Wine made up of a large base of Cabernet Sauvignon and with small portions of different grapes including Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, Merlot and Malbec, all the grapes come from Sonoma County in California. Appearance: For being a 2011 the wine offers us a surprisingly bright red color and edges more tiles typical of maturity. Wine is at its best to be consumed. Smell: It shows touches of flowers such as acacias, jasmine, cassis and raspberries, then an earthy finish and a leather finish. Taste: Wine of good tannic structure, intense, lively, tasty, with very good balance and a mouth ending that falls in love.

Toasty aromas, flavors of cassis and bittersweet chocolate, assertive acids and tannins, spicy.

The fruit is off K-J’s Alexander Mountain Estate vineyard, east of Geyserville in Sonoma County. The mountain berries are small and intense, producing a Cab with cassis, blackberry and black cherry tones.

Also stellar is the winery’s new 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon, mainly from Sonoma County ($19).This delightful wine is so young it won’t show how excellent it is until at least a year from now.

Full-bodied and pleasant with dark fruit. Balanced and juicy. Food matches: ribs, steaks, burgers. Kendall-Jackson's Vintner's Reserve is consistently one of the best value Cabernets from California. Compare this just-released 2010 vintage with the 2009 half bottle also in this release (LCBO # 706077). A great wine for the backyard barbecue. Pull up the Muskoka chairs, kick back and enjoy.

...soft and mellow, with aromas and flavors of black plums and licorice.

When the Kendall-Jackson wine team puts their eyes and palates on the best lots of wine off the best single estate vineyards, the end result always rocks. These Jackson Estate new releases are limited-production wines. They are special. Creamy, intense, infused with spicy, smoky oak, bursting with red berries: AWESOME. I seldom use a word that strong to describe a wine, but for the price and the quality, this wine sings. It's like a plush carpet of flavors in the mouth: cassis, cherry, plum and dark chocolate, with soft, silky tannins. Hawkeye Vineyard is in the Mayacamas Mountains above Alexander Valley - the elevation helps explain the intensity of the flavor and structure, the mineral tones and soft, chewy tannins.

A solid Cabernet, offering plenty of savory blackberry, cola and spice flavors that finish dry and wholesome.

The linchpins are the two vineyards: Trace Ridge in Knights Valley and Alexander Mountain Estate. This is a dark, intense, brooding wine, still closed in but offering a glimpse of its power: black plums, cherries, currants and chocolate, with cedar and violet tones.

Perfect varietal character of dried cherry and dried herbs mark the aroma; the texture is startlingly balanced for pairing with food. It harkens back to an earlier era.

There's a lot going on in this bad boy from Sonoma County, and all of it's good if you like expressive dark fruit. Mostly cabernet with petit verdot, merlot and cab franc accounting for 12 percent of the blend, the grapes are a mix of mountain, ridge and hillside fruit. Despite the robust flavors, all the components are in balance, and the alcohol is a restrained 13.5 percent.

Full-bodied and pleasant with dark fruit. Balanced and juicy. Food matches: ribs, steaks, burgers.

A perennial favourite with Vintages customer's, K-J's Vintner's Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon seems to get better with every vintage. This Cabernet is round, ripe and fruit-driven (look for plump cherry, cassis and cocoa aromas and flavours), and is an excellent choice for when you need something you can rely on at the last minute. So stock up!

Black fruit, custard, spice, mocha and cinnamon aromas. Upfront style with sweet black fruit, bright acidity and grippy tannins. Has a spice, herb and pepper finish.

Small amounts of Cabernet Franc, Merlot and others add to this red's complexity.

Hint of oak, flavors of cassis and espresso, soft, ripe, tannins.

One great characteristic of well-made Cabernet Sauvignon is an almost immediate olfactory impression when the wine is poured. KJ's Grand Reserve bursts with aromas of black currant, blueberry, smoke and spice, enticing a taste to reveal rich flavors of blackberry, dark chocolate, herbs with a finish of vanilla and toasty oak.

A cab with good structure. Aromas and flavors of black cherry, blackberry, herbs and spice. Long finish.

Very few red table wines have the oomph to stand up to a dessert as sweet as this one (Chocolate Bread Pudding with Bourbon Caramel Sauce); a full-bodied Cabernet like the cassis-rich, structured 2004 Kendall-Jackson Grand Reserve is the best option.

Closed, but quite fresh and lively. Well-defined. Balanced and ripe. Some nice fleshy fruit present and good acidity.

...this '05 has the benefit of rich tannins and well-ripened cherry-berry fruit...