The Wine Thread -- what have you been drinking?

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

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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.

Chateau de Bonhoste Bordeaux 2004 - I think this is mostly Merlot. There is something that I would call cassis but I don't even know if that's the right taste that bordeaux wines that I like have which this wine has which makes me really happy overall after a day that pretty much sucks not because of outright horror but because of waste and attrition and lack of progress. Except I got Talking Heads 77 yesterday and that was really good.

on vynl?

I have been drinking Liberty School Central Coast Syrah. pret-ty, pret-ty good.

mas carlot marsanne-roussanne (with oranges!)

I lucked into lamb kabobs and an '85 Beaucastel.

Bargetto gewurtz on Sunday, some sort of 2006 house Rioja last night and 2/3rds bottle of Red Truck tonight. Beaucoups rosé (Fronton/Negrettes) in the fridge for if it ever warms back up outside. Also several different viogniers.

I am pretty sad the Red Truck bottle is empty ;_;

I read about honey served with ricotta in a Brooklyn restaurant. I had started eating ricotta again because that was the only kind of fat free cheese at Shaw's worth buying, and it was so much better than I remembered it. I thought it would have curds for some reason. Anyway, I got this Domaine Pichot Vouvray 2006 without knowing what Vouvray is and it was too sweet like honey so I thought of buying ricotta cheese again today and had it with the wine and it was really good. I had strawberries, too, but would have had peaches if they were ripe, but they are harvested rock hard for industrial farm production.

Saxon Brown Semillon 2006

some summer whites: assorted vinho verdes and sauvignon blancs (and the odd prosecco)
standby reds: assorted garnachas

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recommended

dadrza recommends St. Nicolas de Bourgeuil but sez is hard to find in us ;(

need to pick a good thanksgiving wine. not feeling the beaujolais vinegar.

http://www.wine.com/wineshop/product_list.asp?N=7155%201075&hid=HP_G_ThanksgivingWine&mode=xfer

my default cheap red has become the vinos sin ley garnacha line. i've only had the g1 and g2, but they're good.

anyone know the bogle wines? someone recommended them for a decent cheap bottle.

Finishing the bottle now:

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Paul Autard Cotes du Rhone - highly recommended

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man, I really liked the Whitehaven Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand

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