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Alcohol Sales Surged by 55 Percent Last Week Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

Wine sales reportedly increased by 66 percent...

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M@tt G. wrote: ↑
March 17th, 2020, 1:07 pm

The best Zin I've had from Carlisle is the Hayne. There is a bottle of 2014 Carlisle Hayne for sale at K&L.

I think my favorite zin was a 2012 Hayne from Turley a friend brought over last year.

Different styles.

I'm a long time buyer of Wilson and Pezzi King. I also like Mauritson and Carlisle. Cheers! Wilson makes some very good ones - big, fruity and complex. If you belong to their club you, get discounts at Pezzi King, Mazocco and about 10 other wineries. Pezzi King lately has been too fruit forward for...

Brown in Napa makes excellent zins. You can find the Napa but the vineyard designated ones are only at the winery or Napa tasting room. And there's always the Seghesios (esp.the 2016 and 2017) from Costco for under $20. Rosenblum makes a few nice ones these days that aren't fruit bombs - like the 20...

We're big fans of Zichichi's Old Vine zin, from Dry Creek Valley. $35/bottle with futures order. Never heard of them before - I'll have to check it out! Thanks for the new reco! We happened by there - just up from Rafanelli on Old Dry Creek Rd. because they had a "Barrel Tasting" sign out, probably...

A friend in the wine business who tastes a lof of CA cabernets says he hasn't found any 2017s that were better than the winery's 2016s.

Turley has 2018 Mead Ranch but is sold out of Bedrock.

On my 40th birthday we were in the South of France visiting my wife's brother and his wife in St. Jean cap Ferrat (he was an atrtist who lived in the area for 25 years). We had driven down from Frankfurt with another of her brothers and his wife. A couple from home also met us there and along with a...

The Turley is piling up for me. Was going to skip this one but went in for some of the bigger ones: Pesenti, Estate, Dusi and wish-listed Bedrock. Similar here - Pesenti, Dusi, Estate and Bedrock, but with some Juvenile @ $20 since 2018 is supposed to be such a banner year. If you are close, the pi...

rsmithjr wrote: ↑
January 15th, 2020, 9:15 am
Millenials are drinking White Claw etc.....

Malt liquor.

I tried it in high school but stayed with beer.

So if wine sales are falling, and there is a glut of wine in the 2018 and 2019 vintages, won't wine prices come down? Not a chance. May be some better juice in the cheaper stuff I guess. 2018 vintage bulk fruit and already made wine from some great California AVA's and vineyards are making their wa...

So if wine sales are falling, and there is a glut of wine in the 2018 and 2019 vintages, won't wine prices come down?

Not a chance.

May be some better juice in the cheaper stuff I guess.

Gordon Fitz wrote: ↑
January 13th, 2020, 11:36 am
Bourbon sales on the other hand!!!

Bourbon that a few years ago that were common shelf items are now on allocation! That bottle of small batch or single barrel goes a lot further for most folks than a similar price wine, plus it’s currently far more in vogue!

Plus craft cocktails.

I very rarely order wine off a menu. The prices are too expensive. Cheaper to get a beer or cocktail most of the time. +1, ever since my taste evolved beyond 2nd cheapest wine on the list its corkage or beer for me. Agreed. Too expensive. Always take a bottle. But that counts as consumption, too.

Anton D wrote: ↑
January 13th, 2020, 9:36 am
How's marijuana use trending?

Could it be whittling away some people who would otherwise head toward wine?

Nah, they enhance each other.

America Drank Less Wine for First Time in 25 Years Millennials opted for other beverages and baby boomers pulled back The volume of wine consumed in the U.S. declined 0.9% in 2019, the first time it has fallen since 1994, according to industry tracker IWSR. The trend was ascribed to a generational ...

Back in 1986, asthma was the fashionable health problem, much like gluten allergies are today, and the FDA identified sulfites as an allergen. Apologies for the off-topic post, but a gluten allergy is not a "fashionable health problem" but the real deal for many folks. In addition, those that suffe...

Not sure if this will help, but it might be worth a try. My wife also has allergies and is on medication for it. Wine drinking does not give her a headache, but causes a flare up in other allergy symptoms like sneezing, itchy nose, etc. If she knows we are having wine, her preventative is to take o...

larry schaffer wrote: ↑
December 15th, 2019, 3:50 pm
I would tend to agree that it is most likely histamines, which are created during the fermentation process.

Cheers

If that's the case, an antihistamine would likely be more effective than a Wine Wand.

We'll have to try it.

It helps but does not stop the headaches entirely. My wife stopped drinking red wine some years ago because of the headaches. In the last couple of years she's been getting them with whites so we tried the Wands. They've helped but she has to limit herself to 2 glasses an evening or she will get a h...

Neal.Mollen wrote: ↑
November 27th, 2019, 4:37 pm
Friday

The only ones I've picked so far:
2014 Holdredge "The True" pinot noir - on the bigger side with nice fruit, depth and balance
2014 Fields Family Lodi Native zinfandel - light, fruity and complex
2016 Ferrari-Carano Reserve chardonnay

Went to zapfest in Frisco a couple years ago. Nice venue right on the bay. Had a great time but it was ruined a bit for my wife when someone in the stall next to her started upchucking on the floor. The event definitely draws it’s share of recreational drinkers. I went about 20 years ago and tasted...

Unlike Anton some would say I'm in a rut and don't prefer much variety - after all I've been married 37 years. Zin is my go to wine - it's what got me started on my enjoyment of wine back in the early 1980s and I can always find one to enjoy with or without food. But I do taste a lot and find other ...

It comes out the Thursday before Thanksgiving - 11/21 this year.

Upon release, Prima in Walnut Creek usually has a tasting of three or four different ones - each year I've tasted, I preferred a different one.

A friend sent this to me with some nice pictures of the vineyards and restaurants: Recently had a chance to visit the Guadalupe valley in Mexico, an up and coming wine region. It is due east of Ensenada and so they get fog coming in through a gap in the coastal mountains that cools things off at nig...

While there are a number of wineries in the Corralitos area of the mountains near Santa Cruz, Windy Oaks wins the prize for being the most out of the way.

Very nice pinot noirs and a short walk with your glass up to the top of their vineyard with a view of the ocean.

For us there is one direct relationship we have noticed. As a producer increases the amount of petite Syrah in their Zinfandel the less we like the zin. This is particularly the case when that ps is super ripe. Hmm..the 2017 Ridge Lytton Springs has 15% petite syrah. The 2012 has 21%. But the 2014,...

I've been drinking zinfandels since I discovered a 1979 Lytton Springs (before Ridge) that I opened in 1983.

Occasionally after drinking too much zin I'll switch to a pinor noir for something different. (Cabernet flavor profile is too similar.)

But, I always go back to zins.

Kirkland Champagne $19.99 - I picked up a bottle and shared it with my wife who loves champagne. She said she didn't care for it, that it didn't have much going on. I liked it a little better but it wasn't distinctive at all. Just smooth and bubbly. Much prefer the Roederer Estate or the Schramsbur...

Jeff, the area where this “Kincaid” fire started is DESOLATE. Even a experienced hiker would have trouble hiking to the area where this fire started no less have brush cleared. The problem is with 60 MPH winds the fire goes from desolate to populated pretty damn quick. Tom So they can't allow cows ...

Kirkland Champagne $19.99 - I picked up a bottle and shared it with my wife who loves champagne. She said she didn't care for it, that it didn't have much going on. I liked it a little better but it wasn't distinctive at all. Just smooth and bubbly. Much prefer the Roederer Estate or the Schramsburg...

Hey, 2017 was a difficult growing year.

It would be incredible if it were like the 2016.

Wait for the 2018. It should be better than the 2016.

Moral of the story -> more expensive area/town you live in, better (?) more expensive wine selections at local costco I could have told you that. I live in between the Danville Costco (very high end) and the Concord one (not so much). Danville has about twice the wine selection and much more good s...

I was making beef braised in red wine tonight and needed some red. A friend had given us a bottle of 'Freakshow' which I'd kept in the kitchen for a purpose like this. Afterwards I had a glass, and its pretty 'freakish' indeed. So that's how you store your open wine and expect it to taste different?

I'll bet if you did the same chart based on states with legal pot, I think you would get an ever greater correlation to low opoid addiction.

Pot is used in some treatment programs as a substitute for opiods.

Interesting that the “and under” figure for “investing “ is 25%. I bet if it were 10% or even lower the results would not change. Most people are here because they drink wine, not because they sell it Yep, agreed. I would think most people in the industry are too busy and tired of wine at the end o...

Josh Grossman wrote: ↑
October 8th, 2019, 11:52 am
Had the ‘17 Kirkland Stags Leap today

And...how did it compare to the 2016?

Josh Grossman wrote: ↑
October 8th, 2019, 11:43 am
2017 has hit the shelf in my area:

Let us know if it's as good as the 2016.

2017 was a much more challenging vintage.

"Oh Lord, stuck in Lodi again..." Wine Group Lodi Trip When I think of Lodi wine I think of sweet, fruit forward zinfandel. But we found much more. Lodi is the same distance to us as Napa, but very different. There are over 80 wineries there now. We spent all day Saturday making the rounds. Klinker ...

Neal.Mollen wrote: ↑
September 18th, 2019, 2:26 pm

greg gartland wrote: ↑
September 18th, 2019, 1:22 pm
please post pics when someone buys the petrus and you plop it on the table with a couple glasses.
Steins

Frosted mug.

Lots of boxes to check there. If you're going for the full Monty, you'll need some DRC, Selosse, Rayas, Mascarello (B), Soldera, and WTF, some Noval Nacional. You must sell an assload of KL and Wildman BTG to get those allocations! Well done! That Beaucastel and Faury Cote Rotie are great prices fo...

B. Buzzini wrote: ↑
September 17th, 2019, 5:04 pm
Need Zins! Turley, Bedrock, Carlisle, more Ridge...

Definitely.

Where is the wine-by-the-glass menu?

Turley Juvenile, Bedrock Old Vines, Bedrock Heritage...

Tom - have you tried Butter Chardonnay? I have a morbid curiosity about this wine and every time I'm in TW, I want to buy it but just can't. "California - Butter Chardonnay has aromas of apple pie and a rich creaminess that surrounds you at each sip. Aged in oak, this wine sees brightness, complexi...

Tom - have you tried Butter Chardonnay? I have a morbid curiosity about this wine and every time I'm in TW, I want to buy it but just can't. "California - Butter Chardonnay has aromas of apple pie and a rich creaminess that surrounds you at each sip. Aged in oak, this wine sees brightness, complexi...

Was at the Concord, CA Costco today. They only had the 2017 Signature Series Columbia Valley red.

Our local wine shop has lots of Turley and some Rafanelli zin priced much higher than retail from the wineries.

Why was this wine - 2015 Fontodi 'Flaccianello $119 at my Costco and $80 at yours? I've seen the variation like this before. There are two Costcos within about a 15 minute drive in either direction (Concord and Danville) - one is in a much nicer part of town and their prices can be a little higher ...

I had not heard of this winery so I searched here and found this thread. Not surprised to see the reaction by some, I share it. The new Cuvee has a skull on the label, and can be yours for the fair price of, $250! 447FA6CE-05B3-4150-81D4-FCFB024D0F3C.jpeg Reminds me of Armida's Poizin zinfandel - "...

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