TN: Ballet and nebbiolo, good QPR whites, bad wines for a good cause (IMHO)

Do you really want to delve into my sordid past? In my long ago teen years (25+ years ago), I was more enamored of weaponry than Charlton Heston. Not only did I handload my own bullets and shotgun shells, but hung out with Rev War reenactors, gun buffs, etc. Not a smell you forget. I might be a Kerry voter now, but I'd be happy to challenge Dubya in the "things that go bang" category on Jeopardy.

I'll confess to shooting my mouth off here, but tasted so ripe, round , and red-fruity I assumed Grenache>

best Dale

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Actually I just did some googling, and some notes show the 2000 Mon Coeur as

80% Grenache/20% Syrah (the 2001 is 50/50). With a Syrah-master like Chave one might assume Syrah, but unlike the Voge CdR (his young Cornas vines), the Chave is a negociant wine. And mostly from vineyards in the South owned by his friends. Dale

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Thanks, Dale. I was just too lazy to Google for myself. :(

Mark Lipton

Hi Dale, Makes sense to me. Just fire (or dry-fire) your flintlock and the smell is something you'll remember. Been there, done that. On a curious note, is dubya something like booya - a concoction of various meats, vegetables, and other (I don't want to know what else) stuff, and cooked for "quite some time"? Even though I'm located in the midwest US, I've been able to avoid booya all my life, and that's a good thing. :-)

Dick

a spark (as is>done in a flintlock gun - hence the analogy) and then smell them quick. I remember discovering that>the day Jacquie & I got married.

I hadn't realised that it took a shotgun to get you to the altar (nor that it was back in the days of the flintlock.....;-)

Salut/Hi Bill Spohn,

le/on 15 Jul 2004 14:00:02 GMT, tu disais/you said:-

Oh dear, oh dear, how unliberated you are.... it was to get Jacquie to the altar!! And yes, we've been married a _very_ long time.

Dale, Thr Brodard Sauvignon de St. Bris has been my summer quaffer this year. The QPR is terrific and it always stumps folks when I explain that it's a SB from Burgundy. I like the acid balance in relationship to the fruit and it seems to pair well with a variety of summer foods. Bi!!

Was this dessert-like because of the sweet fruit or because it was good enough to drink on it's own? I've found a lot of the better California Cabs from 1996 display an abundance of cassis and chocolate. I felt that the tannin structure of the 96's would allow for a decent cellar life and most that I'm drinking now are drinking well with a number of years of fruit left. Bi!!