Noon Eclipse 2003

This wine is one we rarely get to taste. They open the cellar door for 2 weekends and sell out. Some friends of mine did the line up and waiting, so we tried it last night after a day of eating and drinking more mediocre wines.

88 points

Some people would give this wine much higher ratings, and I have to admit it is easy to drink and very powerful. It has very ripe red fruits, not really overextracted, but more port-like in the sense of ripeness. It has a bit of residual sugar, which though a bit strange reduces the potential alcohol a bit. I don't know what food I would recommend- we just drank while talking. The bottle doesn't say what the blend it, but it seemed to me to have mainly Shiraz with some very ripe Grenache.