This 100% Cabernet is too sweet, tasting like a raspberry, mocha and caramel Starbucks drink. It’s the poster child for overextracted, overoaked, high alcohol California Cabernet.——S.H.(12/15/2011)—— 84

Although this Cab is very dry, it's a bit astringent, with hard, edgy tannins and blackberry fruit flavors that veer into raisins. At its best now, so drink up.——S.H.(10/1/2010)—— 85

This wine was sent to me with little information about the owners, and their Web Site doesn’t reveal much. The paperwork says it’s from Knights Valley, although the label reads Sonoma County. It’s a dry, fairly tannic wine, quite ripe in currants and dark chocolate, with an herbal edge and a firm structure. Aged in 100% new French oak, it impresses for its richness and depth, and could develop over the next 6–8 years.——S.H.(12/1/2008)—— 92