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From: geoff@druxi.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.wines
Subject: Robert Mondavi Napa Gamay, 1980
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Date: Mon, 23-Apr-84 19:36:52 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 23 19:36:52 1984
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I live in the Denver area, (not a bay in sight!) but I recently had a
bottle of the self-same wine.  It was even a 1980 vintage.  I liked it.
I prefer French wines on the whole, but I am beginning to apprecate the
<different> taste of California wines.  They seem to be heavier and have
much more of a grapy taste.  The Gamay tasted like a wine with some prune
juice (perhaps this is the taste of 'currant' that I have read about) mixed
in.  I suppose it doesn't sound very appetizing described that way, but
it is about as close as I can come, and it was quite good.  It was fairly
soft, without the heavy tannin that many California wines seem to have.
I would recommend it, and I will probably buy it again.
	geoff sherwood