Leave a wine open in a cellar for a couple of weeks so you pull the plug on the producer? I think this guy is a little hash.
2011 Carlisle Three Birds
Sunday, March 09, 2014 - Medium-full body, reserved aroma. Not very distinctive. We drank half of the bottle, then kept it in the cellar for a couple of weeks while we were away. When we got back there was mold growing on the surface! In my 45 years of wine as a hobby, I’ve never seen that before. I don’t think Carlisle will be on my “buy” list in the future.
Ric
A bit of thread drift, but unless you have a Coravin, the best way to keep a wine like that for several weeks while you’re away is to freeze it. It’s pretty amazing how well a wine holds up frozen for that period of time.
I can’t believe he expected the wine to be good after a couple of weeks! And he wants to trash Carlisle for that? Maybe it was the “Not very distinctive” that was the reason for the dislike? Carlisle makes a lot of different wines and not all of them resonate with me but I not about to throw him under the bus. Most of his wines are excellent and a value buy as well.
2009 Apothic Red California Red Blend more
Options1/28/2012 -XXXXX WROTE: 93 points
Presented at our Couples Cru tasting, 15 experienced wine drinkers who have been meeting for 15 years and all have much longer experience with wine. Of 8 wines served completely blind, this and Runquist’s “R” Petite Sirah were the favorites, over Penfold’s Grange, Mollydooker Velvet Glove, Carnival of Love and Blue-Eyed Boy; Cayuse’s En Cailloux, and Clarendon Hills Piggott Range, all chosen for peak drinkability. We were first notified of this wine when Parker “stopped the presses” to make special note of this Sonoma blend in his Napa report a couple of years ago. We agree: for excellent wine in the glass at incredible pricing, this is outstanding. The 2010 came out recently and we picked up 5 cases at $8 per bottle.
Maybe Apothic Red can start running ads like those “Domaine Serene beats DRC” ads, touting how they upended $500 Penfolds Grange (at at “peak drinkability,” no less) in a blind tasting.
He dismisses Carlisle because an opened bottle grew mold in a couple of weeks, then says Apothic Red beats Grange and Velvet Glove? He’s begging to be blocked on cellartracker.
Also, an interesting change of perspective after 20 days. I’ll stop now, no need to pile on further.
2011 Turley Zinfandel Juvenile
2/11/2014 - Ex-Ray Does not like this wine: 82 points
This should be young, bright fruit, with some zing and charm…but like most Turley zins these days, it just isn’t. These wines have become all structure and no charm or flavor. They are big, alcoholic, tannic, one-dimension, but without flavor. They used to be my favorite zins and I’ve continued to buy them hoping for what I remembered, but it’s not happening. Time to cut the cord and find some other zins.
Ric
I actually like Juveniles about the best of their sins, though it’s the least expensive. This was fairly closed the first night, but opened up next night with bright berry fruit aromas and flavors. Nicely balanced and ready to drink. I find some of the others too dark and brooding for my taste. I’ll start ordering more of this and Old Vines and fewer of the pricier ones.
Ric
