Craig’s Howell Mountain Cab typically is powerful and ripe, with bigtime tannins that require aging. The 2005 is such a wine. Made with a drop of Merlot, it shows black cherry and cassis fruit accented with lots of toasty new oak. But it’s really young, stinging the palate with astringency. Should negotiate the next 10 years with ease.——S.H.(12/1/2008)—— 92