1997 Liparita

I still see quite a bit of this wine at retail som I am not a bit surprised at your assessment. I'll just keep passing it up.

GATC-

Agree.
There were too many of these:
WHL-97 pts
Merryvale Profile-97 pts
BV- 95 pts
Lokoya-98 pts
CSJ-96 pts
and a handful of other well known suspects

They say don't go shopping when you'ra hungry. I think JL went tasting when he was thirsty!

Of course, I agree w/r to
Insignia
Pahlmeyer

DrT

GATC: Have to defend Liparita. Been a buyer since '94. And, agree with the low 90s ratings. I always rate it 89-92. 97 is young for Liparita. Needs time. We just had a '95 @ NJ Wine Tasting Dinner with Short/Ojeffso/Revlis. Not the best Wine, but a solid Wine. For about $45.00, not much is out there to beat it. I think...

P.S. Did Not finish my thought as the baby cried. We all rated it in the low 90s. Stood up to the others in its class on that night. And, that is the 1st time the rest of the guys ever had Liparita.

GATC,
I'm still holding some of my 94s. Agree with LCC that these need time.
I honestly hope these improve in the bottle. Otherwise I've got a case of plonk in the cellar.

LCC and KOH, I have had the 94 and 96 and I thought they were very good wines. Since I'm the one who is always saying that we drink our wines too young, I should be more patient. The wine improved a lot last night (2nd day). It is still not what anywhere near the 94 or 96 bottles or what it was rated.

I guess the main concern I have is I believe JL tends to overrate wines that show well early. When he rates a wine pretty high and it does not show well early, I get concerned. I guess if I assume that he rated it the same way he did the Schweiger

Maybe the 97 will improve and reach the level of the 94 or 96. I guess only time will tell.

DrT, don't remind me of the Lokoya. I only bought one bottle and I paid a premium for it. I also bought 3 cases of the BV GDL at $69.95 a bottle. I was assuming that these fell into the "slightly overrated" category.

I got really sucked in when I saw the nice glossy cover for that Big CA issue with the bottles of the great wines. I even took the next day off and drove to Napa (before the wineries were open) and filled up my car. What a mistake.

GATC,
Thanks for the follow up. I'm going to wait on the 97s until I work my way through the final 94, and the 95s and 96s. That should give them plenty of quiet time to develop.