The Wine Thread -- what have you been drinking?

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tastes like sugar

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 3 November 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

What does ILX think about Malbec and Montepulciano these days?

― darin (darin), Friday, 3 November 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

No opinion on malbec, but Montepulciano is a good grape and there are obviously the excellent Vini Nobili from Montepulciano itself and some very very decent montepulciano d'abruzzo which are often a good cheap standard. There are some shockers under that name though so watch out.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 3 November 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

Malbec is the new Merlot. Cheap, reliable, easy to find. Plus you're helping rebuilt the Argentinian economy!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

how do i rebuilt economy

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, so that Rawson's Retreat was pretty meh. Got better once it got mixed in with the bacon/tomato/onion pasta i had for dinner, but i won't be buying it again.

i'll go for malbec this weekend.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

happy rebuilting!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

http://www.gngnb.com/Images/BD-CigarVolantLabel.jpg

a bit tannic for my delicate constitution, those aliens, but pretty great with the right food

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 18 January 2007 04:47 (nineteen years ago)

how do you describe a wine that tastes too much like alcohol?

― youn (youn), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure but that's one of my peeves with California wines. They're often closer to 14% than 12%.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:21 (nineteen years ago)

It's called "hot" when you taste the alcohol in a wine.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:58 (nineteen years ago)

In my house we call it "yum".

― God Bows to Meth (noodle vague), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

gabby, what did you eat it with? i think it's the grenache that gives it the tannic overtones on some vintages.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

just been drinking loads of dirt-cheap red wine and champagne, topped off with a marginally more classy glass of Leffe. my stomach grieves.

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:02 (nineteen years ago)

day 1 - tikka masala, dal, roti (emphasized the heat)
day 2 - grilled salmon sandwich with fennel/cucumber slaw, peas and carrots (went very nicely, but i probably should have gone for more salmon than sandwich)
day 3 - grilled chicken and peppery polenta with tuscan vegetable sauce-type thing, beets and green beans (and banana walnut bread with chocolate sauce and ice cream, i r fattey) (great)
day 4 - mezze (eggplant, calf's liver, yogurt, kidney beans, etc) (nice)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

it was a good dessert wine

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

aw man, bonny doon makes a classic dessert muscat.

nice menus!

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:45 (nineteen years ago)

Grüner Veltliner!!

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

2004 Domaine Fougeray de Beauclair Bourgogne

― youn (youn), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

I'm trying to make sense of "the nose is closed." I think I've got it, but I'm not sure.

― youn (youn), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

I had this Leitz Riesling a couple of weeks ago, and it is AWESOME. I am not usually fond of white wine but this is a good one. It costs £8 which I think is Too Much, but perhaps this thread can demonstrate that people regularly spend more than that, and it is not a sin.

The tasting notes say:
The palate is like biting into a Granny Smith apple and licking a piece of pumice

I say:
"PUMICE???!!!"

― Sarah, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Then again I would rather spend £8 on this than continue to spend £3.50 on rough as a.rses plastic merlot (in plastic bottle, americans) that my flatmate seems to drink EVERY NIGHT. I used to be involved in the cult of drinking this plastic merlot, then my tastebuds inevitably rebelled and now I can't stand it. Because it is awful rough. Also it REALLY SMELLS! I could smell it from behind a closed door the other day! Surely a wine should not penetrate beyond doors?!

Wot I am saying is should I go home via Oddbins tonight.

― Sarah, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I didn't in the end. I had a small sip of ginger wine whilst working on my application form.

"Crabbies".

― Sarah, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

Givent that the standard duty rate is the same per bottle whether it's a 3.99 bottle of nail polish remover or a tenner's worth of scented loveliness you're actually getting more wine for your money the pricier it is, proportionately speaking. You can get lots of excellent stuff in the £6-10 range and whilst there are sub fiver bargains, as a general rule of thumb pay peanuts ect ect.

― Matt, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

No Rose wine mentions?

I know, "The Feeling" ah shadddup!

I always thought "oh it's just red and white mixed together" but now I know it's not, I like it and it's a good compromise as I prefer red and my wife prefers white. (or, did)

Does that make us Paula Abdul and Krazy Kat?

― Mark G, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

Are there any other good Reislings worth trying? I have always heard bad things about them. I have also heard that the one I had is supposed to be particularly good, so... erm?

― Sarah, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

My local Turkish offie has a seemingly inexhaustible supply of some no-name 2000 Bordeaux for £6.49 a bottle which is totally, totally delicious. YUM.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:51 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah I like a good ol' Reisling too, but I don't really know.

I have a wine story to share with you guys. This past Christmas, the lovely Emma B's father opened up a case of Burgundy that he'd bought at a wine fair for what he was told was a deal, something like 11 euro a bottle. (He has lived in Bordeaux all his life, and buying some Burgundy was kind of a bold move, but he thinks of himself as open-minded and not snobby about Bordeaux wine as so many people who live there are.) Anyway, we tasted it, eyes looked furtively around the table and the lovely Emma B is the first to say something. "But this is undrinkable!" Others murmured in corroboration. I thought it wasn't horrible but it did taste thin and very acidic, certainly very different from Bordeaux wine but you know, I don't really know. "It's like vinegar!" "Maybe it's the bottle," someone said. Emma B's father is beginning to feel that he might have been foolish, which he does not like to feel, but he has no choice to agree. We open another bottle. Exactly the same. What is this chateau? A great search commences. Books are opened. We can't find it. I go upstairs to the computer and do a search. Nothing! It doesn't exist! "Oh la la..."

Determined to solve the mystery and also to see if maybe our Bordeaux-centric tastebuds are deceiving us - maybe it isn't so bad after all, but we just don't realise it? - Emma B and I bring the half-empty bottle, with cork in top, around to the biggest, most famous wine shop in Bordeaux, situated facing the big plaza in the middle of town. The man we want to see is at lunch. So we take it to a smaller, newer shop with a handsome and charming proprietor who duly sips the wine, says that the year was a bad one for Burgundys but says we won't get sick from drinking it, if that was our concern. We thank him but know that we still need to see the authority. We return and the man is in. He's short, with black hair, slightly balding, and wears a green cardigan sweater. He has a compact kind of energy when he moves. He finds a moment for us and brings us into the back of the shop. He says the name on the bottle is not a chateau at all but a kind of consolidator and distributor for many chateaux, so it's impossible to know where in Bourgogne it really came from. He uncorks the bottle, pours it into a glass, swirls it around, sniffing it, pacing as he talks. He takes a sip and does a curious thing with it in his mouth - he sucks it around his teeth, making a loud soup-slurping kind of sound. He does this again. Round and round his teeth the wine goes. Then he holds it in his mouth, very still. He's pondering. He spits it out into another glass. "Well," he says. "All taste is relative." He pauses and looks at the glass. "But it's not good."

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:18 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Really lovely 2003 Barnard Griffin sangiovese rosé. Mmmmmmm. Nice for spring, perfect for summer. Smells like strawberries, then ripe red cherries and some warm faint spices like cardamom and cloves.

― Jaq, Sunday, 15 April 2007 04:41 (nineteen years ago)

Rather wish Clarke B. was still around, where'd he go? Had a nice red blend tonight at a friend's place but I forget the vineyard, regrettably. Somewhere on the Central Coast.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 April 2007 04:50 (nineteen years ago)

(Oh yeah, Jaq, do you have AIM at all?)

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 April 2007 04:50 (nineteen years ago)

Uhm. Yes, somewhere. seattle_skies I think. I'm more a Skyper these days.

― Jaq, Sunday, 15 April 2007 04:52 (nineteen years ago)

Understood. Sign on if you'd like!

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 April 2007 04:52 (nineteen years ago)

whoops! SeattleSkies. I'll probably have to update a million versions, I ahven't run it for ages. But should be there shortly

― Jaq, Sunday, 15 April 2007 04:53 (nineteen years ago)

:-)

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 April 2007 04:55 (nineteen years ago)

I am the rather easily findable NedRaggett

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 April 2007 04:59 (nineteen years ago)

That was kind of painful and embarrassing - it signed me in as my son at first :)

― Jaq, Sunday, 15 April 2007 05:05 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

Chateau de Puligny Montrachet Bourgogne Rouge 2004. I liked it a lot. It had that sort of herbal, grassy taste to it, but not too much and some fruit as well. The guy in the shop called it earthy.

― youn, Sunday, 1 July 2007 00:38 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

Monte Degli Angeli Barolo 2003 - at $28 probably the only barolo I can afford - "brighten the corners"

― youn, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 23:11 (eighteen years ago)

that's a compliment

― youn, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 23:12 (eighteen years ago)

I fucking love Barolo.
Gigondas, this evening, I'm not entirely sold.

― Matt, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 23:13 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

We had a fantastic wine at our first anniversary dinner - a 2001 Cavatappi Maddalena (nebiolo grapes). It's a Yakima Valley, WA wine and some internet searching suggests it isn't very widely available, unfortunately, but if you live in WA you should try to track it down.

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks for that Hurting 2, I'll see if I can find a bottle or two. We had thought about doing an eastern WA wine trip later this month, but are postponing due to moving house.

― Jaq, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

http://winehounds.com/catalog/index.php/cPath/55

This site has two Cavatappi wines. I can't order wine by internet anyway, being as I live in NJ.

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

I had a glass of 2004 Rock Rabbit Shiraz with dinner on Saturday. Really nice, full fruit tastes with some, but not a full measure, of the pepper and earth tones that the California Central Coast wines are known for. It went excellent with my bone-in strip cooked rare.

I think you can get bottles of it for under 15.

― B.L.A.M., Tuesday, 4 September 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

Hurting
if you're ever in Rockland,NY there is one of the best wine shops i'v ever been to there.

― carne asada, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

This Place
i'm only pimping this place cuz the guy is super nice and helpful whether it be a $10 bottle or a $300 bottle

― carne asada, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

beaujolais!!!

― youn, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 23:44 (eighteen years ago)

sorry, not that exciting

― youn, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 23:44 (eighteen years ago)

*jumps up and down*

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 01:19 (eighteen years ago)

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