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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!

Holy cow!

That's perfect!

Great find and post!

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.

I did not know the shady part, but LOVE the issues I have seen.

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...

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.

Paul Jaouen wrote: ↑January 16th, 2021, 10:51 am Cheval Blanc and fast food

My wive loves Latour and Carl's Jr.

If there is a chance that you could like it, start with Didier Dagueneau and go from there.

Claret!

In craps, you rolled a 5!

Or, a 9, but not a 5 or 9, only one or the other.

Happy birthday!

You are now closer to 80 than to birth!

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.

Clean, Natural, Biodynamic, Neurolinguistic Programming....we live in a marketing world.

I eagerly await ‘Clean and Calm’ Winery!

Sometimes, different is better.

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.

Ditto!

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...

Scott Jameson wrote: ↑December 24th, 2020, 5:54 pm
Victor Hong wrote: ↑December 24th, 2020, 7:33 am Lots of rich people on this site, I sense.
not everyone here is suing for half a billion (or more) $

You should have started suing when you were younger and you could be done by now!

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...

If it actually isn’t a ‘windfall,’ then donate it to people in actual need who would consider it a true windfall.

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.

Scallops almost any way.

Moroccan food.

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...

I loved your notes from that adventure!

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...

Thank you for that great note!

One of my favorite Cali cabs!

Well, that’s a sad note to see. I have one bottle I have ‘been saving.’

I better Audouze it soon!

JDavisRoby wrote: ↑November 30th, 2020, 8:47 pm I use bleach.

Try some nonoxynol-9.

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.

R. Frankel wrote: ↑November 29th, 2020, 12:11 pm What’s the difference between the two? I find profundity very pleasing.

People date immense pleasure but they marry profundity.

Or maybe it’s the other way around.

Anyway, I find pleasure in profundity, so I will go with that.

Thanks for those posts!

Hope you are doing well.

I would be able to tell, but not something Neal Mollen could.

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...

“Recommended” or “not recommended.”

Dragon 8?

He likes Charli CIX’s music a lot!

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,...

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...

Chris Crutchfield wrote: ↑November 3rd, 2020, 8:33 am
John Morris wrote: ↑November 3rd, 2020, 8:17 am And the wine will still be disappointed. (viewtopic.php?f=1&t=174520)
Ha ha, you made fun of somebody's English. What a natural comedian you are. Really punching up, aren't you?

This is entering the realm on the absurd.

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...

D@vid Bu3ker wrote: ↑November 3rd, 2020, 10:29 am
Larry Chmel wrote: ↑November 3rd, 2020, 8:48 am Why all the foreign wines on US election night?
Immigrants get the job done!

Nicely done.

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 ...

Love this winery, thank you for the note!

Todd F r e n c h wrote: ↑November 2nd, 2020, 3:14 pm
Anton D wrote: ↑November 2nd, 2020, 3:13 pm I've decided!

If I get home and it's looking my way, a 2013 Roy Piper cab!
Why wait until it is looking your way? Drink the Piper cab with the confidence its maker has in the results!

You are right, as usual.

I've decided!

If I get home and it's looking my way, a 2013 Roy Piper cab!

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...

Wow!

Drool worthy wine and food.

Thank you for the great note.

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...

YLee wrote: ↑October 29th, 2020, 9:16 pm Aerators are a waste. Just swirl your glass.

Easy for you to say, which kind?

Michael O'Brien wrote: ↑September 24th, 2020, 3:11 pm I always decant. I do have aerators but never use them.

Every wino I hang with has one or more aerators and none of them used them after the first "new and exciting toy" phase.

Decanters, aye!

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?

I have pruchased from them and had great experiences.

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