2001 Jacob's Creek Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon

Dinner at Teeth and Keena's new waterfront house in Buckroe Beach at SaltPonds Marina. The JC Reserve was a superb transition from the smacking Harvey Wall Bangers into the more settled part of the evening. After a wonderful stroll on the dock with fantastic views of the Salt Ponds and Hampton Roads, boat dreaming, golf-cart avoiding, and neighbor chatting we returned to imbibe the JC. This was a flavorful wine that would have matched superb the follow-on steak, but in our haste was consumed too early! A chance to meet new friends, Bambi and Stag One, who proved to be the source of insightful opinions: some positive: "The nose is very nice, and, after all, I have the devil's trident!" and some, well, not so positive: "Reminiscent of the muck on the shores of the Hudson at low tide, otherwise, barely palatable" Now, you can't ask for a more consistent set of opinions than that! There followed some deterioritization (yes, that's right) in the sophistication of comment: Josephine: "EXCUSE me, that's the one WE brought!" "The nose is dead like a carp." AD: "Arghhhh". Stag One: "It has the legs of Hervé Villechaize (De plane, de plane!)" AD: a boring little product from Van_Diemen's_Land. The odor of an Abbos jockstrap and passed the cloud test"A moaning little bastard from the Southern Hemisphere, received a gold medal from Japan, this from the people who eat bait!" (Now don't tell me this blog doesn't offer you useful comments!) Let me say unequivocally--this was a very nice wine and I think that the comments were just some sort of competitively, escalating contest to challenge the borders of political incorrectivity. Mission accomplished! There was then a collective interest to visit wine from another hemisphere--off we went.