The medium to full-bodied, cassis liqueur-scented, excellent 1998 Cabernet Sauvignon Canoe Ridge Estate Vineyard boasts loads of sweet black currant and blackberry fruit in its focused, deep, lively personality. This structured 1998 also possesses a long, fruit-filled finish. Enjoy it between 2003 and 2010. Fax: (206) 488-4657

This is a tight, tough Cabernet, which has the structure to age well. It’s 100% Cabernet from the Canoe Ridge vineyard, and it shows brilliant black cherry fruit, crisp acids, and a healthy undercoat of dark tannins. Young, tough, and bursting with flavor, it’s from a great vintage and clearly has a long life ahead, but you can drink it now with anything grilled and meaty and it will make you very happy. ——W.E.(10/1/2001)—— 91