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Very characteristic of the vintage, with blue-black colors and characters, with fruits showing crushed blueberries and raspberry, and with lush, silky aromatics promising a suppleness and integration. The weight is moderate, richness and extraction not overly wrought, and no alcohol is apparent. Flavors are red in nature and a fine tannin structures the wine, leaving a sense of complexity and a nice persistence. May be the best since 1998, which is saying something considering 2002.

This wine shows complex red-black cherry/raspberry/plum fruit, in the red-blue-black signature of the vintage, with amazing weight and fine tannin on the palate. The density of this wine, a silky-velvety texture and good acid make the Corral Creek, as usual, a balanced, symmetrical and understated Pinot noir, even in this vintage.

Classic in this great white vintage, with ginger, lime, white fruits and dusty white floral elements, the acid is tangy, the finish good and lengthening, and the weight is full. Look for ageability, amazing food matches and good palate excitement.

This is a big, rich chardonnay, with plenty of structure and brightness, but emphasizing mouth feel and complex flavors. It is oily rich, has vanillin character and a viscosity that give a crème caramel impression on the palate. There is lift and brightness from alcohol and white spices. There is breadth and sweetness from an almost honeyed set of flavors that include hints of toffee and even chartreuse. A fine weight. A fine complexity.

2004 INOX exhibits fresh fruit virtually jumping out of the glass, with bright yellow and green apple aromas and flavors, punctuated with melon, lemon and lime. The wine is light melon-yellow through the clear glass bottle, has good weight and zings with a good acid structure. A very good white vintage to showcase Dijon chardonnay fruit characteristics.

Deeply colored, garnet to red-black; a dusty, high spice, citrus peel, mixed fruit cobbler nose, with highlights of blue fruited huckleberry; firm, round mid-palate, with lifted, scintillating aromatics and textures; very complex; balanced, showing no alcohol. The first year we have blended all three vineyards into this top Pinot noir. It works to produce a feminine Pinot noir in a very big year.

Platinum to yellow in color, with melon aromatics and a Crayola crayon lift, this Pinot blanc carries sweet dried fruit richness and great volume and weight. It is well-balanced, showing only a little alcohol and an invigorating cleanness. A big white wine from an excellent white year.

A bright and moderately weighty Pinot gris, with good acid, a minerality and gray aromatic strains of lavender, sea salts and lemon-lime. Not overripe or bruised fruit in impression, it is bright, fresh and dry. There is good weight, a little heat and a focused white fruit core of white peach, with honeycomb. A great white year, but with reduced volumes.

The 1999 Pinot Gris VT is still a baby at release, almost two years after harvest and a year after bottling. Although rich in flavor, deeply weighted and silky on the palate, the classic white, bruised fruit aspect of this wine has more complexity to add. Time will integrate the fruit, alcohol and sugar. Not a dessert wine in the sweet sense; we look forward to classic pairings like foie gras and hard white cheeses. Or nothing at all.

A syrah/zinfandel nose, almost huckleberry in nature and intensity, with big acid and a tangy, low pH zing on the palate, this blue-black wine is laser focused and should age exceptionally well. An interestingly big version of Cerise.

Typical Ridgecrest, only moreso. Strong impressions of black fruit and a firm, ageable structure dominate this wine, with deep, deep red and black color and fruit saturation. A dusty, raspberry and blackberry fruit set of aromas and flavors, with a fine pepper and brown spice impression from whole cluster components. Hints of blue fruit and a dark bittersweet chocolate make for dark complexity. Fine tannin, lovely, luxurious weight on the palate and excellent structure make this classic Ridgecrest in a big and ageable way. Balanced in a potentially imbalanced year.

As a tribute to maturing vineyards, recently we keep making "best yet" Stoller Vineyards pinot noir bottlings each year. This is one. Dark red to garnet in hue, this wine is deeply colored, fruited and weighted. There is spicy red and black fruit showing, with lots of raspberry, plum and even blackberry-almost a spiced cobbler or fruit crisp-exhibiting a luxuriant texture and volume. There is a slight hint of alcohol in high aromatics, an underlying fine grit of tannin for aging, darkness and coffee roast wood characters, and a length and breadth that is pleasing to me. Despite its growing pedigree, I appreciate this soft, plush wine for its friendliness and comfort factor-a bit like corduroy.

Platinum color with fresh fruit, white peach pit showing perfect ripeness; broad, rich aromatic profile, showing mineral and talc whiteness with effusive white blossom brightness. Very good body weight and bright acid. A very good white wine year, as good as the 2002

Medium gold, with warm waxy nose, vanillan and crème brulee richness, with slight hints of barrel toast, chartreuse and tropical fruits; the wine is soft and rich on the palate, almost plush and luxuriant. A nice way to end this label.