A Good Night...

The 2001 Stags Leap Wine Cellars "Fay" Cabernet Sauvignon in 3L was finally showing well... the 4th 3L that we've sold, this wine is showing cedar notes and a kind of minty-softness on the nose that follows to the palate. A nice wine. The 1995 Pol Roger "Sir Winston Churchill" Brut rocks... nuts and toast, nuts and toast... a long, long finish. The 1995 Araujo "Eisele Vineyard" Cabernet Sauvignon was showing as well as it ever has... after 3 hours, it had finally opened enough to really show... Black plums and cedar with eucalyptus and currants. A very, very long concentrated finish. Showing beautifully at 11 years of age. The 1994 Vega Sicilia Unico is simply one of the great wines on our wine list right now. It's like eating a piece of fennel - licorice with a certain "woodiness"... or Black Truffle wrapped in fennel... anyway, you get the idea. It tastes like Tempranillo that's spent a long time in oak (which it has...) A great, great wine, but I don't think it deserves to move up in the list right now.