The soft, round, surprisingly civilized 1999 Petite Sirah Eaglepoint Vineyard offers sweet tannin, medium body, and plenty of primary, peppery, blackberry fruit with hints of licorice and earth.

The simple, medium-bodied 2000 Syrah Eaglepoint Vineyard reveals straightforward, earthy and loamy soil notes intermixed with black fruits and tar. Well-made, clean, and ripe, but not complex...

Zinfandel is one of the stars at Edmeades, and the 1999 Zinfandel Mendocino is an excellent value. Medium ruby-colored, with a smooth texture as well as big, sweet aromas and flavors of cherries and raspberry jam, this fruity, luscious, hedonistic Zin...

One of California's finest Gewurztraminers is Edmeades' 2000. It offers up that varietal's classic rose petal/floral bouquet along with elegant, fresh flavors, medium body, and abundant fruit.

There are 500 cases of the honeysuckle, jasmine, and citrus-scented and flavored 2001 Viognier. This light to medium-bodied, crisp, tangy white is dominated by its fruit.

The 2000 Chardonnay exhibits crisp underlying acidity along with notes of honeyed citrus, medium body, subtle wood, and a clean, zesty, tangy finish.

The 1999 Grand Reserve Merlot offers a sweet perfume of chocolate, cherries, mocha, and vanilla, tangy acidity, medium to full body, and a spicy finish with noticeable oak.

The Bordeaux-like 1999 Grand Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon...Notions of cedar, tobacco, red and black currants emerge from this structured, muscular Cabernet, but high tannin dominates its personality.

...the 1999 Stature Merlot North Coast. While it revealed high acidity as well as tannin, structure, and ripeness, it was closed and monolithic the day I tasted it.

The elegant 1999 Grand Reserve Meritage offers aromas and flavors of red currants, spice box, and dried herbs, along with firm tannin in the medium-bodied finish. This St.-Emilion-styled red...

The Great Estates offerings are impressive...The 2000 Great Estates Chardonnay Monterey reveals a cool-climate bouquet of citrus oils, lemon grass, and liquid mineral scents along with a hint of tangerines. This medium-bodied, tangy, crisp, high acid Chardonnay is French in style. All of these Chardonnays are excellent values considering their high quality.

Pleasant, but essentially monolithic. Drink it over the next year.

Tangy, with lemon, ginger root, earth and apple flavors. A disappointing effort from a former leader with the variety. Drink now.

Killer juice! Red fruits, plums, citrus rind, blossoms, clove and more cascade through layers of exotic delights.

Killer juice! Red fruits, plums, citrus rind, blossoms, clove and more cascade through layers of exotic delights.

Pure, seductive Pinot aromas combine floral, rose-petal aromas with dark fruit and brown sugar. Rich flavors of blackberries and boyenberries cascade across the palate in a fall of velvet. Moderate acidity makes it approachable now, but there's enough tannin to preserve it for a few years. A wine that can stand up to a steak but still retains a sense of Pinot elegance. EDITOR'S CHOICE.

Aromas of dark fruit, anise, smoke and dried herbs morph into flavors of stone fruits (plums, cherries) in the mouth, with a strong undercurrent of pomegranate. This thick, almost syrupy wine is almost steroidally concentrated, but stays focused ...

A beautiful orchestration of rip fruit and oak, with touches of cream, toasty oak wrapped around layers of lemon- and nectarine-scented pear and apple. Long, lingering aftertaste.

A delicious mouthful of Chardonnay, from its ripe, floral and fruity aromas to its rich layers of spicy pear, tangerine and nectarine, finishing with a sweet fruit aftertaste.

Bright and easy-drinking, with tangy peach pit, pear and pretty honey notes, picking up richer toasty oak character in the finish.

A ripe, well-balanced style, with pear, peach, fig and coconut flavors wrapped within toasty oak and lemony notes that linger in the finish.

Dense and compact, with firm flavors if dill, currant, anise, and cedary tobacco. Drink now through 2007.

There's a bit of a medicinal note, but the black cherry, cola, raw dough and roasted herb flavors have good intensity, framed by toasty oak and modest tannins.

Firm, with compact dill and earth-laced currant, olive and blackberry. Turns tannic and leathery and reflects plenty of charred-oak aging, and while it's well-structured, the dry oakiness on the finish is a concern.