The potentially perfect 1994 Cabernet Sauvignon is a totally dry wine
The old vines are very much in evidence as there is a true abundance of palate soaking dry extract that imparts a velvety mouth feel to the mid-palate and buffers the very firm tannins on the youthfully austere
This is also intensely floral in character with even more spice elements than the Echézeaux along with green tea
This moderately powerful effort is shaped by dense but fine tannins and is a wine that should amply repay extended cellaring
loamy soil nuances
Colgin Herb Lamb Vineyard 2002 Douro The potentially perfect 1994 CabernetThe 2002 Cabernet Sauvignon Herb Lamb Vineyard is a wonderful wine on its own merit, but by no means is it as impressive as the other three efforts from Ann Colgin and her husband, Joe Wender. This wine has an opaque plum ruby color, a scent of unsmoked, high class tobacco, underbrush, spice box, black currants, chocolate and espresso. It is seriously endowed, elegant, and again, fully mature, but without the nobility, complexity and sheer class of