Napa - Powell's
Tasted Friday, February 3, 2006 by GreenDrazi with 1,367 views
Thanks to Pyang for hosting the TCF off-line at his house and thanks to DJ Hombre for the excellent food. The evening lasted a good 6 hours and the time flew by. A great evening and it was a pleasure meeting the people behind the names. After having toured several Napa wineries during the day, which included generous barrel tastings, I don’t believe that I ever had that much wine in a single day. And when adding in more tastings the next day, I was toast at the end of the day on Saturday.
The guests were, excluding several who crashed the event later, (my apologies for any errors):
Anwar & trigirl, pyang and guest, DJ Hombre, ttepper, Sir Willy, whiner, GreenDrazi, and benchland and mrs. benchland. Bugs was also hunting around and was very intrigued by the entire event.
Thanks to Pyang for providing the Lewelling vertical. These, as a group, have a pretty consistent fruit profile of cassis and a streak of red cherry with a licorice component throughout the vintages. My concern with these is their ageability. They seem to have much more vigor and energy in their youth, but I would like to have had the ‘97 to fully test this.
I held out on these until towards the end of the reds, having gone through most of the Cabs to let these breathe some more and to try them as a group.
NV Laurent-Perrier Champagne Grand Siècle "La Cuvée" 90 Points
France, Champagne
Very nice, but quaffed it.
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2003 Freeman Chardonnay
USA, California, Sonoma County, Sonoma Coast
Nice - no notes/score.
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