96 Flora Springs Napa Valley "St. Rutherford" C.S.

[newsguy]

had another bottle on friday night as my brother cooked us dinner as part of an early birthday celebration (my BD's monday 8/6). he does the cooking (homegrown tomatoes w/ fresh mozzarella and balsamic & herbs, roasted potatoes drizzled with olive oil and herbs, green beans and spaetzle, along with some d-mn fined hunks of spice-rubbed cow (filets and N.Y. strips cooked on the grill) and i bring the wines.

this bottle of the '96 flora springs st. rutherford cab was the best bottle of the 12 or so i've had to date. absolutely amazing fruit intensity (in addition to eh above description add gobs of raspberry on the very lengthy finish), plenty of structure and clearly has room still to improve, then hold for quite a while. 94+ points, and bordering on classic. clearly outshone the other two very tasty bottle i brought: a 97 titus napa valley cab (91 points) and an '02 le conselliere (spelling is off, i'm sure) bordeaux (90 points, and quite a value).

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