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Would you drink wine from a box?
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TN: Boredeaux, Nahe, Finger Lakes
With a friend I was delivering communally bought wine to, the 2006 Ch. Beychevelle (St Julien) from half bottle. Edging towards the modern, a somewhat glossy sheen of oak over an otherwise well...
 
Best Wine Chiller?
Hey there, I'm looking to buy a portable, ice-less, condensation-less counter wine chiller. Anyone got any recommendations? I recently came accross the 'Tjiller' which apparently keeps single bottles...
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TN: end of summer wines- western Europe
With grilled whole stripers, grilled artichokes, and salad, the 2007 Bavard "Les Champs Perrier" Bourgogne blanc. Fairly substantial. Citrus, brisk acids, a tad sharp but with good length. B Also, the...
 
Right hand and left hand
Hello All! Sometimes neither knows what the other is doing. I was just in the liquor store and they had a new brand from Australia: "Tir n'an Og (Land of -Youth-)" 2006 -Old- Vines Grenache McLaren...
 
TN: Rose and Beaujolais
David goes back to school in Scotland next week, so we invited his paternal grandparents for dinner. Assorted antipasta, then we moved outside for pappardelle with radicchio, tomato and fig salad with...
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[TN] '09 Pepiere
With a dinner of pan fried black bass tonight (can you tell that we've got a great new fish store in town? Jean's ecstatic), I opened: 2009 Domaine de la Pépiere Muscadet SeM "sur lie" nose:...
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Loire Whites
Loire notes 1993 Dom. Closel Savenierres Clos de Papillon – this wine has aged beautifully. Now showing some colour, it had a waxy apricot nose, seemed a little hot in the mouth and had excellent...
 
"Restaurants mark up wine by a lot more than you might expect."
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Camus Cab question
I have a great fondness for it. Is there any wine out there that tastes just like it for $6.99 or so? Thank you
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TN: Labor Day, with Pinot Grigio and CdRV
Last night we joined some friends on their backporch for a nice meal. Another couple brought the dinner from a fundraiser at an AME Zion church- ribs, corn, collards, cornbread, potato salad. While we...
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TN: Labor Day weekend wines, running the gamut
With the lobster glut, we've gotten used to $4-5 lb sales for chicks, but lately Fairway has had $6/lb for larger ones, so Saturday I got a 4-pounder. Served with melted butter, corn, tomato salad and...
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TN: Chateau Boyd-Cantenac 1978
Chateau Boyd-Cantenac 1978 was not well known where I live in the US in the 1970s, and some comments by reviewers did not inspire one to seek it out. This is the first bottle of Boyd-Cantenac I have...
 
West Coast Wines
Notes from a West Coast (California, Oregon, Washington and BC) tasting. 2004 Henri Bourgeois Le MD de Bourgeois Sancerre – a little smoke in the nose, and a clean wine but I found it perplexingly...
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TN: Loire pink bubbly, Chambolle, SuperT
Dave made dinner Wednesday, a sausage/pepper strata that was really delicious. We had an open Chianti and Rueda around from night before, but I decided to open another half bottle, the 2004 Felsina...
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