Thank you for the note!
I think of these as fully ripe opulent style wines when considering food matches and these wines are great fun!
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- January 24th, 2021, 10:14 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Tn: 2014 Kosta Browne Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast
- Replies: 3
- Views: 235
- January 22nd, 2021, 4:09 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Found the perfect wine for Neal Mollen
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1350
Re: Found the perfect wine for Neal Mollen
Holy cow!
That's perfect!
Great find and post!
That's perfect!
Great find and post!
- January 21st, 2021, 11:46 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Recommend a Food/Wine Magazine, please
- Replies: 12
- Views: 589
Re: Recommend a Food/Wine Magazine, please
I did not know the shady part, but LOVE the issues I have seen.Chris Blum wrote: ↑January 21st, 2021, 11:11 am slightly OT, but I recommend you don’t subscribe to Cooks Illustrated.
Great magazine, but the business end is shady AF. Good luck unsubscribing.
- January 20th, 2021, 1:51 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Please help me love Chenin Blanc
- Replies: 72
- Views: 3117
Re: Please help me love Chenin Blanc
If there is a chance that you could like it, start with Didier Dagueneau and go from there. I've never had or seen a Dagueneau Chenin. But some nice SB! You know, until a few minutes ago, I would have bet you that Pur Sang was Chenin Blanc...I looked and it is not! Embarrassment emoji: blush [cheer...
- January 20th, 2021, 11:16 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: best pairings
- Replies: 83
- Views: 3162
Re: best pairings
I know it's cliche, but duck and pinot/Burgundy.
Smoked prime rib and cali cab.
They make fresh King Crab at water Grill in Orange County and it's the best match I've even encountered with Didier Dagueneau's wines. Just call it his 'house style!'
Aubert chard and salmon is a nice match, for me.
Smoked prime rib and cali cab.
They make fresh King Crab at water Grill in Orange County and it's the best match I've even encountered with Didier Dagueneau's wines. Just call it his 'house style!'
Aubert chard and salmon is a nice match, for me.
- January 20th, 2021, 11:11 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: best pairings
- Replies: 83
- Views: 3162
Re: best pairings

My wive loves Latour and Carl's Jr.
- January 20th, 2021, 11:10 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Please help me love Chenin Blanc
- Replies: 72
- Views: 3117
Re: Please help me love Chenin Blanc
If there is a chance that you could like it, start with Didier Dagueneau and go from there.
- January 19th, 2021, 12:59 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Venison Wellington food pairing...
- Replies: 21
- Views: 704
- January 19th, 2021, 12:59 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: 1 night, 2 people, 7 bottles of 2014 white burgundy.
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1819
Re: 1 night, 2 people, 7 bottles of 2014 white burgundy.
In craps, you rolled a 5!
Or, a 9, but not a 5 or 9, only one or the other.
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Or, a 9, but not a 5 or 9, only one or the other.
- January 18th, 2021, 6:33 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: The Big 4-0!! A Few From 1980 (Dom P, Mouton, Silver Oak)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1282
Re: The Big 4-0!! A Few From 1980 (Dom P, Mouton, Silver Oak)
Happy birthday!
You are now closer to 80 than to birth!
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You are now closer to 80 than to birth!
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- January 17th, 2021, 5:36 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Wine rules you should break
- Replies: 42
- Views: 2447
Re: Wine rules you should break
Don’t make your own blends.
If I get a faded wine, I will add a touch of something more vibrant.
I like reds and whites served at cellar temp.
I will cook with wines that didn’t meet my drinking standards.
If I get a faded wine, I will add a touch of something more vibrant.
I like reds and whites served at cellar temp.
I will cook with wines that didn’t meet my drinking standards.
- January 17th, 2021, 2:54 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: The Clean Wine Movement...
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1305
Re: The Clean Wine Movement...
Clean, Natural, Biodynamic, Neurolinguistic Programming....we live in a marketing world.
I eagerly await ‘Clean and Calm’ Winery!
I eagerly await ‘Clean and Calm’ Winery!
- December 30th, 2020, 1:38 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Is wine cellar diversity all it is cracked up to be
- Replies: 147
- Views: 5879
Re: Is wine cellar diversity all it is cracked up to be
Sometimes, different is better.
- December 29th, 2020, 9:32 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Does the size and weight of a wine bottle matter?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 2193
Re: Does the size and weight of a wine bottle matter?
Ditto!robert creth wrote: ↑December 29th, 2020, 12:04 pm My first thought when I saw the thread title was Turley. Over weight and difficult to to store. Only producer that I stopped buying because of the bottle.
- December 24th, 2020, 9:42 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Windfall wine purchase
- Replies: 56
- Views: 3713
Re: Windfall wine purchase
If I was given $600 to specifically spend on one wine, no other choice, I'd buy a Madeira. I could enjoy that over weeks, whereas most other bottles would be gone in one sitting. My answer would have been different many years ago, it seems, when I went to regular wine tastings with a "competit...
- December 24th, 2020, 6:01 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Windfall wine purchase
- Replies: 56
- Views: 3713
Re: Windfall wine purchase
You should have started suing when you were younger and you could be done by now!Scott Jameson wrote: ↑December 24th, 2020, 5:54 pmnot everyone here is suing for half a billion (or more) $
- December 24th, 2020, 9:46 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Windfall wine purchase
- Replies: 56
- Views: 3713
Re: Windfall wine purchase
I got that check back in 2000 when GWB sent everyone money back to “help stimulate the economy”. I did my civic duty and bought a new Weber grill, which was thereafter called my Bush Grill. It failed after a few years. Politics aside, Kelly is putting this money back into the economy, money that go...
- December 23rd, 2020, 7:36 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Windfall wine purchase
- Replies: 56
- Views: 3713
Re: Windfall wine purchase
If it actually isn’t a ‘windfall,’ then donate it to people in actual need who would consider it a true windfall.
- December 18th, 2020, 1:01 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: TN: 2008 EMH ‘Black Cat’ Cabernet Sauvignon
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1837
Re: TN: 2008 EMH ‘Black Cat’ Cabernet Sauvignon
Well, 2006 here last weekend: silky, sinuous, still in good form, excellent balance. It was the most commented on of the night. Easily a decade to go.
- December 13th, 2020, 5:02 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: What to pair with Prum Auslese?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 2898
Re: What to pair with Prum Auslese?
Scallops almost any way.
Moroccan food.
Moroccan food.
- December 10th, 2020, 7:07 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Massandra up for auction?!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1052
Re: Massandra up for auction?!
My initial post was completely non-political. It will be interesting to see if this winery goes from public to privately owned; especially for such institutions this is not "always" for the better. Has nothing to do with politics. But plenty to do with HISTORICAL FACTS. I seriously despis...
- December 10th, 2020, 5:55 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Hallmark Christmas Wine
- Replies: 11
- Views: 902
Re: Hallmark Christmas Wine
I loved your notes from that adventure!
- December 10th, 2020, 5:53 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Amusing Article - Which Wine You Should Drink, Based on Your Zodiac Sign
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1037
Re: Amusing Article - Which Wine You Should Drink, Based on Your Zodiac Sign
Moscato. Hope this won't result in me being reassigned to different regions... I'm sure they would just add it to your coverage :) I pulled Moscato also, and I'm claiming Lambrusco sine my wife tells me I am on the cusp of two signs. Unfortunately my holdings in those two might be measured in the h...
- December 10th, 2020, 5:42 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: TN: 2018 William & Mary Proprietary Red Shifflett Ranch
- Replies: 2
- Views: 670
Re: TN: 2018 William & Mary Proprietary Red Shifflett Ranch
Thank you for that great note!
One of my favorite Cali cabs!
One of my favorite Cali cabs!
- December 10th, 2020, 5:36 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: TN Figeac 1975
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1162
Re: TN Figeac 1975
Well, that’s a sad note to see. I have one bottle I have ‘been saving.’
I better Audouze it soon!
I better Audouze it soon!
- November 30th, 2020, 9:57 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Do you clean your worm?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1414
Re: Do you clean your worm?
Try some nonoxynol-9.
- November 30th, 2020, 8:34 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Do you clean your worm?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1414
Re: Do you clean your worm?
I have a special “Screw-det “ I use to washclean my ‘Waiter’s Friend’ after I soil it by uncorking a bottle.
I try to avoid CTDS, corkscrew transmitted detritus. It’s my own personal Viet Nam, so to speak.
I try to avoid CTDS, corkscrew transmitted detritus. It’s my own personal Viet Nam, so to speak.
- November 30th, 2020, 4:36 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Immense Pleasure Or Profundity?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1053
Re: Immense Pleasure Or Profundity?
People date immense pleasure but they marry profundity.R. Frankel wrote: ↑November 29th, 2020, 12:11 pm What’s the difference between the two? I find profundity very pleasing.
Or maybe it’s the other way around.
Anyway, I find pleasure in profundity, so I will go with that.
- November 28th, 2020, 4:18 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Saving Old Vineyards - Economics vs Heritage
- Replies: 81
- Views: 6212
Re: Saving Old Vineyards - Economics vs Heritage
Thanks for those posts!
Hope you are doing well.
Hope you are doing well.
- November 26th, 2020, 4:26 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: The 1999 Dom Perignon Heat Damage Challenge - The Results
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2110
Re: The 1999 Dom Perignon Heat Damage Challenge
I would be able to tell, but not something Neal Mollen could.
- November 26th, 2020, 4:21 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Thanksgiving Day - What are you drinking?
- Replies: 181
- Views: 7801
Re: Thanksgiving Day - What are you drinking?
Started the day with a 2016 Peter Michael Coeur à Coeur. Aiming for a nice steady state buzz. Rosemary orange turkey sloooow cooking on the Homer. Cheers, amigos! I decided to go with Ring of Fire turkey. Old tire on dry ground, frozen turkey in the middle, light tire. Turkey done when fires goes ou...
- November 4th, 2020, 6:06 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: The most helpful thing you can say in your tasting note...
- Replies: 64
- Views: 2775
Re: The most helpful thing you can say in your tasting note...
“Recommended” or “not recommended.”
- November 4th, 2020, 3:43 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Rudy's Back!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2262
Re: Rudy's Back!
Dragon 8?
- November 4th, 2020, 3:41 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Aubert question please
- Replies: 6
- Views: 749
Re: Aubert question please
He likes Charli CIX’s music a lot!
- November 4th, 2020, 3:34 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Wine for election night? (Mod- next political post gets a 24hour suspension)
- Replies: 270
- Views: 11355
Re: Wine for election night? (Mod- next political post gets a 24hour suspension)
Last night was 2013 Roy Piper cab and, man, poster wine for structure ! Pure cab essence and deeper than hades! It just keep going and going down to deep red fruit and ample tannin. It should have a long life. My wife guessed it was a 2017. You know when you get a great barrel taste and think, “Boy,...
- November 4th, 2020, 3:24 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Wine for election night? (Mod- next political post gets a 24hour suspension)
- Replies: 270
- Views: 11355
Re: Wine for election night? (Mod- next political post gets a 24hour suspension)
A last-minute exit polling of one (1) girlfriend led to a 2008 López de Heredia Viña Tondonia Reserva being opened. Will you update as more results are in. Do you have other girlfriends left to poll? ;) We cannot reveal our proprietary methodology. I hear Sean is big on polling the electorate, so t...
- November 3rd, 2020, 1:04 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Wine for election night? (Mod- next political post gets a 24hour suspension)
- Replies: 270
- Views: 11355
Re: Wine for election night?
This is entering the realm on the absurd.Chris Crutchfield wrote: ↑November 3rd, 2020, 8:33 amHa ha, you made fun of somebody's English. What a natural comedian you are. Really punching up, aren't you?John Morris wrote: ↑November 3rd, 2020, 8:17 am And the wine will still be disappointed. (viewtopic.php?f=1&t=174520)
- November 3rd, 2020, 1:03 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Wine for election night? (Mod- next political post gets a 24hour suspension)
- Replies: 270
- Views: 11355
Re: Wine for election night?
Wanting to use one of my American Icon wines from the recently-delivered Ravenswood library cellar, I chose a wine from the first year I voted - 1989 - Ravenswood Zinfandel Cooke Just finished making my ragú 'comfort food' for tonight (well, haven't 'finished', but it's simmering) - should pair wel...
- November 3rd, 2020, 1:01 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Wine for election night? (Mod- next political post gets a 24hour suspension)
- Replies: 270
- Views: 11355
Re: Wine for election night? (Mod- next political post gets a 24hour suspension)
Nicely done.
- November 2nd, 2020, 7:49 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: If only one country...
- Replies: 103
- Views: 3524
Re: If only one country...
Portugal. Has some old world dry reds, colares, port, and then best of all, madiera. Given my bent toward old world reds, I cannot think of another that would scratch my itch once you exclude those on the OP list. France is easily over 90% of my cellar. I first thought Chile but landed with you in ...
- November 2nd, 2020, 6:32 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: TN: 2001 Dunn Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
- Replies: 4
- Views: 432
Re: TN: 2001 Dunn Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
Love this winery, thank you for the note!
- November 2nd, 2020, 3:49 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Wine for election night? (Mod- next political post gets a 24hour suspension)
- Replies: 270
- Views: 11355
Re: Wine for election night?
You are right, as usual.Todd F r e n c h wrote: ↑November 2nd, 2020, 3:14 pmWhy wait until it is looking your way? Drink the Piper cab with the confidence its maker has in the results!
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- November 2nd, 2020, 3:13 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Wine for election night? (Mod- next political post gets a 24hour suspension)
- Replies: 270
- Views: 11355
Re: Wine for election night?
I've decided!
If I get home and it's looking my way, a 2013 Roy Piper cab!
If I get home and it's looking my way, a 2013 Roy Piper cab!
- November 2nd, 2020, 10:56 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Got a disappointed bottle, but Problem Resolved
- Replies: 211
- Views: 9583
Re: Don't waste your money on K&L wine at Redwood City
Too late. I’ve already wasted money on many cases from K&L. By some miracle, I have been lucky enough to encounter only exemplary customer service 100% of the time. Same, as well as +1 regarding the characteristics of corked wine. Michael S. Monie makes a good point about very low TCA levels an...
- November 2nd, 2020, 9:48 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: TNs from a most Civilized Lunch with Two Friends and One Roast Goat
- Replies: 8
- Views: 517
Re: TNs from a most Civilized Lunch with Two Friends and One Roast Goat
Wow!
Drool worthy wine and food.
Thank you for the great note.
Drool worthy wine and food.
Thank you for the great note.
- November 1st, 2020, 4:17 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Is it too early to bring up BerserkerDay 2021?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 5253
Re: Is it too early to bring up Berserker Day 2021?
Norlin will be back again this year. With improved efficiencies the wine bag prices have come down and the selection is really big now. Will also do a COVID special on any remaining ostrich bags from this year. The new product is a luxury leather case to hold your Durand- sample being made right no...
- October 30th, 2020, 11:46 am
- Forum: Wine 101: The Basics
- Topic: Decanter vs. Aerator
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1785
- October 29th, 2020, 10:59 am
- Forum: Wine 101: The Basics
- Topic: Decanter vs. Aerator
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1785
Re: Decanter vs. Aerator
Every wino I hang with has one or more aerators and none of them used them after the first "new and exciting toy" phase.Michael O'Brien wrote: ↑September 24th, 2020, 3:11 pm I always decant. I do have aerators but never use them.
Decanters, aye!
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- October 28th, 2020, 2:18 pm
- Forum: Wine 101: The Basics
- Topic: Why does wine often taste better the next day (or after)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2801
Re: Why does wine often taste better the next day (or after)
Question looking for palate correlations:
What is your opinion of Scholium Project wines?
I am hypothesizing Scholium fans will also be more likely to enjoy wine that has been open a few days.
Same for Ch. Musar?
What is your opinion of Scholium Project wines?
I am hypothesizing Scholium fans will also be more likely to enjoy wine that has been open a few days.
Same for Ch. Musar?
- October 26th, 2020, 6:46 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Anyone buy from The Wine Cellarage?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1739
Re: Anyone buy from The Wine Cellarage?
I have pruchased from them and had great experiences.