Brambly berry character, pepper and spice that first attracted me to zinfandel.

Plenty of good quality zinfandel from a major player in California.

delivers a full measure of well-defined berryish fruit in a smooth and polished package.

Very good value if you like your zin with forward, ripe flavors. The palate includes raspberries, chocolate and spice.

An all around lighter look at Zinfandel, this ripe, rounded, nicely balanced bottling brings together a bit of varietal berries with a modest sprinkling of vanillin oak. Hardly memorable but entirely useful, it makes the grade as an affordable foil to highly-piled platters of barbecued ribs.

Drawing fruit from cool Mendocino County, this wine is a real mouthful of raspberry / blackberry fruit. Full throttle zing with a long and fruity finish. Nice oak frame.

Drawing fruit from cool Mendocino County, this wine is a real mouthful of raspberry/blackberry fruit. Full throttle zing with a long and fruity finish. Nice oak frame.

With grapes from the cooler Mendocino region, K-J has a rich and multi-dimensional zinfandel with good body. It is blended with petite sirah, grenache and carignane and comes from old vines.

Black cherry and dark chocolate flavors, rich and smooth.

Scents of pear, melon and nectarine. A pleasant roundness on the palate.

Soft, and generous with its spicy pear and pepper flavors, harmonious and frankly sweet on the finish.

Limes, ginger, apples. A fine focused component dominates this soft quaffer with a well balanced finish.

Aromatic, spicy, citrus-peel, with forward floral notes; medium floral-lichee flavors; excellent balance; full finish. Good with sesame chicken or chicken salad.

With pear-like aromas, this citrus-oriented effort shows some appeal as a refreshing, very faintly spicy quaff. Noticeable sugars are balanced by spry acidity throughout.

Bright and refreshing, simple, revealing pleasant pear and spice flavors.

Light and crisp, with appealing apple and spice aromas and flavors and a lean, lively finish. Drinkable now.

Soft with appealing notes of nectarine, pear and cream. Light and elegant with just a hint of oak.

Among the current release of California Viognier, K-J's Grand Reserve bottling which contains a smidgen of Chardonnay, is one of the best. ...Perfectly priced now and gives every indication that the soon-to-be-released '96 will be worth looking for, too.

Brilliant yellow with emerald highlights. Medium-bodied. Low acidity. Moderately extracted. Moderately oaked. Vanilla, faint tropical fruits. Oak accented aromas are fully expressed on the palate with very little varietal fruit flavors to complement.

Has hints of spice and pear. A good, quenching quaff.

A vioginer structured like a big, ultraripe chardonnay, with lots of oaky and buttery aromas and flavors. Fruit shows lime and orange.

Oak and sandalwood spice. Fairly unctuous on the palate. Ripe and oaky, mildly honeyed. This one has plenty of richness.

A light and simple riesling, its peach flavors touched by smoke, this is a clean, fresh white to chill as an aperitiff.