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Midnight Cellars 2003 Mare Nectaris Red (Paso Robles)

Price $40

This is Midnight’s most expensive red, a blend of all five Bordeaux reds. Like its other ’04 reds, it shows great poise and balance, with very ripe fruit in equilibrium with strong tannins, new oak and just-so acidity. The result is just fine. Midnight has quietly been working at its reds for years, and it shows. — S.H. (11/1/2007)

Midnight Cellars 1997 Mare Nectarus Reserve Red (Paso Robles)

Price $31

This impressive Paso Robles Bordeaux blend is a plush, opulent wine. The fruit is ripe and sweet, the tannins fine, and it has balance and harmony. The glycerine in this unctuous wine oozes down the sides of the glass. Firmer tannins and higher acidity would make it more “serious,” but it’s a pleasure-fest as it is. — S.H. (8/1/2001)

Midnight Cellars 1998 Zinfandel (Paso Robles)

Price $21

Good color, tight, firm fruit, with some heft to it. There’s cassis as well as cherry, and the wine has the weight of a Sonoma Zin, with good acids to give it lift. This is the first estate bottling from this exciting new winery. Unfortunately, just 28 cases made. — P.G. (3/1/2001)

Midnight Cellars 1999 Nocturne Syrah (Paso Robles)

Price $24

Out of the bottle, the Nocturne shows stemmy cinnamon flavors. After a few minutes, though, expect a sumptuous sour-cherry, raspberry and toast bouquet. More of the same bright red fruit surfaces on the palate, where they are met with menthol and vanilla-cream flavors. Our tasters were especially keen on the minerally, almost chewy mouthfeel and finish. Drink… — W.E. (11/1/2001)

Midnight Cellars 2004 Nebula Cabernet Sauvignon (Paso Robles)

Price $21

It’s easy to imagine drinking this Cab at one of Paso’s good restaurants, on a summer evening outside, accompanied by a grilled steak. This is quite tannic, but richly dry and succulent in black currant flavors. It really defines Paso Robles Cab. — S.H. (11/1/2007)

Midnight Cellars 1999 Estate Zinfandel (Paso Robles)

Price $26

Okay, so they only made 125 cases—but don’t say we didn’t warn you. This Zin’s nose balances powdered sugar, ripe mixed berries and hickory and cedar; you’ll encounter loads of chalk and dust over oak and tart red plum on the palate. Medium-weight, it closes with more tart red-berry fruit and powder. —D.M. — D.T. (3/1/2002)

Midnight Cellars 1998 Mare Nectaris Reserve Red (Paso Robles)

Price $34

With 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, you might expect this five-varietal Bordeaux blend to taste pretty much like Cabernet, and it does. Although there’s plenty of toasty, cedary oak, the cassis fruit shines through, dressed up by vanilla and chocolate notes. Not as deep as in the best of vintages, but a classy crowd-pleaser nonetheless. — W.E. (9/1/2002)

Midnight Cellars 2001 Zinfandel (Paso Robles)

Price $18

Smoky, bright raspberry, cherry, licorice and spice flavors lead the way here. The wine offers firm tannins as a framework and finishes with a racy edge, showing moderate length on the finish. — J.M. (11/1/2003)

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