1987 Pickberry Sonoma Mountain

The 1987 Pickberry will ultimately turn out to be one of the best and longest-lived red table wines Ravenswood has produced. It is more forward, perfumed, and elegant than the more muscular and brawny 1986. However, do not think for a moment that it is anywhere close to maturity. The wine needs at least 4-5 years in the bottle. It displays impeccably pure, rich, herb-tinged red and black fruit flavors, a whiff of spicy oak, and splendid depth and balance. Readers who taste it along side of the 1986 will probably think it to be forward. It should be at its best between Now-2008.