A Very Good Night

sort of... had the 2002 Casa Lapostelle Clos Apalta, Puente Alto, Chile again last night and I just can't get excited about this wine... it has all of the marks of extraction, but none of the finesse... it's a very good, but one-dimensional wine. The 2002 Shafer Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon is amazing... one of my all-time favorite wines and certainly one of the best California Cabernets I've ever tasted, young or old. Immense anise, black currants, gravel and plums. This is a rockstar wine with silky, smooth tannins... the concentration is amazing, but at no time is it overpowering or a burden to the wine... Elias Fernandez is a genius. Anyone who can make a wine that is this pure, this balanced, and sings like this, well... he'll always get my business...