Impressive California Wines for Giving — or Receiving

"You have a couple of day before Christmas to purchase a bottle of wine that will impress those who need impressing..." - Fredric Koeppel, Bigger Than Your Head.

"...wow, what a heady and seductive presence this one [Mira Cabernet Sauvignon Yountville] offers; the wine is dense, dry, wild, foresty, given an edge of tannic austerity that coats the palate but is softened by a texture that’s like the crushed velvet in your grandmother’s trousseau..."