We drank a bottle last night. Lemon warhead comment made me LOL. So true.
Good stuff
Week1 - Virtual Tasting for Charity - Now through Dec 3rd - You pick the wine, you pick the Charity!
Dinner:
Pork shumai. Then Hoisin duck, braised bok choi, jook, and green bean casserole.
Wine:
Fantastico!
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That a boy!
Let’s play a rhyming game. Kyle rhymes with Smile. Come on man! 
Popped this, a bunch of people came over, bottle got drained, never had a taste. Everyone loved it!
Bought this Model Farm on the recommendation of @Frank_Murray_III Getting a taste before it disappears. Mineral driven nose, bittersweet citrus and mineral driven palate. Very austere
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Everything Model Farm does is excellent. She worked for Jamie at Kutch and her husband was at Rhys.
She has the best palate I’ve ever tasted with. Impressive.
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No wine tonight as I’m working but I did make some nice A5 Miyazaki Picahna which was delicious if incredibly rich. Just 4 minutes in a hot skillet flipping after 1 min per side.
Growing up I ate hella seafood and my favorite is probably mantis shrimp. I told my parents on Monday that I’ll be working thru the holidays and probably be alone this week. This morning after going back from work I found out my parents express shipped 50lb of mantis shrimp to me straight from Vietnam. They don’t say I love you but they will send me stuffs like this.
Made a garlic butter sauce and paired with Balletto’s BdN.
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Went with a white, a rose and a red. All great matched for the food.
1st up was a 2020 stars & dust Hilltop Vineyard Old Vine Chardonnay. Never had this wine before and it was awesome. Depth of flavor was there without being OTT. This wine is as balanced through and through with just the right amount of acid and citrus to keep it going and going.
2nd up, went with a rose to pair with the turkey. A fine match. 2023 Chateau Peyrassol Cotes De Provence. Never had this cuvee before although I think it may be their base model. More interesting than most light Provincial roses. Had a floral mid palate with some more exotic fruit.
Post dinner, cracked another stars & dust wine. This time it was the 2020 red table wine from Santa Barbara County. I have had this wine before and knew it was a light, bright and jumpy red. Perfect for after dinner and before desert. This red can be enjoyed any time of year. Stays light and fruity on the palate and not much in the way of tannin. Finish is long and juicy.
Looks like everyone had a great wine Thanksgiving. It’s a fun holiday to experiment and also to revisit old favorites.
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- 2009 Schäfer-Fröhlich Bockenauer Felseneck Riesling Spätlese - Germany, Nahe (11/27/2025)
Med to pale gold in glass. Nose of slightly candied fruit, light petrol. Palate of pineapple, papaya, touch of apple. Acidity enough to make this a good drink, but could have been more. Inferior to the 2008 I had two years ago, but still quite good.
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- 2016 Ultramarine Blanc de Blancs Heintz Vineyard Sonoma Coast - USA, California, Sonoma County, Sonoma Coast (11/27/2025)
Served with our untraditional Thanksgiving main course of lobster, this was exactly what I was hoping it would be. Bright, focused, lemony, and with a finish carved out of stone, it played to the lobster, cut through the butter, and added an extra sparkle to the Chiefs losing! It even managed to compensate for the unfortunate byproduct of the Cowboys winning.
p.s. I think my iPhone is hungover. It can’t focus on the label.
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We had both wines yesterday with our Thanksgiving meal. My wife very much preferred the Schiopettino RiNera, which is a wine we have never tried before. I preferred the more complex Schiopettino di Cialla bottling , although it brought less immediate fruit enjoyment. (It wanted me to walk with it and listen to it for a while.) There was also something about the taste and aroma in the latter wine that reminded me of that “garrigue” complex of pepper, herbs, gravel that some rhone reds have. When I first tasted a Schioppettino a while back, I first thought of it as a “peppery pinot noir”. This tasting revealed more complex herbs than just pepper, and also brought out that garrigue association. I wonder if Pinot Noir is the best grape analogue. Maybe a Syrah that is light on its feet? In any case, two very good wines.
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We chose a Spring Mountain Miravalle, 1993, which neither of us have had before. Both enjoyed it, but my mate went a step further: “This is the best wine I’ve ever had.”
I’ll take the WineBid win on that one… and will pony up for my match $$.
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Hate to hear about the Beycheville, as sound bottles are spectacular.
And it was from a good damp cellar. All Saint Juliens , mostly Gruaud; 7th bottle first failure.
Is there a donation for a corked bottle? 
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So a story that is tangentially related to the holidays was that right after last New Year’s we finally got to catch up with old friends (husband and wife), whom we had not been able to see for a couple of years (despite their living in Manhattan and our being in northern NJ) due to a variety of reasons, schedule conflicts and medical problems on their side figuring prominently among them.
Now these two were Broadway royalty, not household names but NY theatre insiders. The wife was a person with the talent and the chutzpah to tell Gower Champion to go f*** himself to his face when she was 19 (no, not a me too thing).
We knew she had chronic health issues, some related to a lifetime of professional dancing, but we didn’t know how severe things had become. At any rate, we were just taking the opportunity to finally see them again. They liked Jean Georges, so we went there for lunch. Wine was on us, and I just decided that we were just going to pick what they were probably going to like the most. A lovely Huré 4 Elements to start and a surreally excellent Dauvissat Vaillons 2019 (yeah, 1er not GC but in 2019, Dauvissat just nailed it). Both delightful, great meal, even better company.
She passed a few weeks later.
Just open that special bottle when people are around to share it.
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Oh for sure! Double I think!
How was the ‘10 Fenocchio Villero drinking? I’ve got a lone bottle, been wondering when to pop it.
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2012 Souris - a vineyard mystery blend including plenty of Whistling Ridge. Matello’s top bottle at the time. This is super tasty. The whole cluster is obvious, being very savory bordering on spicy. This could use five more years. 
Pair with vension backstrap compliments of my wife’s excellent marksmanship.
@Marcus_Goodfellow @Megan_Joy Lots of Goodfellow opened this weekend around this board! Bravo!
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