There are two reserve wines from this terrific estate. Starting with the 2017 Camerata, it's 100% Cabernet Sauvignon from the Cara Mia Vineyard on Red Mountain. Mulled red plum, blackcurrants, toasted spice, chocolate, and lavender notes all emerge from the glass, and it's a more broad, expansive, powerful wine that has medium to full-bodied richness, ripe, polished tannins, and a great finish. It should hit prime time in 3-5 years and keep for two decades. There are 300 cases produced.

There’s no denying Red Mountain’s power in this wine, in its mass and tannic payload. But over the course of three days, the wine gets more streamlined and sleek, the juicy dark-fruit flavors leavened by mint and cedar, all delivered with tannins of uncanny precision and grace. —P.J.C.

Bright red-ruby color. Sexy violet and mineral notes lift the aromas of cassis, redcurrant, spices, licorice, cocoa powder and bitter chocolate, plus a hint of tomato leaf in a positive way; very different on the nose from the rest of these wines owing to the absence of Cabernet Franc. Dense, fine-grained and sweet, with its dark berry, licorice and chocolate flavors conveying a suggestion of almost liqueur-like ripeness. A lot of stuffing here! The sweetest and most tactile of these wines to this point but with lovely saline restraint and pungent leafy lift. Finishes with firm but suave tooth-coating tannins and sneaky building length. Already fairly full and very smooth. I initially missed the treble notes normally provided by the Cab Franc but there are still plenty of high-pitched herbs, licorice and spices here. Owners Ben Smith and Gaye McNutt decided that the Cabernet Sauvignon made a complete wine in 2017, without the addition of Cabernet Franc. Similarly, they decided to bottle a one-off 100%-varietal Cara Mia Vineyard Cabernet Franc from the '17 vintage, but there's just a single barrel of this latter juice. -- Stephen Tanzer

This is a rare 100% Cabernet Sauvignon from this producer. The aromas are compelling, with notes of scorched earth, flower and cherry, showing an unmistakable Cara Mia profile. A dense, structured palate follows. SEAN P. SULLIVAN