What dragon(s) are you chasing?

WINE TALK
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You remember it like it was yesterday. The experience will forever be engrained in your mind. You’ve searched and searched for that comparable bottle, always coming up short. Having never found a better wine, it is destined to haunt you for the rest of your life. What was that bottle?

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There is a bottle of Sake I had in Okinawa that I will forever be haunted by.

Hope I never see that one again.

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89 Haut Brion

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2012 Bouchard Pere & Fils Montrachet. I ordered a case from a store near Chicago and they claimed they lost all but one bottle.

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59 Ch. Lafite

31 Quinta do Noval

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1996 Heitz Ink Grade Cabernet

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59 Ch. Recougne
23 Boal Madeira
79 Amity PN

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What’s that?

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+1

The Ink Grade is a Port-style wine. Maybe it’s made of Cab grapes??

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Is this a port-styled wine?

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From the Heitz website:
But the days when Joe and David Heitz had to go afield to purchase grapes to augment their own vineyard production are now well in the past … One of the big reasons for this is the Ink Grade Vineyard that the family purchased in 1989, which lies just to the east of Howell Mountain, looking out at the Pope Valley on the eastern edge of Napa Valley. Ink Grade is the historical name for this section of Napa, as it was originally settled by Theron Ink in the latter half of the nineteenth century. This is a beautifully sweeping landscape of terraced vineyards interspersed with wild chaparral, as the Heitz family has left much of this 725 acre ranch in its natural habitat, rather than planting it all to vines.

Cool. I learned something new today. Thanks.

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I assume you mean “Unicorn” wine. You can buy Dragon wine any time:

Turley Zinfandel Dragon Vineyard
Leitz Dragonstone Riesling
Nickel & Nickel Dragonfly Vineyard Cabernet
Snap Dragon Cabernet Sauvignon
Trefethen Family Vineyards Dragon’s Tooth

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I don’t think it’s right to be talking about heroin or opium on a public wine forum nor should anyone admit to chasing the dragon

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Alan, did you really think you’d get away with that? :wink:

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Around here, I don’t figure on getting away with anything [cheers.gif]

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91 Keenan cab. Friend bought direct from winery. We had with dinner in about 2010. We were all having fits just getting off on the nose.

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exactly. Made just a limited amount of vintages and never offered for sale (I believe). I had at a Premiere Napa tasting once and never found it again. This was 100% Napa Cab baby!!

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A number of early 90’s Williams Selyem pinots…

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2012 Bouchard Montrachet!

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What’s the plagiarism policy around here, see post #4