My friend Rick who lives in Philadelphia is out in San Francisco pretty regularly now and we try to get together every few weeks for a wine dinner. Since he is a Vinfolio client as well I usually pickup his wines that he wants to open from our San Francisco warehouse. We decided to get together last night and he asked me to fetch a bottle of the second release 2001 Drinkward Peschon Cabernet Sauvignon, VF 98 and I brought along the 2006 Scherrer Chardonnay Helfer Vineyard, VF 97 and 2005 Dierberg Pinot Noir Steven, VF 98.
Beginning our meals with the Tuna Tartare, the lush richness of the Scherrer Chardonnay, served at room temperature proved equal to the firm bites of tuna served up on paper thin flatbread. The wine was drinking like silk even after being opened three hours earlier.
We then moved into a medium sized ribeye with frites and the Dierberg and Drinkward Peschon duelled it out for the rest of the evening. The Dierberg is showing a mouthwatering spearmint on the nose that dances across the raspberry and cherry backbone. Note: Vinfolio is fortunate to have a limited quantity of this wine available again on an allocated basis.
Upon pouring the Drinkward Peschon the wine showed beautifully for another 2 hour+ before sliding in and out of a phase where the flavors got a little rough but just as we were lamenting over this, the next sip was back to being solidly focused and we were back in love with what was going on in the glass. My initial assessment of this wine from release showed some Lapsang Tea which comes through firmly on the mid-palate now giving some solid backbone. If you have any of this 240 case production wine, I would recommend opening a bottle in the next few months to see how it is doing.
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