The opaque purple-colored 1997 Cabernet Sauvignon Black Sears Vineyard offers a sexy up-front nose of blackberries cassis and smoke. Sweet succulent and jammy with explosive ripeness as well as admirable flavor intensity this low acid Cabernet has huge reserves of fruit glycerin extract and tannin that have been melded into a seamless concentrated wine of exceptional potential. Anticipated maturity: now-2016.

A real mouthful. An ultraripe racy herbaceous style that offers lots of dill and bell pepper shading to the jammy plum and wild berry flavors. Finishes with a good dose of heat and tannins. Best from 2002 through 2012. 850 cases made.