The Wine Thread -- what have you been drinking?

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― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 22 July 2006 20:29 (6 years ago) Permalink

Paul, that looks and sounds exciting. Where did you find it? (Where can I get it?)

― youn (youn), Saturday, 22 July 2006 20:31 (6 years ago) Permalink

Hm, my Akakies link doesn't work for me any more. Maybe this one is better. It's all over New York; I can't imagine you'll have trouble finding it.

If screw caps are good enough for the delectable Benton-Lane, they're more than good enough for me.

― Paul Eater (eater), Saturday, 22 July 2006 20:58 (6 years ago) Permalink

mmm, Benton Lane. it's been a while.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 22 July 2006 21:24 (6 years ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

l'ecole no. 41 semillon. i'm having it with fresh figs and jarlsberg cheese and bread and it's extremely delicious.

― youn (youn), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:30 (6 years ago) Permalink

hey, that's the one i was gonna buy!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 23:06 (6 years ago) Permalink

unbelievably tasty at this price, get it now......

― timmy tannin (pompous), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 03:01 (6 years ago) Permalink

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 03:06 (6 years ago) Permalink

Screwtops are great, especially for people who cellar - no more cork taint!! (which is NOT the same as botrytis, btw, not at all) But I'm trying to hunt down some Whitehall Lane that uses these beautiful new glass seals.

― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 03:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

the best wines i've had recently were all screwtops. this was my last purchase, and it was AWESOME:

― you're killing me, larry! (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 03:15 (6 years ago) Permalink

Jaq, thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain, probably rather defensively given that your impression of what I meant is entirely justified, that I was aware of the difference at the time of my post above because I'd read about botrytis because it affects semillon, which I'd tried and liked. I was trying to say something, unsuccessfully, as usual, about aging. I've read that clinical methods of winemaking have changed the way wines age. I think the gist was that conditions are so well controlled that wines actually take longer to mature and alternate methods are used to make wines appear older. On a completely unrelated note, I thought Julie Delpy was especially beautiful at the end of her 2nd movie with Ethan Hawke.

― youn (youn), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 03:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

i went to dinner for my mom's birthday in chicago, and the place had a 61 page winelist. ridiculous. ended up choosing 97 chateau musar from lebanon. was pretty good!

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 03:51 (6 years ago) Permalink

Waking Life? (xp)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 03:54 (6 years ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

Stephen Vincent Crimson 2004

a Rhone knockoff. really pretty good for a cheap wine.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 8 September 2006 01:29 (6 years ago) Permalink

Barnard Griffin sangiovese rosé, a terrific summer wine for red wine lovers. That was with dinner (cheeseburgers with extra-sharp tillamook cheddar). Now, Red Truck from Cline, which is mellow and delightful.

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 8 September 2006 01:51 (6 years ago) Permalink

hey, mine went with a burger with Keen's cheddar

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 8 September 2006 02:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

That, my friend, is a true test of wine :)

"Does it go with your cheeseburger?"

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 8 September 2006 04:43 (6 years ago) Permalink

2005 Vitiano Rosé. Got a case for under $100.00. It's really quite good.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 8 September 2006 13:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

Michael White drinks rosé. Well I'll be blowed.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 8 September 2006 13:46 (6 years ago) Permalink

We decided to be ponces for a night on holiday in France, 30 Euros from the hypermarket, but god was it good!

We also drank lots of different small brand champagne round about 16 euros, very tasty, and fairly cheap Loire reds and whites.

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 8 September 2006 13:49 (6 years ago) Permalink

I drink rivers of it, Mark, and have for years.

(Enjoy getting blowed, btw.)

xpost

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 8 September 2006 13:49 (6 years ago) Permalink

I've stopped drinking wine almost completely, if you don't count sparklings in cocktails or Stone's -- but when I make an exception, it's pretty much anything by Bonny Doon (if I want something familiar), or something Portuguese (if I want something new). The damnyankees up here may be damnyankees, but their liquor stores have more variety in Portuguese wine than I've seen before.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 8 September 2006 13:55 (6 years ago) Permalink

I know summer is fading, Tep, but try a Verdelho. Cheap and excellent.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 8 September 2006 13:56 (6 years ago) Permalink

I'll look for it! I was just thinking I should get another bottle of wine soon, now that it's on my mind. I'll want applejack soon anyway.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 8 September 2006 14:01 (6 years ago) Permalink

I don't really drink beer anymore. The pub where I watch soccer has cider, which I like well enough, and I've noticed that I never really feel a yen for cognac after dinner, always calvados. I'm developing a
thing for apple based drinks.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 8 September 2006 14:03 (6 years ago) Permalink

Laird's bonded applejack is supposed to be excellent (specifically/especially the bonded product, not the other), especially in a Jack Rose -- applejack, grenadine, lemon juice. That's what I'm going to look for, now that I'm back in apple country -- though most of it I'll probably drink straight or use to boost mulled cider. Maybe I'll make an applejack-based hot buttered rum.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 8 September 2006 14:06 (6 years ago) Permalink

How does applejack compare with calvados?

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 8 September 2006 14:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

Less brandy-like, mostly -- more of what I consider a strong apple flavor -- it varies by brand, because the cheapest ones tend to dilute with neutral spirits. But it's one of those things where you can make some good educated guesses about quality based on price (unlike with rum, I'm still discovering). The proof might be different too, not sure.

I'm still adjusting my vocabulary, because growing up "applejack" meant something completely different that you'd never buy in stores -- unpasteurized, unfiltered cider allowed to ferment to its maximum, and sometimes strained of its sediment, about as alcoholic as a high-octane beer.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 8 September 2006 14:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

Isn't applejack freeze-distilled while calvados is distilled normally (by evaporation)?

― Paul Eater (eater), Friday, 8 September 2006 15:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

Check this out

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 8 September 2006 15:22 (6 years ago) Permalink

Applejack's not always freeze-distilled anymore, just the cheaper stuff -- I think Laird's is distilled by evaporation, for instance. It used to be called apple brandy to differentiate it from home-made freeze-distilled jack, but so few people make that these days.

xpost -- the advice about homemade grenadine there is good, too, but I usually have to adjust the amounts of grenadine I use as a result (I'm also not very scientific about reducing it)

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 8 September 2006 15:25 (6 years ago) Permalink

There used to be a restaurant here called Jack Rose that made a great one. Long gone now.

Looks like Laird's sells an aged apple brandy or two, and also cuts same with grain spirits to make their applejack. I used to get some Wisconsin (I think) brand that was freeze-distilled and quite delicious, if faintly toxic-tasting.

― Paul Eater (eater), Friday, 8 September 2006 15:42 (6 years ago) Permalink

There we could -- the Bond 100 Proof is the Bonded, though I didn't realize it was that high proof. I'm definitely going to have to hot-butter-rum that. (Hot buttered applejack doesn't sound right, though.)

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 8 September 2006 15:51 (6 years ago) Permalink

"Bonded" means exactly 100 proof. That's a feisty brandy -- I'll have to look for it. We're coming up on flambe season.

― Paul Eater (eater), Friday, 8 September 2006 16:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

Oh, there we go, ha! You can tell where my drinking habits usually lie (or don't) -- I've just been hearing "Laird's Bonded, Laird's Bonded," for a year now, and had no idea what Bonded meant. You can't ship to Indiana, so I was just waiting for it to show up.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 8 September 2006 16:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

Green & Red Zinfandel

Argyle's 2003 Pinot Noir

Argyle's Nuthouse Chardonay is great, too - about the only white wine I'm willing to spend more than $20 on.

― darin (darin), Friday, 8 September 2006 17:55 (6 years ago) Permalink

La Grange Daniel 2005 Domaine Alary Daniel & Denis Red Wine Vin de Pays de la Principaute d'Orange, $14 American, probably good with cheeseburgers

― youn (youn), Friday, 8 September 2006 22:42 (6 years ago) Permalink

Last night, dinner guests brought a 2000 Bunchgrass cab sauv (Walla Walla), which was delish. Her cousin owns the winery and she regaled us with tales of tasting 10 years worth of his early attempts.

― Jaq (Jaq), Saturday, 9 September 2006 14:19 (6 years ago) Permalink

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 14 September 2006 18:55 (6 years ago) Permalink

cantina parroco barbaresco

― youn (youn), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 23:01 (6 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Alain Corcia Pinot Noir - I think this will be my standby.

― youn (youn), Thursday, 5 October 2006 23:57 (6 years ago) Permalink

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 6 October 2006 00:02 (6 years ago) Permalink

i can't afford wine anymore :(

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 6 October 2006 00:04 (6 years ago) Permalink

I've been drinking Yellow Tail Chardonnay mixed with Italian Pear/Peach soda b/c I'm on a budget and my kitty is dying and I don't give a fuck. It tastes better than beer. yum.

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Friday, 6 October 2006 02:50 (6 years ago) Permalink

got a free and so-far-unopened bottle of piemonte barbera sittin' on my desk right now, mmm

― joseph (joseph), Friday, 6 October 2006 04:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

British people,

Tesco is selling an Amarone ("Rocca Alata") for £9.99 that is really drinkable - not incredible but it ticks all the boxes and is like almost half the price of any other decent Amarone I've found.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 22:25 (6 years ago) Permalink

The question for me lately is "what haven't I been drinking?"

― Scorpion Tea (Dick Butkus), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 07:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

I shall take that under advisement, mark.

I'm really not enjoying establishments that have no european wines on the menu for those of us conscious of our food miles.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 09:22 (6 years ago) Permalink

Couldn't agree more.

I had a bottle of marvellous English sparkling (the mighty Nyetimber) the other week. Rich, toasty, good mousse, ecologically conscious and tasty to boot.

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 21:32 (6 years ago) Permalink

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