This wine, a 1999 Cabernet from Stags' Leap Faye Vineyard, was listed on the restaurant menu for $150, and the pitch went like this: `Graceful style with complex earthy currant, sage, tobacco and pencil lead flavors, which focus and gain intensity on the finish'. Now, I have nothing against earthiness, currants, or even sage in my wine, especially since I can't taste them anyway, but I'm not sure even a dedicated smoker would want to drink tobacco (I could be wrong here, of course), and who on earth would want to taste pencil lead in a glass of wine? I thought it must be a joke, but the server assured me that it wasn't. So I copied down the text and came home and googled "pencil lead flavors", and got 182 hits! Only 24 were actually listed as `most relevant' (least repetitious); several of these were clearly to this same wine, but others were to other wines, and one was to a cigar. So now I know: apparently wine connoisseurs do want their wine to taste of pencil lead. I don't. Since I can't taste all those other things, probably I also wouldn't taste the pencil lead, but I didn't buy the bottle to find out.