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Navarro 2006 Muscat Blanc (Anderson Valley)

Editors' Choice

Price $19

This is an amazing wine. It’s bone-dry and very high in acidity, one of the most distinctive white wines in California. The racy quality supports intense flavors of steely minerals, orange and lime zest and apricots, wrapped into a rich, oily texture. It accomplishes the magic of tasting honey-sweet but finishing thoroughly dry. Will age, too. A 2001, tasted… — S.H. (8/1/2008)

Navarro 1997 Late Harvest Cluster Select White Riesling (Anderson Valley)

Price $25

Old-gold in color, and thick and syrupy. The aromas run to caramel, apricots, toffee, butterscotch, vanilla, pecan pie and crème brûlée. Tastes as voluptuous as it smells. Fantastic concentration and depth; a nectar bursting with sweet, gorgeous fruit. The acidity is high, but it feels soft and creamy. Residual sugar of 28% makes it tooth-achingly sweet. Only 554… — S.H. (12/31/2000)

Navarro 2006 Cluster Select Gewürztraminer (Anderson Valley)

Price $29

Enormously sweet, almost like drinking honey, except that it’s wine. With an amazing 21% residual sugar, it just knocks you out with sweetness, but then the rich flavors of apricot jam and vanilla wafer kick in, brightened and balanced with lively acidity. The end result is fabulosity. — S.H. (10/1/2008)

Navarro 2009 Cuvee 128 Sauvignon Blanc (Mendocino)

Price $18

Enthusiast 100 2011

Mendocino’s Navarro Vineyards hits it out of the ballpark with this truly stellar Sauvignon Blanc, its 20th year making SB. Partially barrel-fermented, this is an inviting wine of subtle jasmine aromas and touching minerality. An incredibly well-balanced version of the varietal full of lemon thyme and passion fruit. The acidity would cut nicely through a potato gratin. — V.B. (6/1/2011)

Navarro 2007 Cluster Select Late Harvest Riesling (Anderson Valley)

Price $29

This bottling is usually among the more opulent, successful white dessert wines in California, and the ’07 certainly fits that bill. With 20.1% residual sugar, it’s fantastically sweet, yet has enough fruity stuffing, balanced by high acidity, to satisfy. The pineapple, apricot and orange flavors could be somewhat more intense but it’s certainly a very delicious… — S.H. (4/1/2010)

Navarro 2010 Cluster Select Late Harvest Muscat Blanc (Anderson Valley)

Price $59

Navarro’s dessert wines always are some of the best in California, and this 2010 Muscat is the latest example. It’s quite sweet in honey, apricot and tangerine flavors, but superbly balanced with acidity and a firm minerality. Also widely available in half bottles. — S.H. (12/1/2011)

Navarro 2002 Cluster Select Late Harvest Gewürztraminer (Anderson Valley)

Price $25

Outrageously sweet and delicious, a wine that blows your mind with the first sip. It’s powerful in apricot, banana flambé and vanilla cream flavors, with a viscous texture that stains the glass with glycerine. Dessert in a glass. — S.H. (6/1/2004)

Navarro 1997 Late Harvest Gewürztraminer (Anderson Valley)

Price $45

At 21.5% residual sugar, this is as rich and luscious as it gets. There’s tremendous fruit concentration and layers of flavor that just keep coming. When a wine like this is on offer, just drink your dessert. — L.W. (9/1/1999)

2009 Merry Edwards

Merry Edwards doesn’t just slap this regional blend together. This is a…

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