An enormous Cabernet. Explodes with flavors of blackberries, cassis and chocolate, as well as the sweet vanilla and toast from oak barrels. It’s gentle enough to drink now, but isn’t showing much nuance. Give it five or six years in the cellar.——S.H.(8/1/2011)—— 91

From the vineyard high up on Atlas Peak comes this delicious, well-made wine. At more than four years of age, it’s still fairly tannic, but fresh and accessible in blackberry and cherry fruit. Just beginning to dry out and show mellow bottle age. A lovely, masculine wine that should develop over the next six years. ——S.H.(2/1/2011)—— 91