Originally intended as a higher end wine in collaboration with Long Shadows, this is now a sensational value. From an outstanding vintage, it’s a Cabernet-dominated blend of grapes from top Washington vineyards. Supple, lightly toasty, layered with wild berry and chocolaty earth flavors, this is the wine to slip into a blind tasting of pricier blends.——P.G.(9/1/2011)—— 90

This is a collaboration between Long Shadows and Precept Brands. Half Cabernet and the rest an unusual mix of Merlot, Syrah, Cab Franc and Barbera, it’s a kitchen sink compendium of grapes from a dozen vineyards scattered across the state. Predictably, it’s a diffuse, unfocused red blend, which does not express grape or region in any identifiable way. A good quaffer.——P.G.(5/1/2007)—— 86