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.

A vivid taste profile of Chardonnay in its finest California persona, French oak tempering the suggestions of apples, pears, melon, adding the intrigue of wood incense.

A terrific example of the varietal, the wine possesses a black/purple color and a huge, knock-out nose of jammy black fruits, herbs, smoke, and vanilla. Full-bodied, with a opulent texture, this wine will be a crowd pleaser when released in 1996.

Dense and chewy, but has all the ingredients for greatness, with tiers of black cherry, currant, anise and plum, finishing with chunky tannins that let the fruit glide through. Finishes spicy.

Medium acid and fruit. Herbs, grapefruit, apple pie. Pleasantly crisp Chardonnay fruit, well focused. Evolves in the glass, developing sweet, spicy characteristics.

Medium body, acid fruit and oak. Citrus, geraniums, herbs, toast. Assertive toast component dominates herbaceous fruit. A complex, unusual host of flavors, with rich mouth-feel and lingering acidity.

Spicy style with tart, succulent fruit, earth, berries, grapefruit, vanilla and soft oak notes that last.

Citrus zest, earth, nuts. Moderately balanced with fruit that turns soft as it develops.

Brown spice, pumpkin. Subtle, spicy, elegant and easy to drink. A juicy mouthfeel wakes up rich oak flavors.

A big, concentrated, pinot, with rich and powerful plum and black cherry aromas and flavors.

Rich and fruity, boasting lots of plum, black cherry, currant and spicy mint notes, cedary oak and plush tannins. Packs a wallop with its flavor.

This Chardonnay is made from grapes purchased from the Dennison Vineyard, which is certified organic by Calfornia. No herbicided or pesticides are used during cultivation. The vineyard is in the warmer southern end of the valley, where the wines are more full-bodied than in the north. This wine was barrel-fermented and bottled in August 1994. It is an attractive wine, halfway between the leaner style and a full-bore Sonoma or Napa Chardonnay.

Has ripe and ultra-rich flavors of pears and butterscotch, with a strong element of toasty, smoky oak. Well done for style.

Forward toasted, slightly charred oak, herbal notes; medium fruit, vinous notes; firm tannins, big finish. Try with smoked duck breast, pasta with wild mushrooms.