TNs: Insignia, Prive, Trinity...

[C_Silkowski]

• 2006 Trinity Vineyards Syrah - USA, Oregon, Southern Oregon, Rogue Valley (5/24/2009)
  Dinner at Stein’s (Olivia Beach, OR): Medium purple, vanilla blueberry cream, smoke, firm tannins. Tied with Prive for best nose. Needs time or longer decant.
• 1996 Elk Cove Vineyards Pinot Noir La Bohème - USA, Oregon, Willamette Valley, Yamhill-Carlton (5/24/2009)
  Dinner at Stein’s (Olivia Beach, OR): Brickish, corked, vinegar, dead. Unknown history of bottle would suggest questionable cellaring.
• 2007 Privé Vineyard Pinot Noir Le Sud - USA, Oregon, Yamhill County (5/24/2009)
  Dinner at Stein’s (Olivia Beach, OR): Lite strawberry Kool-Aid, perfumy nose of sweet red fruit, lemon peel, bacon and vanilla. Sweet on the palate, complex with good structure.
• 2004 Betz Family Cabernet Sauvignon Père de Famille - USA, Washington, Columbia Valley (5/24/2009)
  Dinner at Stein’s (Olivia Beach, OR): Big wine with dark ripe fruit, smoke, and mocha. Tasting young, needs time. This will probably take another 5 years to fully appreciate.
• 1986 Joseph Phelps Insignia - USA, California, Napa Valley (5/24/2009)
  Dinner at Stein’s (Olivia Beach, OR): Tawny, methol, camphor, dusty earth, firm tannins with slight ripe fruit

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[ToddFrench]

Thanks for the notes on the Betz. I’ve got some '05’s in the cellar, and the only one I had was a Clos de Betz, and I was wholly unimpressed. I’m assuming they are not made in the Quilceda Creek style, big and bomby and ready for business right away, as it seemed shut down HARD. The Pere de Familie and La Parrain are much higher quality bottlings, so I’ll be reading TN’s carefully to see when the window is open for them.

[C_Silkowski]

Yeah, pretty much the same conclusion on the Betz’s. I’ll probably be an old man before these things are in their prime. Between you and I we probably have enough of his line up and vintages to do a Betz tasting. We’d just need to decant a week ahead of time

[ToddFrench]

@C Silkowski

Yeah, pretty much the same conclusion on the Betz’s. I’ll probably be an old man before these things are in their prime. Between you and I we probably have enough of his line up and vintages to do a Betz tasting. We’d just need to decant a week ahead of time

Well, let’s pencil it on the calendar in about 5-10 years…and do it in the OC

[Glenn_L_e_v_i_n_e]

DW on that 2007 Prive is years away.