Tasting wine like a sommelier

[dananne]

As always, great notes and it sounds like it was a blast.

I've had a few of these -- the Twenty Bench is a wonderful Cab at the price, and I've found it to be pretty consistent year-after-year since I posted this:

http://wines.com/ubb/Forum9/HTML/000608.html

Haven't tried the '05 yet, but they've got it at the local Whole Foods, so I'll toss it in the buggy soon.

We had a wonderful visit at August Briggs when we were out there in August, and we brought back several wines, including a very nice '05 RRV PN, the '05 Napa Zin, an '05 Pinot Meunier (which tasted like an aged Willamette PN), and we joined their wine club, so a couple of the '05 Cabs came in the mail in November. All very good stuff, and we were excited to find them sort of by chance on a rec from the good folks at Duckhorn (who WW set us up with). They bottled an '05 Charbono, which was one of the best, most interesting wines I've had in a long time. If anyone has the chance to try it, and it would be hard to find because of the small production, jump at the chance!

I've not had that Copain, but we had a smashing PN from them last year, a single vineyard one from Anderson Valley. Have also heard good things about their Syrah, so I'll take a look for the one you tried. Have looked for other PN wines from them, but distribution seems scarce or non-existant around here. The one we tried was a wine Anne brought back from Vintage Wines in San Diego.

Again, great notes!