Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good ruby-red. Pure, elegant nose offers currant, tobacco, coffee, licorice and brown spices. Sweet, firm and aromatic, with ripe acids framing the flavors of currant, cherry,...

Wine Spectator: Along with very firm tannins, this wine shows fresh blackberry and stone aromas and flavors and a velvety mouth-feel. Quite dense on the palate. Try after 1997.

Wine Spectator: Tasty, with plum cake, braised fig and mulled cherry notes all woven with a lacing of sweet tobacco. Rounded, open-knit finish. Shiraz, Cinsault, Cabernet Sauvignon, Grenache,...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Toasty oak, loamy soil, sweet black cherry and black currant, and a whiff of herbs emerge from this mid-weight 1990's moderately intense bouquet. It reveals the sweetness, lus...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: This lighter-styled, but complex, finely tuned effort reveals notes of cedar, dried herbs, spice, smoke, sweet cherry and cur...

Wine Spectator: Remarkably complex and well-made, with a core of earthy currant, black cherry, beet root, anise, tobacco and cedary notes. Turns earthier on the finish, in a pleasing way, wit...

Wine Spectator: Complex flavors of earthy currant, herb, sage and dill ...on the palate. At this stage the tannins have a firm, dry, chewy edge. Decant. -JL

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Dark ruby. Deeply pitched dark berries and dried flowers on the nose, with a brighter red fruit quality emerging with air. Spicy raspberry and blackberry flavors coat the pala...

About this Wine: Its firm, well-rounded tannins offer a smoothness ever present over the years. Being highly concentrated, it can be left to age  for many years...

About this Wine: This wine will require 7-10 years of cellaring, then last for two decades thereafter.

About this Wine: This wine will require 7-10 years of cellaring, then last for two decades thereafter.

About this Wine: This wine will require 7-10 years of cellaring, then last for two decades thereafter.

About this Wine: This wine will require 7-10 years of cellaring, then last for two decades thereafter.

About this Wine: This wine will require 7-10 years of cellaring, then last for two decades thereafter.

About this Wine: Silver Oak's Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon is drawn predominantly from their three Alexander Valley estate vineyards and reflects a blend of their characteristics. T...

Wine Spectator: Tar and black licorice on the nose. Medium-bodied, with fine tannins and a silky finish. Turns to asphalt. Stylish.

About this Wine: "...Togni noted that this wine is now typically about 82% cabernet sauvignon, with about 15% merlot, 2% cabernet franc and 1% petit verdot added since the '99 vintage."

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Opaque ruby. Pungent, oak-spiced aromas of dark fruit compote and cherry, with pipe tobacco, mocha and lavender nuances. Sappy and expansive, offering seamless, sweet blackc...

Wine Spectator: Tangy, brisk, open-knit style, with cherry pit, damson plum and sanguine notes and nice cut on the finish. Not big, but persistent.-J.M.

Wine Spectator: This bold red delivers big, ripe flavors of blackberry and boysenberry, with licorice, tobacco and dark chocolate notes. The tannins are muscular and chewy, but give way to fl...