A walk around tasting of mostly higher end wines with mixed results Stag's Leap Wine Cellars 2009 Sauvignon Blanc Grassy, fair acid B Chateau Chatgrive Bordeaux Blanc 2011 minerally high acid B Grgich Fume Blanc 2009 off taste in the finish B- Louro Godello 2010 very round fruit, long finish nice for $21.99 B+ Turchard Chardonnay 2011, lots of buttered popcorn, metallic finish B Kistler Chardonnay Les Noisetiers, 2009 minerally chalky B+ but not worth the $45.99 price Ramey, Chardonnay Hudson 2009 very typical of the Sonoma style and A- but steep at $59.99 Louis Latour, Corton-Charlemagne 2010 very light almost disappears A- but $99.99 Merry Edwards Pinot Noir Sonoma 2009 perfumed cherries and smoke A- Beronia Rioja Gran Reserva 2005 old world must and funk BVillacreces, Ribiera del Duero 2006 very bright Parkerized B+ Rocca dell Macie Chianti Reserva 2003, very typical of chianti, cherries and funk B+/A- $39.99 Tignanello, 2009 cherries and chocolate, raisin finish, A- good price at $69.99 Guado al Tasso, 2008 a Bordeaux blend Super Tuscan that tastes like California B+, not worth the $99.99 price Cordeillan-Bages, Pauillac, 2007, off year but nice drinking now A- $45.99 Clape, Cornas 2009 lot of funk, fruit short B and expensive $119.99 Stratton Lummis the Riddler, NV weird pick here candied fruit B- Truchard, Cabernet Sauvignon, 2009, good fruit forward, B+ $29.99 Mondavi, Cabernet Sauvignon, Oakville 2006 OK wine nothing special B Shafer, Cabernet Sauvignon, 2008, nice, tannins already resolved $73.99 A- Opus One, 2009 $214.99 and no better than Shafer B+ Iglenook, Rubicon 2009 Coppola has bought the name, my WOTN very rich, dense, dark fruit and cocoa A but $199.99
Brought home the Pauillac, Godello, and Truchard Cab