Nothing fancy about this dry, plummy wine, but it gets the job done. Shows ripe currant, tobacco and herb flavors wrapped into firm tannins.——S.H.(5/1/2009)—— 84

There’s beautiful blackberry and cassis fruit in this Cab, undergirded by a rich, coffee-infused earthiness. It’s completely dry and the tannins are fairly fierce, but nothing a good steak can’t negotiate. In fact, it’s a great food wine, classy and understated. The best Sobon Cab ever and a great value. ——S.H.(10/1/2006)—— 91

Very smooth and suave, a wine soft in tannins and acids that caresses the palate while carrying ripe flavors of blackberries, currants, cinnamon and smoky oak. Delicious now for its pure primary fruit, and should be perfect with lamb.——S.H.(11/15/2003)—— 89