There are approximately 2,000 cases of the 2000 Cabernet Sauvignon, a blend of 92% Cabernet Sauvignon and 8% Petit Verdot. A powerful, strong effort for this challenging vintage, it exhibits an opaque purple color as well as a tight but promising bouquet of earth, creme de cassis, wood, forest floor, and licorice aromas. This is a big, deep, chewy atypically authoritative 2000 that will benefit from 5-6 years of cellaring, and keep for 15-20. It may be one of the longest lived Cabernets of the vintage. Kudos to Seavey for this accomplishment. Tel. (707) 963-8339; Fax (707) 963-0232

Firm and well-structured, displaying a core of earthy currant, blackberry and black cherry fruit, shaded by light cedary oak and finishing with a touch of gaminess. Drink now through 2010. 1,400 cases made. -JL