Blending the lush fruit of Alexander Valley fills with the power of Napa cabernet, Cardinale turns in wine of tough and supple contrasts. It has enough sweet, delicious fruit for the hedonist, and enough tannic structure for the puritan. Fine and juicy, staunch and reserved.

This Rutherford wine has a sleek structure, focused on richness and supple fruit. The tannins are soft, enriching the texture, deepening the wine to earthy tones and dark chocolate flavors. It's generous, balanced and the most accessible of the three Lokoyas. Finely made.

Bigger, richer in every way than the regular cuvee, delivering waves of rich, ripe, spicy fruit in a creamy, lushly-textured package. Long, delicious finish.

Oak aromatics fill the wine with brown spices, compressing the powerful black fruit, seeming to add to the pungent dry spice in the mouth. This is strong stuff, the extract is intense, and yet it brings food to mind as a big, tough nebbiolo might.

A Meursault-like, medium-bodied wine, with green-apple, peach and pear aromas. Smoky and oaky, with rich, soft, spicy flavors. Flashy and opulent.

Hints of tropical fruits, vanillin oak, nutmeg and a vague carnal quality on the nose. Ripe peach flavor complicated by coconut oak; juicy acidity gives the wine structure and shape Finishes with a rather sweet note of orange blossom.

Bright, deep red-ruby. Red berries, plum and smoky oak on the nose. Supple, ripe and harmonious, with good sweetness but modest flesh and depth of fruit. Initially light tannins turned a bit dry as the wine opened in the glass.

An easy-drinking Sauvignon Blanc that has some slight residual sweetness, in the K-J style. Citrus and grassy aromas and flavors, clean and zesty, with added interest from small amounts of Semillon and Viognier. A nice "beginner's" wine.

K-J's signature ripe, ripe fruit was definitely on display here. Intense plum-berry flavors with undertones of chocolate filled the mouth; on the nose, however, were not so pleasant musty, wet wool aromas.

Firm in structure, featuring red currant, toasted oak and herb flavors, finishing lean.

Medium-bodied, with a smoky, rustic, barnyard-streak to the black cherry and tar flavors. Finishes with leathery tannins.

Ripe and concentrated with a tight core of mineral and smoky black cherry flavors.

A bit tart with raspberry and strawberry fruit flavors.

Hints of Kijafa give the aromas an almost too sweet character when combined with the vanillin scents of the oak. In the flavors, the ripe black cherry flavors and ample presence of sweet oak again give the wine a forward, accessible character that has some appeal. Dark chocolate notes surface in the lengthy finish.

Ripe, deep, almost perfumed aromas carry smoky, toasty notes from oak and these same ripe, rich qualities continue to show in the flavors of this wine. Big, tough and almost chunky in the mouth…

Offering quiet fruit as a foil to notes of oak, dust and dry chocolate…

This, the most plentiful of Kendall-Jackson's "reserve" Cabernets, is a rounded, slightly herbal, relatively uncomplicated, mid-sized wine that is fit with attractive fruit and trim of sweetening oak. It is lightly tannic yet and could do with a few years of age…

Very strong aromas of plum, blackberry, oak, vanilla, smoke and spice. A fairly austere wine notable for power and finesse rather than fruit. The tannins are soft and it's very dry.

"Tropical fruit, floral nose' soft, fleshy flavors, ripe melons, hint of grass; medium acidity; medium fruit finish. Good with fried fish and chips, corn chowder.

Earthy, with stemmy cola, herb and cherry flavors…

Firm, with a narrow range of strawberry and tea flavors...

Ripe, rich and concentrated, with a firm core of earthy cherry, cola, spice, anise and tea notes, holding a tight focus, turning supple on the finish.

Supple, elegant an dwell defined, with pretty black cherry, plum and wild berry character that's complex…

Tight and crisp, with firm, detailed tannins, the core of cherry, strawberry and tealike notes will benefit from short-term cellaring as this is a well-balanced, concentrated young wine.