Rudd Oakville Estate Cabernet Sauvignon Jerico Canyon.

And the Silver Stag Cabernet.

Hey, it’s a toss up.

🙂

Great Show – but those wines are out of my price range!

Great show Gary – Love the format. Larkmead 2002. You were crazy at the NFL draft by the way!

Loved the format. My favorite Napa Cab is Mount Veeder, With Nickel and Nickel Sulinger close. Got my copy Wednesday from Barnes and Noble and bought two more copies at the store for my brother and one son.

QOTD – Shafer Hillside. Not sure if i can ever afford to buy this again, but would love to at some point.

Blind tasting is good. I think sometimes is easy to influence the score relative to price.

QOTD: 2002/2004 Kuleto Estate Cabernet

Excellent show. I liked the blind tasting format. My favorite Napa Cabernet is the 2002 Silver Rose Estate Grown Cabernet Sauvignon.

Good idea. But here’s a better one:

GET A GUEST & DO THE SAME THING WITH THEM AND COMPARE WHAT YOU RATE THEM.

Would be a good way to show off pallet differences that you are so much about. Maybe you should do it with Chris Mott!

Simply Terrific Show- Best Ever!!!

Believe ut or not I like Belvedere Cab Healdsburg Ranch…….

Inky black with very exceptional flavor and finish.

Wonderfull show………. my favorite yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am so glad I found this site. Your shows are just amazing. Thank you.

Love the blind tasting format.

One of my favorite Napa Vineyards is Acacia, I don’t think I’ve had a wine from there that I don’t like.

Keep up the good work.

Now I’m off to get the book!

Dominus and not the Napanook variety. Had it before and it was a revelation. Never had anything like it. Congrats on the book! I ordered my copies already!

Congrats on the book!!

QOTD: I like a little dirt in my wine so I a fine of Howell Mountain. The most exciting HM Cab right now —— Spence. Give it a go. It’s fantastic.

Hi Gary,

favorite Napa Cab: Shafer – love the line-up, but the 1.5 steals the QPR contest.

Karl B.

1. Cakebread Dancing Bear
2. Frank Family Reserve
3. Frog’s Leap

Favorite napa cab is the caymus special selection. Very consistent year in and out. However my favorite Napa red is the 1997 Cardinale.

Lots of fun. Philip Togni Napa Cabernet.

best napa cab i have ever tasted 1969 heitz marthers last tasted june 98 first time tasted jan 75 still have some

QOTD: Tossup. I’m loving, loving, loving the Elizabeth Spencer Napa Valley cab (40 bones), but Del Dotto (75 bones) is giving Liz a run for her money.

Cakebread, Caymus, Heitz – they’re all fantastic, but they’re definitely not flying “under the radar”

-Paul in DC-
noazdad

Don’t drink Napa cab.*

Too much oak (usually), too much money (mostly), and too much alcohol (invariably). (And people drink them far too young.) Sure, I could branch out and experiment, but @ an average $50/bottle for current releases, I could try almost twice as much southwestern French wine that would probably be more interesting and better balanced. The Napa cabs that I’ve had in the past year were mostly in the $30-60 range, but I rarely have an emotional response to them. That, I think, is really why I don’t try more. For that amount of cash I could be trying well-seasoned madiran, to which I do have a strong emotional response, or chinon, or bourgeuil, or cnp, or cdr, or irouleguy… heck, even bordeaux is a better bet.

* unless at someone else’s home, dinner invitation, or if I’m at a Napa winery and they have nothing more interesting on offer (say, petit verdot or cabernet franc, for instance – YEAH)

Almost done reading the book. Busy so it is not going too fast, but its a good read.

Nice show on the Napa’s. QOTD I dont have a bunch of Napa’s that I keep, they tend to be $$$$. I have some Clou du Val and Caymus. Of course Caymus is much more of a business dinner wine.

Great episode as always!!!

Heitz Martha’s ’83 was the wine that started me down this road. Just kept opening and changing and getting more profound. Drank it in 2000. Ready to try a Colgin, Bond or Harlan when I get rich and connected! I bought an ’05 Showkett a while back that was the height of my resource capability. I will let you know in a few years how that measures up.

GV, what are you doing? what are you doing bro????

I said, review the cabs everyone knows!! What’s this telling America all about Rocca!!! What’s next? are you going to tell everyone about the next stock secret GV??? Are you going to make everyone millionaires??? That’s it GV, I can’t take it anymore!!!

04 mondavi oakville or 03 plumpjack

QOTD: (1) 2003 Reynolds Faimly Stags Leap Reserve -OR- (2) 2004 Revana