AJ McClellan
As always after the scheduled tasting the members went onto their cellars and brought out some fun wines to pass around the table.
1999 Rayas – Purple flowers and Barnyard with cinnamon, spice, and lavender on the nose. Compost and wet tar with tanned leather, stewed raspberries, cherries, sour berry, and Bramble on the palate. Complex on and long lasting with a touch of wood spice and funk on the back end.
1997 Georges Mugneret Chambolle Musigny Les Feusselottes 1er – Compost and forest floor with roasted cranberry and raspberries up front. Slight matchstick on the back with lots of roasted fruits, pine tree, and evergreen on the back sweet and sour sauce on the finish.
1991 Ridge Lytton Springs – Dry cranberry and wood spice with big liquorish on the back. Complex with cooking spice and nice finish with more wood spice.
1999 Flaccianello – Tar and leather with smoke, dusty cherry, and cooking spice. Liquorish and forest floor with old barnyard and old well worn wood, savory sage and old moldy wood, fall leaves and saddle leather with coco bean and cigar box. Cherry cobbler flambé topped with crumbled chocolates.
2005 Cyrus – Black Cherry and boysenberry with black berries and leather and tobacco. Crushed rock and haystack with cooking spice and big tobacco.
2002 Hartwell – Black cherries and chocolate with boysenberries and tar, leather, black liquorish, and root extract – root bear, coco extract with lots of wood.