Grgich Hills Cabernet Napa Valley 1994:
Found in father’s old cellar. I thought it might be interesting to try out since I think '94 is an excellent year for Napa Cabernets. I guess the most interesting thing was finding it. For the most part you could tell the wine had moved into its last phase of life, which is disappointing. Second, you could tell that it was made in a more rustic/rough kind of style (if fruit-forward is en-vogue as a term than this this was fruit-backward). I’m sure it was tannic and green and herbaceous and full of tabacco and tea leaves and held the fruit in the background (way back!) when it was released. And now the fruit, what little is left, is again in the background, and what is there is the reminents of those things- tea leaves, tobacco, herbs and lots of wood. If you ever liked that style then you might still like this. When someone says Mike’s wines are Old World I don’t disagree, but I take it to mean really Old World not Bordeaux-like. His wines remind me of the kind of wines you find on tables in Eastern Europe or at an odd chemistry professor’s house (my dad is one!).
I’m not sure what all that amounts to except the following:
-I didn’t like it
-I don’t buy the wines of Grgich Hills
-I have no idea what the chemistry professor line means
82 points