Opened tonight with a dinner of roast lamb rib chops:

1998 Caymus Estate Cabernet Sauvignon
nose: a huge whack of cassis when first opened, followed by pencil lead,
cedar (increasing as it stayed open), chocolate and later soy sauce
palate: initially, a bit of a let down from the nose, medium body,
resolved tannins, good acidity, developing more cedar character with
time, good fruit

This was probably the last Caymus Cab I'll ever own, given the changes
in their winemaking and pricing. There was a time in the early-to-mid
'80s when I'd routinely buy their Estate Cab and I fondly remember a
visit to the winery when Charles Wagner sat imposingly behind the
counter pouring wines for this poor, intimidated 24-year-old
protooenophile. Fortuunately, the wine in question was neither too soft
nor too forward and so hearkened back to the monster wines of
yesteryear. My wife Jean was heard to remark "I'd forgotten how good
California Cabernet can be." I suspect that the less-favored year of '98
worked to our advantage wih this wine, keeping it from any hint of
overripeness or softness. While it will not displace the '79 from my
memory, I'll cherish the memories of this wine for all that it evoked in
my own memory.

Mark Lipton

Mark Lipton wrote:
> Opened tonight with a dinner of roast lamb rib chops:

The two answers to this post by Mark Lipton that are also signed Mark
Lipton are of course not from him but rather from
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> Mark Lipton wrote:
>
>>Opened tonight with a dinner of roast lamb rib chops:
>
>
> The two answers to this post by Mark Lipton that are also signed Mark
> Lipton are of course not from him but rather from
> er who has spoofed Mark Lipton's name using several
> complex routes and remailers including www.TwistyCreek.com wher names
> can be spoofed. The sender of thes messages has over 1300 posts all
> over Usenet, and likely many thousand more under other names. The
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I appreciate your concern and your attempt at setting the record
straight, but because of the nature of the anonymous remailer network,
you can have no idea who is doing this nor how often they have done it
before. Anyone can use anonymous remailers and the headers of this
message simply tell us that twistycreek was used as the exit remailer
and dizum.com's mail2news gateway was used to send the post to Usenet.
I am sure that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people use the same exit
and mail2news combination every day, so it's imprudent to read any more
than that into this message. Whoever is doing this is simply trying to
disrupt the group with offensive, off-topic ramblings. Like any other
troll, your best bet with this person is to ignore or killfile them.

Best wishes,
Mark Lipton