Wine Spectator: ...floral, wild berry and blackberry scents lead to a moderately rich and complex wine...

Wine Spectator: Medium-weight, with attractive cedar, herb, and currant notes, it's an elegant style with a supple texture. Mildly tannic...

Wine Spectator: Well-built if a bit lean, with spice, mineral, herb, olive and currant flavors shaded by light oak. Well-focused, this aims for elegance and restraint at the expense of riper,...

Wine Spectator: A gamy, herbaceous style, with spice, tea, currant and cedar notes, it's well-balanced, with a dash of dill on the finish. Firmly tannic, it's at a good drinking stage.--Calif...

Wine Spectator: Tasted from magnum. A bit stalky, with raw, edgy tannins, but it holds together and there's enough cherry and currant fruit, along with herb and anise shadings, to hold your i...

Wine Spectator: Elegant, polished, supple and complex, with pretty currant, cedar, anise, sage and tar notes. Turns firmly tannic. Drink now through 2008...

Wine Spectator: ...currant, sage, herb and bay leaf flavors, along with hints of espresso. It also shows considerable tannic strength, finishing with a dry, minerally quality...

Wine Spectator: ...currant, sage, herb and bay leaf flavors, along with hints of espresso. It also shows considerable tannic strength, finishing with a dry, minerally quality...

About this Wine: "The 2002 vintage in Napa Valley was blessedly even and consistent. Flowering occurred normally in mid-May, and mild temperatures prevailed throughout the growing season, with...

Wine Spectator: This wine exhibits a vibrant core of ripe, juicy plum and black cherry fruit framed by tight cedary oak and wood flavors. The tannins are ripe and firm on the finish. A step u...

Wine Spectator: Marked by herb, dill and dried berry, yet pleasantly so, with touches of tobacco leaf and then currant and dried berry. Firmly tannic, but also well-balanced and easy to enjoy...

Wine Spectator: Teases with subtle flavor nuances wrapped in a tight, tannic, austere package, with a core of beefy, leathery currant, sage and tobacco flavors. Hard-edged tannins on the fini...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The estate's 2009 Red Blend Mernet Reserve is richer and more expressive than the 2010. Layers of dark fruit flesh out nicely in the glass, yet the tannins remain unyielding. ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Deep red. Dark berries, licorice, bitter chocolate and leather on the perfumed nose and palate. Tight, juicy and precise, with strong minerality and a meaty aspect. Finishe...

Wine Spectator: Showing a mix of loamy earth, stewed berry, mineral, graphite and cedar notes, this is full-bodied, intense, balanced and focused. Young and backward, this one may surprise. B...

Wine Spectator: Intense and savory, with firm, dense, even chewy dried berry, mineral and forest floor flavors. This is drying and cedary, yet with enough complexity and dimension to merit sh...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2010 Zinfandel Rockpile bursts from the glass with racy red raspberries, flowers, mint, cinnamon and sweet tobacco. The Rockpile is one of the more feminine, sensual wines...

Wine Spectator: Tightly wound, with firm, chewy tannins wrapped around dense dried berry, licorice and loamy earth flavors. Needs time to spread its wings. Drink now through 2016. -JL

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2010 Pinot Noir Russian River Selection shows good immediacy. Sweet floral notes meld into expressive red berries, spices and licorice. An open, perfumed Pinot, the Russia...

Wine Spectator: Trim and restrained, with a narrow beam of currant, tobacco, cigar box and cedar. Well-made, focused and persistent. Drink now through 2020. –JL