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We had a great Saturday night dinner party with our friends Craig and Cheryl with homemade pasta and all the trimmings. We wanted to have one of our special collected wines and we made the decision to go with the 2002 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon from De La Montanya in Sonoma. There was a lot of yeast cells in the wine and we stood the bottle up for a few days and then decanted the wine for a couple of hours. As a prelude we started with a 2007 Stonechurch Pinot Noir from the Niagara Valley. The Stonechurch was an excellent wine with a lot of body and structure for a Pinot Noir.  We really enjoyed the wine with its earthiness and fruit.  It was grassy enough to remind us of NZ Pinot but had that barnyard nose that Niagara is known for (and that is definitely a good thing).  At $20, if you can find it, buy it. The main event was the De La Montanya and after a decade it was a star for sure.  Once in the glass it was all mahogany with the aging front and centre....