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3 California Reds from The '90's
Pulled some wines that need to be drank last night to drink with dinner. I made venison "swiss steak" using top round steak and a fire roasted tomato braise. 1994 Altamura Napa Cabernet-The wine was...
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when the love of Burgundy goes too far
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TN: value white Burg- Pernot
For meatless Monday Betsy made an excellent mushroom soup, along with some leftover lentils and a nice salad. Wine was the 2005 Pernot Bourgogne Blanc, last of a case I think. Showing quite well- ripe...
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"...Very few wines gain appreciably with age..."
So said a wine critic recently. Agree? Disagree?
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overrated food and wine
I recently wrote a slightly tongue in cheek piece about overrated restaurant food - below. I wondered if people had thoughts about overrated expensive wines. For example I've yet to find a Tokay I...
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TN: 3 I'm glad I bought- cheap Bdx, pricier Mosel, & midpriced Beaujolais
We flew back Sat AM, stopped at Fairway on way home. Dinner was artic char, broccolini, and French lentils in red wine. Opening wine was 2009 Selbach-Oster Zeltinger Schlossberg 'Schmitt' Riesling. No...
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"We need, instead, producers who seek only to amplify the voice of the land without--and this is crucial--distorting it. Like a great stereo system, the goal is veracity. Whether you use tubes or transistors, vinyl or cd's, is immaterial..."
This was recently said by a wine critic: - We need, instead, producers who seek only to amplify the voice of the land without--and this is crucial--distorting it. Like a great stereo system, the goal...
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TN:Corton-Charlemagne 1992, Domaine Louis Latour and others
All of the wines discussed were properly stored by me since shortly after release, had good fills, and had no cork or other issues. Corton-Charlemagne 1992, Domaine Louis Latour: This wine is well...
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TN: Wines in GA- California, Burgundy (not Cote d'Or), Champagne
A few days in Georgia celebrating Thanksgiving with family. We weren't checking luggage, so I visited a store (Harry's Market) on our second day and grabbed a couple bottles, plus my brother brought a...
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Italian Lunch Notes
Notes from an Italian lunch. Ruinart Brut Champagne – OK, not exclusively Italian. This was out for the turn of the millennium (both the dumbed down year and the correct year) and so has a decade of...
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Thanksgiving Burgundy
Just the two of us this year so Bev roasted a chicken and gave the OK for a bottle of Burgundy (she is Chablis with Turkey kind of gal so this is the first thanksgiving in ages that has seen red wine....
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Intolerance
Hi I'm new here. I'd like to ask an unusual question: My wife had chemo for breast cancer four years ago. She now cannot drink red wine - feels extremely harsh in her mouth, whereas pre-cancer she...
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Sam's Wines
Is Sam's Wines in Chicago still in business? Their website doesn't seem to work. I'm in Chicago for the first time in some years and was hoping to go there
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2008 Melville Chardonnay
I'm finally starting to feel better (broken ribs heal slowly) so I went out yesterday to the local marketplace and found fresh halibut and English peas and a nice seafood terrine (where does one grow...
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