Bigland wedding wine selection, one-day before HOVA barrel tasting, bigland drank much sky-9 penalty wines. 2003/3/14

Year	Wine	Price	Rating
2001	Maritma (Four dead heads), Toscana This is the 2001 vintage of the infamous "four dead heads" wine, which bigland brought to the very first man-man-has-wine-drink (and ended up last). Simple berry, cranberry, pleasant after airing. A lot better than the one in the tournament, which showed toilet bowl smell. - so - ws	5.99	**
2001	McManis Cabernet, California juicy, grassy, mineral, plummy, quite concentrated. Raymond hated it, I and KK enjoyed it. - so - ws	8.99	***
1999	Honig Cabernet, Napa Valley tannic, good structure, vanilla oak, chalky tannin. - so - ws	26.99	****
2000	Mount Eden Santa Cruz Estate Cabernet, Santa Cruz Mountain violet, coffee, toast, mineral, med body, more red than the 1999 vintage, closer to the 98. - so - ws	27.99	***
2000	Cecile Chassagne, Cotes du Rhone Very enjoyable the instance the bottle is opened. Slightly less than medium body. Good herbal bouquet and rhone style flavor. Turning flat rather quickly - so - ws	6.99	***
2000	Hawk Crest Cabernet, California Toasty berry, tea leaves, med body, coarse tannins. Definitely worth the price. This wine is made by Stag's Leap Wine Cellars with grapes from all over California, according to cask23.com: 74% Paso Robles, 8% Sonoma, and 6% Lake County - so - ws	9.99	***