One top Mendocino winery is Husch Vineyards, the oldest winery in Anderson Valley. Husch goes back to the early 1970s, and it's since changed ownership and modernized, but it's still family-owned and rustic.
Husch Winery's 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon is a blend of minority barrel-fermented grapes and majority steel tank-fermented. It's thus a crisp wine with a soft mouthfeel; lemongrass and citrus tickle the nose, and citrus and fennel are sensed on the palate.
Or try Husch's 2004 Pinot Noir Knoll, displaying aromas of rum, cherry, cedar, rose, and cloves, and flavors of sweet red fruit and cola. The fruit came from a sandstone and shale outcropping, overlooking the Navarro River.