The Wine Thread -- what have you been drinking?

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.

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

that's a compliment

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

beaujolais!!!

sorry, not that exciting

*jumps up and down*

Ok not really

http://www.winecountry.it/assets/articles/oursways/HPpinotNoir.jpg

At a wine tasting last night, I had:

Chateau du Pin 2004 (good Bordeaux)
Chateau Chapelle Maracan 2002
Blackneck Carmenere 2005
Xama Che Malbec 2003
Yarrawood Shiraz 2005

My favorites were the Chateau du Pin and the Yarrawood.

I am that rare sketchy dude who sticks to whites, even with heavy savory foods... reds always taste too young and undeveloped to me, unless I wanna spend $50+ which is never.

I want to buy a few (cheapish) bottles of wine while I'm in Israel next week to bring back to the States. Any recommendations? (Cheese, too. I hear there's a great cheese stall in the shuk.)

I really like Macaroni Grill brand Chianti, which I can usually get for like $12/ltr at my formerly local liquor store.

If you like white wines, look for Ken Forrester Petite Chenin from South Africa. Much like The Shins, it will change your life.

St. Francis Merlot, relatively cheap at $20 and is really nice.

Dude, New Year's was an embarassment of riches at the BLAM house.

Mrs. BLAM and I had a bottle of 2001 Opus One, and a bottle of 1999 Chateau D'Yquem. Fois gras, roquefort, steak, and asparagus along side.

That liquor bill would have been inching towards a grand, IF we hadn't recieved both as gifts.

You have some very generous friends, man. Damn!

Seriously. It was pretty great to recieve both of these within a short period of time.

any thoughts on portuguese wines? there's been a lot of stuff around the last few years, douro valley. i've had some pretty good bottles, but totally going on guess work with it.

I used to stock that Forrester Chenin, back in the day.

If you're off to Israel then you're not too far from Chateau Musar country. Now that's a beast of a wine, impossible to describe without starting to gush. Gaston Hochar also makes a slightly less nuts version, Hochar Pere et fils, which is less scary to drink and somewhat easier on the wallet.

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I'm drinking a lot of Touriga Nacional at the moment, portugal is totally underrated

this blog post is interesting in re touriga nacional. (also i didn't know about the spanish wine shop he mentions, need to check that out.)

anything good at costco? my friend was telling me about the 2004 Léoville-Las-Cases, St-Julien (#6 in Wine Spectator top 100 wines for 2007, 95-100 points Wine Spectator, 90-92 points Robert Parker) but at $115, it's a little/totally out of my price range.

The best thing about wine is that it has its own way of coming down - namely, tannins - so you don't have to smoke. Not that I would ever want to. Chateau Commanderie Du Bardelet Bordeaux 2005. Did I get it all in the right order?

Not that I would ever want to, lol

well, who would?

then again, I don't know what 'coming down' means, here, not that I would ever want to.

answer to question, tonight: a bottle of Terres de Galets Cotes du Rhone. someone's got to do it.

wine snobbery is the dangerous borderland of ilx opinionating

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, September 4, 2007 9:11 PM (6 months ago)

I've had some good experiences with this one. It's made up of excess grapes from some high-end vineyards and is a great deal when it works. (Same with Castle Rock.)

I found a good deal on 10 bottles of 2001 Failla Syrah from the Que Syrah vineyard on the Sonoma Coast. Parker gave this one an 85 and wrote a negative review, so winemaker Ehren Jordan stopped making it -- basically, instead of the rich jamminess of warm-climate Syrah it's got the green-olive sourness of a cool-climate Syrah. I love this stuff. Brought a magnum of it to dinner at Jaymc's place on New Year's Eve, and he's got the bottle on his mantle.