The 2006 Intuition Reserve is 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Petit Verdot, with the balance Cabernet Franc and Merlot aged for 20 months in new, mainly French oak. A glass-coating opaque purple color, it emits a superb nose of balsam wood, spice box, tobacco, incense, black currant, and blackberry. On the palate it has layers of fruit, complex flavors, excellent balance, 5-7 years of aging potential, and a 60-second finish. It will have a drinking window extending from 2015 to 2031 Bergevin Lane, located in Walla Walla, continues to make impressive wines at a range of price points. These three value wines are first-class.Tel. (509) 526-4300; www.bergevinlane.com

Bergevin’s Bordeaux blend is almost jet black in color, thick with liquorous candied cherry and coffee scents. It’s mostly Wahluke Slope (Stone Tree vineyard) fruit, and has the power to show for it. Black fruits, tar, coffee liqueur, chocolate, whiffs of tobacco make for a complex and compact wine that will reward cellaring. ——P.G.(12/1/2009)—— 90