Aussie Tasting

This was a great tasting. We started off with the 2005 Two Hands Lily's Garden, and the Bella's Garden (which was the #5 wine of the year) The Bella's was the hands down rockstar of that flight, having a fuller, rounder mid-palate, and better integration. The Lilly's came off as slightly angular by comparison, but still a delicious wine.

Then we moved on to a vertical of Amon-Ra. We did the 2002-2006! 2002 and 2005 were my favorites with the 2006 having a strong showing, but just too young. All told, the 2002 was my wine of the night. Beautiful complexity, and depth of character, with wonderful, pure concentration. The 05 had truly jumping Raspberry notes and power, and the 06 is only begining to show it's character.
Observation of the night:

"The problem with verticals, is each wine is a year older than the next." -Mike-

Almost sounds like a Yogism, but it's totally true, these wines are not on equal ground. Each one is at a different stage of development. So what though, I say, the idea is to see which wine I like best on this evening, not to forever declare a winner of the vintages.