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TN: SOBER in CT - mostly Piedmont and Burgundy, with Sicilian, Corsican, and Champagne sides

Last night a few of us carpooled to New Canaan for a SOBER tasting. Our newest member John hosted, and did a fabulous j...

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TN: Romanee-Conti 1970

The wine is Romanee-Conti 1970, no. 006303. I bought a few bottles of this in the early 1970s as well as some of the 19...

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TN: Italy and greater Burgundy

Sunday the hound, Betsy, and I trekked over the hill for dinner with friends. The basset and her poodle buddy enjoyed m...

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2008 Quintessa Illumination Sauvingon Blanc

I'm at our place on Marco Island Florida for the winter and a friend sent me a bottle of 2008 Quintessa Illumination SB...

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TN: Cassoulet with '69 Burg, '81 CaliPN, '85 Cahors, '86 Haut-Medoc, 01 Graves blanc

Saturday my friend Mark invited us over for cassoulet - yippee! I’m getting over a cold and Betsy is starting one, but...

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TN: Sicilian wines

After dinner Friday headed over to my friend DP’s for meeting of my local tasting group, theme was red wines from Sicil...

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TN: 3 nice Burgs with 3 nice dinners at home

Betsy made Italian wedding soup, plus an appetizer of pumpernickel with an herb butter, proscuitto, and asparagus; wine...

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TN: Gruaud vertical (plus Matrot, P Peters, and Trimbach)

Last night our Bordeaux group met for a Gruaud Larose vertical at Fabio Piccolo Fiore in midtown. A couple of people co...

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TN: wines from lots of places (Bdx, Burg, Tuscany, Champagne, Saar, Loire)

Betsy made a quick bouillabaisse, I went quirky with the 2010 Foreau Vouvray Sec. Iinitially gave me that "is it corked...

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Oregon wine tasting suggestions

Going to be in Southern Oregon at the end of April. Any ideas on not to miss vineyards?

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dessert wine?

Supposedly there are wines suitable for a dessert dish. And sweet wines are recommended. It strikes me that sweet on to...

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posted by r_delaney2001

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TN: wines from a busy social week

The fridge was bulging after New Years, Wednesday we just had leftovers (ham, beans, etc) and opened the 2011 Donnhoff...

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[TN] Lledoner Pelut

With a dinner of roast lamb tonight, I opened: 2008 Le Bout du Monde "L'Ecume des Jours" Cotes de Rousillon Villages no...

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Good priced Garncacha with pork and green mole question

I stupidly volunteered to be cellarmaster for our local IWFS group. I am trying to find a good value Garnacha to drink...

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TN: 86 Mont Redon CdP

I'm not sure how this wine was acquired as we are not clients of Mont Redon. We visited the domaine around 20 years ago...

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