title: Pride Mountain 2008 Reserve Claret (Napa-Sonoma)
description: Few Bordeaux-style wines in California are as ripe and bold as this, but that's the Pride style. The wine explodes in spicy blackberry, currant and cherry fruit, almost like punch, while oak adds toasty notes. A heady wine, it's also brutally firm in tannins. It's a little warm in alcohol, but that shouldn't keep it from aging for at least eight years—and maybe longer.
variety: Claret
designation: Reserve