A 100% mountain top Cabernet Sauvignon, the 2002 Cabernet Sauvignon Hawkeye Mountain Estate is a brawny, muscular, full-sized Cabernet revealing plenty of intensity, beef, and muscle. This chewy, thick 2002 possesses a lot of tannin, but also impressive levels of extract as well as intensity. Give it 3-4 years of cellaring and drink it over the following 15-18. This is a serious wine! (Release date Spring 05)Tel. (800) 769-3649; Fax (800) 600-5895

From a high mountain vineyard over the Alexander Valley, a wine of extraordinarily tough tannins. The wine is clearly built for the cellar. Deep down you’ll find a solid core of well-ripened cherry fruit, but it’s basically undrinkable now. It could blossom into greatness, however, after 2010. ——S.H.(8/1/2004)—— 91