A little bit of vino

OK, bad day plus decently full wine cellar equals happy ending… well nice way to relax. So I looked for something good. I didn’t want a bad wine to make a day even worse, so I opened a bottle of something I knew would be good. So I chose a wine I had gotten a few times, from a winery known for producing quality wines.

The 1999 William Hill Cab isn’t the best year vintage, but its a very good year. William Hill wines seem to have the making quality wines down. And I’m not sure if its a plus or minus, but the 1999 year is current pretty potent. You don’t recognize the alcohol its so mellow. But it definitely hits you. I share my bottle and am comfortably forgetting about the day. or, to be more accurate, I don’t care.

The wine is mellow like I said with a fruity flavor… more rich tones, not citrus-y. As Cabernets go… its defiantly one to get and hold onto. The longer you hold onto it, the better it is, with this 1999 being a pretty good time to open up and enjoy. I’d suggest this wine with most anything, but more rich so that it goes with anything from Pasta to protein (meats) to perhaps even fish… but that would be pushing it. All in all a good keeper.

One reason this wine gets a lot of press is that its close to Napa itself, and just across the street from Silverado Country Club. To be honest that makes them work hard at being acceptable to very picky palettes.

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