Cal Cabs Thrashed In Decanter!

[Thomas]

WC, you are forgiven the nostaglia, if only that this is your venue...

Your post brings up a good point: change and growth. As I said earlier, thirty years ago California winemakers with their big Cabernets and such made a unique statement. But after all is said and done, finesse and subtlety is more difficult to produce and, for me, far more elegant and interesting.

We used to have a saying in Brooklyn, "Beat me over the head with a Louisville Slugger." Said with sarcasm it meant, "I get the point, now can you tone it down some." That is how I have come to feel about big reds from California.