Dry Creek Vineyard, Dry Creek valley (California) Cabernet Sauvignon 2009

I look forward every year to the pleasures that Dry Creek’s Cabernet brings. As its predecessors have usually been, the current vintage is more graceful foxtrot than grandstanding bump-and-grind. The wine has complex, lucid flavors fusing fruit with oak, and it provides tannins that refresh rather than overwhelm. In this case $25 buys you a whole lot of class.