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Kamen Wines

I had lunch yesterday with Robert Kamen of Kamen Wines. I've know Robert for a number of years and he and his team are making so pretty good stuff these days. Robert is also a pretty good screenwriter having written a number of well known scripts such as "The Karate Kid" and my personal favorite "A Walk in the Clouds"

2005 Syrah-Deep black fruit notes, nice balance, very Hermitage like with a bit of sage and briar, red meat, iron and minerals.

2006 Syrah-A bit more plush and lush with very ripe blueberry and blackberry flavors, a bit of vanilla, anise and cocoa notes.

2005 Cabernet "Kashmir" -Their premium wine. Quite plush and concentrated. Smooth as silk. Very ripe, black cherry, blackberry, brown sugar and exotic spice. Ultra concentrated..more of a cocktail wine but quite delicious.

2005 Cabernet-Polished and smooth. Vewry well balanced and very foody. Nice dusty black fruit with a bit of spice and vanilla.

We opened a bottle of 1997 Gaja San Lorenzo that was badly corked and a bottle of Sessitti Pertimali 1997 Brunello that was outstanding.

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Bi!!
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Bi!! wrote on Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:40:47 -0700 (PDT):

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Interesting but a bit irrelevant. I don't want to be excessively sarcastic but, IMHO, as a wine maker, Francis Coppola made good movies too.

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James Silverton

I only added that he was screenwriter because I'm often asked if he's the same guy who is the screenwriter who wrote "A Walk in the Clouds" since it's a movie about a vineyard. IMHO, Kamen makes better wines than Coppola. Have you had his wines?

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Bi!!

Bi!! wrote on Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:04:04 -0700 (PDT):

No, not yet. I'll look for them. As you can tell, I'm not that impressed by Coppola.

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James Silverton

Niether am I. Last bottle I bought was off a restaurant wine list and it was awful stuff.

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Bi!!

Niether am I. Last bottle I bought was off a restaurant wine list and it was awful stuff.

I bought only ONE bottle, but that was enough for me.

What about Greg Norman's wines. I've bought TWO bottles, but liked nary one of those either.

Dee Dee

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Dee Randall

Has anyone had a celebrity wine that was any good? So far, I haven't.

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Lawrence Leichtman

OK, give him a "D" for wines, but an "A" for trying - some time ago I was at his house for a party (where the sound of my feet was recorded for Apocolipse Now) and was impressed at his trying to maintain the Gustave Niebaum/ Inglenook wines of the '40's... His purchase of the estate was instigated by a desire to keep the estate out of "corporate" hands.

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Ronin

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