12 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 -- in-laws, boss, snooty uncle, the wine collector. One of these bottles should do the trick. They start at a fairly manageable $35 and $40 and go from there up a scale to $175. Three whites; nine reds. Some drinkable now, most requiring ti…