Released from Hahn, the Central Coast producer, this wine is so good, it easily stands beside far more expensive bottlings. It’s dry and full-bodied and complex, just what you want in a Cab, and shows classic flavors of ripe blackberries, sweet black currants and smoky cedar. Production was 2,200 cases, and it’s worth the search.
— S.H.
(12/31/2010)
A beautiful, addictively good Sauvignon Blanc that shows how well the variety does in this inland valley, and also how well-farmed the Mauritson Vineyard is. The wine is brilliantly dry and crisp, with complex citrus, melon, fig, vanilla and white pepper flavors. Great value. Production was 1,000 cases.
— S.H.
(12/31/2010)
If there’s any oak on this wine, it doesn’t show. Instead, it brims with ripe, pure flavors of pineapples, kiwi fruit, limes and cinnamon spice. Crisp and bright.
— S.H.
(9/1/2009)
A simple wine. The underlying Zin is rather thin and jammy, while a clumsy overlay of oak adds unnatural vanilla and woodsap flavors.
— S.H.
(12/31/2010)