Promising aromas show complexity with lees and oak and apple scents lifted by creamy, buttery tones. The wine delivers round and solid fruit qualities offering reasonable depth to the flavors.

A clean, open, soft textured wine that fills the niche for easy-drinking Cabernet.

Vanilla, black fruits, pepper, berries. An unusual assortment of berry flavors are in marvelous balance with wood. Piquant acidity livens up the structure, which is firm and complex.

Medium body, acid and fruit. Medium oak. Lots of tannin. Blackberries, grass, smoke, cherry tobacco. Intense blackberry flavors remain focused beneath a firm structure with lasting oak notes.

Medium body, acid and fruit. Medium oak and tannin. Coffee, vanilla, berries, vegetables. Beautifully focused strain of berry fruit, soft in the mouth, but kept lively by acids.

"Lots of tannin and fruit. Vanilla, minerals, green peppers, black fruits. Brooding black fruit fills the mouth, accented by spice and youthful vegetal hints. Beautifully structured." Cellar Selection.

Plums, minerals, cherries, dried fruit. Mouth-filling.

Medium body, acid and fruit. Medium oak and tannin. Vanilla, raspberries, citrus zest, pepper. Chewy black fruit is spicy and lively. Shows nice depth and well integrated wood.

Serves up a ripe core of plum, cherry and wild berry notes in an openly fruity, appealing, well-crafted red. Rich finish, smooth texture.

Smooth, ripe, rich and polished, delivering a complex array of plum, cherry, wild berry and toasty oak. The finish shows off a range of lingering flavors.

Complex, intriguing array of ripe pear, peach, spice and toasty oak flavors, adding a lingering aftertaste.

Well focused with attractive plum and black cherry-laced Pinot Noir fruit flavors.

Complex, earthy edge to the ripe plum and cherry flavors. A toasty oak and tannic finish.

Smooth, velvety and elegant, showing nice plum, currant, toast, cola and spice character. Very pretty to drink now through 1996 or 1997.

This buttery, honeyed, richly fruity Chardonnay exhibits toasty oak, good depth, and an easy-going, robust style.

Intense and aromatically profound, a glorious nose of subtle toasty oak that adds an attractive spice component to the otherwise intense, black-cherry, raspberry, and floral scents. Full-bodied, round, expansive, and sumptuous, this is gorgeously made.

Exhibits an intense, honeyed, tropical fruit-scented nose. Rich, expansive, and chewy with loads of fruit, terrific purity, and a long finish, this knock-out Chardonnay should drink well for 12-16 months.

A terrific, exotic, tropical fruit-scented and flavored, full-bodied Chardonnay that is bursting with extract and fruit. A flamboyant, delicious wine, it offers copious quantities of pleasure-giving fruit, glycerin, and alcohol. The intense honeyed pineapple scents, tinged with toasted new oak notes, will please anybody who 'drinks' wine.

Dark ruby/purple-colored offers up a sweet nose of ripe, jammy black-cherries and toast, as well as round, generous, medium to full-bodied, highly extracted flavors, good acidity for definition and vibrancy, and a spicy, sweet, round finish.

Zinfandel fanatics should take note. Made from an old, head-pruned. low-yielding 80-year old vineyard, this wine reveals an opaque purple color, and that sexy Zin perfume of crushed black raspberries, cherries, pepper and spice.

Tropical fruit and tons of oak combine to offer a dramatic, heady, richly fruity Chardonnay.

A straightforward, curranty-flavored wine with medium body, good purity, and a soft texture. It is the type of Cabernet Sauvignon that restaurants love to serve by the glass as it is faithful to a varietal and offers suppleness and value.

Exhibits the ideal Central Coast aroma of fresh tomatoes and hay along with deep pepper, cassis and clove elements. A lovely and deeply complex wine that will reward four to six more years in the cellar.

A favorite. Starts out with zesty citrus tones and then develops a fascinating sweet iced-tea character.

Exemplifies the meaning of rich complexity, deriving from many wines blended into a harmonious whole. The richness does not overpower the palate, but instead, refreshes.