reveals loads of complex mineral, tobacco, black currant, blueberry, and licorice characteristics. Medium to full bodied, with sweet tannin as well as a firm, mountain-styled personality that begs for patience, it will be at its finest between 2010-2020.

Exhibits cola, raspberry, strawberry, and floral notes along with great ripeness, medium body, tremendous purity, and wonderful fruit presence.

Offers rich aromas of lemon butter, wet rocks, pears, peaches, and honeyed grapefruit. As Mike Sullivan said, this cuvée is for Chardonnay lovers who enjoy the so-called stone fruits in their wines. Elegant, full-bodied, and rich, with fine acidity giving uplift to the aromatics and flavors, it should be consumed over the next 3-4 years.

The most flamboyant of this trio, exhibiting more tropical fruit (pineapples, oranges, and papaya) in a full-bodied, complex, extroverted style. Pure, rich, and long, this is a beauty to drink over the next 2-3 years.

The 2003 Stature Meritage exhibits copious quantities of cassis fruit along with notions of smoke, earth, licorice, minerals, and flowers. This impressive, large-scaled, rich, age worthy 2003 should evolve for a minimum of two decades.

Offers pretty raspberry/floral notes with a Château Margaux-like finesse and complexity. Medium to full-bodied with a more elegant, restrained style than its younger sibling, it possesses a Bordeaux-like structure, beautiful fruit, firm tannin, and a long finish. Anticipated maturity: 2011-2024.

A beautiful wine for the price. Aged nine months on its lees, it offers abundant quantities of pear, honeysuckle, and toast notes in a medium to full-bodied, exotic, fruit forward format. It is hard not to get excited about this delicious Chardonnay, which begs for consumption over the next 1-2 years.

offers up sweet aromas of melted licorice, chocolate, black currants, and crushed rocks. Elegant as well as powerful and deep, with a layered mouthfeel, a long finish, and firm tannin, my instincts suggest it warrants 3-4 years of cellaring. It should drink well for 12-15 years.

The lighter 2003 Legacy Proprietary Red (75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot, and 5% Petit Verdot) is sweet and spicy with plenty of power, potency, and flavor. It will merit consumption during its first 10-12 years of life.

The 2003 (vintage) is better than the excellent 2002, but both wines reveal notes of black currants intermixed with blueberries, acacia flowers, chocolate, and coffee. Both are layered and rich, but the 2003 is fuller-bodied.

(100% Merlot). A big, sweet nose of espresso roast, dried herbs, currants, cherries, and smoky oak is accompanied by a dense, opulent, medium-bodied, rich, moderately tannic Merlot boasting a long, heady finish. It should be at its best between 2006-2015.

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.

Offers sweet toasty oak interwoven with chocolate, espresso, dried herb, black currant, and earth notes. A dense, medium-bodied effort with no hard edges, it will drink well for 7-8 years.

Offers up crisp, honeysuckle, fig, and melon aromas, lively acidity, medium body, and an attractive finish. Enjoy it over the next 1-2 years.

100% Syrah aged 11 months in French oak. Displays pepper, blackberry aromas and flavors with a notion of graphite in the background. Smoky/earthy characteristics.

A blend of 88% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 6% Syrah, this tightly-knit 2002 possesses good depth along with chocolatey black cherry and berry characteristics intermixed with licorice, herbs, and earth. This heady Merlot requires another 1-2 years of bottle age; it should last for 10-12 years.

Chunky, fresh & possesses good fruit and a lovely fragrance.

Exhibits a big, smoky, woody bouquet intermixed with scents of cherry fruit.

Offers red currant, dried herb, and Allspice notes in a medium-bodied, straightforward, commercial style.

Vibrant and showy. Full-bodied, with a rich texture. Aromas and flavors of blackberry, blueberry, mint and camphor.

Pure, liqueur-like, tart cherry flavors; hint of nutmeg as the wine warms; dry, velvety; lightly tart finish.

Spicy, cinnamony, plum-pie flavors; crisp, dry.

Intense pear and butterscotch flavors, concentrated fruit, viscous, very dry; lightly tart finish.

Toasty oak aroma; rich caramel and crisp citrus flavors; fruity, creamy, dry.