93 Harlen Estate

[Glass_A_Day]

Christmas dinner was accompanied by this big doller cab. It was a dissapointment. As I posted on two other early 90's cabs, it was pretty enough on the nose, but the pallet was gone. It made me wish I sold it on Wine Commune!! The backup for the night was a 2001 Ramey Claret which started off one dimensional and ended up blowing the Harlen away by all opinions at the table after an hour or so of being open. At $40 it was a bit better of a doller per value wine. I've been on a just drink it mission lately and can't tell you how many early 90's cabs are just not holding up the way they were supposed to. [img]http://38.118.142.245/ubb2/frown.gif[/img]

[winoweenie]

I've never been too keen on the 93 vintage as a whole in Napa and Sonoma. Reminds me of the 75 Bordeauxs' that the critics all gushed over and I ended up trading, selling or giving away every one I paid good bucks for except the La Mission and that sucker didn't become drinkable until the mid-90s. Seems the Sonoma bottlings have mellowed better than my Napas. Harlan was a baby vineyard which may have had something to do with it. I traded all but 2 of my 6 Harlans which I can't find tasting notes on.WW