Inglenook Cabernet Sauvignon '55

Peter Creasey

Peter Creasey

Peter Creasey
Inglenook Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon '55 -- Dark red, slightest edge fade. Dark berry scents, floral component, lovely bouquet albeit perhaps on the modest side. Fruits a bit fleeting and drying, elements still in balance, light acid, tannins evolved, blackberries, maybe some tar, moderately complex, pleasing smoothness. [VG]

Nice pairing with broiled hanger steak, fried sweet potates, and roasted vegetables.

. . . . Pete
 
my father bought a '55 Chevrolet; first year they ever made a V-8. Wow! We moved in Fall of '55 and I started at a new school, and one of the kids in my class dressed up on Hallowe'en as Elvis! And those grapes were on the vines then! Holy shit! And I was 8
 
Steve, my father bought a '49 Pontiac which I'm pretty sure was 8-cylinder. It was, I believe, the first year of the hydramatic transmission in Pontiac (or maybe anywhere?).

Beyond this Inglenook, 1955 was unremarkable in my memory.

. . . . Pete
 
Kirk, Not the adjective I would have preferred, but I thought I was being accommodating with the editing.

Now edited again with PERHAPS a more appropriate adjective.

. . . . . Pete
 
My father drove a Chevy II, then a Malibu, followed by a Caprice coupe, eventually changing allegiance to a Pontiac Grandville, a car with about a 7 liter engine that got about 9 mpg when gas cost 60¢ a gallon. He drank Gallo Hearty Burgundy and Hamm's beer from the little tapper kegs you kept in your refrigerator.

Not sure what happened (midlife crisis maybe?) but around 1971 he bade bye-bye to the General (motors, that is) and got a Mercedes 280SL, followed by a 450 SEL and a Volvo station wagon. He had a bit of a lead foot, apparently one of the things passed down through the generations (makes it hard buying shoes that fit).

He didn't drink any Inglenook that I can recall, but I do recollect the occasional special occasion Charles Krug Vintage Select in and around the regular Gallo Hearty Burgundy and Pesenti bottles. His clients would occasionally give him a bottle of French wine for Christmas, and much ceremony was made around the drinking of it, regardless of the vintage. It's the thought that counts, no?

-Eden (can't recall having any 55's, but was born in 1956 and have had some birth year wines, and if your expectations aren't too high, wines from 1956 aren't necessarily awful. Good in California, Spain and Italy, with the 1956 La T“che being a perfectly acceptable luncheon wine if you have it with chicken)
 
I remember gas at 18.9 cents a gallon; filled a VW Beetle for $2.00.
And Gallo Hearty Burgundy was good - hell of a lot better than Mateus and Boone's Farm.
Oh yeah, and WWI was a bitch.
Best, Jim
 
My father drives a 1955 Buick Century convertible. That's drives, present tense. It took him 30 years to convince my mother to allow him to have such a car.
 
originally posted by Florida Jim:
I remember gas at 18.9 cents a gallon; filled a VW Beetle for $2.00.
And Gallo Hearty Burgundy was good - hell of a lot better than Mateus and Boone's Farm.
Oh yeah, and WWI was a bitch.
Best, Jim
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As Charlie Olken once said about Hearty Burgundy: "it all went downhill when Gallo could no longer get the Dry Creek Zinfandel to flavor the Thompson Seedless"

Mark Lipton
 
I kept falling for all the laudatory stuff about GHB, I kept thinking maybe it's just me; every time I tasted it (3 or 4 times, trying to be open-minded) I ended up dumping it into the sink. Textbook DNPIM
 
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