Sweet, lifted cherry, plum, creamy vanilla, toasty oak, buttered taost, leaf and floral perfume. Supple, polished and succulent with underlying tannins, excellent concentration, fresh acidity, balance and super minerality. Has finesse. Drink 2012. Alc: 14.5%. (17 points)

This is a big, rich, extracted, dryly tannic Cabernet. The suggestion is ageability, but the wine seems to lack the dynamic tension to ride out the years. It has plenty of ripe blackberry fruit, but snaps to a quick finish. Quite good, but a disappointing expression of the Stagecoach Vineyard.——S.H.(7/1/2011)—— 88

Very ripe and jammy, with potent flavors of blackberries, cherries, and smoky new oak. Feels a bit direct and obvious now, but that’s because it’s just a baby. Needs time. Age through 2010, at the very least.——S.H.(9/1/2009)—— 92

Good summer berry aromas. Delicious: generous fruit but still fresh. Not the heaviest of styles - quite sleek and refined.