There are few times in life, mine anyway, when you get the chance to drink a cabernet that is 24 years old. Now most things that I have read about the taste of old wine is probably not good unless one; you know exactly what you are drinking and two; how that wine has been stored over its many years of bottled life. Many articles that I have read warn about developing a taste for “old wines”. They are definitely different in structure, flavor, texture and color.

It was truly amazing! We actually found a vintage of cabernet that we really liked from a California winery. My wife even said, “Why don’t you go get several bottles just to have on hand?” Wow! That was so out of character for her that I could hardly believe it! I dutifully trekked off to the grocery store to buy a case of wine. I went directly to the section and shelf where I’d bought that “really great wine” last week and it was GONE! What the heck?

Sycamore Lane is the house cabernet at Zio Johno’s.  Nothing else available by the glass stuck me as interesting and since Jennifer doesn’t enjoy wine a full bottle wasn’t an option.  As it was the house wine I didn’t see the bottle and thus don’t know the vintage.  It occurs to me that in the [...]