Name That Wine!

Dear Mr. Redhart/Rumprider/Donduk, How about you go back to flying your model airplanes and leave wine to those of us who are at least 21 years old and _behave_ like it?!

If you persist in your puerile attempts at humor, your daddy's AOL account will be closed for abuse of service, and then he'll _really_ be pissed.

Tom S

Harmony Cellars

Easy to predict: Faster, but more uniform ageing under synthetic. Slower (for the best bottles), but much more irregular under cork, including different levels of TCA, fruit scalping and random oxidation.

M.

P.S.: On Monday we tasted one wine, Willi Sattlers Styrian Classic Sauvignon Blanc 2003, bottled in February 2004 under three closures. The first three came from his cellar, the last from my dining room, where it has been lying since release.

2) Synthetic stopper (nomacorc): Dumb, very evolved, no fruit, well over the hill.

4) Glass stopper (warm conservation): Good fruit, although quite evolved, but more harmonious than the synthetic.

General opinion of order of preference was #1, #3b, #4, #2; #1 leading by a large margin.

M.

How about,

Chateau Chene Grille

or Ch. Pain Grille avec Beurre et Confiture Tropicale?

Good luck, Marc

• About the time that Bennion, Crane, Rosen, and Zeidler started up Ridge Vineyards, (1956?) they had an informal contest to name the wine.

My entry was great -- but not selected:

"Vino El Camino -- One for the Road"

The name is still available -- we can talk.

earle

in article snipped-for-privacy@comcast.dca.giganews.com, Earle Jones at snipped-for-privacy@comcast.net wrote on 5/16/05 5:29 PM:

I'm glad to see this topic back again. I'm in the process of thinking up names for something wine-related myself, and what goes through your head can be pretty funny sometimes. The latest......

Sonoma Beach Winery

Say it fast a few times if that helps.

;o)