Good full red. Aromas of redcurrant, leather, chocolate and tobacco. lush and seamless on the palate, with an attractive restrained sweetness and good acid verve. Not yet displaying its full personality, but this is already aromatic in the mouth. Finishes with dusty, mounting tannins and a very good persistence.

Dark berry flavors, along with overtones of cherries and dried herbs are juicy and soft in the mouth. Well concentrated and moderately complex, the wine's stream of flavors doesn't quit and is enhance with a dollop of oak. More polished than the Napa bottling and delicious to drink now.

Deep black fruit aroma, plums and black cherries; toasted oak backnotes; full tannins, cherry-berry flavors; long finish.

Quite good.

Red-ruby. Very ripe, slightly briary aromas of raspberry, cherry and smoky oak. Large-scaled and mouthfilling; very ripe but not at all heavy. This offers impressive sweetness and depth of flavor. Finishes long and smooth, with sweet tannins spreading out to coat the palate.

Very rich, oaky and a bit jammy. Sumptuous and concentrated with a chewy finish.

Reductive nose. Very rich, very oaky and a bit jammy, but with open tannic support. This is a blockbuster with more power than finesse -- but sumptuous and concentrated with a chewy finish...Oak and fruit aromas. Very young ripe fresh berry fruit combined with good acidity and tannin balance. Some complexity, with a long alcoholic, rich finish.

Offering quiet fruit as a foil to notes of oak, dust and dry chocolate…

Medium-bodied, with a smoky, rustic, barnyard-streak to the black cherry and tar flavors. Finishes with leathery tannins.

This cab has a soft style and resembles Merlot. A crisp, pleasant wine with tangy, bright blackberry fruit.

This, the most plentiful of Kendall-Jackson's "reserve" Cabernets, is a rounded, slightly herbal, relatively uncomplicated, mid-sized wine that is fit with attractive fruit and trim of sweetening oak. It is lightly tannic yet and could do with a few years of age…

Gobs of generous cassis, cherry and plum flavors. Nice oak.

...Kendall-Jackson's impressive Single Vineyard Series, the 1996 Buckeye Vineyard cabernet sauvignon. This is a big, elegant wine with layers of flavors and a lovely, long finish. At $65, it's a wine for dedicated cabernet fans.

…moderately full-bodied wine also displays a good degree of extract and fairly showy oak.

...it finishes with shrill acidity. and comes across as compressed and lean. It will undoubtedly dry out before it ever blossoms.

Soft but austere berry fruit

Smooth and supple, with ripe wild berry, cola and cherry flavors…

Straightforward and varietally true, this is a good all-purpose cabernet. Dark and youthful in appearance with smoky aromas, spicy plum fruit, and a creamy texture that will pair well with a variety of people and foods.

...exhibits a more saturated ruby color, and a pleasing red currant, "Petit Bordeaux"-like personality with some ripeness, medium body, and a soft style.

Ripe fruit, spice and balance.

Low-keyed fruit gets a little help here from a dusting of oaky spice.

Perhaps limited by the vintage, this wine delights with big and rich aromas while delivering wholly enjoyable but somewhat less complete flavors. Initial impressions of black currant and sweet spice scents are enhanced by creamy, somewhat toasty oak, and it is this attractive mix that shows up as the wine enters the mouth.

Has everything you expect in a Cabernet: aromas of cocoa, cedar, berry, and oak, with good structure, silky flavors and a nice finish.