The 2000 Cabernet Sauvignon Napa is a weedy, feeble effort displaying sweet currant and plum fruit, medium body, but little texture and a short finish. Perhaps my opinion is in the minority, but I can’t understand anyone suggesting that this winery is making wine today as profound as it did in the seventies and eighties. But then again, wine tasting is very subjective.Tel. (707) 944-1303; Fax (707) 944-9433

Defines Tchelistcheff’s iron-fist-in-a-velvet-glove description of Stags Leap District Cabernets. Seductively soft, a wine that caresses the palate with gentle tannins and sweet, creamy oak, framing ripe blackcurrant fruit and rich spice. The power is in the focus, brilliance and overall purity.——S.H.(11/15/2004)—— 95

A very fine Cabernet. All of the elements are upfront, including the vivacious berry flavors, oak, and soft, smooth tannins. Dry and clean, this is a wine suited to drinking tonight, but it has the balance to age effortlessly. —S.H. ——S.H.(3/1/2003)—— 91