This is a gorgeous Cabernet, but it’s pretty young, and while it’s delicious now due to the ripe fruit, it really needs time. Wrapped in fresh, tight tannins, it displays powerful red and black currant, blackberry, cherry, chocolate and vanilla oak flavors, and shows the elegant, important mouthfeel of a top Napa Cab. Give it until after 2008, if you can keep your hands off, and will come into its own after 2010.——S.H.(4/1/2008)—— 93

Here’s a 100% Cab that shows the elegance of Napa and the heat of the vintage. The tannins are especially wonderful, being soft, sweet and complicated, giving the wine great structure. But the blackberry, cherry, cassis and chocolate fruit is so overwhelming, it robs the wine of the subtlety desired.——S.H.(3/1/2008)—— 87