What’s going on with Napa? Questions and concerns

[M.Kaplan]

I can’t tell them apart and neither can my wine-drinking friends. I bought them for years (starting with Grace Family in the 1980’s thru all of the Cults (as defined by Parker: Screagle, Grace Family, Araujo, Bryant, Harlan, Maya, Colgin, and Abreu) through the ‘00’s

Drink them truly blind and get back to me.

Here’s my epiphany story:

Could you differentiate Scarecrow, Colgin, Kayli Morgan,

I’ve written about this here before. 5 years ago a group of us got together to drink cultish 2007 Cali Cabs/blends. Scarecrow, Colgin(s), Bond(s), Harlan, Araujo, Bryant, Hundred Acre(s), Schrader(s), Maybach, Shafer Hillside, Dana, etc, including Screaming Eagle. Charles Banks had to cancel at the last minute, but sent his bottle anyway. The wines were served truly blind; everyone dropped their wine off early and they were served blind in lycra sleeves. All of the wines tasted very much the sa…