Community Tasting Note
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JeffO wrote: 92 points
October 21, 1996 - During my California roadtrip at the end of my sabbatical in Oct 96, I had dinner at the John Ash & Co. restaurant outside Santa Rosa in the Sonoma Valley. They had an 82 Leoville on their list ($190), so even though I was intent on drinking Californian, I couldn't pass up the research opportunity here. The 82 has a long way to go. Lovely, yet hesitant nose, brilliant clear color, not purple, but quite youthul, lots of fruit apparent though masked by still significant tannin. Soft texture going in, no perceptible finish. Time will tell. Dinner was outstanding: sonoma foie gras with corn salsa, tomato mozzarella salad (best ever) with these amazing yellow "Lemon Boy" tomatoes (as well as giant red and green toms)--like eating mangoes, not tomatoes, and then lamb chops with a (not sweet) blueberry sauce, and the usual chocolate "thing" (this one resembling and named after stonehenge!). Terrific meal. The tomatoes had me in solitary rapture sitting there alone in the corner. (new note: 11/03): Fun to note here my first encounter with Heirloom tomatoes, which I live on now during the summers. Life is good (and obviously keeps getting better)!
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