Nomadic Wines

Another visit with McClure and a big Cab

McClure came over for dinner along with a bottle of Silver Oak. Since I probably wouldn't buy this wine myself, I was glad he brought it. We decided to get some steaks to match with the Cali Cab, so we called Gregoire for take-out. Overall, pretty good showing for a wine that is criticized by many wine geeks. Thanks Flo.

• 2002 Silver Oak Cabernet Sauvignon Alexander Valley - USA, California, Sonoma County, Alexander Valley (2/10/2007)
  Dark ruby color. I didn't want to like this wine, but it had everything one should expect - good black fruit, nice structure, and medium length finish. There is a little too much oak for me, but it isn't overextracted or over-ripe. If this was available for ~$40, I would buy it for myself.

After the Silver Oak, I wanted to open something interesting for McClure so I went into the Linne Calodo stash. I think he liked it, but it was pretty different.


• 2004 Linne Calodo The Outsider - USA, California, Central Coast, Paso Robles (2/10/2007)
  This wine was slightly fizzy when opened. We put it in the decanter for a 30 minutes, and most of that dissipated. My friend described it as champagne port because of the combination of fizziness and port-like noise. Very floral nose - combined with raisins... it smells like the grape skins discarded after pressing wine. This bottle had a little more heat on the nose and on the palate, but there is a ton of crushed black berry fruit to go with it.

Labels: Linne Calodo, McClure, wine

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