2004 Anomaly Cabernet
 My
visit to Anomaly Winery was my first and another recommendation from the team at Prima Wines. The winery is
located in St. Helena and is tucked away between neighboring vineyards owned by “Beckstoffer” and a few other great
names. We arrived at Steve Goldfarb’s home who is the owner of Anomaly and walked his
property which includes some of his estate vineyard holdings as well as his winemaking facility and private tasting
room.
Steve and his wife Linda moved to the Napa Valley in 1997 not to make wine but to enjoy the Napa Valley lifestyle.
The one acre property they purchased had a very small vineyard (.13 acres of planted grapes) and before he knew it the
wine bug bit and they started on a plan to plant new vines and make great wine. Steve has since purchased a total of
11.4 acres with 8.15 planted with Cabernet, Cab Franc and Petit Verdot. The purchases has allowed him to
expand his production to just under 1,000 cases a year.
We journeyed into the winery caves and sat down at a long wooden table to taste the 2004 Anomaly and I
was glad I was sitting down. Wow..a Cabernet just the way I love them filled with great fruit, elegance and hints of
exotic aromas. The wine was ultra smooth with a hint of tannin on the finish which will resolve with a few years of age.
Many would enjoy the wine today but in this case, the elegance of this wine demands a few more years of aging to show
its full potential.
This wine is a winner and I rated the wine
94 points! The wine is packaged in a beautiful bottle with the image of a
coyote howling into the night on the label.
 The
image was inspired by their long-time family member “Indee” a loving husky-shepherd who passed away when the winery
first opened. Indee liked to howl at the moon at night.
On this trip to Napa there were three outstanding wines out of the dozens that we tasted; “2006
Antithesis”,
2005 Hall Diamond Mountain Cabernet and
2004 Anomaly Cabernet. I strongly recommend that you sign up for Anomaly mailing list using the special form below.
Since supplies are limited, your request will arrive as a Brian Pasch VIP request into the winery and get immediate
attention.
Readers who signup using the form below will be put on a list to be considered for a very limited number of
Anomaly large format bottles that are available for the upcoming 2005 vintage. Snooze you lose on this great
find, so use the form below and the winery will reach out and contact you.
Brian Pasch -February 19, 2008
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