Forum: Wine Talk Posted By: Tom Hill Post Time: 04-20-2007 at 05:01 PM

In addition to these wines, Murray makes wines for Oak Savanna Vineyard, including a Chardonnay and Tempranillo; a Syrah, Sauvignon Blanc and red blend for Great Oaks Ranch and Vineyard; and a Viognier for Calzada Ridge Vineyard. 2004 Andrew Murray...

Per Tom Hill's comments, I'll have to retaste the Andrew Murray wines. But the older stuff, esp. some of the Roasted Slopes of some years ago, was too much VA even for me. And if I may vent for just a second, some of the early Clos Mimi wines had even...

Jim: VA is an acronym for volative acidity in wine. You can google it, or take a quick gander at this: http://waterhouse.ucdavis.edu/winecomp/va.htm Bruce

Forum: Wine Talk Posted By: J. Peter Young Post Time: 11-19-2006 at 02:54 PM

as the sweet fruit esters often hide it well. You finding that being ITB has gotten you to be less critical, at least publically anyway?

For awhile there, the VA in Andrew's wines was waaaay over the top. When I asked him about it, he lamely responded that it represents an Aussie style he likes in his wines!! Whatever. But the recent ones I've had from him don't have that VA problem tha...

That's a pretty amusing statement and quite true. I'm sure you noticed we rarely see any more "xyz mailer came today" or "who's buying Screagle" that you now see somewhere else. All those posters left. BD

[quote=Brad Harrington]Yep and I will point out that most of the behind the scenes shenanigans that took up so much of the mods time went with them. My life has been about 4000% easier since. I could say a lot more, but there is no useful purpose! ;) [/

Yup.....thought some of the earlier ClosMimis were not very good. Plus I disliked Tim's biz plan....buy cheap/FrenchCamp grapes, package it in fancy packagingw/ big btls a la SQN, sell it for big bucks, plan on getting a big Arpy score...and then become t