Another Good One

First, the 1996 Chatau Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande is awesome... so silky and smooth... no longer a baby - more a teenager - it still has a long life ahead of it, but I just don't know how much better it's going to get. There is a hint of green to this wine, but it is so silky and seductive... The 1999 Gaja Sugarille Brunello di Montalcino is simply outstanding... this one goes on the "best of" list immediately. The wine has beautiful sweet - but dried - fruit. It is classic Brunello made in a modern style (does that even make sense?). The finish is mindblowing and screams "drink me!". I just love the style, purity, and intensity of Anjelo Gaja's wines... The 2003 Quilceda Creek Cabernet Sauvignon is a monster - extremely extracted - with tons of anise and ripe black cherries. This is simply not my style of wine, though some publications have given it 100 points, I fail to see how or why - other than the extreme extraction. The 1995 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti La Tache is the complete opposite - this is a lady - so silky with a much less developed nose than the 1990 Romanee-Conti from the other day - but a much more evolved and open palate. The only way to describe it is silk and roses... sadly, it was our last bottle and it had yet to blossomed...