Intense and spicy, with vivid black cherry and wild berry fruit that's pure and focused, elegant and stylish. Medium-bodied, this sustains its fruity character on the long, lingering finish. Drink now through 2014. 175 cases made.??–JL??Region: California / Santa Barbara / Sta. Rita Hills Select to Add

A massive wine that could only have been grown under the California sun. Shows enormously ripe flavors of red and black currants, cola, red plums and spices, enriched with significant oak. Not particularly nuanced or elegant now due to the obvious power. Could age out, but the future is uncertain.——S.H.(5/1/2009)—— 87