The 2002 Cabernet Sanct Valentin is a gorgeous, seamless red loaded with dark red fruit, herbs, spices and toasted oak. This medium-bodied wine offers notable balance and clarity in an engaging, generous style. Anticipated maturity: 2008-2012. Importer: Martin Scott Wines, Little Neck, NY; tel. (516) 327-0808

San Michele Appiano has begun to make more red wine in recent years, and the 2001 Cabernet Sanct Valentin is a good example of the house style, medium in weight, supple in its tannins, varietal in its expression of cassis fruit, but slightly herbaceous as well. Drink: 2004-2010.