General Wine Forum

"...I found the vintage's wines tasted subdued and restrained rather than opulent, powerful or flamboyant." (James Laube in Wine Spectator [2007])

Aesthetically speaking, isn't subdued and restrained preferable?

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posted by artsy6

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TN: CdR and Sancerre

With leftover cassoulet and broccoli, the 2001 Charvin "Le Poutet" Cotes du Rhone.Warm red fruits, tannins have all dro...

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posted by Dwmidnt

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Lunch Notes

Monthly blind tasting lunch – this month blind as to whose wine it was while we muttered about the wine, then the discl...

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posted by wspohn4

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UK, Majestic buy Lay and Wheelers

of interest for UK afwer's http://www.decanter.com/news/news.php?id'8258 Sad to see one of the oldest family run mercha...

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posted by jtav

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Wine trivia for calendar biters

Hello, In Swedish, a calendar biter is a person who tries to find every single nedish fact about something or other. So...

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posted by nils.lindgren

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alt.food.wine mini-FAQ

This is a weekly reminder that the FAQ for this group resides at the website http://winefaq.cwdjr.net. Additionally, it...

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posted by notpil

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Vintage Port

Hello, passionate for Vintage Port, please visite this site : http://www.fbsite.sampa.com All about Port Vintage, news a...

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posted by fbmail

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[LONG] Toledo - Day 2

Festivities on Saturday began around 5 pm, with the uncorking of another few dozen bottles and the arrival of a dozen o...

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posted by notpil

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TN: Bandol and Chinon (latter at the Modern)

Tuesday I was taking some college kids to the city,so limited myself to a half a glass with dinner. Betsy had rehearsal...

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posted by Dwmidnt

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2007 Domaine de la Rossignole Sancerre

With a light dinner of fresh shucked oysters and cold stone crab claws I opened a bottle of Domaine de la Rossignole Sa...

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posted by rvwrlee

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Vinotheque Wine Cabinets

I am a distributor for Vinotheque, and work for a company called Wine Hardware in Walnut Creek, St. Helena and Sonoma....

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posted by mike.vecchia

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Bad Pinot

Dinner last night at a local restaurant on Marco Island called Verdi's. Decent food but very weak wine list. We started...

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posted by rvwrlee

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TN Scharzhofberger Feine Auslese Nikolauswein 1970, Koch

The wine is Scharzhofberger Feine Auslese Nikolauswein 1970, Koch, gerrntet 5./6. Dezember, 9% alcohol, (pre 1971s had...

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posted by spamtrap2

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more of 101

well, there should be more added in this book i guess. check out the special website dedicated to Bulgarian wine at: htt...

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posted by cokc.com

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does anybody know a good source of Bulgarian wine

i have found this incredible site, offering amazing Bulgarian wines and i wanted to ask if you have seen or tried any o...

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posted by cokc.com

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