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Kapcsandy Family Winery 2008 Endre Red (Yountville)

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Price $90

Top 100 Cellar Selections 2011

Here’s one for the cellar. It’s a big, dry, muscular wine, assertive in tannins, with mineral-driven blackberry and black currant flavors. Muscular and intense, it should provide great drinking starting in 2015 and for many years after. A very great expression of its vineyard, which is basically the old Beringer State Lane Vineyard. — S.H. (7/1/2011)

Kapcsandy Family Winery 2008 State Lane Vineyard Estate Cuvée Red (Yountville)

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Price $165

Score Chasers: USA 2011

Very fine, rich and dramatic, a wine that feels important all the way through. Dry and vital in concentrated blackberry and currant flavors, with a rich appliqué of smoky oak, it announces its terroir with authority. But it’s extraordinarily tannic, and needs lots of time. Try after 2015. — S.H. (7/1/2011)

Ghost Block 2007 Single Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon (Yountville)

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Price $100

A terrific Cabernet you want to cellar for a good 5–6 years, at the very least, and could go far longer. Shows what Yountville can do in a good year. The wine is very dry and more minerally than further north, yet is extraordinarily rich in blackberries, chocolate-covered cherries and cassis, with a perfumed scent of violets. The mouthfeel is all velvet and… — S.H. (10/1/2010)

Source Napa 2005 Heart Block Sauvignon Blanc (Yountville)

Editors' Choice

Price $50

It was barrel-fermented, using wild yeasts, and aged on the lees. The vineyard is in the coolest part of Napa Valley, and in this cool vintage, acidity is the most important part of the wine. Crisp and biting, it lends structural authority to the Meyer lemon, lime, tangerine, fig, mineral, vanilla and white pepper flavors. The alcohol level has been kept to a… — S.H. (3/1/2008)

Laird 2007 Mast Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon (Yountville)

Cellar Selection

Price $70

Very concentrated and compact in fruit, with a molten core of blackberries and cassis. A dramatic, flashy wine, but the tannins are impossibly tight and astringent. There’s beautiful, classic, almost old-fashioned structure here, but don’t even think of opening it until at least 2015. — S.H. (6/1/2011)

Corley 2005 State Lane Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon (Yountville)

Price $58

This is a big, powerful, extracted Cabernet, the kind that invariably wins high points from the critics. It feels important, with soft, velvety but complex tannins framing oak-inspired flavors of perfectly ripe black currants that finish dry and long. Beautiful now, with decanting, and should age gracefully for a decade. — S.H. (12/31/2008)

M. Cosentino 1999 Pinot Noir (Yountville)

Editors' Choice

Price $34

Very ripe and fruity stuff here, a blast of jammy strawberry and black raspberry and spicy cola. Oak adds smoke and vanilla. It’s dry, with lusciously complex tannins and soft acids. It’s hard to describe how delicious it is. It’s not an ager, it’s a Lolita of a wine. Fortunately, it’s not against the law to enjoy it young. — S.H. (12/15/2001)

Maroon 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon (Yountville)

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Price $42

This Cab is drinking very dry, tannic and austere in its youth. It really needs time in the cellar to soften and throw some sediment, and allow the heart of black currants and dark chocolate to emerge. Should begin to show interest after 2013. — S.H. (9/1/2010)

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