Fashioned from five separate areas of California (Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino, Amador and El Dorado), the 2012 Proprietary Red Abstract is a blend of Grenache, Petite Sirah and Syrah that is aged in new and neutral French oak for 10 months. It does not possess the compelling characteristics of its siblings, but it offers up delicious, consumer-friendly notes of kirsch and blackcurrants intermixed with underbrush and cedary, foresty notes in the background. This dense, medium to full-bodied, soft, round wine should be consumed in its first 4-6 years of life. - Robert M. Parker, Jr.