Domaine Michel Gros, Vosne Romanee, 2001
Smell: Earthy.
Taste: A surprisingly nice Burgundy found in Oregon (of all places). Very earthy and mossy.
Finish: Earth and moss.
Cost:
Rating:
8.0
Ken Wright Cellars, Canary Hill Vineyard, Pinot Noir 2002
Smell: --
Taste: It's Ken Wright ... enough said. This is truly great wine. Lovely, smooth, complex, velvety.
Finish: Ahhh, the velvet hammer! Can't get better than this.
Cost:
Rating:
8.0
Chateau Rieussec, Sauternes, 2000
Smell: Grape and peach with hints of apricot.
Taste: Quintessential goodness (and this was THE year: 2000). Peach and apricot. Like the inside of a yummy sweet grape. Had an Oregon late harvest Savignon Blanc the same night, and it tasted like syrup compared this this.
Finish: Grape and peach with hints of apricot.
Cost:
Rating:
9.5
Nederburg, Cabernet Sauvignon, 1979
Smell: Earthy.
Taste: Where did this come from (rhetorical: South Africa)? We were totally blown away! We did not expect anything like what we tasted. Peat! It was like eating a bag of peat moss ... only in the best way imaginable. A groundhog must have made this wine. Overwhelmingly spectacular!
Finish: Peat moss.
Cost:
Rating:
10.0
