TN: A Tale of Six Coffaros..(short/boring)

WINE TALK
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Tried these last night looking for a decent wine to drink:

  1. DavidCoffaro Zin Estate 2003: Browning; totally dead.
  1. DavidCoffaro My Zin 2003: Browning; totally dead.
  1. DavidCoffaro Block 4 Estate 2003: Browning; totally dead.
  1. DavidCoffaro EstateCuvee 2003: Browning; totally dead.
  1. DavidCoffaro TerreMelange RhoneBlend 2003: Browning; terribly bretty/totally dead.
  1. DavidCoffaro AcaModot DryCreekVlly RW (EB; U/U; 14.1%; 50% CS/22% CabFranc/11% Merlot/9% PetiteVerdot/8% Malbec; 220 cs) 2003: Med.dark color w/ slight bricking; some cedary/pencilly/oldCab slight herbal/rosemary bit licorice/blackcurranty/Cab/meaty some complex/smokey/oak pleasant nose; soft/smooth some pencilly/oak/old Cab light blackcurranty/licorice/Cab/RCCola/root beer (Dad’s Old Fashioned) bit complex flavor w/ light/gentle tannins; ned.long soft/smooth light herbal/blackcurranty/Cab/raspberry light smokey/oak some pencilly/cedary/oak finish w/ light/smooth tannins; a pleasant enough/gentle/fully mature & then some light weight Cab that is still alive like a little old lady in her 90’s; a bit of spunk left in her.

A wee BloodyPulpit:

  1. Five of these btls were closed by a NeoCork, one was closed by a screw-cap. It is left as an exercise for the student to figure out the screw-capped wine.
  1. NeoCork was the artificial/plastic cork developed by StuYaniger. A spongy/extruded artifical cork sheathed in a hard/silicone outside. It’s pretty much been dismissed as a viable wine closure, as has the SupremeCorq. Stu is much more famous for inventing the ThreeStooges wine rating system. I’ve not seen him out here on the WineBoards in a fair number of yrs. Would like to hear his story someday.
  1. AcaModot: This is the Pomo Indian name for a small swell of land on the West side of DavidCoffaro’s vnyd along DryCreekRd. It was once a Pomo Indian settlement. If you walk the vnyd w/ Dave and scuff up the dirt, you can uncover old pot sherds, arrowheads, squaw’s baskets fragments, old plastic gambling chips, parts of ancient RouletteWheels, an occasional die carved from a reindeer penis. At night, if you look due East, you can see the glow of the Pomo RiverRock Casino on the mtn overlooking the AlexanderVlly. It’s a step back into ancient times.
    Tom
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That’s an unfortunate search to find a drinkable wine. Fortunate for me I drank most of my Caffaro reds in their early life. I might have a couple of AcaModots stored to see how they perform in the future but your thread suggests not well. As you mentioned I remember David playing with closures. He also said in an old newsletter that he was making a switch from American oak to French oak as he liked the Rafanelli zin flavor profile. Thanks for the warning.

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Well, Gary…this is not a sad tale of woe about the ageibility of Dave’s wines…it’s a story about the NeoCork closure.
Although his wines are not big or structured, they’re more about drinkability over the first 3-5 yrs I’d say. But if they had been
closed w/ a standard cork…they should still be alive at 10 yrs of age I’d guess.
Tom

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chose wrongly as the Grail Knight said in the third Indiana Jones movie neener
03 was the year Dave used both neocork and screwtops and offered futures buyers the choice of closure. From 04 everything has been screwtop or now using crown caps on his sparkling wines.

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Just testing to see if we read all the way through?

Please do elaborate.

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That was the closure on the oxidized Santorinia assyrtiko that I posted on recently.

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Awwwww, John…surely you know when I’m just funnin’ you all!!!
Tom