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[TN] Date night (Amphibolite, Copain)

On Saturday, Jean and I were thrust into a very unfamiliar position, with Andrew spending the night at a friend's house...
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posted by notpil
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Roter Veltliner

Anyone familiar with this grape? I saw it in a local market and had never come across it before. I didn't buy it, but p...
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[LONG]

On a recent trip to San Francisco for a scientific meeting, I managed to convene several Bay Area-based winegeeks for d...
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posted by notpil
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[TN] '08 Bone-Jolly Red

No, this isn't the same wine I posted on on Tuesday. This is the red version that Steve Edmunds makes from Gamay Noir....
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posted by notpil
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TN: 2 German Rieslings (Pfalz and Nahe)

My turn to do the cooking, and I made do with what we had in fridge. Smoked pork chops were braised with napa cabbage a...
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posted by Dwmidnt
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Turn 60, turn this cellar out!

Nothing succeeds like overkill when it comes to a wine geek's 60th birthday party. My pal Howard, a fine winemaker in h...
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posted by jj
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Passover in the rear view mirror

Before it gets any later and I get even farther behind, and using Dale's easy grading scale... Second Passover Seder: 2...
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posted by jj
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TN: New World Syrah with duck

Tuesday Betsy made duck that had been marinating in a honey/5 spice combo, with mustard greens, grilled king oyster mus...
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posted by Dwmidnt
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1970 wine to buy now? (!)

Turning 40 later this year; first ends-in-zero birthday where we're not living on grad school wages at best, so it woul...
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posted by ewanmcnay
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[TN] '08 Bone Jolly =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ros=E9?=

I came home tonight to an opened bottle of the '08 ESJ Bone Jolly Gamay Noir Rosé Witters Vineyard. It's a fairly inten...
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posted by notpil
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Mark help!

Suffering the after effects of a nasty little virus over the weekend, had to rebuild some things on the computer. One o...
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posted by coulter.joseph
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TN: Bad match, good wine (Texier Macon)

Sometimes you just open something because you feel like trying it. Betsy said we were having vegetable soup, tofu, and...
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posted by Dwmidnt
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[TN] 2 Year Storage Experiment, Part 1

As part of the collaborative storage experiment with Dale Williams and David Beuker, I put away three different wines t...
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posted by notpil
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