The outstanding 2013 Malbec, 100% Malbec all from Mt. Veeder, offers blackcurrants, licorice, incense and floral notes. The wine has fabulous fruit on the attack and mid-palate. It’s full-bodied, spicy and pure, with supple tannins, and should drink well for at least a decade or more.

The only 2014 tasted was the early-bottled 2014 Pinot Noir Land’s Edge Vineyards, which come from a vineyard four miles from the Pacific Ocean. Aged in 32% new French oak, the wine displays raspberry and blueberry fruit, damp earth, fresh porcini mushrooms and plenty of minerality. This is a juicy, tightly knit, but concentrated and promising Pinot Noir that has that forward fruit of this vintage well displayed.

The 2013 Pinot Noir Hailey’s Block, which comes from a cool hillside vineyard in Green Valley, was aged in 28% new French oak. This is a more structured, tighter-coiled and earthy style of Pinot Noir meant for aging. It is elegant. Pomegranate, plum and black cherry notes jump from the glass along with underbrush and spice box. It is medium-bodied and pure, with the grip of tannins present in the finish. This should be given another year or so of bottle age and drunk over the following decade.

The 2014 Chardonnay Three Jacks Vineyard, a relatively small cuvée of about 340 cases, comes from multiple clonal selections, with 43% new French oak used. The result is a wine with striking wet-stone minerality that is reminiscent of a Grand Cru Chablis, a hint of tangerine oil and apple blossom, beautiful freshness, delineation and a medium to full-bodied, intensely saturated mouthfeel. This is a beautiful Chardonnay, and, much like the Stone Côte, probably capable of lasting 5-7 years minimum.

The two red wines include the 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Pleinair, which comes from Napa vineyards Atlas Peak, St. Helena, Diamond Mountain and Howell Mountain. Aged 20 months in 53% new French oak and bottled unfined and unfiltered, the wine is a beauty, with notes of loamy soil interwoven with red and blackcurrants, tobacco leaf and forest floor. It is medium to full-bodied, shows excellent purity, a nicely layered mouthfeel and ripe tannins. It should drink well for at least 15 or more years.

The 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Jackson Estate Series is a small cuvée of 7,000 cases and a really impressive wine. The mountain vineyards seem to dominate the wine’s character, with moderately high but sweet tannin, briary blackberry and cassis fruit, and a crushed rock minerality present. The final blend was 94% Cabernet Sauvignon and the rest the other Bordeaux varietals. This wine was about ready to go into the bottle right after I tasted it.

One of the best wines in any year they release is the 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Réserve Spéciale, a selection of the best lots from multiple vineyards in Sonoma Valley. This 100% Cabernet Sauvignon is aged more than 30 months in a combination of new and used oak. It is the biggest of all these Arrowood wines, with a dense ruby/purple color and notes of cedar wood, blackcurrants, blackberry, and spring flowers as well as background toasty oak. It should drink well for at least 15-20 years, as previous vintages have certainly demonstrated.

The 2014 Chardonnay Seascape Vineyard is from one of the coldest vineyards in all of Northern California. On a ridge top close to the town of Occidental, facing Bodega Bay in the Pacific Ocean, it is often the last to ripen – and sometimes as late as late October or November. A deep golden color, exotic tropical fruits, crushed rocks, and an almost saltiness characterize this rather nutty and strikingly Mersault-like Chardonnay that will be somewhat controversial compared to the more classic aromas and flavors of the other five offerings, but it is still a brilliant, somewhat idiosyncratic Chardonnay in the lineup of the Hartford Court wines. Drink it over the next 4-5 years.

Intriguing, complex and provocative is the 100% Sauvignon Blanc, the 2014 Sauvignon Blanc Aurora Point Vineyard, coming from an 800- to 1,000-foot-altitude vineyard and fermented in older oak. Much more nectarine, exotic pineapple and passion fruit notes are present in this medium-bodied, fresh, lively and perfumed style of Sauvignon Blanc that is delicious and beautifully textured. Drink it over the next several years.

The single-vineyard wines are more similar than dissimilar and all are outstanding efforts from Stonestreet. They all come from elevations ranging from a low of 1,000 feet at Bear Point Vineyard to 1,800-foot elevations, including at Upper Barn, Broken Road and Gravel Bench Vineyards. The 2013 Chardonnay Bear Point Vineyard (343 cases) offers good, ripe, poached pear, and white peach in a full-bodied, long, generously endowed, zesty, crisp and refreshing style.

It is a smaller cuvée of 440 cases. The 2013 Chardonnay Cougar Ridge is a small cuvée of only 277 cases made from clone 72 of Chardonnay. It has great acidity and, much like the Upper Barn, has loads of lemon/honey notes intermixed with tangerine oil and citrus. The wine is luscious and soft, with the oak well-disguised.

From another Sonoma Coast vineyard, the 2013 Pinot Noir Sonatera Vineyard is outstanding. This wine, coming from four separate clones, offers blacker fruits, more forest floor and complex Côte de Nuitslike characteristics, in a slightly bigger framework than the three predecessors, along with plenty of depth and silky, soft tannins. Drink it over the next 5-6 years.

Bottled in January, the 2013 Syrah Sierra Mar Vineyard tastes like a quality St. Joseph, yet with a kiss of California fruit. It gives up lots of black raspberry fruit, pepper, olive and violet notes; it's medium-bodied, juicy, and fruit forward with outstanding concentration and length. Balanced, fresh and lively, it's a beauty to enjoy anytime over the coming 5-7 years.

The 2013 Proprietary Red Journey, a blend of 90% Merlot and the rest Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit Verdot aged 20 months in French oak, of which 80% was new. This deep ruby/purple wine offers up a big, sweet kiss of black cherry infused with espresso and mocha, followed by medium to full-bodied opulence, lushness, excellent purity and depth. It is expensive, but there are only 500 or so cases.

The other Cabernet Sauvignon, the 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Latro is 100% from Jackson family owned vineyards in Knights Valley. Aged 20 months in 63% new French oak and bottled unfined and unfiltered, this is a more earthy, tannic, structured style of Cabernet Sauvignon compared to the Pleinair from Napa. It is dense ruby/purple and shows licorice, Christmas fruitcake, blackcurrants and loamy soil notes in abundance. It is medium-bodied, elegant and very well made. Drink it over the next 15+ years.

A powerful, impressive Cabernet Sauvignon is the 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Trace Ridge from Knights Valley. This comes from the Jackson-owned Kellogg vineyard and is 100% Cabernet Sauvignon aged 21 months in 100% French oak. This showed plenty of lead pencil shavings, licorice, damp earth, forest floor and spice box. It should drink nicely for 15 or more years.

The 2013 Proprietary Red Stature, a blend from Alexander Valley and Knights Valley from high-elevation vineyards, is mostly Cabernet Sauvignon and is tannic, powerful and rich, with impressive extraction and density, but certainly 4-5 years away from prime-time drinkability. This is a wine for the patient connoisseur to cellar and consume between 2020 and 2035.

From Mt. Veeder, the 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Mountain is a small cuvée of 307 cases of 100% Cabernet Sauvignon aged 21 months in all French oak. This is outstanding wine, but don’t confuse it with the extraordinary Lokoya Mt. Veeder cuvée, which has been perfect over the last several vintages. This wine shows an opaque purple color and a beautiful nose of creme de cassis, blueberries, licorice and white flowers. It is medium to full-bodied, powerful and should turn out to be outstanding when in bottle.

A beautiful cool-climate Pinot Noir made from Dijon clones 667, 777 and 115, this wine was aged nine months in 30% new French oak. The wine, from a high-elevation vineyard and one of the estate vineyards of the Jackson family, offers up notes of raspberry, strawberry, and a subtle hint of blueberry fruit. Lovely soil notes are intermixed in this decidedly cool-climate, fresh, lively, mid-weight Pinot Noir to drink over the next 3-4 years.

An intriguing offering from the Jackson family, the 2012 Proprietary Red this innovative blend of 36% Merlot, 20% Petite Sirah, 21% Cabernet Sauvignon and the rest Syrah and Zinfandel is outstanding. The wine comes from multiple vineyards in Northern California in Napa Valley and is a reasonably good-sized cuvée of 5,000 cases. The wine shows plenty of peppery, meaty, blackcurrant fruit, sweet cherries, loamy soil undertones, plenty of licorice and spice box. This is a very Mediterranean styled, deep, fleshy red wine to drink over the next 2-3 years.

The 2013 Pinot Noir Keefer Ranch Vineyard, from the cool micro-climate, Green Valley of the Russian River, offers notes of sassafras, sweet kirsch, dusty, loamy soil undertones, underbrush and leafy fall foliage. The wine is ripe, medium-bodied, tasty and complex, but a very earthy and autumnal style of Pinot offering considerable complexity. Drink it over the next 3-4 years.

The 2013 Pinot Noir Parson’s Vineyard, from clones 115, 777, Pommard and a handful of others, offers forward, supple, rather flamboyant red and black fruits, spring flowers and forest floor. It is rich, nicely textured and the luscious, sexy style of Pinot Noir that Adam Lee does so well.

The outstanding 2013 Pinot Noir Lingenfelder Vineyard, made from old-school, heritage California clones such as Martini and Pommard, is a cool site and is one of the last vineyards they harvest. Lush and ripe, the wine has a deep ruby color and notes of black cherries, raspberries, damp earth, underbrush and Asian spices. This is an attractive, complex, medium to full-bodied, round, juicy, succulent style of Pinot Noir to drink over the next 5-6 years. Sadly, it is one of the smaller cuvées of 249 cases.

The 2014 Sauvignon Blanc, coming from the estate vineyards, was fermented in neutral wood and aged in a combination of concrete eggs, stainless steel and neutral wood puncheons for ten months on its lees prior to bottling. The wine offers good crushed rock minerality, floral notes intermixed with orange blossom and lemon honey, excellent depth, richness and a dry, crisp finish. Drink it over the next several years.

The outstanding 2014 Chardonnay sees about 30% new French oak and is barrel-aged for ten months prior to bottling. It is a pretty wine with notes of white currants, quince, honeysuckle and a touch of white peach. The wine is rich and medium-bodied with terrific acidity and freshness. Drink it over the next 3-4 years.