No guests this week – taking a breather, so I only opened a single bottle.

Rothberg Cellars Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2004 – Score: A-
The nose on this Garnet – purple colored wine is filled with nice fruit, blackberry, cassis, and coffee.  The mouth of this medium-full bodied wine is filled with fruit carry over.  When I first opened the bottle, the mouth had blackberry, cassis, and a nice finish of coffee and oak.  At the mid point of the meal, the wine went French and became insanely mineral and earthy.  It overshadowed the fruit and the oak.  When it settled more, the wine lost the lovely coffee – but the fruit returned, the mouth was smooth, and the finish was filled with nice spicy oak.  A funny wine – but one that I enjoyed a lot over the two meals.