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Elqui Wines Pinot Noir 2012
First of, I hate chile wines. So this is quite a surprise: Clear red, typical pinot clarity, red strawberry notes, of a darker kind, t he musty earthy russian river undertones. strange for a chile....
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WTN: 24 bottles of 85 claret, + 81 LMHB, 78 GPL, 96 Bollys
John organized a 1985 Bordeaux tasting, and Victor graciously hosted in his lovely Upper East Side apartment. He had a great buffet set up= chacuter ie, cheeses, salads, and an amazing tortilla....
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TN: Italy, Spain, France, US
Came home from a speech, sauteed some flounder, had that with some maki Bet sy had left me, salad, and the 2011 Ridge Estate Chardonnay. Nice crispness for Cali Chard, but this is really quite...
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Masi Amarone Costasera 2003, Ch. Chantegreve 2010, Les Fosses de Hareng 2012
So I was asked what wine with chicken liver pate? Only one3 answer, Vouvray unfortunately I already hit the Viking on Saturday but had a nice little bottle of a sec version which did quite nicely. Not...
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Meritage: 2008 Dry Creek The Mariner, Sonoma and The King
**** Found a new wine store in my town and they had this dry creek mariner merit age. Pretty good not so expensive meritage, with chocolate, cedar, ripe bla ck fruits, good finish, nice mouthfeel. The...
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Dom. Arlaud
I'm a fan of this CdN producer. His Bourgogne "Roncevie" is one of the best bargains from the area. Last night I opened his 2010 Gevrey-Chambertin and what a beauty! Smoke immediately on the nose...
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1989 Domaine du Viking tendre
We are having this tonight with leek quiche but fearful of bottle quality I opened a few minutes ago. The capsule was clean the neck fill about a half inch below the capsule and when the capsule came...
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TN: 89 Grand Tinel CdP (mag)
With roast roe buck, plum and blackberry marinade. Very good: sweet black cherry nose, then plum, more black cherry, tar and pepper, smoke. Tannins all gone, so a little out of balance; probably a few...
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WTN: Mazis, Etna, Macon, Alba, Roccamonfina
Sunday we went to Irvington to dinner at friends. They greeted us with shii take toasts, cheese, and olives, along with a servicable Prosecco that I ne glected to note. Dinner was risotto with a red...
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1993 Chimney Rock Elevage
I opened a bottle of 1993 Chimney Rock Elevage from the remnants of a case I bought at the winery on release many years ago. Elevage is Chimney Rock' s Bordeaux blend of Cabernet, Merlot, Cab Franc...
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Is chardonnay like chicken? (recent article)
'7708301&id'7708301 S.Africa: 1st class graduates from Oprah Winfrey school | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
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WTN: NOLA substitute dinner with Prosecco, CdP, Rioja, Loire, etc
Some friends were supposed to go to New Orleans on a rescheduled trip- desp ite having confirmed several times they had seat assignments, when they wen t to check in online they were sent to customer...
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Notes from "New World" wine tasting last night 14 wines from Argentina, Australia and California.
I had a "new world" tasting and focussed on California, Argentina and Austr alia, since I dont like chile and south african wines. It was arranged in c ategories: "Chards", "Pinot is queen", "Typical...
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Quantum
Fuck Beringer's quantum is really good!! [more info later about of "new world" tasting tonight!]
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TN: 2 Corsicans in one week! Plus Soave and SLB
Monday Betsy was teaching, I had a speech, we had a very late dinner of lef tovers. Wine was the 2012 Yves Leccia "Cuvee YL" (Ile de Beaute) . Fresh, r ed fruits, spicy, pleasant. B/B+ Betsy had given...
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