The 2007 Traminer displays “Christmas” spice, lychee, and honeyed notes, dry, crisp, medium-bodied flavors, and surprising length. This wine should be drunk over the next 12-16 months. Steve Clifton’s “Italian Stallion” operation in southern California is the best of its kind in the United States, and these wines seem to go from strength to strength. His excellent whites are all stainless steel fermented and really do capture much of the character that comes from the region most commonly associated with these wines, northeastern Italy.Tel. (805) 735-2030; fax (805) 735-2693