2001 Roar, Santa Lucia Highlands

[winoweenie]

For any of you coming to Glenora I'll let you judge for yourself about the oak in older vintages. If oak didn't add to the great wines of the world, none of the 1st growths, or Grand Cru Burganies would have used new oak in their wines for the last zillion years. I totally agree that the addition of oak chips in wines vinified to be drunk Tuesday is totally yuccky. As the great wines age the oak adds many nuances to the juice such as chocolate, vanilla and spices. To totally condemn oak or any other winemaking nuance is to refute the knowledge of some of the greatest winemakers in the world. Blanket condemnations don't make sense to me. The juice I drink tells me the story, and I can tell you when you drink a GREAT bottle of AGED juice, the big bell rings. WW