Fine California Wines

• 2001 Corison Cabernet Sauvignon
  This is a cassis-scented Cabernet wine from low-yielding 30-year-old vines
  
  
• 2001 Beringer Private Reserve
  Beringer's top bottling wine, a blend of fruit from six different Napa vineyards
  
  
• 2002 Dalla Valle
  This excellent wine has a touch of Cabernet Franc that adds a faint herbal note to the nose, a remarkable Napa Cabernet
  
  
• 2002 Quintessa
  A wine with a Bordeaux-style blend of Cabernet, Merlot and Cabernet Franc, one of California's top reds.
  
  
• 2002 Diamond Creek Gravelly Meadow
  This wine bottling with a compelling scent of anise and red cherries
  
  
• 2003 Switchback Ridge
  The luscious 2003 wine, its deep black cherry flavor lifted by black pepper
  
  
• 2003 Marston Family Vineyard
  This is a powerful wine, multilayered red, its blockbuster fruit framed by firm but velvety tannins.
  
  
• 2002 Seavey Cabernet Sauvignon
  A dense fine wine with tarry plum and licorice notes.
  
  
• 2002 Hourglass
  This wine is a plush but muscular Cabernet
  
  
• 2002 Bond St. Eden
  This wine has the dazzling aromatic notes of red currants, black pepper and smoky oak
  
  
• 2003 Lynmar Quail Hill Vineyard
  A silky, boysenberry-scented Pinot from the winery's 42-acre estate vineyard in Sonoma County's Russian River Valley.
  
  
• 2001 Calera Jensen Vineyard Mt. Harlan
  This elegant bottling, with its red cherry fruit and aromatic touch of fennel, has the structure to age gracefully for quite a few years.
  
  
• 2003 Williams Selyem Westside Road Neighbors
  This wine is aromatically reminiscent of raspberry liqueur, it's hugely ripe and thoroughly delicious.
  
  
• 2002 Etude Heirloom
  This wines flavor suggests crushed wild berries and loamy earth.
  
  
• 2003 Sea Smoke Botella
  This is a seductive 03 wine, which overflows with tangy blackberry and raspberry flavors.
  
  
• 2003 Stephen Ross Bien Nacido Vineyard
  The essence of white pepper and fresh raspberries, lasting and delicious.
  
  
• 2003 Londer Keefer Ranch
  Features a silky, black raspberry–rich bottling for this up-and-coming Anderson Valley Wine producer.
  
  
• 2003 Hirsch
  This is a spicy, vivid '03, dense Penit wine with wild cherry flavor.
  
  
• 2002 Arcadian Pisoni Vineyard
  A gorgeously balanced wine, with the scent of flowers and the texture of satin.
  
  
• 2004 Seghesio Family Vineyards Sonoma
  The Seghesio family has been making great Zin for over 100 years. The 2003 wine won an F&W American Wine Award, and this one is even more refined.
  
  
• 2003 Chateau Montelena
  An elegant Zin from the Barrett family's lovely château
  
  
• 2003 Rosenblum Cellars Annettes Reserve Redwood Valley
  When it come to Zinfandels from around the state, there were few better than this velvety, almost portlike wine.
  
  
• 2003 Ridge Lytton Springs
  One of the best wines of the vintage: It's firm and dense on the palate, with wonderfully layered flavors of berry and allspice.
  
  
• 2003 The Terraces Napa Valley
  A perfect match of grapes and site, producing this very concentrated, exotically perfumed Zinfandel.
  
  
• 2002 Mount Eden Estate Bottled
  This wine is lively and intensely flavored yet wondrously delicate Chardonnay.
  
  
• 2002 Chalk Hill Estate Bottled
  A rich, plush-textured Chardonnay with notes of spicy pear
  
  
• 2003 Ramey Russian River Valley
  A full-flavored Zin that is luscious but not overrich with crisp fruit notes.
  
  
• 2002 Hanzell Vineyards Sonoma Valley
  An expansive, silky California Chardonnay wine has a wonderful citrusy acidity.
  
  
• 2003 Kongsgaard Napa Valley
  An opulent wine layered with notes of hazelnut, apricot and honey.
  
  
• 2004 Voss Vineyards
  A nice, zesty Napa white wine.
  
  
• 2004 Hanna Estate Russian River Valley
  This Sauvignon Blanc is a bit rich, with flavors of lemongrass and citrus.
  
  
• 2004 Flora Springs "Soliloquy"
  This Sauvignon captures the creamy, melony side of the varietal while retaining its telltale tanginess.
  
  
• 2004 St. Supéry Napa Valley
  This Sauvignon never sees oak, keeping its lime and grapefruit flavors as pure as fresh fruit.
  
  
• 2004 Beckmen Purisima Mountain Vineyard
  This characterful lime- and grapefruit-inflected wine is a strikingly good deal.
  
  
• 2004 Duckhorn Vineyards Napa Valley
  Blended in 24 percent Semillon with its Sauvignon Blanc, giving the wine a rich lemon-melon character