This is the winery’s junior version of their very fine Purple Label Cabernet. It’s a very good wine, if a little eccentric for a Cabernet Sauvignon. With its spices and briary berry, smoked meat and wild herb flavors, it could almost be a Zinfandel.——S.H.(12/31/2011)—— 89

Starting out as a very tannic, closed wine, this is one for the cellar. The question is how long. It’s a big, dry, ripe Cab, with extracted blackberry, blueberry and cedar flavors, and while it should soften over the next five years, it doesn’t have the stuffing for the long haul.——S.H.(12/15/2007)—— 89