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Capture 2009 Harmonie Red (Sonoma County)

Cellar Selection

Price $120

This Bordeaux blend is delicious, refined and ageworthy. It’s dry and quite tannic now, but underneath the astringency is a beautifully balanced wine with intensely concentrated blackberry and dark chocolate fruit, with an earthiness. A terrific wine that should come into its own after 2017. — S.H. (9/1/2012)

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Capture 2009 Révélation Cabernet Sauvignon (Alexander Valley)

Cellar Selection

Price $135

The winemakers call this their Pauillac-style wine, meaning that its character is marked by Cabernet Sauvignon. It’s a brilliant wine, vastly deep, imposing and elegant, with a potent mountain flavor of black currant. The estate vineyard is very high in the Mayacamas Mountains, and you can sense the small size of the berries in the wines intensity, the sheer… — S.H. (9/1/2012)

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Capture 2009 Ma Vie Carol Chardonnay (Alexander Valley)

Price $42

The best Alexander Valley Chardonnays, such as this, show flamboyant tropical flavors. Capture’s ’09 shows ripe, extravagant pineapple, mango, papaya, nectarine and lime fruit, with a grilled quality baked into a pastry dessert. It’s a big wine framed by fine acidity. The oak appliqué is just about perfect. — S.H. (3/1/2011)

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Capture 2009 Les Pionniers Sauvignon Blanc (Sonoma County)

Price $36

Very dry and crisp in acidity, this Sauvignon Blanc, which has never seen oak, shows bright fruit flavors of pink grapefruits, oranges, kiwis and pears, with a streak of minerality. It turns a little green and aggressive on the finish. A clean, stimulating wine for drinking now. — S.H. (8/1/2010)

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Capture 2010 Tradition Sauvignon Blanc (Lake County-Sonoma County)

Price $30

This twin county blend is a sophisticated Sauvignon Blanc. It shows the gooseberry tartness that Capture is known for, but not too much, with richer notes of citrus fruits and white flowers dominating. One quibble is that the wine is a little too sweet. — S.H. (8/1/2011)

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Capture 2011 Les Pionniers Sauvignon Blanc (Sonoma County)

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Price $45

There’s lots of ripe, savory lemon, lime and pineapple fruit in this Sauvignon Blanc, which is brightened by crisp acidity. It’s clean and mouthwatering, but it seems a little too sweet on the finish, which gives it a soda-like taste. — S.H. (9/1/2012)

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Capture 2009 Tradition Sauvignon Blanc

Price $30

A bone-dry, slightly green Sauvignon Blanc, with lemongrass and gooseberry flavors, boosted with vibrant acidity. Feels elegant and sleek, but won’t appeal to everyone. The grapes for this unoaked wine came from Sonoma and Lake counties. — S.H. (8/1/2010)

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Capture 2010 Les Pionniers Sauvignon Blanc (Sonoma County)

Price $40

Tastes sweeter and fruitier than the 2009, which was dry, so if you like orange marmalade, pineapple tart and vanilla cookie sugariness in your Sauvignon Blancs, it’s for you. — S.H. (8/1/2011)

Most Reviewed Designations

Harmonie Les Pionniers Ma Vie Carol Révélation Tradition

Most Reviewed Varietals

Bordeaux-style Red Blend Cabernet Sauvignon Chardonnay Sauvignon Blanc

2009 Va Piano

Having been given almost four years of age prior to release, this deep…

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