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Brian K Miller
Passionate Arboisphile
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Fri Aug 25, 2006 1:05 am
Northern California
Brian K Miller wrote:2008 Clos Du Val Stags Leap Cabernet. Too expensive (and too Napa ) but I simply adore this vintage of this cabernet. tasting notes very similar to last one: Some green notes to add freshness, but the lovely warm red and black fruit earthyness of Clos du Val cabernets comes shining through. Lovely stuff.
Is that because it's a wine that everyone knows, that'sconsidered reliable, great but unexciting and no longer a cult darling? (plenty of those in CA, especially in Cab). Or is it because of a string of actual unexciting wines? Since I hardly taste nonkosher wines anymore, I wouldn't be in a position to know. However, I remember a time when Clos du Val was both reliable and exciting.Clos du Val don't get a whole lot of luv around here.
Brian K Miller
Passionate Arboisphile
9340
Fri Aug 25, 2006 1:05 am
Northern California
Craig Winchell wrote:Is that because it's a wine that everyone knows, that'sconsidered reliable, great but unexciting and no longer a cult darling? (plenty of those in CA, especially in Cab). Or is it because of a string of actual unexciting wines? Since I hardly taste nonkosher wines anymore, I wouldn't be in a position to know. However, I remember a time when Clos du Val was both reliable and exciting.Clos du Val don't get a whole lot of luv around here.
Craig Winchell wrote:Is that because it's a wine that everyone knows, that'sconsidered reliable, great but unexciting and no longer a cult darling? (plenty of those in CA, especially in Cab). Or is it because of a string of actual unexciting wines? Since I hardly taste nonkosher wines anymore, I wouldn't be in a position to know. However, I remember a time when Clos du Val was both reliable and exciting.Clos du Val don't get a whole lot of luv around here.
Brian K Miller
Passionate Arboisphile
9340
Fri Aug 25, 2006 1:05 am
Northern California
Mark Lipton wrote:Craig Winchell wrote:Is that because it's a wine that everyone knows, that'sconsidered reliable, great but unexciting and no longer a cult darling? (plenty of those in CA, especially in Cab). Or is it because of a string of actual unexciting wines? Since I hardly taste nonkosher wines anymore, I wouldn't be in a position to know. However, I remember a time when Clos du Val was both reliable and exciting.Clos du Val don't get a whole lot of luv around here.
Craig,
I think that it's more a matter of Cabernet not getting a lot of love around here any more. Clos du Val is to my tastes still made in the style that made it popular back in the late '70s, but I think that pricing and shifting food consumption patterns have marginalized Cabernet to some extent on the wine boards that I read. Apropos of Jim Barrett's death, I'll note that you don't read a lot about Chateau Montelena (or Mayacamas or Corison even) either. Maybe if those wines were selling for $30-50 per bottle rather than triple that there would be more discussion of them.
Mark Lipton
Craig Winchell wrote:
I don't think most excellent Cabernet is overpriced, either, relative to what else is out there. There are plenty of excellent Cabs which are not cult classics. Face it, the people here just enjoy being continuously stimulated with the new, unusual, downright different.
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