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TN '94 Mondavi Moscato d'Oro/Mara '01 Zin
Good wine weekend :). One of my favourite CA sweet wines when we first had it ('96, I think?), this turns out to have aged gloriously. Overwhelmingly floral, to me prompting thoughts of hibiscus but...
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Screw-Caps, Vacuum and Inert Gas
We were discussing this issue here lately. Here is a very interesting thread on Mark Squires' Bulletin Board treating exactly this subject: or M.
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DROP
DROP ___ Blue Wave/DOS v2.30
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Martin Ray Cabernet Sauvignon 1968
Many Cabernets from 1968 were outstanding, and some still are. This bottle was from the near legend, Martin Ray. He has been dead many years. Many of Ray's wines were huge, loaded with tannin, and...
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San Antonio Wine Shop
I'm visiting San Antonio this week and would like to know of a good (wide, intelligent selection, decent prices) wine shop somewhere in the vicinity of the downtown River Walk area. Thanks!
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a few gems
Ok, last night I experienced the Maison Borie, if you are ever in Lyon you must try it. The dinner was prearranged and all wines were served blind. I have a terrible cold, luckily most wines had a...
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TN: 3 cheap wines, glad it wasn't my money
Went to a housewarming party last night for some good friends. One doesn't drink anymore, and her partner only has a glass now and then. So I didn't have high wine hopes. Amidst the Turning Leaf and...
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1986 Bordeaux
My notes from a dinner tasting of 1986 Bordeaux. A vintage that some say will be the last old style vintage ever made, with hard tannins, needing many years to come into focus and balance. This review...
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On cheese and wine
Hello; Self and Xina went to Copenhagen and had lunch at Amalie, our favorite - very special kind of resto, or, very typical for Copenhagen - frokostrestaurant, which means lunch restaurant, and...
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Stay with what you like or...
I would like the group's opinion on something. It just might be that I'm going about my enjoyment of wine tasting and drinking all the wrong way. Does everyone in this ng have their favourite wine? I...
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Wine shops in Athens?
Only joking :-) (Although, come to think of it, can anyone recommend any decent wine shops in Athens, Greece that do internet / mail orders and have a website in English)? Just to keep in on-topic you...
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TN: 2 inexpensive whites
Thursday with Betsy' s pasta carbonara, the 2002 Las Brisas Rueda. Nice simple crisp white with citrus (lemon and grapefruit) fruit, just a hint of grassiness and...tonic water? Not bad at less than...
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TN on Two New from Ridge
Rejoined the Ridge "Zin List" recently. They send out six bottles, two each of three offerings, twice a year. You get six in the Spring and six in the fall, displaying the Zinfandels that Ridge will...
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TN: Lindemans Reserve Shiraz 2001
Fruit forward shiraz with a gentle spicy finish. Some light tannins on the finish suggest this wine has a little room to grow. Very upfront on the fruit tastes, Plum on the front of the taste followed...
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August Briggs wine tasting
Sigel's wine tasting report John Mellby October 3, 2003 We went down to the Sigel's Liquor store on Greenville Ave, here in Dallas this Thursday to their wine tasting. Apparently the Texas law changed...
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