Wine Enthusiast Review
La Jota set out to make great wine for their 20th, and lucky for them they ran into such a vintage. If it's less dense than the finest 2001s, it's still a great one. As flavorful as sweet Napa black currants get, and those Howell tannins are the structure that will let this wine develop through 2010.

Wine & Spirits Review
Rated 92
This 100% estate grown wine is even more of a powerhouse than the Howell Mountain Cabernet. It's packed with super-ripe fruit, the tannins mature, yielding a spark of flint and dark spices that tie the wine to the earth. The ripeness needs something festive and rich as beef Wellington, and may best be enjoyed now-for what will happen with such super-ripe fruit as it ages?

Wine Tasting Notes
The Anniversary Release commemorates the anniversary of production and features small lot fermentations of the best vineyard selections. Its a deep purple color with dark fruit and a prominent spice box, tobacco, leather and toasty oak aroma. The mid-palate is pronounced with a sweet, long finish accompanied by hints of chocolate. This is a full-bodied, rich wine, full of jams and dense blackberry flavors. Its also reminiscent of a crisp autumn day on Howell Mountain when the vineyards become an aromatic mlange of pine needles, oak leaves and volcanic soils.