1996 Cult CA Cab Tasting -- Are they worth the bucks?

[winoweenie]

Bucko, Cut my last reply short as I had to go to Tuscon but to continue.....No doubt wine prices for top estates are out of hand both here and everywhere in the world. Demand seems to do that to everything ( BUT CARPET . We can make the stuff WAY faster than builders can erect buildings.) Looking at the list of wines you tasted I agree with a lot of your observations and disagree with others.I don`t have Randys` patience or attention to detail, but one wine IMHO you are wrong about ( And it looks like your other 59 tasters agreed ) in the 2nd flight is the Araujo. The Eisele vineyards have given me some of my most memorable wine experiences,74 Conn Creek and 75 Phelps just being two. Never had a bad Phelps Eisele. I know you say you wouldn`t give 40 bucks for this, as Curmy said, " A Best-Buy/Steal-Deal can be a 100 buck bottle that tastes like 200." I got on the Diamond Creek bandwagon at the very beginning ( 72 vintage ) and even though I stay with Boots and Al when I`m in Napa, I`ve stopped buying the wine. Like you Bucko on the Dehlinger , I`ve been happily replaced by some-one on Als` mailing list.Life goes on. Red Wine Lives. Life is GOOD.....Winoweenie