Beautiful wine, lush and soft in the style of this warm vintage. It’s immediately enjoyable for the wealth of cherries, blackberries and raspberries, with a decadent edge of melted milk chocolate. Oak adds extra dimensions of smoky vanilla, caramel, butterscotch and gingerbread. Those who think they don’t like red wine will enjoy. Hard to tell if it has the stuffing for the long haul, but it’s gorgeous now and for the next six years.

Even richer and fuller than the regular bottling, but at the same time hedonistically and voluptuously styled is the 2004 Cabernet Sauvignon Special Selection. Dense ruby/purple with low acidity and huge amounts of fruit, this is a seamless, full-bodied, classic Napa Cabernet Sauvignon to drink now and over the next 15-18 years. - Robert Parker

A superb Cabernet that's ripe plush and deeply concentrated with tiers of currant plum blackberry and spicy cedary oak. Firmly tannic lively and deep revealing extra flavor nuances on the long engaging finish. Best from 2008 through 2013. 11800 cases made. –JL

This deep and wonderfully rich wine is as involving and has as much succulent fruit at its heart as any wine in this Issue, and it gains more richness yet by way of its absolutely lavish appoint-ment of oak. It is, however, far more than a pretty face or fancy façade, and it sports the serious structure and evident tannins of a wine meant for age. Only its palpable finishing heat dampens our otherwise unbounded enthusiasm and brings it up achingly short of a third star.

Voluptuous, ripe California style, with great concentration and structure. Fine integration of rich red/black fruit, cedary oak, polished tannins and refreshing acidity. The finish goes on and on. Ripe, smooth and balanced. 18/20 (LM)