Cal Cabs Thrashed In Decanter!

[Van The Man]

I like all the Cal Wines you mentioned there Randy and have in fact purchased all of them. Same for the Clarets as well.

I too enjoy Zins and Pinots and think the Zins especially offer perhaps the best wine value in the world today. I've been buying every '97 Zin, 'specially RRV zin in as much quantity as I have room for....which isn't a lot. Many of these wines are no more than $20 which is darned near what decent "house wine" costs these days.

As for Pinots, I confess that I don't know enough about the grape. I do buy some from the RRV and have a fairly sizeable collection of Joseph Swan Pinots. I usually buy at least a case of every one he makes and then a few others from around the area. And now here is something I think we can agree on, California Pinot Noir and I s'pose Oregon to a degree offers WAY more value than Bourgogne, oui? Good grief, I have MAYBE a dozen bottles of red Burgundy and only a handful of white. One can only afford so many pleasures I s'pose. <g>