N/V Barros 10 yr old Tawny Porto

[wondersofwine]

Yes, very nice Georgie. My main gripe--here they were auctioning some nice wines and the two wines they had available to accompany the nice repast provided by the board members were a Crane Lake Chardonnay and a Crane Lake Merlot. (Wine snob that I am, I had a Sprite). One web site says that Crane Lake is the same thing as two-buch Chuck (Charles Shaw)--that it is an alternate label since Trader Joe has exclusive rights to the Charles Shaw. Does anyone ITB know if this is true? That same website has people praising the wine as "better than
Woodbridge" (not much of a recommendation) and giving it a rating of 88 or 90!

I wanted to open one of the wines in the silent auction to have with my food but couldn't do so because the bidding hadn't closed. If they do this event next year, maybe I'll donate wines for the hors d'oeuvres as well as the auction!