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2016 Donnachiara Falanghina Beneventano IGT - Italy, Campania, Beneventano IGT (7/22/2019) A very nice wine with floral and white fruit notes on the nose. Citrus and apricot with maybe a bit of Granny Smith apple on the palate. The website says there is no malolactic, which fits with the flavor pro...

Thanks for the encouragement, guys, but this trip is long set up. Owner's seats at the Yankees/Red Sox game. Every breakfast, lunch and dinner, plus a day long excursion to my beloved North Shore with an old friend or 2 or 3...it is all set up. I'll make it to one of these deals sometime.... Your l...

Thanks for the encouragement, guys, but this trip is long set up. Owner's seats at the Yankees/Red Sox game. Every breakfast, lunch and dinner, plus a day long excursion to my beloved North Shore with an old friend or 2 or 3...it is all set up. I'll make it to one of these deals sometime.... Your l...

Homemade. I’ve never tasted any store bought that comes close. What's your recipe? flirtysmile After Tim's post, I started experimenting. There are a number of slightly different techniques. You need to experiment to find one that you like. I got some fresh ground yellow from Kalyustan that was pow...

Karen - I really want to go to this with my wife, especially because I have missed the last few and we would like to meet you, but schedule is tight. If there is space left as we get closer, and we can make it, we will jump on it.

Merrill Lindquist wrote: ↑
July 17th, 2019, 2:12 pm
Jay - I had sent you an email some time ago that I will not be attending. Will be at Fenway watching the Yankees clobber my favorite Red Sox.

Yes, but since you are a Red Sox fan, I decided to leave your name on the list so that you might repent from your sins and come to this event instead.

I will limit myself to things I have had, so no 1989 La Tache or 1961 Petrus. Assume an unlimited supply, right? Wine - 1998 Pol Roger Sir Winston Churchill. If I can describe a complete class of wine, I would say Tete de Cuvee Champagne from top houses. Pol Roger, Salon, Dom Perignon, Krug, Taitti...

Unless my friend Mark Golodetz can convince me otherwise, I'm going to bring a 2014 Bevan Cellars Ontogeny. Dan Far be it for me to interfere with your choice of wine, be brave and go for it. I have been trying to wrap my head around what goes with kosher chocolate dipped bacon. I cannot get past M...

You guys should be ashamed of yourselves. How is Mike going to make the payments on his Lamborghini if you place such tiny orders? Oops, no, that's Tom Brown, not Mike, with the Lambo. I remember back in the old days, when I used to have to walk five miles in the snow, up hill both ways, just to put...

I may have to adjust the menu. I just received a recipe by email from Coppola wines - Carb Free Fried Chicken, using crushed pork rinds instead of bread crumbs. It makes chocolate covered bacon look normal.

Ps. The piano is being tuned on Thursday and I think the organ works. You can do a duet with any other talented berserker.

Mike Grammer wrote: ↑
July 15th, 2019, 8:52 am
What? No chocolate cheesecake??? Getting lazy in your old age!

Truly looking forward to this event.

I can't decide between chocolate cheesecake and chocolate dipped bacon.

Due to the generosity of. Gladstone Imports, we have five of these to celebrate whatever, including The Count's 40th birthday.

Narrowing down the food choices: Definitely having: Smoked brisket with caramelized onions. Smoked pork butt on Rockland Bakery challah roll with choice of creamy coleslaw or vinegar mustard coleslaw and choice of tomato sweet or vinegar mustard sauce. Assorted fire roasted vegetables with Veleta Ol...

Mark Golodetz wrote: ↑
July 14th, 2019, 7:53 am
Please add Nancy and me as a probable too.

Excellent. We need people who will bring some of that insipid French pinot to make the other insipid French pinot lovers happy.

Thread drift - Just got back from 10 days in the Berkshires suffering through the adverse effects of no BYO. You can't bring your own wine to a restaurant, so there is no incentive for the restaurant to exert any effort to have a good wine list. Yes, I know, the lists at Blantyre and The Inn on the ...

I bought Siduri at a big Supermarket in Florida in November 2008, so I suspect selling to Jackson Family wines was not the introduction to that type of retail distribution. The consumer upside to selling to a larger group is that it gives me an excuse to reduce my mail order purchases by one winery....

I will limit myself to things I have had, so no 1989 La Tache or 1961 Petrus. Assume an unlimited supply, right? Wine - 1998 Pol Roger Sir Winston Churchill. If I can describe a complete class of wine, I would say Tete de Cuvee Champagne from top houses. Pol Roger, Salon, Dom Perignon, Krug, Taittin...

Mollydooker

"I just pre-ordered a case (6 bottles?) of 1989 La Tache. Would you like a bottle?"

What are you, crazy? $75 for a bottle of fermented grape juice.

AND I'm not even getting started.

Neal.Mollen wrote: ↑
July 2nd, 2019, 2:25 pm

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Gareth Welch wrote: ↑
July 2nd, 2019, 12:55 pm
. . . Roberto Rogness . . .
Speaking of which, whatever happened to him.
Unfortunately he is unwell.

Unfortunate. I liked his posts, even when I disagreed with him.

Gareth Welch wrote: ↑
July 2nd, 2019, 12:55 pm
. . . Roberto Rogness . . .

Speaking of which, whatever happened to him.

2004 Las Rocas. My last bottle was lost at the back of my Morton's wine locker and when they closed, I assumed it was gone. A few years later, they reopened in another location. I made a joke to the manager and he told me he had an old box with my name on it. I brought it home and put it in the base...

alan weinberg wrote: ↑
June 29th, 2019, 5:34 pm
0-6. I usually only drink 2-3 nights a week. If just wife and I are drinking, 1. If hosting a dinner, like tonight, 5 or 6.

Same for me.

Mushy meat, which is what my sisters and I called pot roast. Growing up in a strictly kosher home, there was no pork, no shellfish, no cheese and meat, etc., so a lot of the current menu was verboten.

I don’t like funk In my music, but a controlled amount in my wine. For me Gruaud 1982 has a tiny bit that really makes it pop. A favorite 1982. I am not a funk fan in wine, but something about the old Cordier stable - Gruaud, Talbot and Meyney - were very much to my liking despite the funk, or perh...

Picked my 4 choices plus “Other”. The “other” I would suggest is Cuban Sandwiches in honor of Carlos Delpin (I think he’s Cuban.....not sure). Easy enough to set up the station with Cuban rolls, ham, Swiss, sliced roast pork, pickles & yellow mustard (no fancy Grey Poopoo). Instead of a plancha, wr...

Jay - I am pretty sure the rules for Citi field parking don't allow exposed flames. Was there last night and many had griddle type grills going. Not sure if the rules are looser when they are dealing with drunk baseball fans instead of old drunk hippies. YMMV That's what I thought also, but I have ...

Bump - see poll for food choices.

I've started talking to my wife about the PepsiCo sculpture gardens in the hopes she will agree to a day trip in White Plains on 7/27. If you want, I can rent out my grandson, who is an expert on "the Bear Park." If your wife is a serious student of sculpture, she can spend a lot of time there. If ...

The Mets are honoring the 1969 team on June 29th. The game starts at 4:10, the ceremony probably an hour to an hour and a half earlier. I plan to get there at noon or so, fire up the grill, sit back, relax, open some good wine, and enjoy myself. I am trying to source a bottle of 1969, which I did no...

I would very much hope that Jim is referring to Alsace. Probably, but that wouldn't give enough credit to the Germans. I've generally preferred Grauburgunders (the German name) to most Alsatian pinot gris, as they have more acid. Sadly, they are pretty much impossible to find here. Donnhoff makes a...

Nacional is an absolute treat. The 1963 is one of the greatest wines I have ever had. We did a Nacional themed dinner a few years back. It is one of the most memorable dinners I have attended. I'm trying to get to that point, but I need a bottle of the 1963 and every time I try to buy it, someone o...

One of the greatest wines I ever had was a 1962 Delas Freres Hermitage La Tourette as a half bottle in 2011 at that place in Tampa. Their storage is very cold, but still, it was a virtually perfect wine. While I will not say anywhere near the greatest, I had that same bottle at that same place afte...

I have been lucky enough to taste a few, including the legendary 1963, certainly the finest Port I have ever tasted, and in 2005 still drinking young. But 1964 and 1967 were also stunning wines, but the 1970 was better still. I gather there was a falling off between 1975 and 1994, but I thoroughly ...

Jay, I drunk these bottles in the vineyard, with good friends, on a silent remote terrace over the Douro ... Pure magic ! That's cheating! Drinking in situ is always good for at least 4 Parker Points. Except, of course, for Retsina, which I have been told to drink in the summer, up in the hills of ...

From memory, so someone can check to see if I've got this right . . . In the late 1980s or early 1990s, my mother in law bought me a copy of the first edition of Parker's Wine Buying Guide. I come to the section on port and there is a discussion of this unicorn wine that Parker reports that he has h...

. . . I was astonished by Do Noval Nacional 2003 (19,5/20) and Taylor Vargellas Vinha Velha 2009 (19/20). Nacional is in a class by itself. I have been "collecting" it for over a decade and I have three bottles, one in the original packaging, which is quite beautiful. I think I will start a thread ...

One of the greatest wines I ever had was a 1962 Delas Freres Hermitage La Tourette as a half bottle in 2011 at that place in Tampa. Their storage is very cold, but still, it was a virtually perfect wine.

My budget is based on my storage. It’s full. The overflow is full and my double secret storage is full. Forces me to buy far less than I used to. YTD I am down 50% compared to last year. I solved that problem by moving a 126 bottle wooden wine rack I used to use into my cellar and filling it up. Al...

What does the word "budget" mean? I am not familiar with the term.

Depending on where you live, Gary’s has been great for me. I do not buy Bordeaux futures, but the last time I did (a couple of cases of 2005s), I bought them at Gary's after extensive internet searches (10 minutes) revealed they were the lowest price. They delivered as promised. I bought Bordeaux f...

My note from DV8 Viognier, I feel pretty strongly this was flawed. I have never had a Berserker wine I didnt enjoy and reading reviews of this wine I think this would be in my wheelhouse: Marking this as flawed. Smells of cork taint. No fruit to speak of, tastes bitter and of alcohol. Poured half d...

I had the DV8 Roussane on Friday night with a group of "civilians." They liked it but thought it was a bit weird because they were not used to white wine that was neither chardonnay, riesling or pinot grigio. DV8 was my blind pick on Berserkerday when I always buy from at least one winery I know not...

I have only had three of the wines from your first post. 2001 Pignan - I agree that this is an excellent wine. Not quite as good as the 2001 Rayas, which I have had the pleasure of drinking once, but not embarrassed by it either. 2003 Mascarello - This was a very hot year and Mascarello did an excel...

I got the notice TODAY in the mail, postmarked June 6. No wine for me. For hipsters who don’t use email and internet, do you spring for certified mail when responding with orders for highly allocated wines? I have probably had an email account since before you were born, but this one either never c...

My cellar has double deep racking, so every designation in CT is in the form 09-16-B, which means 9th column, 16th row, back slot. The only problem is remembering to delete wine when I drink it, but since each spot can have only one bottle, when I dump the data to Excel and sort, I find errors easil...

I got the notice TODAY in the mail, postmarked June 6. No wine for me.

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I had trouble coloring between the lines in grade school.

I jumped in big on 1975s when I graduated law school in 1976 and had money to burn out of my initial salary of $16,500 per year. Then I got a case of 1975 Gruaud as a bonus for working through New Year's Eve 78/79. I still have a couple of the Gruaud and a bottle of 1975 Cheval Blanc. My experiences...

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