Latest General Wine Forum
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Re: Oregon Winery Trip
"bijoudog" wrote in
news:7yOKa.34050$kQ5.18632@twister.nyroc.rr.com:
Just back from holiday and read this entire thread. A few suggestions for
you.
1) The Oregon Wine Advisory Board produces a...
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16 years ago | 11 | |
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Re: Best Pinot Gris in Willamette Valley?
Roy wrote in news:3F05F269.F000893@hotmail.com:
While Roy liked the WillaKenzie wines better than I do, the winery is a good
one to visit. Decent wines and extemely scenic.
John
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Re: Brunello di Montalcino Opinions & Questions
I've never tasted a bad Brunello. I think they are one of the best
wines produced.
ditto
I think Banfi is great. Their '96 is drinking wonderfully right now.
I will hold my '97s for a few mor...
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16 years ago | 1 | |
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2000 Chateau Brane Cantenac Margaux
What a find today. Found it today at Costco in North Carolina for $29.00.
Has anyone tried this vintage. I hear this is good stuff. At the local
price at Costco I plan to wipe out their inventory ...
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16 years ago | 4 | |
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Any '94 Pichler notes?
Hi-
I stumbled across several bottles of 1994 FX Pichler Gruner Veltliner Von der
Terrassen Smaragd for $17US, and thought that it may be something worth
considering.
I was wondering if anybody mi...
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16 years ago | 3 | |
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Describing a Wine's Complexity
I use quite detailed tasting sheets which I have developed by amalgamating
what I consider to be the best bits of all the rest. I am constantly
changing them and find the whole area surrounding descri...
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16 years ago | 1 | |
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Barolo Notes 1967- 1997
We had a garden tasting and dinner last night, featuring wines from Piemonte.
All wines were Barolos except where noted.
1967 Luigi Calissano Reserva Speciale - browning edges, and with a typical
t...
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Re: BYO in Canada
Technically against the law.
If the restaurant doesn't know you, don't count on being able to BYO.
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16 years ago | 7 | |
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Re: what wine with a swarm of bees?
Can't recall how strong it is, I only tried real "Chouchenn" once at a
crepery in Vancouver B.C. made from buckwheat flower honey. It was
unusual but very good. In my copy of "Brittany Gastronomique" ...
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Re: Shiraz vs Lever 2000
I wonder if you're not tasting "salty" and confusing it with "soapy"?
It's fairly common practice to do a final adjustment to the free sulfur
dioxide in wines just before bottling, using potassium ...
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Ink more expensive than champagne
Ink for home printers is now seven times more expensive than vintage
champagne.
Ink in a typical replacement cartridge costs about £1.70 per millilitre,
compared with 1985 Dom Perignon at 23p per m...
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16 years ago | 8 | |
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Chateau D'Aiguilhe 2000
I opened this bottle tonight, 2000 Chateau D'Aiguilhe, Cotes de
Castillon. I seemed well structured, very big for Merlot, and in a half
hour it opened up quite nicely. It is much better than I expec...
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16 years ago | 5 | |
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Re: Question re 2K Bdx in US
Here in the San Francisco Bay Area demand for 2000 Bordeaux is huge.
Costco's around here have been getting decent allocations of the usual
suspects, and even the the inflated (but *relatively* in...
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16 years ago | 5 | |
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Re: Boxed wine suggestions; Franzia is unpalatable...
Salut/Hi Emery Davis,
le/on Fri, 04 Jul 2003 12:03:27 +0200, tu disais/you said:-
We'll have to arrange a comparison one day. I presume yours is Franc? Or is
it one of these new-fangled Pinots?...
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16 years ago | 9 | |
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Re: Ohio or Michigan wine shops?
In Detroit the best one I have found so far (just moved here from NorCal) is
Champanes on 13 Mile in Warren MI, which is a suburb north of the city.
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