While the Chardonnays and Pinot Noirs get most of the love from this terrific estate, don’t miss their Syrahs! The 2016 Syrah Wild Mountainside is a power-packed, deep, rich, concentrated beauty that offers sensational, northern Rhône-like notes of blackberries, white pepper, bacon fat, and wild scrub/sagebrush-like aromas and flavors. Medium to full-bodied, seamless, and perfectly balanced, it’s a beautiful Russian River Valley Syrah that will keep for over a decade.

A bruiser, with big, plump fruit, yet polished and structured, offering expressive black raspberry, licorice, stony mineral and pepper flavors that take on richness toward refined but broad-shouldered tannins. Drink now through 2025. — T.F.