Originally Posted By: mdrew

To top the day off, we opened up one of my all time favorites; a 99 Silverado Cab. Opening this one after all the others was a big mistake. My memories of a wonderful wine quickly dissipated. As much as I loved this bottle in years past, it just couldn’t compete with the Dominus, Almaviva or Patz and Hall. It has officially been dethroned from my top five list of wines…. I put it above the Penfolds, but not any of the others.


I try to limit myself to one or two 'good' bottles an evening.
When attempting to have too many good bottles, one's interpretations of what is considered a 'not as nice as i remembered' wine might still be an amazing wine, but it does seem to lose some respect when compared to more impressive offerings.

Our evening of tasting 5 bottles of reds, mostly cab savs, all between $30 and $40, had tainted my thoughts on the Francis Coppola wines. Then i had another recently at a top notch local restaurant and i was far more impressed than i was the first time around. Its quality was overshadowed by other wines.
I'm still reserving any judgement until i've tried at least one more bottle.

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