Saturday, March 15, 2003
Last night the group descended on Flemings in San Diego's UTC area. The new menu items are a great addition, especially the Carpaccio and the Shrimp and Lobster salad appetizers. Of course the steaks were aged to perfection and cooked just right, showing once again that the best steaks in town are there bar none.
2002 Craggy Range New Zealand Martinborough Sauvignon Blanc
This is a new wine from a producer that you must put on your list to buy, assuming you can find any in your area. Without a doubt one of the finest examples of New World Sauvignon Blanc I've ever had. The richness, depth of fruit and high quality of this wine was beyond all expectations. While many of the NZ Sauvignon Blancs hail from the Marlborough, this wine is from a different region, and it shows. Missing that "cat's pee" flavor, here is a wine that has an almost creamy richness of a banana, the mellowness of cantaloupe and honeydew melon, and the refreshing flavors of oranges, lemons, pears and peaches. It has surpassed the Huia, Lawsons Dry Hills and Isabel as my favorite New Zealand SB.
1993 Pine Ridge Napa Cabernet Sauvignon
A tad young, but loaded with great old school Napa style fruit. Cigar box, tar, menthol, black cherries, the wine was easy to consume and really helped set the stage for the reds that followed.
1990 Dominus Cabernet Sauvignon
Amazing wine. Perhaps the finest Dominus I have had to date the wine was the most ready of the five red wines we had. Jam packed with black cherries, raspberry, cassis and plum like fruit flavors, the Dominus has expressive depth of fruit, was very ripe in the midpalate and had a finish that seemed to linger on for minutes not seconds.
1990 Sociando Mallet Haut Medoc Bordeaux
1989 Sociando Mallet Haut Medoc Bordeaux
1988 Sociando Mallet Haut Medoc Bordeaux
The above three wines are all very young. How young. Well, if you have any, forget you do. Leave them in the cellar and try them in 15 or 20 years. That said, they are amazing wines, with the nod going in the direction of the 1990 of what will be the best of the trio. Truffles, soft cedar, dense mulberry, blackberry, cassis, hints of cherry, the wines are not tannic, nor are they oaky. They are just dense, monolithic and tight. At the same time they are amazing examples of how good a wine this producer can make.
Cheers,
Andy Abramson
2002 Craggy Range New Zealand Martinborough Sauvignon Blanc
This is a new wine from a producer that you must put on your list to buy, assuming you can find any in your area. Without a doubt one of the finest examples of New World Sauvignon Blanc I've ever had. The richness, depth of fruit and high quality of this wine was beyond all expectations. While many of the NZ Sauvignon Blancs hail from the Marlborough, this wine is from a different region, and it shows. Missing that "cat's pee" flavor, here is a wine that has an almost creamy richness of a banana, the mellowness of cantaloupe and honeydew melon, and the refreshing flavors of oranges, lemons, pears and peaches. It has surpassed the Huia, Lawsons Dry Hills and Isabel as my favorite New Zealand SB.
1993 Pine Ridge Napa Cabernet Sauvignon
A tad young, but loaded with great old school Napa style fruit. Cigar box, tar, menthol, black cherries, the wine was easy to consume and really helped set the stage for the reds that followed.
1990 Dominus Cabernet Sauvignon
Amazing wine. Perhaps the finest Dominus I have had to date the wine was the most ready of the five red wines we had. Jam packed with black cherries, raspberry, cassis and plum like fruit flavors, the Dominus has expressive depth of fruit, was very ripe in the midpalate and had a finish that seemed to linger on for minutes not seconds.
1990 Sociando Mallet Haut Medoc Bordeaux
1989 Sociando Mallet Haut Medoc Bordeaux
1988 Sociando Mallet Haut Medoc Bordeaux
The above three wines are all very young. How young. Well, if you have any, forget you do. Leave them in the cellar and try them in 15 or 20 years. That said, they are amazing wines, with the nod going in the direction of the 1990 of what will be the best of the trio. Truffles, soft cedar, dense mulberry, blackberry, cassis, hints of cherry, the wines are not tannic, nor are they oaky. They are just dense, monolithic and tight. At the same time they are amazing examples of how good a wine this producer can make.
Cheers,
Andy Abramson
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