The Wine Club, Santa Clara

Friday 7th and Sunday 9th
1999 Brunello: $25

Fanti 98pts Wine Spectator
Lisini 93pts Wine Spectator
Fuligni 95pts Wine Spectator & Wine Enthusiast, 92pts Tanzer
Pacenti 96pts Wine Spectator & #39 Top 100 of 2004
Frescobaldi 95pts Wine Spectator & #15 Top 100 of 2004
Banfi 94pts Wine Spectator & #29 Top 100 of 2004
Banfi Poggio alle Mura 94pts Wine Spectator
Costanti 91pts Tanzer
Poggio Antico Altero 93pts Wine Spectator & Tanzer
Poggio Antico 92pts Wine Spectator & Tanzer
Altesino 91pts Wine Spectator & Tanzer
Casanova di Neri 94pts Wine Spectator, 93pts Tanzer

Saturday Jan 8th
Australian Shiraz: $20
Wot, no Penfolds?

Coriole 2001 Shiraz 90 R.P. $17.99
Ross Estate 2002 Lyndoch $19.99
Mc Laren Vale 2001 Shiraz 90 R.P. $24.99
Willows Shiraz 1999 91 R.P $28.99
Oliver Hill Shiraz 2003 Jimmy’s Section 94 RP $29.99
Journey’s End 2002 Accent (sic) $29.99
Lengs & Cooter 2002 Reserve Shiraz 92 R.P. $32.99
Kay Bros Hillside Shiraz 2002 95 R.P. $32.99
Thorn Clarke Wm Randall. Shiraz 93 R.P. $32.99
Parsons Flat 2003 Shz/Cab. $35.99
Coriole 2000 Shiraz Lloyds Reserve 91 R.P. $44.99
Coriole 2001 Shiraz Lloyds Reserve $44.99
Rockford 2001 Basket Pressed Shiraz 94 R.P. $54.99

Dave is next weekend Bordeaux at the Wine Club?

We'll be at the Brunello tasting tonight as well.

I'm not sure.
The newsletter is at home and their web site hasn't been updated since December.
If I recall correctly, the 15th was Bordeaux and the 29th was Cali cabs (again!)
but I can't remember what the 22nd was.

I can't make tonight, but I'll probably be there tomorrow and maybe Sunday too.

Incidentally I went to see Sideways in the Cine Arts at Santana Row, so now I know
where that Vintages place is. It looks really swish. I'll check it out some time.

K&L Wines (Both stores)
Saturday 8th January
French Burgundy (sic). I guess that's as opposed to Hearty Burgundy.
Ten wines, both reds and whites, no price or listing available.

Go to Vintages; ask for Joe; tell him I sent you.

Silly? Yes. A little discount for you? Maybe.

Three guys that used to work at Wine Club opened this place together. Joe is one of them. I really don't know any of the others but Joe has always taken very good care of me.

Wine club will be doing bordeaux next Saturday. Hoping to make it there. Skipped today, got enough inexpensive Aussie wine.

I went to the Wine Club but ended up skipping the tasting, just not up to it when I got there. Did see some mutual friends of gfleener though.

Stopped by K&L after fixing wires and posts. There were 3 people doing the tasting. By the time I paid and was into the second glass, that little room in the back was overwhelmed with maybe 20 people. They really need to do something about that space.

Nothing this weekend, the moon is in the right phase, the cold is pushing down the sap, I'm going to try and get all the pruning done Saturday and Sunday.

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the moon is in the right phase, the cold is pushing down the sap, I'm going to try and get all the pruning done Saturday and Sunday.

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Do you have your pig's blood warming up and your virgins ready to dance?

Wine Club Santa Clara
Friday/Sunday: 2002 Burgundy. $30

2002 Jadot Corton Pougets
2002 Jadot Echezeaux
2002 Alex Gambal Echezeaux
2002 Dominique Laurent Grands Echezeaux
2002 Dominique Laurent Clos de La Roche
Trapet Latricieres Chambertin

2002 Jadot Gevrey Chambertin Le Petite Chappelle
2002 Faiveley Bourgogne
2002 Dujac Gevrey Chambertin
2002 Dujac Morey St. Denis 1er Cru
2002 Mommessin Beaune "Les Greves"
2002 Mommessin Santenay "Grand Clos Rousseau"
2002 Mommessin Gevrey Chambertin

Saturday: 2000 Barolo (not Bordeaux) $30

2000 Paolo Scavino Carobric - 94pts Wine Spectator
2000 Luciano Sandrone Le Vigne - 95pts Wine Spectator
2000 Massolino - 92pts Wine Spectator
2000 Damilano Liste - 93pts Wine Spectator
2000 Elio Cogno Ravera - 93pts Wine Spectator
2000 Aldo Conterno Cicala - 96pts Wine Spectator
2000 Aldo Conterno Colonello - 94pts Wine Spectator
2000 Roberto Voerzio Cerequio - 95pts Wine Spectator
2000 Revello Rocche dell Annuziata - 97pts Wine Spectator
2000 Revello Giachini - 95pts Wine Spectator
2000 Revello Conca - 94pts Wine Spectator

davidn - where's he going to find a virgin???

davidn... Do you know where virgin wool comes from?

Bingo!

Wine Club Santa Clara
Jan 21st & 23rd - Oregon Pinot Noirs.
Cost: $10

2003 Broadley Bergstrom Vineyard
2002 Bethel Heights Estate 90WS
2002 Archery Summit Premier Cuvee
2002 Lemelson Thea's Selection 91WS
2002 Chehalem Reserve 93RP
2002 Patricia Green Eason Vineyard Yamhill
2002 Bethel Heights Castel Reseve 93RP 91WS
2003 Lachini "S"
2003 Ken Wright Whale Vineyard
2003 Ken Wright Carter Vineyard
2001 Domaine Drouhin Laurene
2002 Lemelson "Six Vineyards" 90WS

Wine Club Santa Clara
2001 Bordeaux: $30

Clos du Marquis(2nd wine of Leoville Las Cases) 92WS
Carruades de Lafite(2nd wine of Lafite) 90RP 90WS
Leoville Barton92RP 92WS
Leoville Las Cases 94ST 93RP 93WS
Cos d'Estournel 94WS 93RP
Mouton Rothschild 94WS
Clos L'Eglise 95RP
Pavie Decesse 95RP 93WS

4-Vintages of D'Yquem
1995 93RP
1997 96WS 95RP
1999 94WS
2000

At Vintage Wine Merchants, Sat 1/22/05

Rare Torbreck Tasting!!
Torbreck was established in 1994 by David Powell and his wife Christine and is located at Marananga on the western ridge of the Barossa Valley. It is named after a forest situated just south of Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland. David Powell is a former lumberjack who worked in various vineyards where he picked up his oenological skills. His philosophy has been to secure grapes from small parcels of old-vine Barossa vineyards, and then to make hand-crafted wines in a traditional style that reflect their Barossa origins. Yields are invariably low, and the resulting wines are deeply impressive. The overwhelming majority of his vines are dry-grown, nearly all are 80 - 125 years old and are tended and harvested by hand. The wines have an extraordinary combination of power, intensity, complexity and great finesse. The fact that the demand for these wines has massively outstripped supply, makes this is an extremely rare opportunity.
Woodcutters Shiraz 2002- 92 Points Robert Parker
The Struie 2002 -95 Points Robert Parker
The Decendent 2002-96 Points Robert Parker
The Factor 2001-99 Points Robert Parker
The Factor 2002-98 Points Robert Parker
Les Amis 2002-99 Points Robert Parker
Runrig 2001-99 Points Robert Parker
Cost $60.00-Reservations are required. There will be 2 sessions of 20 attendees. The first will be on Saturday January 22nd from 3:30 pm to 6:30 PM and the Second from 7:00 to 10:00 that evening