Meet Mar 14, 2013

It was our 2nd meeting at Stan's. Chuck and Jym arrived early since, as an experiment, they came by cab and the cab was early. Stan was ready. We started with Stan's '04 Chard in the living room. The others dribbled in, Dennis with a cane (necessitated by a recent bicycle accident), John with his arm in a sling (nicely color coordinated, see photo), Nat to all appearances normal. The '04 was followed by an '08. The grapes were from the same vineyard, but the wines were very different.

We eventually moved into the dining room. Beef short ribs in an anise/ginger/soy sauce was the high point of the meal. We then also tried a flight of Stan's '05, '07 and '09 Zin. Again quite different wines although the grapes were all from the same Dry Creek Valley vineyard.Dennis agreed to drive Chuck and Jym home. Maybe he hadn't been drinking, or not much because of medicine he was taking for his injury.The next meeting will be Tuesday, April 30th, at Chuck's.