All season traction is usually at the expense of summer traction. If you want a soft grippy tire, it is going to perform poorly in cold weather and horribly in the snow. If you want a good year-round tire, it will not have the grip in warm dry weather that you will get from a high performance summer tire. If you only drive the car 4K miles per year, that tells me you have something else to drive in the winter, so at that point, I would say get summer tires, and in that category, my reccomendation would probably be for the Sumitomo HTRZ II. I had a set of those in 275/40/17, and they have good grip from new until they were almost worn out, they do decent in rain, they aren't noisy, and I know you said you don't care about this, but they had decent tread-wear too.