The New World styled big fruit wines have yet to demonstrate whether they will be ageworthy or not, so one should stick to the classically made California reds of which a few of the excellent choices are Chateau Montelena, Ridge “Monte Bello”, Joseph Phelps Insignia, and Dominus. Robert Parker and The Wine Spectator’s James Laube have recently begun tasting mature examples of wines they reviewed 10-15 years ago and the results of their predictions are quite mixed concerning California’s age-worthy reds of the last 20 years, and their revisionist scoring in quite illuminating for those attempting to understand and gauge California wine’s age worthiness.