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Wine starting to taste like gasoline or oil?

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TN: 2010 Fleurie > 1982 Pauillac

Our weekly Zoom called featured the 1982 Ch Batailley. Good looking bottle, nice nose with a lot of cigarbox and pencil...

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"It all depends what you mean by austere."

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?I?ve never been that much in love with Pinot No ir."

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TN: wines w/friends indoors! Loires, Madiran, Sekt, Chablis, etc

Citrus roasted salmon, rice with nori, roast cauliflower, and salad 2019 Lambert Chinon Rose Light, crisp, crunchy red...

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TN: 2 Jura, 2 Alsace, 2 Savigny, 1 Saumur

With sourdough scallion pancake, stirfry with cabbage/leek/Chinese sausage/ peppers, and mustard greens with oyster sau...

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"Wine?s golden year was surely 1982 when, as the l ate Nicholas Faith put it, ?the Bordelais discovered ripen ess?."

https://harpers.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/27872/Tim_Atkin_MW:_A_year_that_changed_wine.html

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TN: Burgs, Loires, Champagnes

Rainy Friday evening, roast chicken and fingerling sweet potatoes, and the 2002 Jadot Clos Des Couchereaux Beaune 1er....

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TN: Alsace night (plus btg Saumur and Burg)

Our first meal at a restaurant in ages, outdoors at Saint George in Hastings (steep slope, so they built ?terraces?). B...

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TN: Burgs, ESJ, Loire, Or White, Bdx, Bandol pink, Barolo, etc

Thursday we went up to Fable Farm, where we get our CSA from, for a dinner (in a hoop house greenhouse, sides rolled up...

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TN: Bize X2, '78 Gruaud, '83 Heitz BO, Saves, Stony Hill

Friday I just had leftover wine from Th with some green puttaneca, Sat we had striped bass roasted with tomato and shal...

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TN: Me, Warre, and BVGdLT turn 60, PBaron, Laville, Carillon, etc are younger

My plan for last few years was to have a big 60th party, to use up some of my magnums. COVID killed that idea. So we ha...

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Ripe vintage Haart. tired (bottle) of Ducru

2009 Reinhold Haart Piesporter Gräfenberg Riesling Kabinett (AP#7) Ripe and peachy, could pass for Spatlese,but solid a...

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TN: Weekend wines- Tuscany, Loire, Burgundy, Bdx, Marg. Valley, etc

ndian carrots and chickpea/spinach over saffron rice 2019 Edmunds St John Bone Jolly Rose Strawberries and raspberry, s...

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TN: 1978 LLC

Betsy made roast chicken, cumin carrot puree, squash, and caprese. Wine for our Zoom call was the 1978 Ch. Leoville Les...

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