Its oaky aromas and mildly jammy flavors suggest vanilla and a bit of berry-pie sweetness…

Showing clear family ties to its sibling from the Ciapusci Vineyard…yet once again there is so much richness and ready depth apparent that its alcoholic foibles are forgivable. Whatever it accompanies at the table will need flavors that are as big and bold as it is.

Here is yet another exponent of high ripeness that manages to deliver tantalizing fruitiness despite its outsized alcohol (15.3%). Its full body and fleshy demeanor make it one that demands that it be partnered to boldly flavored foods…

Stressing ripeness in its somewhat outgoing aromas of jammy, almost syrupy, blackberry and spicy, nutmegy oak…

The sweet, young, berryish fruit aromas show both lots of immediate appeal and plenty of depth. At entry, the flavors are much like the nose with forward blackberry fruit that gives substance to the frontal impressions. Well-structured and fairly weighty on the palate….

Distinct for its smoky, toasty oak and rich array of ripe pear, fig and melon. Delicious from start to find.

Elegant, delicate and sweet, with bright peach, nectarine, citrus and spice, bracing acidity and a hint of orange peel.

Ripe, with juicy plum and strawberry flavors, it turns rich and complex on the finish, with lots of fruit notes.

Peppery, with earth, tar, raspberry and wild berry. A distinctive style, with firm, drying tannins.

Lots of supple cherry and wild berry flavors are plush with spice, anise and cedar notes and mild tannins.

Tart, with peach and nectarine flavors that are bright and lively. Finishes with a creamy flavor.

Smooth and racy, with herb-tinged cherry and berry flavors that turn elegant and supple.

Stonestreet has produced a barrel-fermented, pleasant, crisp, elegant 1997 Gewürztraminer.

…possesses the most developed aromatics, consisting of black currants, cherries, loamy soil scents, and pain grille. It is the most expansive and fullest-bodied, with stunningly concentrated flavors that exhibit no angularity of sharpness. The acidity, tannin, alcohol, and wood are all gorgeously integrated into this fleshy, succulent, voluptuously-textured wine. The finish lasts for 40+ seconds.

…this opaque purple-colored wine offers up a fabulous nose of black fruits (cassis, cherries, and blackberries), subtle new oak, marvelously full body, more aggressive tannin than the 1997, and an impressively layered mid-palate and finish. The wine is extraordinarily will-endowed, impeccably well-balanced, and brilliantly will-delineated for its massive size.

…reveals an opaque purple color, in addition to a sexy, chocolatey, jammy cassis, spicy, pain grille-scented nose. Full-bodied and chewy, with impressive levels of extracted, lavish, smoky wood, and a juicy, succulent, glycerin-endowed personality…

boasts an opaque blue/black color, followed by outstanding aromatics of jammy blackberry and currant fruit intertwined with roasted herbs, cold steel, minerals, and spicy new oak. There is fabulous intensity, terrific levels of glycerin and extract, full body, and sweet tannin in the ling, low acid finish. This superb, dazzling Cabernet Sauvignon reveals tremendous up-side potential.

It's a hedonistic, opaque purple-colored wine with gobs of toasty new oak, thrilling leels of etract, rich, chewy, black currant and blackberry fruit, impressive glycerin, sweet tannin, and a knock-out finish that must contain over 14% alcohol

It is an unfiltered, dense, full-bodied wine with considerable power and richness. Aged in 50% new French oak, with more than 14% alcohol, it exhibits plenty of tannin, as well as impressively-endowed flavors of roasted herbs, black currants, chocolate, and blackberries.

The wine's opaque purple color is followed by copious quantities of toast, cassis, tobacco, earth, and spice in a full-blown bouquet. Full-bodied, with superb purity, and a gorgeous marriage of power and elegance…

…reveals an opaque purple color, and a sumptuous, Medoc-like nose of lead pencil, minerals, black currants, and smoky oak. It is extremely full-bodied and massive in the mouth, with sweet tannin, a layered, plushly-textured mid-palate, and a firm, exceptionally long, pure finish.

This offering reveals notes of spice, jammy plums, and dried cherry fruit intertwined with toasty oak. A concentrated, medium to full-bodied, complete, savory, delicious Pinot Noir…

which possesses plenty of this varietal's peppery, briery, raspberry fruit, good freshness, and loads of glycerin and concentration. This lush, supple Zinfandel should be consumed over the next several years.

…a 100% barrel-fermented cuvee given extensive lees contact. Sixty percent new French oak is used in the wine's upbringing. It is a rich, tropical fruit dominated wine with good acidity, loads of fruit, excellent definition, and a medium to full-bodied, spicy finish. The wood adds a complex element without dominating this wine's disarming fruit qualities.

The wine possesses an evolved light gold color, a powerful pineapple, buttery, toasty, smoky nose, excellent full-bodied flavors, loads of fruit, a chewy texture, and a heady, alcoholic (14.2%) finish.