It is far from being one of the deeper or more extracted Cabernets around, but this balanced fruity, oak-enriched effort has a fine sense of substance and delivers plenty of honest varietal character at the price.

The 1994 Zinfandel Grand Reserve possesses better density and ripeness, as well as medium body, and moderate levels of sweet black-cherry fruit intertwined with peppery scents. ... Drink it over the next several years.

Purplish ruby. Medium-bodied. Balanced acidity. Moderately extracted. Moderately tannic. Cinnamon, cherries, herbs. Lean and spicy throughout, with delicately balanced fruit and a pleasant finish.

Well-made, with plenty of cherry fruit, a saturated color, and fine depth, it should be drunk over the next 4-5 years.

Bursting with peppery berry fruit, this soft, medium-bodied Zinfandel exhibits excellent purity and a ripe, generous finish.

A fine everyday Zin. It's bone-dry, tannic and peppery, with briary flavors of blackberries, currants, cola and herbs.

this affordable middleweight offers a nice bit of honest Zinfandel fruit and is not overrun by ripeness. It has a few coarse edges that should lessen with time.

Made in a popular style, this jammy wine has cherry, blackberry and spiced rum flavors that are ripe and pure, with a pleasantly tannic texture. Easy to like.

It delivers a full measure of bright, moderately concentrated fruit in its clean aromas, and it is medium-full bodied and decently smooth on the palate. Its flavors are open at the front and firm up nicely at the finish for current drinking with barbecue or red-sauced pastas.

Soft and fruity, with good body and a core of black cherry, plum, cassis, spice and herb notes. A bit bright on the finish, but nice nonetheless.

A fresh, springtime aroma. Nice palate--soft, very balanced, with lime and lemon curd and fresh, green grass in the full flavors. Try with scallops or grilled white fish.

…offers that varietal's tell-tale tropical fruit cocktail nose and flavors. A touch of Chardonnay was added to the blend.

Medium golden appearance. Moderately full-bodied. Balanced acidity. Moderately extracted. Dried flowers, peach, pineapple. Sweet floral aromas lead a full, rich mouthful of juicy fruit flavors that linger on a sweet finish.

Tangy with nectarine fruit and a long, crisp finish.

With a deep golden color, this late-harvest Riesling has rich flavors of apricots and pears

Not really dry, this Riesling has an official residual sugar reading of 2.11. It's blended with Gewürztraminer, Muscat Canelli, Chardonnay and Viognier. This end result is fruity and spicy, with flavors of honey-splashed apples, citrus fruits and peaches.

Clean, fairly direct in fruit and showing scattered hints of honey throughout, this medium-sweet wine is rounded in feel and easy on the palate, and it is kept alive by just enough balancing acidity. It will make for fine quaffing as the weather warms, and the price is right.

I also enjoyed the waxy, pungent, light-bodied, citrusy 1996 Semillon VR.

It exhibits good, waxy, melony fruit, and like many of these wines, good purity and a fruit-driven personality.

The 1994 Fume Blanc Vintner's Reserve is loaded with melony fruit. Crisp, fresh, and lively, it is ideal for drinking over the next year.

An easy-drinking Sauvignon Blanc that has some slight residual sweetness, in the K-J style. Citrus and grassy aromas and flavors, clean and zesty, with added interest from small amounts of Semillon and Viognier. A nice "beginner's" wine.

..shows pretty melon, fig and grapefruit notes. Very extracted and rather on the sweet side, but crisp and stylish. Widely available and affordable.

Elegant and refreshing, with intriguing melon and tropical fruit characteristics, it is a pleasant, dry, medium-bodied Sauvignon Blanc to drink over the next year.

Fairly tangy, with hints of vanilla on the nose. The flavors touch on sweet pea, fig and citrus, with a hint of fresh-mowed grass on the refreshing finish.

...a delicious floral and melony-scented, medium bodied soft Sauvignon that is ideal for drinking over the next year. It is one of the better values in the marketplace.