Carneros Pinot near its best. Crisply soft and balanced, it’s simply delicious; a silky, velvety wine with a mouth-watering wealth of cherry pie filling, cola, mocha, cinnamon spice and toasty oak flavors that go on and on, and finish long and intense. Best now–2008.——S.H.(4/1/2007)—— 92

Showing its age, with the mouthfeel softening and the fruit slowly turning dry and brittle. But it’s an interesting, complex wine, and the flavors, of Chinese black tea and cherry-teased cola, are classic older Pinot. Drink now.——S.H.(4/1/2007)—— 90