1991 Chateau Montelena Cab
In a great and vibrant place right now - could probably sit on these for at least 5-10 years and get great enjoyment out of them. Fruit that truly gained weight throughout the night, starting as ligher cherry/almost strawberry essence then to much darker cherry/blackberry’ plenty of cigar box spice; great length with plenty of tannins still present.
2001 Carlisle Two Acres (from Mag)
Beautifully expressive nose of dark fruit, a tad of funk, plenty of stuffing . . . if you got em, sit on em even a bit longer for full enjoyment . . .
2005 Melville Carrie’s Pinot
Had this with Pork Cheeks with a pineapple ‘salsa’ and what a perfect match it was! The wine has integrated nicely, with the overt sense of stem inclusion now gone and just the noticable uptick in aromatic complexity still remaining. Much better now than a year ago . . .Not sure how much longer I would hold these, though . . .
Other wines had that evening either were my tercero wines, or Fess parker wines, and you don’t need to hear ME talk about these puppies (-:
Cheers!
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