TN:2005 Long Shadows Pirouette. WOW

WINE TALK
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Dark and mysterious purplish hue. The nose is sweet black fruits intertwined with flowers petals and earth.The palate reveals a super plush and elegant mouth feel with seamless intertwined and ultra classy tannin level. There is wonderful of black currants, black cherries, soy, earth, and a creamy pure tight wire of joy. Philippe Melka is involved with this one and it shows the talent this man brings to the table. He is a a French man with new world sensibilities. This is very much like many of his other wonderful wines offered from California that I have sampled, Lail Cuvee Daniel particularly comes to mind. The finish is very long and smooth. A must buy in the $55 range. 93/100 and nothing but upside.

57% Cabernet Sauvignon
20% Merlot
14% Syrah
5% Malbec
4% Cab Franc
22 months in 75% new French oak

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Groovy. I think it is $48 at Costco.

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A good buy indeed.

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Went over lunch and picked a bottle up to try tonight with a Bison Strip…$44 a bottle.

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Please report back…

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Drinking it right now…Mike is right on the money with his TN…especially the soy component. Don’t know if it is power of suggestion or what. This is a bottle built for finesse vs. power…much like the Parallel from '05 that Melka also made. No brainer at $44 a bottle.

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Nice. You and me seperated at birth? [gen_fro.gif]

Glad you enjoyed. Too bad its $4 too much for some. [beatoff.gif]

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Forty is such an arbitrary threshold anyway…look at where the lumbers start to buy in at.

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True dat.
Arbitrary…hahahahahaha.

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Oh behave…

Seriously, you should hit up Costco for some of this. I might bring the oak bomb syrah that Freakmount dissed on tonight to taste.

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Do you guys all share a brain, too?