Ramey Pedregal Proprietary Red 2004:
This wine will not work for everyone. For the people it works for . . . it really works. Big, flavorful, concentrated and explosive are all words I would use to describe this wine. Blended together are copious quantities of blackberries, black licorice, graphite, smokey-spiced meats, cedar, burnt embers, road tar, liquid chocolate, Burgundian truffles and pulverized rocks. So, yeah, there’s a lot going on. The longer you toy around with the wine the more flavors jump out at you, and, like a kid at a candy store (or in this case an olfactory overload store), it is pretty neat to play. Creme de cassis, scorched earth, dark liqueur and rose petals emerge later. This is a boisterous and intoxicating wine . . . one that I would like to revisit both sooner and later! Rambunctious and powerful it certainly may not be for everyone, but as I said it the beginning- if you dig it, you’ll dig it big! 96 points
Brad, is that you? Sorry couldn’t resist.
Sounds like my kind of wine from Napa. Have heard lots of good things about this wine.
Ramey poured a pretty big lineup yesterday at Family Winemakers. I tried the Chards in honor of one of my favorite reviewers comparing them to Aubert. 
They poured the Ritchie, Hyde AND Hudson. Don’t see the comparison working very well though. They seem fairly typical Cali styled wines though the Ritchie didn’t come off as overly done.
They also had 2 or 3 of their reds which I will make a point of trying tomorrow if they are pouring them again.
The 04 must be different than the 05.
Great TN btw…