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Very motivational!

I gotta try that.

Thanks for the great note!

Out for now.

Yay!

I will live vicariously as you go through this!

Could it be a little “over reductive?”

I love your post!

Thanks for the great pic as follow up!

My son cellar dove and came upstairs with a 2014 No Girls Syrah (La Paciencia Vineyard) last night and it was quite delicious. Ample fruit, but treaded lightly on the palate and great structure. Still a baby, with 'fine' tannin...very well balanced fruit/tannin sensation. My wife mentioned the black...

I'm looking at this development with gratitude.

It's like nature putting a stripe on skunks, or a rattle at the end of a snake...it's my warning to stay away.

I find this designation of wine to be an affectation.

Craig G wrote: ↑
March 17th, 2020, 8:30 pm

M.Kaplan wrote: ↑
March 17th, 2020, 6:11 pm
*****(*)

I love the idea of cocktail delivery. (Aside from arguments about the epidemic.)

Hopefully, once the cocktail is out of the bottle, it will be too hard to put back in and restaurants will be able to continue to do this in the future. The dining industry is certainly essential for 'civilization.'

Carl Steefel wrote: ↑
March 24th, 2020, 1:43 pm
If it is $700, I am buying. Easy buy for such a wine

If it's 715 now, why wait?

15 dollars can't be that big of a deal.

One of the hazard of two deep wine racks is forgetting about the 'back bottle.' My son happened across this '95 Spottswoode SB so we opened it to have on wing night. It was ever so slightly butterscotched in appearance, but not oxidized, still primarily straw colored and clear. No cat pee or cut gra...

All the people who can afford it now will be able to afford it then. Ain’t no rich people heading toward Cru Bourgeois. Unemployment could be 20-30% and it won’t affect Lafite or Louis Vitton. I don't agree with this. 2008 Bdx and Burgs were dirt cheap (comparatively). Billionaires may keep buying ...

Always look on the bright side of life!

All the people who can afford it now will be able to afford it then.

Ain’t no rich people heading toward Cru Bourgeois.

Unemployment could be 20-30% and it won’t affect Lafite or Louis Vitton.

I showed this thread to Gérard Depardieu and he replied, “Ten bottles of wine a day? Amateurs.”

That was a great note! I agree with you wholeheartedly!

You could live the rest of your life consuming only wine.

This occurred to me this am when getting ready for work. Mine won't be super high end but a nice wine never the less: 2013 Hyde Estate vineyard chardonnay. Hyde has been doing their own wines for a while now after mainly selling fruit to the likes of Kistler and Patz/Hall. They make fabulous wine!!!

Im pretty happy with how our cellar turned out. Here is a fun video. It only took me an embarrassing 90 hours to figure out how to wire the darn thing so that there is a switch inside the cellar as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hChFqv_id2w Holy crap! That is awesome! Thank you for posting t...

Brian G r a f s t r o m wrote: ↑
March 6th, 2020, 6:46 pm

Anton D wrote: ↑
March 6th, 2020, 8:16 am
When I was young the old winos would tell me, but til 65, then drink. I am with on seeing that horizon!

Also, I am much more poorly packaged than I used to be!
But buying is half the fun!

Man, you are so right!!!!

I 'reached out' to Moet and they were kind but no precise data available.

They did give me some clues, so I have some Moet Marc de Champagne coming and then the experiment will continue.

Also the base Champagnes they mentioned trying were the Moet Imperial and the Nectar.

More to come.

When I was young the old winos would tell me, but til 65, then drink. I am with on seeing that horizon!

Also, I am much more poorly packaged than I used to be!

It's nice looking!

What size cellar does his RV have?

Just waiting for my new Mastercard to arrive.

Ouch.

Victor Hong wrote: ↑
March 5th, 2020, 8:42 am

Anton D wrote: ↑
March 5th, 2020, 8:38 am

Mike Van1 wrote: ↑
March 5th, 2020, 8:31 am
Followed link above and there were 13 in stock. Refreshed page and sold out.
Wow, behold the unlimited consumer power of the Berserkers!
Must be nice to be rich.

I owe it all to home value appreciation and home ownership.

Mike Van1 wrote: ↑
March 5th, 2020, 8:31 am
Followed link above and there were 13 in stock. Refreshed page and sold out.

Wow, behold the unlimited consumer power of the Berserkers!

Well, you are a bad influence.

That seemed pretty amazing, so I grabbed a couple.

Thanks for the heads up, but my budget curses you!

Oh, yeah, as to the trickery!

Obviously a 50-60 dollar range Ridge Estate cab...comparing price levels.

Then, toss in a Ridge Litton Springs zin.

J. Rock wrote: ↑
March 2nd, 2020, 4:18 pm
I think Field Recordings Fiction Red is a great bottle for $20 or less and I imagine it's typically a crowd pleaser.

Good one.

I can drink this and be fine... https://www.wine.com/product/substance-cabernet-sauvignon-2017/517196?state=CA&s=GoogleBase_CSE_517196_type_Wine_RedWine_CabernetSauvignon_140&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=&utm_campaign=Google_Shopping_CA_Smart&showpromo=true&promo=PSCASE10&gclid=CjwKCAiA...

Heads up in case anyone else has seen this--I had a card compromised after my BD Flannery purchase, activity was flagged and card replaced within a day or two, just like most others in this thread. New twist was when I got a bunch of bills from Fedex today for an account opened up in my name, with ...

How's marijuana use trending? Could it be whittling away some people who would otherwise head toward wine? I can state that my use of recreational herb for medical purposes (joyously enabling sleep after 11/2018 disc herniation, and then fractured shoulder surgery 12/2019), has greatly impacted my ...

Randy Bowman wrote: ↑
March 1st, 2020, 7:45 pm

Taco Bell is selling fries. Burger King is selling tacos. KFC is putting Cheetos on chicken sandwiches. I knew we shouldn’t have legalized marijuana.

I figured that's why McDonald's went to breakfast all day.

Mark Golodetz wrote: ↑
March 1st, 2020, 7:25 am
Some of old Caleras were able to age 30 years, particularly from the Jensen vineyard. A little hit and miss, but quite lovely if you found a good bottle.

One of the great agers!

John Morris wrote: ↑
February 28th, 2020, 2:25 pm
No, but I've abstained from looking at my 401k balance.

This!

The CDC says alcohol kills the virus in vitro, so I am going to run with that in vivo.

I haven't tasted at a US winery in a very long time, so I'm not sure what's appropriate there. In Europe visiting producers, and in Japan visiting either breweries or artists whose pottery we're pursuing, we don't usually bring gifts unless we know the person, but we always have a bottle of very sp...

https://p2d7x8x2.stackpathcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Expert-640x293.jpg 'Well you see, Berserkers, it's like this . . . A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the heard is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed firs...

It does seem odd bringing something the owner makes and probably has had multiple times. If you feel like bringing something, gift something from your area, be it crabapple sauce or chicharrones. I imagine a winemaker would be quite sick of anything alcoholic working with it 30-60 hours/week. I wou...

I would probably not share, but then I don't normally (ever?) taste with an owner or wine maker either. I'm curious, when you share, do you still get charged for the tasting fee? Cheers! For places where we are members, we don't usually get charged as part of the list benefits. (Small groups: just ...

Questions regarding tasting visits: 1) If you go to a place you already like, are on their mailing list, or have made an appointment to visit, do you ever take an older wine made by that winery to share during your visit? 2) My wife and I like to do that, but at some places, our cellar is not exactl...

Wow, I just met someone who is too tightly wrapped for Total Wine!

Stay away from the Gallo Hearty Burgundy section, too!

Doug Schulman wrote: ↑
February 26th, 2020, 9:52 am
I should point out that I don't mean soy sauce as a condiment. I cook with it in limited amounts and it provides salt and umami without clashing with wine the way it does when food is dipped directly into it.

Yup. We use fish sauce in much the same way.

K John Joseph wrote: ↑
February 25th, 2020, 2:51 pm

I had many folks ask to combine pours of two different reds and, on occasion, a 5oz syrah and 2oz viognier or something like that to see how they blended.

I didn't know you knew Manfred Krankl!

Your customers were ahead of the curve!

First off, people will disagree, but forget about fish. Seriously. People will inevitably post about how much they like big reds with whatever fish, but the pairing tastes terrible to a lot of us, and even if you're tolerant, it's never as good as pairing wines like this with things that follow my ...

When I was 15 I asked my girlfriend to give me a swig of the Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill and she instead served me the Wild Cherry. Needless to say, afterwards the romance didn't last. That is awesome. One drink of that stuff and -Zam! The walls became floors Became ceilings became doors The singe...

Last year at a steakhouse in Palm Springs on a golf weekend with some buddies we brought some nice wines for dinner. The young somm came over and we offered to share our wines with her in hopes of some flexibility on the corkage which was high. We offered her the opportunity to drink any of the Nap...

Oh I forgot this. A few years we opened a bottle of 1900 Taylor, and were enjoying it when the sommelier came over and whispered one of his other guests was a major collector, and could we give him a pour. Turned out to be Rudy, and he sent over a glass of old DRC I think Grands Echezeaux. All very...

Charcoal! I love my Webers. I use a couple of 22 inch and a 26 inch. The 26 inch is great and offers more stupid cooking stunts to try than the 22 inch. It is wort the extra cost. The grills with the flip up wings are a must, as is the ash bucket thing on the bottom. The side charcoal holders are go...

When you're young and naive there's times you do things innocently. One of my first jobs many moons ago was waiting tables. I opened the wine and proceeded to pour a taste for the person that ordered the wine. Through my lack of experience I clumsily dripped it down the side of the bottle. In a spl...

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