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Sean Devaney

Only time I ever encountered a Mountain Lion was wile driving to our families cabin in the Sierra Nevada at night. We came around a corner and the big cat was crossing the road. It turned to look at our Bronco and just continued to saunter across the highway as if to say "FU I'm the baddest mofo aro...

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Damn that looks so delicious. Drool.

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Great recommendation Yaacov, a wonderful book. I enjoy all of Pollan's books especially The Botany of Desire.

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Just a WAG but I wonder how many people/companies have been taken by surprise because there is one less week this year between Thanksgiving and Christmas?

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Damn! So sorry to hear this. RIP

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Great interview! Thanks for posting Ken.

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Damn LMD you have had quite the steak and wine experience lately

Thanks for sharing.

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Any one still have fruit out there?

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Flawed poll. I'd grab a bottle or two of scotch. Probably Bruichladdich 23 yo. I don't have any real rare wines in my cellar so...

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Echo the recs for Porter Creek. Joseph Swan is always a must stop for me and Woodenhead makes some wonderful wines that fly under the radar and are just a couple minutes away. Have a great time.

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So sad to hear this news. I've really enjoyed his wines and hopes the seeds/cuttings he has spread will find winemakers as experimental as he is.

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Jonathan, so happy you have discovered one of California's hidden gems. Great age-worthy cabs that are made in a very old school style. To add a little more history to this thread: -The story I have heard is that Katheryn planted the vineyard to prevent an eminent domain action from taking part of h...

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Thanks Mike!

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Baby backs for Labor Day, everything closed due to Dorian, wife said best yet. Injected set uncovered in fridge for 24 hours and a dry rub with no sauce. 580A5F30-3049-40A6-AF6F-8AA27DFC3884.jpeg 49AF2AE1-1BC4-4D67-90AC-322359B98B87.jpeg 33A5017E-6CFA-4690-B83C-F9D2B08F5B46.jpeg Those look awesome ...

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Nice. Sounds like a little bit more fruit per acre than expected. All for your sparkling customer(s) I assume?

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Two observations.
How did they heat the lava? Gas? Coal? "harvest" it?
Who ever wrote the commentary on the video doesn't know a rib-eye from a porterhouse.

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So it is on for you Casey? Have a great harvest

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Not Mentioned yet but hit up Joseph Swan and Woodenhead. In Healdsburg proper hit up Davis Family if and when you visit Holdredge right across the street. In the Dry Creek Valley hit up Frick for some rhones and Preston for nice wines and great bread. Second Porter Creek. Rochioli is a nice stop but...

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Casey Hartlip wrote: ↑
July 22nd, 2019, 11:29 am
3 parts Blanco tequila
2 parts triple Sec
2 parts store bought Marg mix
3+ parts fresh lime juice.

My go to recipe.

This is my buddy's recipe but he insists on Patron Silver, Cointreau and Jose Cuervo basic margarita mix. Strong but damn tasty.

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If you can track down a Ridge Monte Bello that might be a real nice bottle. I really enjoyed it about 10 years ago and seemed to have many years of life ahead of it.

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I love this thread! Grew up on casseroles based on the holy trinity of hamburger, pasta and cheese: Yuck-yuck, Special Crud and Grandma's were three staples. Spaghetti and Beef Stroganoff made frequent appearances. Always served with a salad and/or vegetables (fresh or frozen). Steak, Salmon, Trout,...

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@Ben: if you want to go further up the coast a bit, the Anderson Valley (over the border into Mendocino) has many producers with really good wines, most in your price range. Try Handley, Navarro, Drew, MacPhail, Lazy Creek, Philips Hill, or Foursight, though there many more. All of these have tasti...

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Try reaching out to Rod Berglund at Joseph Swan. Every time I talk with him I learn something new. Not to mention Lynn is awsome as as are the team.

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Geyserville - full stop But then we can get into the discussion about what exactly is a field blend. Do the grapes have to be picked all at once? Are they required to be co-fermented? Do the proportions in the finished wine have to match the proportions in the vineyard? How many different varieties...

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So on average 36+ eggs a day

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Along with the Ridge MB Ruby Dickerson Vineyard also had a plot of Ruby in Napa that I believe was made by Joel Peterson.

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They are awful. However they likely have the highest margin on fries in the business since the only people involved with the fries are a potato farmer and some minimum wage skater dude. One thing I give In 'n' Out credit for is they pay their employees above industry standards and even offer benefi...

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Chris nailed it with his initial comment. I was at the Silicon Valley Wine Auction last Sunday and my favorite Chards were Mount Eden (both) and Neely's (sorry Sean_S.) Didn't get to the Fogarty wines. FWIW the three best SCM chards I've had have been the Mount Eden 85 and the Ridge 96 and 77 Monte ...

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Thanks for posting this Mike. W&S was one of the many highlights at last year HVS tasting.

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Another bit of Berkeley wine history - I know I've posted this before but it's pretty cool. A bottle of 1978 Pinot Noir that Travis Fretter made in the 805 Camelia Street building (pictured on the label) from Pinot grapes grown right in the neighborhood. chateau camelia 1978 berkeley pinot noir.jpg...

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I don't tip but I do send an email to the winery when I have an exceptional experience (or a poor one.) I have given a few bottles to tasting room staff over the years.

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Had dinner last night with Eric Baugher, winemaker and COO of Ridge. He was upfront about the cutbacks. He was not happy that they had to do it, but the MB selection was only 30% of the harvest, so much less than normally anticipated. He said it was normally closer to 50%. As I read this it also me...

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Casey congrats on finding Gypsy. She looks darling.

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I don't remember a Gavilan Cellars FC but I have fond memories of the Carmenet FC's Saviez Vineyard. Carmenet was part of the Chalone group IIRC.

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Is it my imagination or is this early for clusters to be forming? Maybe a Gruner thing?

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Tom did mention he was going to ask Derrell Corti about Nevada City Cellars. If he doesn't know a connection someone else has to come forward.

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Man, I think Nevada City Cellars and Nevada City Winery are one in the same. We used to race bicycles and that was the first winery I ever visited. (Fake ID.) They had a...gasp!....white zin called Alpenglow that was drier than other white zins at the time and I found it palatable. (Plus, we'd drin...

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Just a WAG but I wonder if the distributor of KB in FL had to move x number of cases some wine and the buyer for Costco say "Hey I can help you out if you give me something good for my top stores." I bet it went to only a couple of stores.

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Riedel Restaurant series wins on all counts. Cheap, very functional, replaceable. This. A good choice would be the Riedel Restaurant Syrah glass https://www.riedel.com/en-us/shop/riedel-restaurant/syrah-044601230 Buy at least twice as many as you are going to supply the cabin with as breakage is in...

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Damn Michael that looks great!

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But what did you "Pobega" with it

Looks awesome.

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It would be fun to put a twist on this and serve some of the above recommended wines in black wine glasses for a true blind tasting.

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My primary glasses are Riedel restaurant series syrah glasses that I will use the dishwasher for when I have company-no issues. I mostly hand wash my glasses with a dedicated sponge and Dawn. My higher end glasses are always hand washed.

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That wine was marked at 14.5% but I can't imagine it was below 15.5%, which it could legally be with the margin of error. It was hard to understand how it could get that raisiny, though, even at 15.5%. Perhaps it was picked very late and watered back to 15.5%. In the FWIW column once a wine crosses...

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Thanks for the link Drew, nice article.

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Madera 206 acres! There must be some story behind that number.

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There was a winery in Sonoma -- Carmenet, I think -- that made some really stellar chenins back in the 80s and/or early 90s from very old vines. There was some change in ownership or marketing (Carmenet was owned by Chalone) and that wine disappeared. (Probably planted over to merlot or something o...

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Wow! That looks like they flipped the before and after pics. Do you know who's yard that is?

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Great pic Paul. Do you have to do anything special as far as vineyard prep?

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Welcome aboard Bryan but this should be posted in the wine talk forum. Take a look around, always happy to have wino's from the North participate here

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