Sounds like an awesome menu - glad to hear you guys had a good time. How did the Hobbs show?

I can only speak for myself, but I thought it was fantastic.  However, I believe that Winoman said that he felt it showed better at the barrel tasting.

wow. that food sounded fabulous as well. color me jealous.

Cassanova di Neri-2000 from me for brunello and right about the Sauterrne--The Hobbs was very good as were all the wines- the Karl Lawrence was yummy- but I want to wait to get Poolboy's notes as his creative mind tasted twigs, and fall leaves in some of the wines and I can't wait to see what else he experienced-- Norm

2000 rochioli RRV pinot noir
Feminine, roses, sour cherry, some ash, twig mash, baked bread crust, smokiness, faint sweetness, fresh jam, thinner and more sour than earlier in the night. Showed very well in the first half of the evening.

2002 rivers marie summa old vines pinot
Green vines, sweet, slightly caramely, cake frosting, bright, some leatheriness, red raspberry cream, unbelievable at the end. I'd really fallen for this when I think Pops brought it to a dinner at Stomp a few years ago. The bottles in between left me disappointed, and I thought this one would, too, but after a few hours of air it really showed well.

2004 kosta browne 4-barrel pinot
Thick, dark brown sugar, slight eucalyptus charred ribeye beef fat, domino steine chocolate, some taylor pork roll - chinese pork cahrsiu, -- I am not a KB fan these days, but after the syrup and sugar evaporated, this wine surprised me. I may yet sell off my KBs one of these days, but I will hold on to the 4-barrels that I have.

2003 karl lawrence cab
Flint, pulverized fallen leaves, buckwheat honey, red dust, some wet lava rock -- mineral at the end. I really enjoyed this wine. Reading these notes during the meal was good for a laugh especially trying to explain the pulverized leaves. Nice wine.

2000 casanova di neri brunello
Leather and licorice, dryyyyyyyy, mecurachrome band aid, beef bullion cube, pencil. This showed well early, but I thought faded a bit in the middle before coming back with a cool meaty and minerally back-end. The nose at the beginning was particularly hauntingly good.

1997 valdicava brunello
stinky cheesy feet, iodine, blue cheese, nuts with jogging feet shoes, roasted nuts (butter and earth), kind of chalky. Man, this wine had FUNK. Serious FUNK like with George Clinton. But it blew off after a long long while and had this roasted buttery nut element that was wonderful.

2001 paul hobbs to ka lon cab
Voluptuous, rubenesque, zaftig, cherry pits, oxygen, faint dill. A really nice wine, quite large and in charge if you will, but it had a good core holding things all together and in balance. A nice shapely bottle 'o wine.

2002 radio coteau la neblina pn
Sweet, cotton candy, sugary jello fruit....I forget who decided to pop this one at the end, but this tasted like cotton candy next to what we'd just finished drinking. It probably should have gone early in the line up, and I think my view of the wine was more 'Meh...' because of when we drank it.

2003 ch lafaurie-peyraguet sauternes
Orange peel, lemon oil, cream, -- I love sauternes and this was a very nice expression of it. I could just sit there and smell it all evening. Really nice.

WOTN? Too hard to choose, but I'd say the Valdicava closer to the end of the evening. I'd say it was a too close to call tie for 2nd in the Paul Hobbs, the Rivers Marie (later in the evening) and the unexpectedly good 4-barrel after the fat rendered off.

A great night, y'all.

I appear to enjoy commenting last after just about everyone else has done the heavy lifting...

He probably gets it from his Aunt Sarah.  Ask Norm, he'll tell you that she is much better at identifying flavors in wine than I am.