notes from ultra-premium tasting of mostly cab blends

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Judy and I have been to Wolffer (and the other LI wineries) a few times. It's a very nice Merlot, but the price is just way too stratospheric for our taste. We met the winemaker's (Roman Roth) wife at the winery some years ago and she started talking about red wine headaches. She said the cause was too much sulfite in wines, so her husband had decided to make his wines with a minimum of sulfites. Her claim was that, as a result, there was a much less chance of getting a red wine headache from Wolffer red wines than from any other LI wineries red wines. I tried to argue the point with her, but she was very adamant in her position. She gave me a newsletter from the winery that made the same point and I sent it off to Bucko, who also debunked her theory. The wine was very good, but the price is just too much of a hit - it was $100 when we were last there about five years ago.