@klezman How was the Turley…I’ve got a few turleys, and am concerned that they are getting a little long in the tooth. Much more concerned with the zins than the PS, of course.
@FritzCat@klezman
I’m not much into highly extracted and high AbV wines, and to me this was both, however…
Given the 18 years aging I enjoyed it, actually more than I’d have thought. Seems like it still has years on it.
Klez drinks more of them than I, so he should have a more rounded by experience comment.
@FritzCat@rjquillin Highly extracted, yes. High abv, yes. But if I hadn’t told you it was 16% you’d never have known.
I like well aged Turley…I haven’t really been let down as of yet. Without having visited them on the Tour last summer I’d never have bought these. But now I feel like I have a better sense of what they’re trying to do, and I like it. I just have to not touch anything until at minimum 3-4 years after release.
@jmdavidson1
I still have about 15 bottles of various vintages of the Latitude 38 and the Cab Sauv . Absolutely correct about being a steal - probably the best qpr from them I’ve ever purchased although the Notre Vin was a close second albeit @20 more.
Over the past week, with family & friends; (12/29 family Christmas gathering)
2011 Bodegas Juan Gil Moscatel Jumilla Dry
2017 Nervi Conterno Gattinara Rosa
2015 La Tordera Prosecco di Valdobbiadene Brunei Brut
N.V. Woot Cellars Emergencier Holiday Provisions
2012 Rockus Bockus (12/30 Browns vs. Ravens)
2007 Shoofly Shiraz
2009 Barren Ridge Vineyards Meritage (NYE)
2014 Big Basin Vineyards GSM Rose
2012 Red Zeppelin Pink Zeppelin
N.V. XXIV Karat Rosé (01/01/19 w/pork and sauerkraut)
2012 J. Hofstätter Gewürztraminer
Tonight,
2011 Domaine Fond Croze Côtes du Rhône Villages La Croix du Coq
@ScottW58 Another one to make us all jealous! Lots of labels there that I’ve known but never tried. What were the winners of the night? Is the 2008 Monte Bello too young still?
@klezman jealous?? it’s just fermented grape juice, but if it bothers anyone I will just post my daily drinkers from now on…Rhys Skyline vineyard pinot and Maybach Materium for me. Ridge too young!
@ScottW58 Oy, not jealous in a bad way. Why would we be bothered?
Good data point on the Monte Bello…I’ve got a 2007 that probably wants another 5-20 years.
Been in Cancun for a couple of weeks, so it is hard to find non-name brand (generic, think yellow tail) wines here. But the local gro had a 2013 Mascota Vyds CS La Mascota (Mendoza) for $13. Very nice and a good qpr.
@CorTot
Both of the Cleveland area Trader Joe’s sold out of this before I could get some. I must have gotten lucky last year, they were fully stocked and I only bought 2 bottles.
@CorTot I just opened one of those on Saturday night. It was sitting in the fridge in our Missouri home (we’re in the process of moving from Illinois). It was nice to find it waiting for us.
@jmdavidson1 Everyone sure enjoyed it. We opened another one at home the other day, same vintage, and there was an herbal thing going on that we found a little off-putting. It was nice, but… Today’s was smooth and mellow, no unexpected flavors. I guess I’ll have to drink another one soon, for science.
Last night we had a 2017 Bedrock Evangelho Vineyard Field Blend. A bit disappointing since it doesn’t feel like it’s sufficiently structured to go a long time.
Tonight is a 2008 Twisted Oak Syrah-Viognier. Blueberry jam ftw!!
I think I have 4 of the 17 Evangelho bottles? Evangelho is the lightest of his heritage wines and people love them or hate them, I would say they need some time but being a Bedrock homer what I say really does not mean anything
@ScottW58 I quite liked it. I just didn’t get a good sense that it would get deeper with age. What’s your experience? How long does it need?
I liked that it was light…
Not sure what I’m cooking tonight, but just opened up a Macchia Graciano bought last summer on the tour. I forgot how low alcohol it was, at “only” 13.9%. By far, for me, the best thing they made there.
@jmdavidson1 It’s drinking great, black fruits,blueberry a little spice. Lot of sediment, decant and or filter. I also got the 09/10 have not broken into them yet.
I’m sick so a small glass of this has got to be way better than Niquil! oh and I am forever putting my drinking notes in this thread because trying to find an old thread that is buried to see a tasting note here is a nightmare! Or at least until we have just one thread for what are we drinking.
2011 Laura Michael Zin (still drinking well, it its prime, IMO). And 2016 Barter & Trade Columbia Valley Cab Volume 3, which, curiously, is cellared and bottled in Paso Robles. Another winner.
@ScottW58@InFrom
A bit more restrained than I had expected. Perhaps, as infrom alluded, I needed to add more. First experience with them, still learning.
Tonight we’re doing fresh pasta with more of them.
@InFrom@rjquillin
If you don’t eat them the same day you received them they lose aromatics and flavor, they seem to have a half life every day, that should have been enough to blow you away. Also you need to shave those suckers thin!
@InFrom@ScottW58 Really wanted to do this earlier this week, but even now, they are immensely aromatic. Perhaps it’s just the flavour that has diminished. Plenty left for this evening however for chapter two.
@klezman Yup, week after is retraining at JPL for three days of A-600 PCB inspection.
Friday is a free day, and I’m thinking I’ll need Saturday to move and inventory more than a few cases.
Need to see if I can find time to dig up some bottles for the gang up there.
Scott posted the 50% off link; I got 2 ounces.
They pay me too much…
First time I’ve had or cooked with them.
@rjquillin Yum all around.
We’ll see you here when you arrive, of course. We’ve already begun sorting and repacking much of the wine for transport to the locker.
We might lose all the newly open space if you bring up all that’s pending! I’ll be extra impressed, though, if you can find that 2006 Macarico Aglianico
In a rare sighting of wine drinking on a plain Thursday, a bottle of 2015 Hermann Weimer Dry Riesling, a souvenir of a Finger Lakes trip a couple of years ago. As much as we were disappointed by the winery visit, their wines remain our faves from the FL. BTW in this case “Dry” = .9% RS.
Was at Trader Joe’s today and noticed their Platinum Reserve 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Knights Valley Sonoma for $15 and decided to give it a try (had decided on sous vide steaks tonight). Definitely worth the $15.
@klezman Not much to go on for the winery. The cork is blank, and the only thing on the bottle says “Cellared & Bottled By Behind The Scene Wine Company, Napa, CA”. I did not find it sweet – some fruit is there, but not overly so to my taste. The bottle was too soon empty with the steak (I used this recipe, which I highly recommend).
@klezman I cooked 2 of the steaks on Saturday (a better “return” on the effort) but one is enough for my wife and I for a meal, so we heated up the other one tonight. I thought “for the sake of science” that I would open the other 2016 Platinum Reserve that I had picked up at Trader Joe’s and pay a bit more attention to it. It is in the “big cab” style of Sonoma/Napa (I haven’t had a Louis Martini Napa in a few years, but it strikes me in a similar way). Definitely not a fruit bomb (I have a low tolerance for them). I’ll probably run by TJ’s tomorrow and pick up a few more bottles if they still have any.
@jmdavidson1 Yeah, those are great bottles. And he keeps being able to find more here and there. I’ve got one 1997 remaining and 2 of the 1996 pending.
Last night was some:
End of the 2012 Wellington Estate Syrah from the other night
2017 Rose that Ron brought
2000 Il Maronetto Brunello
2012 Pedroncelli Port
@chipgreen@klezman
As usual, no notes, but I did really like the other one, just seemed more interesting and complex than this one; but this was the first of three and I was rather preoccupied trying to inventory ~ 40 cases Klez was storing for me.
Most now in an LA locker, or filling one of many local to me here.
@chipgreen@klezman@rjquillin haha but I was thinking maybe 10 or 15 cases…40 cases I guess that must be a really nice size room, don’t think I have ever seen it empty
@chipgreen@CorTot@klezman@ScottW58
Ok, not all were “cases”, but rather individual “boxes” but some were 3x 1.5 L or 3L, and some smaller ones.
Yeah, kinda astounded me as well, and I’m hurting from those stairs and all the kneeling up & down action this required.
Huge tip-'o-the-hat thanks to Klez and Molarchae.
And Klez, you owe me a Flannery now too!
Katie did you well.
@chipgreen@CorTot@rjquillin@ScottW58
One more trip to the (new) locker to take the rest of Ron’s. Then another trip for the ~7 more cases I can fit in mine. Then the real work begins: drink more than we buy.
2012 Masi Amarone Classico.
Legs like Jessica Rabbit.
Pop-n-pour, the nose is hot: 15%.
Luscious.
I’m a new-world reds kinda guy, so Amarone
is by far my favorite European wine.
2013 Scott Harvey mtn zin. With all of these wine purchases, I better start drinking!
NV Duval-Leroy Champagne Premier Cru Brut
Woot cellars Under the Mistletoe. Definitely a crowd pleaser.
With sous vide Salmon dill/butter/lemon zest with crispy skin, yeah yeah I will get a pic up as soon as it is cooked
So far tonight:
2000 Turley Duarte Zinfandel
2012 Chateau St Siffrein Chateauneuf-du-Pape-
2005 Winesmith Crucible Cabernet
@klezman How was the Turley…I’ve got a few turleys, and am concerned that they are getting a little long in the tooth. Much more concerned with the zins than the PS, of course.
@FritzCat @klezman
I’m not much into highly extracted and high AbV wines, and to me this was both, however…
Given the 18 years aging I enjoyed it, actually more than I’d have thought. Seems like it still has years on it.
Klez drinks more of them than I, so he should have a more rounded by experience comment.
@klezman @rjquillin Oh, I like 'em overextracted. I’ll have to pop one open soon.
@FritzCat @rjquillin Highly extracted, yes. High abv, yes. But if I hadn’t told you it was 16% you’d never have known.
I like well aged Turley…I haven’t really been let down as of yet. Without having visited them on the Tour last summer I’d never have bought these. But now I feel like I have a better sense of what they’re trying to do, and I like it. I just have to not touch anything until at minimum 3-4 years after release.
1999 Pierre-Jacques Druet Chinon Clos de Danzay
2007 Eagles Trave Latitude 38. Nice. Structured. Tannins smoothed out with air. Delicious. WTSO steal eons ago.
@jmdavidson1
I still have about 15 bottles of various vintages of the Latitude 38 and the Cab Sauv . Absolutely correct about being a steal - probably the best qpr from them I’ve ever purchased although the Notre Vin was a close second albeit @20 more.
Over the past week, with family & friends;
(12/29 family Christmas gathering)
2011 Bodegas Juan Gil Moscatel Jumilla Dry
2017 Nervi Conterno Gattinara Rosa
2015 La Tordera Prosecco di Valdobbiadene Brunei Brut
N.V. Woot Cellars Emergencier Holiday Provisions
2012 Rockus Bockus
(12/30 Browns vs. Ravens)
2007 Shoofly Shiraz
2009 Barren Ridge Vineyards Meritage
(NYE)
2014 Big Basin Vineyards GSM Rose
2012 Red Zeppelin Pink Zeppelin
N.V. XXIV Karat Rosé
(01/01/19 w/pork and sauerkraut)
2012 J. Hofstätter Gewürztraminer
Tonight,
2011 Domaine Fond Croze Côtes du Rhône Villages La Croix du Coq
2010 Wellington Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Handal-Denier Vineyard. A salve for a rough Friday.
@InFrom 2013 here…
for science
2008 Victory
2007 Ardente Cab Sauv Grande Reserva
@rc70 What’d you think? I still have a few…
@bolligra Drinking very well,I’m sure it has a few years left but don’t think it will improve any.
@rc70 thanks for the tn. Yet another one I need to revisit.
A group of us did a 10 year retrospective of the 2008 vintage last weekend at Saddleback peak lodge.
@ScottW58 Another one to make us all jealous! Lots of labels there that I’ve known but never tried. What were the winners of the night? Is the 2008 Monte Bello too young still?
@klezman jealous?? it’s just fermented grape juice, but if it bothers anyone I will just post my daily drinkers from now on…Rhys Skyline vineyard pinot and Maybach Materium for me. Ridge too young!
@ScottW58 Oy, not jealous in a bad way. Why would we be bothered?
Good data point on the Monte Bello…I’ve got a 2007 that probably wants another 5-20 years.
With instapot beef stew, man I bought a lot of these
@ScottW58 Posting all of the great wines you drink with your friends is one thing, but this is uncalled for.
Been in Cancun for a couple of weeks, so it is hard to find non-name brand (generic, think yellow tail) wines here. But the local gro had a 2013 Mascota Vyds CS La Mascota (Mendoza) for $13. Very nice and a good qpr.
2014 Halleck Pinot Noir (from Casemates) paired with kale and chorizo hash with a fried egg on top! Not a conventional pairing but both were good!
@ctmariner
Breakfast of champions?
@karenhynes dinner of champions!
2012 Woot Cellars (Meeker) Pinkie Swear
Trader Joes Brut Rose with some sriracha lime chicken over rice.
@CorTot
Sounds delicious!
@CorTot
Both of the Cleveland area Trader Joe’s sold out of this before I could get some. I must have gotten lucky last year, they were fully stocked and I only bought 2 bottles.
@CorTot I just opened one of those on Saturday night. It was sitting in the fridge in our Missouri home (we’re in the process of moving from Illinois). It was nice to find it waiting for us.
Moet & Chandon Imperial. NV, and formerly White Star.
Trader Joe’s 2017 vintage ale
2009 Wellington Victory Reserve
@jmdavidson1 We enjoyed an '08 today. So delicious.
@InFrom Yes. Fast rate of evaporation.
@jmdavidson1 Everyone sure enjoyed it. We opened another one at home the other day, same vintage, and there was an herbal thing going on that we found a little off-putting. It was nice, but… Today’s was smooth and mellow, no unexpected flavors. I guess I’ll have to drink another one soon, for science.
Had an interesting bottle tonight and it was really good! Who the hell knew they even made this stuff?
With burgers
@ScottW58 +1. Always a great qpr.
Last night we had a 2017 Bedrock Evangelho Vineyard Field Blend. A bit disappointing since it doesn’t feel like it’s sufficiently structured to go a long time.
Tonight is a 2008 Twisted Oak Syrah-Viognier. Blueberry jam ftw!!
I think I have 4 of the 17 Evangelho bottles? Evangelho is the lightest of his heritage wines and people love them or hate them, I would say they need some time but being a Bedrock homer what I say really does not mean anything
@ScottW58 I quite liked it. I just didn’t get a good sense that it would get deeper with age. What’s your experience? How long does it need?
I liked that it was light…
2013 Onesta Cinsaut
2014 Winesmith Grenache
2014 San Pasqual Winery Petite Sirah
NV Biloleau Cidre de glace (ice cider)
I’ve never even thought of ice cider, so that was something new and different. not a whole lot sweeter than some ciders I’ve had.
2010 TyTanium.
2014 zaca mesa Syrah estate with tri-tip and crash hot potatos
Happy Friday night!
@CorTot yum! we did the full Santa Maria spread last night. Tri-tip, beans, garlic bread, salad.
2017 Acquiesce rose of Grenache
Last night made some osso buco and popped a 1999 Esterlina Pinot Noir, Anderson Valley.
@klezman pic’s or it didn’t happen
@ScottW58 You don’t want us to find the remnants of the osso buco and take a photo…
Not sure what I’m cooking tonight, but just opened up a Macchia Graciano bought last summer on the tour. I forgot how low alcohol it was, at “only” 13.9%. By far, for me, the best thing they made there.
@klezman That was the only thing I got there too.
Memory fades; was that the place where we tripped over the dogs, everything was proprietary blends, and the counter bimbos told us nothing?
@rjquillin yes, and they didn’t know we were coming and everything was a hot mess.
2009 Wellington Syrah Englandcrest
2006 Twisted Oak Tempranillo
Yum!
2016 Dirty & Rowdy Petite Sirah
CT suggests this doesn’t need a ton of time to come around…we shall see!
2008 Charles Woodson Wines Cabernet Sauvignon TwentyFour
2015 Woot Cellars Under the Mistletoe
Good start to the week
@rc70 How is the '08 drinking? I picked up the '09 and '10, which I have yet to open.
@jmdavidson1 It’s drinking great, black fruits,blueberry a little spice. Lot of sediment, decant and or filter. I also got the 09/10 have not broken into them yet.
Southern fried chicken and a Cavatappi…
@ScottW58 Good pairing?
Chicken looks great, I’ll take a drumstick, please.
@InFrom it was okay but the chicken and polenta was fantastic if I don’t say so myself
2011 Laura Michael Cab Sauv Barlow Vineyard
I’m sick so a small glass of this has got to be way better than Niquil! oh and I am forever putting my drinking notes in this thread because trying to find an old thread that is buried to see a tasting note here is a nightmare! Or at least until we have just one thread for what are we drinking.
@ScottW58 Way to start the new year!
With leftover fried chicken.
@ScottW58 Always love ridge!
Last minute chicken paprikash with iron horse 2011 Pinot noir.
2011 Laura Michael Zin (still drinking well, it its prime, IMO). And 2016 Barter & Trade Columbia Valley Cab Volume 3, which, curiously, is cellared and bottled in Paso Robles. Another winner.
Couldn’t wait for the bottle shock to wear off, ‘08 Winesmith PN
2011 Wellington Syrah estate vineyard.
2012 Lewis grace Cabernet estate el dorado with NY strip steaks and artichokes.
2017 Acquiesce Viognier
2004 Jana Winery Cathedral
White Truffle Risotto, sous vide Flannery rib eyes, and other trimmings.
@rjquillin Here, have some risotto with those truffles!
@rjquillin nice! How were they??
@ScottW58 @InFrom
A bit more restrained than I had expected. Perhaps, as infrom alluded, I needed to add more. First experience with them, still learning.
Tonight we’re doing fresh pasta with more of them.
@rjquillin @ScottW58 And here I was thinking that looked like a lot of truffle!
@InFrom @rjquillin
If you don’t eat them the same day you received them they lose aromatics and flavor, they seem to have a half life every day, that should have been enough to blow you away. Also you need to shave those suckers thin!
@InFrom @ScottW58 Really wanted to do this earlier this week, but even now, they are immensely aromatic. Perhaps it’s just the flavour that has diminished. Plenty left for this evening however for chapter two.
2012 Luna Beberide Bierzo Art…
Taglierini con tartufi bianchi
with massive truffles, but still not as much as suggested, with poached Salmon and veggies on the side.
And finishing off from last night the
2017 Acquiesce Viognier
@InFrom @ScottW58
Off to COS for a week of remote work.
@rjquillin Enjoy Colorado Springs!
We’ll see you here a week after that, yes?
Where’d you get those truffles?
@klezman Yup, week after is retraining at JPL for three days of A-600 PCB inspection.
Friday is a free day, and I’m thinking I’ll need Saturday to move and inventory more than a few cases.
Need to see if I can find time to dig up some bottles for the gang up there.
Scott posted the 50% off link; I got 2 ounces.
They pay me too much…
First time I’ve had or cooked with them.
@rjquillin I spent many a week in COS when I worked for Digital Equipment.
@rjquillin Yum all around.
We’ll see you here when you arrive, of course. We’ve already begun sorting and repacking much of the wine for transport to the locker.
We might lose all the newly open space if you bring up all that’s pending! I’ll be extra impressed, though, if you can find that 2006 Macarico Aglianico
Visited Eataly today, picked up a truffle burrata and truffle ravioli…yum…
Already drinking a Roessler Clos Pepe Pinot
@klezman '08 or '09?
That Burrata sounds tasty.
@rjquillin 2009 I think.
It was tasty food…not as intensely truffled as we’d hoped, but definitely good.
2012 Ancient Oak Cellars Pinot Noir Forty-Seven Friends Sonoma County with sous vide salmon in lemon dill.
I feel rather pedestrian tonight given all the tasty stuff above. Smoked pork tacos and 2014 Winesmith Grenache.
The Prisioner
At The Rabbit Hole while in COS.
2012 Harvest Moon Dry Creek Cabernet, Buchignani Ranch
Something with fresh pasta from Eataly…
@klezman had a really big piece of beef from Eataly and it was as good as anybody’s a while ago. They have good stuff!
2012 Iron Horse Pinot Noir Estate Green Valley RRV
With homemade tortilla soup
In a rare sighting of wine drinking on a plain Thursday, a bottle of 2015 Hermann Weimer Dry Riesling, a souvenir of a Finger Lakes trip a couple of years ago. As much as we were disappointed by the winery visit, their wines remain our faves from the FL. BTW in this case “Dry” = .9% RS.
2009 Miura Pinot Noir Gary’s Vineyard
2008 WineSmith Pinot Noir
With fantastic coworkers:
2015 Bonny Doon A Proper Claret
St. Julian Cider, a plain and a cinnamon
2015 Bookwalter Merlot Readers Merlot
Solid.
Was at Trader Joe’s today and noticed their Platinum Reserve 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Knights Valley Sonoma for $15 and decided to give it a try (had decided on sous vide steaks tonight). Definitely worth the $15.
@Mark_L Any hint of the winery? Any more notes on the style? I’ve mostly found the TJ’s branded reds to be too sweet and fruit-forward.
@klezman Not much to go on for the winery. The cork is blank, and the only thing on the bottle says “Cellared & Bottled By Behind The Scene Wine Company, Napa, CA”. I did not find it sweet – some fruit is there, but not overly so to my taste. The bottle was too soon empty with the steak (I used this recipe, which I highly recommend).
@klezman I cooked 2 of the steaks on Saturday (a better “return” on the effort) but one is enough for my wife and I for a meal, so we heated up the other one tonight. I thought “for the sake of science” that I would open the other 2016 Platinum Reserve that I had picked up at Trader Joe’s and pay a bit more attention to it. It is in the “big cab” style of Sonoma/Napa (I haven’t had a Louis Martini Napa in a few years, but it strikes me in a similar way). Definitely not a fruit bomb (I have a low tolerance for them). I’ll probably run by TJ’s tomorrow and pick up a few more bottles if they still have any.
Last night;
2015 Campesino Grenache Isa
2009 Donati Family Vineyard Cabernet Franc Late Harvest
With Versailles Cuban garlic chicken…go Rams!
2012 Twisted Oak Syrah-Viognier
2008 Diamond Ridge Vineyards Aspects
Spaghetti & meatballs, so 1996 Terreno CCR. Glad it was not one of the flawed bottles. Delicious. Great bottle of aged chianti. Garagiste purchase.
@jmdavidson1 Yeah, those are great bottles. And he keeps being able to find more here and there. I’ve got one 1997 remaining and 2 of the 1996 pending.
Mixed mushrooms and wild rice creation with some 2016 Harvest Moon Pinot Noir.
2012 Tercero Verbiage (Rouge)
2013 Twisted Oak The Spaniard
2012 harvest moon zin RRV
2011 Expression Pinot Noir 39° Anderson Creek
2012 Wellington Estate Syrah
Last night was a 2017 Le Grand Bouqueteau Chinon. $13 flyer at Costco that really impressed! I’m really starting to turn into a Cab Franc fan.
Last night was some:
End of the 2012 Wellington Estate Syrah from the other night
2017 Rose that Ron brought
2000 Il Maronetto Brunello
2012 Pedroncelli Port
@klezman
2017 Parusso Piemonte Nebbiolo Parüss Rosato
@klezman @rjquillin
Wait, that’s not the Rose from Empire, is it?
@chipgreen @klezman
A different one than before.
@klezman @rjquillin
OK, thanks. Do you prefer one over the other?
@chipgreen @rjquillin I liked this one better by a wide margin.
@chipgreen @klezman
As usual, no notes, but I did really like the other one, just seemed more interesting and complex than this one; but this was the first of three and I was rather preoccupied trying to inventory ~ 40 cases Klez was storing for me.
Most now in an LA locker, or filling one of many local to me here.
@chipgreen @klezman @rjquillin 40 cases
wtf!
@chipgreen @rjquillin @ScottW58 You’ve seen the piles plenty of times…this should not be a surprise.
@chipgreen @klezman @rjquillin haha but I was thinking maybe 10 or 15 cases…40 cases I guess that must be a really nice size room, don’t think I have ever seen it empty
@chipgreen @klezman @rjquillin @ScottW58 I was guessing he had more at Klez’s than my bottles in my whole cellar… 480 vs my 165. No contest.
@chipgreen @CorTot @rjquillin @ScottW58 Yeah, not even close
@chipgreen @CorTot @klezman @ScottW58
Ok, not all were “cases”, but rather individual “boxes” but some were 3x 1.5 L or 3L, and some smaller ones.
Yeah, kinda astounded me as well, and I’m hurting from those stairs and all the kneeling up & down action this required.
Huge tip-'o-the-hat thanks to Klez and Molarchae.
And Klez, you owe me a Flannery now too!
Katie did you well.
@chipgreen @CorTot @rjquillin @ScottW58
One more trip to the (new) locker to take the rest of Ron’s. Then another trip for the ~7 more cases I can fit in mine. Then the real work begins: drink more than we buy.
2012 blue fox cellars grenache Mendocino county
Last night;
2011 Wellington The Duchess with wedge salad, spicy Asian noodles and seafood pappardelle.
2013 Clos du Val Cabernet
2011 Ty Caton Cabernet Sauvignon Caton Vineyard
2014 Halleck Pinot Noir Hillside Cuvée, this stuff is good
2016 Roark Pinot Noir
@karenhynes what did you think? I haven’t cracked any of mine yet…
2011 Parallel Cabernet Sauvignon First Temptation Estate, outstanding, really in a great place but years left.
2008 Breckenridge Winery Cabernet Sauvignon Jen Mar Vineyard
2007 Dubost Carménère Colbert Vineyard
Perfect Tuesday night bottle
NV Vino Noceto Rosso
from the tour.
2012 Giuseppe Nada Barbaresco Casot
2008 Château Saint-Roch Kerbuccio
2012 Masi Amarone Classico.
Legs like Jessica Rabbit.
Pop-n-pour, the nose is hot: 15%.
Luscious.
I’m a new-world reds kinda guy, so Amarone
is by far my favorite European wine.
I like Masi fun stuff!
@ScottW58 Got much better as it got some air, and reasonable QPR at Duty Free, just over $30.
@FritzCat good deal! Our Costco used to carry them for around $40
Trentadue
2011
Alexander Valley
Estate Zinfandel port