This is serious stuff. Huge, concentrated blackberry fruit characterizes this meritage blend. Made in a Bordeaux style, the wine is round and silky with surprisingly ripe tannins. The best juice from the cellar and the best barrels are used for this showcase wine.

Mr. Test calls the 1995 the best cabernet sauvignon Stonestreet has made. Dark purple color, ripe plum, cassis flavors, smoky oak and an herbal nose. Blended with a little cabernet franc, a favorite of the winemaker.

.is rich and balanced with plum and tangy berry fruit. It is long, dense and complex.

Crowd pleaser and loaded with sweet aromas of butterscotch and pear. Flavors are big but slightly one-dimensional. Oak frames it all.

Deep black-cherry aroma, chocolate and toffee accents; up-front oak, good concentration, layered fruit, good tannins; length. Perfect with roasted squab, pork satay.

Forward black-cherry, toasty oak, coffee back notes; rich texture, layered fruit, spicy oak, good concentration; long finish. Try with dried cherry risotto, duck confit.

This winery owned by Kendall-Jackson, handcrafted a sauvignon blanc with true substance and style. It is lush and crisp with gorgeous varietal fruit and a soft, subtle hint of barrel fermentation. A benchmark Sauvignon Blanc.

Bright yellow gold. Medium-bodied. Low acidity. Moderately extracted. Faintly fruity aromas. Rounded mouthfeel and butter on the finish.

Built for age and very much demanding of it, this big, dense, decidedly tough young wine trades finesse for sheer extract and makes abundant use of savory oak spice. Very rich, but rather rugged and fit with tongue-curing tannins just now, it is the kind of wine that will age and age without ever earning the descriptor "pretty". Still, it has the mass and muscle to team with the richest beef and lamb entrees and deserves six or seven years of patience.

The nose hints of spice yet is otherwise clean and simple with subtle melony fruit tones. Rounded with palate-coating, slightly, slick sweet fruit impressions, the wine is distinctive on entry, if not wholly attractive. The flavors fade across the palate, and this offering is neither distinctive at mid-palate nor lengthy at the finish.

An amazing single-vineyard Zin. Oaky, but packed with berry fruit.

Full gold. Medium-bodied. Highly extracted. Rich toasty aromas. Rounded with a textured mouthfeel showing elegant stone fruit and apple spice flavors on a long finish.

Medium golden luster. Medium-bodied. Highly extracted. Heavily oaked. Walnut accents with apple aromas. Lemon and apple palate with oak on the finish.

Medium golden luster. Medium-bodied. Highly extracted. Heavily oaked. Walnut accents with apple aromas. Lemon and apple palate with oak on the finish.

Bright yellow gold. Medium-bodied. Moderately extracted. Ripe tropical nose follows throughout on the palate with a glycerous mouthfeel. Attractive.

Bright pale yellow. Medium-bodied. Moderately extracted. Zesty citrus aromas with textured mouthfeel shows a spicy note on the finish. Supple and balanced.

A smooth and supple Meritage, deeply concentrated, with a rich, detailed core of mineral, coffee, currant, cherry and sage flavors and a long, complex aftertaste where the flavors keep pumping. Drinks well now, but should be a beauty in another year or two.

Strives for complexity with its aromas and currant, cedar, plum and anise flavors, but the tannins swarm in, and it's dry and not terribly concentrated.

Clean, lightly herbal aroma, ripe melon accents; forward fruity flavors, hint of sweetness; short finish. Try with seared halibut with fruit salsa, taco salad.

.a superior petite sirah, try 1995 Edmeades Eagle Point Petite Sirah, with an aroma of chocolate, anise, pepper and clove, and a full, thick taste that's plenty tannic, but which smooths out with hearty foods. With pizza, the match is sublime.

This is a wine with a magnificent potpourri of fruit, oak and smells and tastes of the earth (both Napa and Sonoma vineyards, from Rutherford to Jess Jackson's mountain estate above the Alexander Valley) from which it sprang. This is natural winemaking at its very best.

Impressive. Has layers of complexity, with aromas of melon, grass, grapefruit, plus a hint of oak. Flavors are rich but end on a crisp note.

Perfumed floral aroma with smoky oak and gamey accents; richly textured berry flavors, slightly herbal; firm tannins; length. Try with portobello mushroom sandwich.

Opens with a lovely, elegant nose leading to delicious juicy fruit with soft, inviting mid-palate flavors.

A worthy successor to the '93...is fragrant with classic pinot perfume, silky and delicious on the palate.