Hello Tom;
We, that is self and Xina, had the very dsitinct pleasure of celebrating New
Year with Mike and Kathy Tommasi. On New Year´s Day lunch Mike opened your
Ch Burbank 2002 (Mis en bouteille dans notre garage).
I am very happy to say that this wine immediately hit my shortlist of best
US wines I have tasted - and it is a very short list, unfortunately - having
all the good properties of my favorite US wines, such as generosity,
roundness, good fruit, while being at the same time free of the excesses
sometimes found in the US products ( no doubt a negative sample) on sale in
the Swedish Systembolaget, to wit, over-oaking and too much alcohol.
The Ch Burbank, apart from having a delightful pale buttercup color, was
replete with honey, butter, I also found a very slight pepperiness, and it
made good and elegant use of new oak. Wonderful. How sad California is so
far away and so hard to drive away from, carrying a box of twelve bottles of
wine ...

Here´s to your excellent work, and here is another one to the generosity of
Mike and Kathy.

Cheers!

Nils Gustaf

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Respond to nils dot lindgren at drchips dot se

"Nils Gustaf Lindgren" wrote in message
...
Hello Tom;
We, that is self and Xina, had the very dsitinct pleasure of celebrating
New Year with Mike and Kathy Tommasi. On New Year´s Day lunch Mike opened
your Ch Burbank 2002 (Mis en bouteille dans notre garage).
I am very happy to say that this wine immediately hit my shortlist of best
US wines I have tasted - and it is a very short list, unfortunately -
having all the good properties of my favorite US wines, such as
generosity, roundness, good fruit, while being at the same time free of
the excesses sometimes found in the US products ( no doubt a negative
sample) on sale in the Swedish Systembolaget, to wit, over-oaking and too
much alcohol.
The Ch Burbank, apart from having a delightful pale buttercup color, was
replete with honey, butter, I also found a very slight pepperiness, and it
made good and elegant use of new oak. Wonderful. How sad California is so
far away and so hard to drive away from, carrying a box of twelve bottles
of wine ...

Here´s to your excellent work, and here is another one to the generosity
of Mike and Kathy.

Thanks for those kind words, Nils. :^)
And thanks to Mike and Kathy for sharing.

Tom S
www.chateauburbank.com