TN: couple good bachelor wines (Lafarge, Donabaum)

Took me a minute to find your notes (it's Donabaum) :)

We might have some descriptor discrepancies, but both agree on good wine! Whether I get black cherry and you get raspberry (ok, so apricots and sweet peas are more different!) what really matters to me in another person's notes are:

1) patterns I've noticed of whether we like the same things in a particular kind of wine 2) tell-tale descriptors (it doesn't matter so much to me if one says toasty oak or vanilla, both will clue me in to oak) 3) Overall descriptors of acidity, tannins, finish, and quality

But you know all that!

Best to family. Are you all settled back in?

Arrrggghh!

Yup, I do. Given how different our tastes run, I know that you ignore my TNs anyway :P

Almost. 6 more boxes to unpack and a backyard jungle that'll require hours of weeding to get back to its erstwhile splendor. Oh yeah, I need to finish insulating the new wine cellar too (3" strip at top of walls, ceiling and put an insulated door on the thing) -- no idea when I'll have time to do that, what with the demands of child rearing and work, but it'll have to happen before summer arrives in earnest.

Mark Lipton