A suave pinot noir that your boss can drink now or cellar. Look for a fresh cherry/berry nose with super bright fruit flavours. Likely and supple with silky tannins and a touch of tea leaves in the finish. Excellent. Should be a restaurant standard. Pair with turkey or salmon.

Displays more orange marmalade, honeysuckle, concentrated citrus oil, and lemon butter characteristics. Spicy, rich, and full-bodied, it is an outstanding Chardonnay to enjoy over the next 1-2 years.

This sleek cabernet has a soft texture and a green peppercorn flavor has a soft texture and a green peppercorn flavor that feels hard edged at first, needing air to meld into the wine. When it does it makes the wine feel rounder, still edgy enough for pepper steak.

Black and tannic, this wine is dominated by its oak for now, providing a range of exotic spices over the fruit. Underneath, there's a red cherry and black pepper flavor that should absorb those spicy wood tannins as the wine ages. The wine has plenty of energy to go the distance.

Exhibits a medium dark ruby color as well as a big, sweet nose of raspberries, pomegranate, cranberries, and allspice. Round, rich, and elegant with a hint of sassafras, it should be drunk over the next 5-7 years.

Appears less concentrated, but more front-end loaded and superficial. Its dense ruby/purple color is followed by sweet, concentrated black fruits intermixed with charcoal and floral notes.

Dark, ruby color, significant structure, tannin, weight, and flesh, its dominant flavor characteristic is spicy black cherries dripping with oak. It will benefit from another year of bottle are, and work well for 4-5 years.

Byron can always be counted on to come up with interesting, terroir-driven wines. This pinot, clearly from a cool climate, is dry and tart in acids, with a silky texture and ripe, pleasing cherry, cola and mocha flavors, as well as a complex woodspice taste lasts through the long finish.

Possesses pleasant lemon zest, honey, fig, melon, and stone fruit notes.

Reveals broad, savory, sweet black cherry characteristics intermixed with forest floor, underbrush, and dried herbs. Full-bodied, ripe, charming, and seductive with a supple texture, it should be consumed over the next 2-3 years.

Honey, citrus, spicy lees, vanilla, baked apple and pineapple aromas. Round, rich, slightly sweet entry with good acidity and freshness. Good smoky, leesy, vanilla, buttery, baked apple, peach and pineapple flavours. Good intensity with a butterscotch and citrus finish, slightly older style.

Loads of upfront fruit, but not the depth, power or structure of its older siblings. With wonderful suppleness, it will undoubtedly be more of a crowd pleaser than its packed, stacked, more serious predecessors. The 2004 should be drinkable upon release, and last a decade or more.

The only red wine that I can recommend. Exhibits a dense purple color as well as spicy, ripe black currant notes intermixed with loamy tannic, dense, and promising, it requires 3-4 years of bottle age to strut its stuff.

Dark ruby/purple color is accompanied by a bouquet of graphite, black fruits, earth, and charcoal. This attractive, medium-bodied blend will benefit from another 1-2 years of bottle age given its tannic structure. It will are for 12-15 years.

Offers notes of allspice, cola, cranberries and cherries in a ripe, medium-bodied, spice-driven Pinot. Along with its siblings, it possesses a supple texture as well as a velvety expansiveness. It will drink well for 2-4 years.

Exhibits aromas and flavors of honeyed citrus, buttered oranges, and honeysuckle in his medium-bodied, ripe, nicely concentrated style. It should provide pleasure over the next 1-2 years.

Reveals light intensity, blueberry fruit and flower notes, in addition to a certain leanness. Delicious in a superficial, medium-bodied way.

It is a medium-bodied, pleasant white to enjoy over the next 2-3 years.

Aromas of cranberries, strawberries, and pomegranate emerge. With tart acidity, a floral character and decent structure, it is best drunk over the next 3-4 years.

It offers white peach, pineapple, toasty oak, and earth characteristics.

This entry-level Kendall-Jackson's syrah is no slouch. It comes from premium, cool climate hillside vineyards and gets a full quotient of oak aging. Although ripe and fruity in the California mode, the more austere flavors of the hillside fruit provide a robust, rustic style. Appealing to both California and Rhone wine lovers, this will prove a crowd pleaser.

Outstanding. Exhibits notes of coffee bean, mocha, white chocolate, black cherries, and currants. Ripe and rich, with abundant tannin, this impeccably made Merlot should age graciously for 10-12 years.

A great Thanksgiving pick. Complex and juicy. Rich, red fruit flavors of raspberry, strawberry and plum. Bright and tart. Long finish.