Ronnies annual wine fair

[Drew]

Here's a few thoughts as follow up and add a few points to all the wines due to palate fatigue. [img]http://wines.com/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img]

If you find the 02 Barclay Zin give it a try. This one stood out for me in that it was unusual, cab like displaying some currant flavors with lush fruit, a little underbrush and chewy tannins.

The 04 Wente syrah was a very good QPR with chocolaty blackberry and some good ol NW dirt. I'm always impressed with NW wines as they seem to display terroir more times than not, compared to their California counter parts which, to me, seem to be producing a more fruit forward style.

The Charles Wetmore Cab just didn't show well and I'm gonna revisit it and post later.

Both of these, 04 Domain de Montpeat Cab/syrah Prestige Very good $13
and
04 Domaine Mas Carlot Mourvedre/syrah enfants Teribles Very nice for $11
showed very well and were good QPRS. Both had good balance, fruit and some complexity showing earthy and terroir nuances and very reasonable price tags.

Drew