Thanks for your comment. You must have run into Celia's doppelganger! I noticed you were not registered here on the site, but I decided to leave your comment up so other views can be shared as well.

Doug

I love your note on the Corra. I think maybe you need your own blog page here! You nailed it I think on the harmony part. That comes across real strong :) I try to make sure that when I am tasting a wine that on first blush screams out to me that it is 95 points or higher to go back and retaste. Also, the notes in this post were done at a walk around tasting which I usually find difficult. Luckily it wasn't that crowded and I knew most everyone pouring so I could step behind the table or get an extra ounce or so and grab a booth to sit down and relax with it a bit. Celia and I joked that when I approached her Corra table, there was no crowd at all. Is it possible for any wine too score differently at another time? Of course. I had the 2006 at dinner with Celia last year along with D.R. Stephens and Scarecrow on the night of release and thought the Corra was best of all.

You turned me onto Scarecrow and Corra (and Auteur and Scholium and on and on and on) all those years ago and each continues to be the gift that keeps on giving... I tasted the 07 Corra earlier this week. Here is the note I posted last night on this wine --- I think you can tell I liked it A LOT! Did you really like the 06 Corra more than the 07????? Now that is a tasting I have to arrange... The Corra Flight - 04 thru 07! I think her first wine (with fruit from Beckstoffer) was great, but the new vintage (with Pritchard Hill fruit) blew my previous experiences with these wines off the map.

"The 2007 Corra is as exciting as it is exceptional. In a vintage that allowed winemakers to craft wines of genuine glory, the cream rises to the crop.

More polished and powerful than the the wonderful 2004 Corra, this new offering is a wine of outstanding purity and focus that is exciting to drink now and will age gracefully in the years ahead. It's gonna be hard to keep my hands off my few remaining bottles. Knowing what is in this specific bottle, the real trick may just be the test of restraint as owners resist grabbing one off the rack to share with friends and fellow wine enthusiasts.

I guess I was smitten with this label years ago after my first sip of the 2004. I wear my fan stripes proudly here. But with this latest offering Celia Welch delivers a real show stopper.

I had been enviously and anxiously following others who chimed in on this wine - among them a palate I respect: Roy Piper - who offered a rave after tasting. Could it really be that good? Could it live up to the hype of the vintage or my own lofty expectations? Well, uh, yeah. Actually It can and it does.

It has a beautiful purple/cabernet color. Not opaque. Not deep and blue, like some super extracted fruit bombs can show. From the moment you pour this wine into your glass, you can actually see a noble restraint that shows off just in the color. You should give this baby a little time to open after you pop the cork, but almost immediately, you sense something special. You are doused with a sexy smell of rich dark fruit and exotic teas and spices. In its primal infancy, this child is all about the clean expression of fruit. It's not green. It's not earthy. It's not so overdone that it is pruney or so extracted that you feel like you can spread it on your peanut butter. It is rich and full bodied, yes, but with delicious mouth coating dark cherries and blackberries that blend beautifully with sweet espresso and a little tinge of mocha. This fruit is mixed with these lush, opulent tannins that coat your mouth and leave you wanting more. There is a great moderate mouth feel to this wine that is not dense, but it is powerful yet smooth with a finish that goes on and on and on.

What is so striking to me is the harmony of this wine. Everything works in its own balance here and nothing is out of place peeking out. The fruit isn't overpowered by the tannin and the acid hangs in the back keeping everything in its proper place. This is just exceptionally well crafted wine on every level.

When you taste a lot of wines as we do, the ones that really stand out leave an impression. This one is special.

As a taster, I don't believe in 100 points wines because I don't understand really, why a 99 point wine is not a 100 point wine. Is this a 99 point wine? As a stand alone wine experience - yes, I think so. Would it rank when compared with 99 point wines rated by professional tasters in a blind tasting? One day, I plan to conduct that experiment myself with some friends who truly appreciate great california wines and I guess we will see."