A trifecta spit bucket?! And Board-o was one of them?! Man! Shows you that you snooze you lose by not going to these events. What fun you guys must have had.

The 2003 Spit Bucket Reserve was my WOTN. There was a lot going on in there. It was like drinking 11 Zins all at the same time,....but there was one taste I couldn't place Hmmmm.

Great night. My WOTN was CLEARLY the '00 Martinelli G & L. Fantastic and a big 95 pts from jb. Disappointed in the Jackass. Good, but not even close to a WOW for me. My #2 was the Rafanelli Dry Creek, followed closely by the '99 Hartford Dina's.

jb

So when the heck are we going to see some real tasting notes from you blokes?!

HEY! STOP THIS BS ABOUT THE SPIT BUCKET! It wasn't a spit bucket. It was a dump bucket. Wait a second. That doesn't sound right either. It was a bucket in which people poured out the wines they didn't like. Nobody spit in the damn bucket.

My wine of the night was the Martinelli Jackass Zinfandel, and not because I brought one of the bottles. My notes were written before the wines were revealed, as were those of my partner in this, Revlis.

I found a number of the wines a little disappointing, including all three dessert wines, one of which I brought. Maybe after the spit...errr...dump....err...whatever bucket, nothing could compare well. I had expected to give more of the wines scores in the 90s than I did. The evening was absolutely wonderful and the jazins took complete charge and carried everything out flawlessly. My wife and I send our most sincere thanks to them and everyone else who made this such a great evening.

Has someone posted a complete lineup of everything people tasted?

That's what I keep trying to get out of them, Jones. It's like pulling teeth!

1999 T Vine Estate Zin
2000 Turley Juvenile
2000 Ridge Lytton Springs Dry Creek Valley
2000 Poggio Il Pino La Corte
1999 Hartford Court Dina's Vineyard
2000 Neyers Tofanelli
1997 Behrens and Hitchcock Napa
1999 A. Rafanelli, Dry Creek Sonoma
1999 Caymus
2000 Martinelli G & L
2000 Martinelli Jackass
2000 Renwood Zin Ice wine
2000 Albert Mann Gewurtztraimer Grand Cru Furstentum Vielle Vignes
NV Buller Premium Fine Muscat, Australia

wow

so where are the TNs?!

Coming shortly. Think we are all recuperating still!
Summary and Pictures to come soon.

PS- That T Vine is the Brown Estate Zin, one of my favorite Zins!
(T Vine does also makes a Napa Zin).

Did anyone find a bag w/ 2 bottlers of wine in it- a MP Shiraz 9 and a Red Edge Cab? They were in a brown bag but they did not make it home w/ us... Afrim at the rest. said he remembered seeing the bag, but did not find it at the restaurant after we left.

Thank you Winetex. I'm beginning to think ojeffso's mentoring has also influeneced what I like in a wine. His WOTN was Martinelli's G & L.

I have a few bottles of the G & L and recently was able to acquire some Jackass. I opened the Jackass last night and to my surprise prefer the G & L . I'm not saying I didn't love the Jackass...just love the G & L a little more.

Anyway I had a great time even though I wasn't there.

Ojeffso- I as well prefer the G & L to the Jackass. The Jackass is still excellant...just prefer the G & L a little more.

So, who's that sitting to Board-O's left? Is that TCK?!?

Why, he's just a BABY!

So where are the pictures?

TJ,

Go here:

Vinocellar.com Home --> VC Events --> Quick Launch: Red Zinfandel 2/1/2003 -->Voila!

Yes, that's me.

TCK,

Any pictures of you wallowing around in the spit ... err, dump ... err, BLENDING bucket?

I have the best picture of Board-O diving face first into the "slop" bucket, It goes to the highest bidder.