Nose: Intense aromas of ripe red fruits, such as cherries and raspberries, with hints of floral notes and a touch of spice.

Taste: Rich and velvety on the palate, with flavors of blackberries, plums, and a subtle earthiness. Well-balanced acidity and smooth tannins.

Palate: Medium-bodied with a long, lingering finish. Delicate hints of vanilla and oak add complexity to the wine.

This dark-ruby-colored wine has a nose of raspberry, Mission fig, cacao bean and sage. Deep berry flavors and notes of dark chocolate, freshly ground coffee, violet, mint and clove are set into rugged tannins that drift into a floral- and spice-laced finish.

Balsamic aromas of camphor mingle with French oak, coconut and purple flowers. Medium-bodied and assertive, the linear palate offers dried cherry, prune, vanilla and roasted coffee bean framed in close-grained tannins that grip the close. Kerin O’Keefe

This wine is still young and firm with concentrated tannins as well as perfumed berry flavors. Its texture and dry core show the ripe fruits and the touches of wood aging that come through gently. Roger Voss

Superripe Merlot gives a wine that is succulent, rich, and densely packed with balanced blackberry fruits and solid tannins. The wine's layers of ripeness promise great things. Drink from 2025. Roger Voss

Aromas of ripe wild berry, blue flower and forest floor mingle with a balsamic whiff of camphor. Full-bodied and firmly structured, the palate offers ripe black-skinned berry, raspberry compote, licorice and menthol alongside tightly knit, fine-grained tannins. Kerin O’Keefe

Aromas of ripe plum, pine forest, exotic spice and cedar slowly appear in the glass. Bold and brawny, the palate offers cherry marinated in spirits, prune and licorice alongside velvety, close-grained tannins. You'll also notice the warmth of evident alcohol on the close. Kerin O’Keefe

This opens with earthy aromas of truffle, camphor and dark-skinned fruit. The ripe palate offers black cherry jam, star anise and a touch of caramel alongside smooth tannins.Drink through 2025. Kerin O’Keefe

An overall well-balanced Cabernet that incorporates 17% of Petite Sirah. Find notes of blackberry, black cherry, chocolate, capsicum, fennel, prune and cinnamon alongside mouth-coating tannins and elevated alcohol.

A concentrated floral character to this bottling emerges more redolently as the wine breathes, showing lavender, violet, cherry and wild berry on the nose. The palate is bold but silky, offering dark berry and cranberry as well as slightly bitter touches of sagebrush

Enticing aromas of violet, tobacco and new leather lead the nose. The savory, balanced palate features black cherry, raspberry jam, star anise and white pepper alongside fine-grained tannins and firm acidity. Kerin O’Keefe

The nose is earthy, herbal and sour, like drinking an elegant cocktail on the porch of a cabin in the woods. The palate is instead full of cherries and plums and finishes salty and nutty, like an artisanal chocolate. The tannins are solid but navigable, and the acidity is substantial.

Enticing aromas of fragrant blue flower, ripe woodland berry, menthol and star anise are front and center on this full-bodied red. The firm palate features crushed raspberry, blood orange, underbrush and coffee bean while tightly wound, fine-grained tannins show up at the close and carry through the coffee-bean finish. Kerin O’Keefe

This structured Sagrantino is loaded with blackberry, spice, leather and balsamic herb sensations. It also demonstrates the grape's massive tannins that will give this wine many more years of staying power.

Color: light ruby red Bouquet: hints of wild strawberry, nectarine and cinnamon Taste: full-bodied and round, ginger and green tea notes shaping soft yet decisive tannins. The finish is full and precise.

This second label for Dusty Nabor frequently amazes for the price point, and this bottling is a perfect example. Fresh, crystalline aromas of strawberry, cherry-raspberry jam and rose petals decorate the nose, while the energetic palate offers hibiscus and red fruit against an acid-powered structure.

Black raspberries, flowers, orange peel, licorice, mint, smoke, and cocoa fill the perfume. On the palate, the wine is packed with minerality, cocoa, plums, and black raspberries. with a lot of cut, refinement and salty tannins in the lifted, berry-filled finish. The wine blends 70% Merlot with 30% Cabernet Franc.

Pencil shavings and leather aromas mark the entry of this robustly full-bodied wine. It has a pronounced forest floor character, while blackberry and black cherry flavors combine with licorice and dark chocolate, filling out the richer notes that interweave throughout the palate, leading into a long finish.

Forward and a bit on the chunky side, with fruit flavors of raspberry and cherry, this ready-to-drink wine shows the more open and fruit-driven aspect of the vintage. Tasty highlights suggest chocolate-coated orange peels.

Made from the producer's estate Monument Ridge, blocks that rise from 400 to 2,400 feet, this balanced, elegant wine is refined and savory, with classic structure. Crushed rock, mountain sage, pine and dusty tannin support a core of juicy currant and cassis. Virginie Boone

This Pinot comes from the Eola-Amity Hills AVA, now towards the south of Willamette Valley, harvesting around two to three weeks later than Dundee Hills for example. Biodynamically farmed since 2007, this vineyard is planted on its own roots and the wine sees around 25% whole bunches in the ferment. An interesting nose here, not nearly so buoyant and expressive as some, with a savoury, iodine, almost seaweed-herby character. The black fruit quality comes through on the palate - still savoury and dark, a little roasted chestnut note, firm and taut tannins and a cherry skin bite to the really quite salty, sour orange acidity, though a sweeter cherry flesh fruitiness does begin to assert, the whole picture structured, savoury and multi-faceted.

Medium-bodied, fresh, bright, crisp, forward, soft, subtle, red berry and mint filled wine that is made in a classic style.

Minty herbs, plums, tobacco leaf and cigar box in the nose introduce the medium-bodied, soft, silky, fresh and chalky red fruits oriented wine. This will be gorgeous to enjoy on release. The wine was produced from a blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Sauvignon.

Fresh, vibrant and juicy with ripe, you find soft tannins and a blend of cassis and cranberry that is there from start to finish.