing a similar tannic firmness and copious black currant fruit, the 1997 Cabernet is a spicy, lavishly wooded effort.

tasted last year & just being released, is also powerful, but the tannin is sweeter & the wine riper, richer, & more expansive on the mid-palate. It should last for 15-20 years.

The wine reveals the ripe fruit their Alexander Valley vineyard achieves. The use of heavily toasted Demptos barrels and indigenous yeasts for fermentation give these wines provocative aromatics. The Cabernet Sauvignon is built along the line of the Merlot, offering a hedonistic mouthful of fleshy, rich, briery, dense, berry, smoky, and herb-tinged fruit. Full-bodied, with a lashing of sweet tannin, this lusty, decadently rich, flamboyant Cabernet Sauvignon should drink well for 12-15 years.

More saturated color. Knockout aromas of plum, tobacco, tar, lead pencil and game. Big, rich and fat; a seductive style of wine but does it have as much substance as flash? Not quite as sweet on the palate as on the nose, and ultimately a wine of very good rather than outstanding depth and intensity of flavor.

Ruby. Moderately full-bodied. Balanced acidity. Highly extracted. Moderately oaked. Moderately tannic. Currants, black cherries, chocolate. Smooth, supple, and rich on the palate, this exhibiting excellent ripeness of fruit and a long, flavorful finish. Drinking well now, but will develop nicely.

Spicy, herbal, cedary nose. Spicy, rich black fruit flavor, with soft tannins and much structure. Needs time.

Medium body, acid and fruit. Lots of oak and tannin. Vanilla, nuts, pine, black fruits. Overwhelming oak character sets fruit awash in creamy, toasty mouthfuls. Warm rich.

Dark red cherry, plum, leather, spice and tobacco are all pushed forward in the 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Bear Point. Drink this attractive Cabernet over the next handful of years.

The 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Cougar Ridge is another soft, attractive wine with good depth to match its mid-weight feel. Dark fruit, smoke, tobacco, spice, leather and licorice all take shape nicely in the glass.

Savory herbs, raspberry jam, flowers, mint and spices all meld together in the 2011 Cabernet Sauvignon Monument Ridge. Dark, powerful and authoritative, this juicy, flavorful Cabernet impresses for its balance and overall class. There is plenty of depth in the dark fruit, yet I would prefer to drink the 2011 sooner rather than later.