...The powerful and seemingly bottomless fruit of this opulent young Cabernet is the stuff of show-stopping success and the rich oak and complex touches of herbs and earth that are laced through it make a very good thing that much better. A real powerhouse in terms of stuffing and size the wine successfully balances a scant bit of finishing heat against exceptional extract and never once does its give in to simple-minded ripeness...

The top wine the Jericho Canyon Proprietary Red emerges from a vineyard northeast of Calistoga. Elegant downsized and restrained the deep rich full-bodied 2003 Jericho Canyon Proprietary Red possesses loads of fruit but a more supple lighter style than its two predecessors...