WTN: Lamborn to be wild

[David M. Bueker]

• 2009 Lamborn Family Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon - USA, California, Napa Valley, Howell Mountain (12/4/2023)
  From my late father's cellar - this was a wine that we always talked about sharing, but it never happened. More my dad's style of wine than mine, it didn't tip full on to rich and glossy, but maintained a strong structural core to support lush-leaning black and red fruit with a balanced oak element. I could definitely appreciate it, and certainly enjoyed it, even if it was not a style of wine I would pursue for my own cellar. Given the amount of fruit and structure still present in the wine it likely has another decade to go, and depending on how it evolves (I have no experience with Lamborn Cabs to lean on here) it may very well edge closer to my wheelhouse...or not. Who knows!

[Jenise]

Now there's a name out of the past (for me). Early in my online wine chat days, I met the founder on CompuServe. All I recall now is that he was a retired detective and sent me a bold, structured zin he'd made from Howell Mountain fruit. It's not a name one hears very often at all.

[David M. Bueker]

Now there's a name out of the past (for me). Early in my online wine chat days, I met the founder on CompuServe. All I recall now is that he was a retired detective and sent me a bold, structured zin he'd made from Howell Mountain fruit. It's not a name one hears very often at all.

You will hear it more often from me in the future. There's a fair amount of Zin and Cab in Dad's cellar.