Wine Geekery

[alpinevibes]

89 and 90 Sauternes “Cerons” on Garagiste right now. So much for my wine buying moratorium.


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Yup, I succumbed on four of the Not Black Friday offers...

[Buke]

I wish I would have bought a few bottles of the 30 yr Tawny that Garagiste was hawking a couple weeks ago. It would have made a great gift for a couple people this holiday season but literally the night before my wife and I had gone through the closet full of wine and agreed that we were on a wine buying freeze. C'est la vie, there will be more opportunities.

We picked up this port in Yountville a couple summers ago. Opened it a couple nights ago. It's really pleasant.

Ignore the mattress against the wall. We turned the spare bedroom into the home office at the beginning of the pandemic and don't have anywhere else to store it.

[Art Shirk]

I kinda like the mattress idea. Especially if you have too much port.


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[liv2ski]

So one of the unexpected pleasures of our trip to Paso Robles a month ago was Dark Star Winery. Enjoying a glass of their Zin at the moment. I love me some jammy zin.

[oftpiste]

Big fan of the Colheitas

[Grange]

I just got back from A trip to Europe including Portugal and we did a port tasting at Taylor Fladgate. We tried their 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 year old tawny port. I'm not much of a port guy, but the 20, 40, and 50 yr were great. Very complex and the older it was the longer it took for the wood notes to come through and then linger longer. The 10 year was not nearly as complex and the 30 year had a bitter note that wasn't my favorite. My travel mates picked up the 40 yr and I bought the 20 year as they didn't have a small bottle in the 50 year. I didn't want to spend around $400 for a full sized bottle of the 50 yr.
We'll be doing a port tasting over Christmas and the 20 and 40 year should get a good reception from everyone.

[neufox47]

No vintage ports?


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[Grange]

I didn't pick up any, but someone else picked up one from the year they got married.

[oftpiste]

Opened this big (3L) boy last night. No idea where it came from which is weird, because I know where pretty much everything else down there did. Oh well! It OK, labeled as a Zin but drink closer to Pinot Noir. This is kinda weird.....

[schindlerpiste]

[irul&ublo]

Godfuckingdamnit, I want to drink wine at Schindlerpiste’s.

[oftpiste]

2018 foolish pussy!

[liv2ski]

Godfuckingdamnit, I want to drink wine at Schindlerpiste’s.

He would fit right in at Casa L2S. Many excellent bottles were consumed including A Brunello, an Amarone, a Chateauneuf du Pape, a Justin Isosceles, A Tobie Blue Moon Petit Sarah, and an incredible Croad Grenache.
I hope you all had a great Christmas. Our present was a day late, but we received our first grand daughter today at 11am. Mom and daughter are doing great.

[Buster Highmen]

Our present was a day late, but we received our first grand daughter today at 11am. Mom and daughter are doing great.

congrats l2s

[liv2ski]

Thanks Buster

[ghosthop]

Christmas Day we had rosé of ungrafted, old vine Mosel Spätburgunder (Pinot Noir) and also Alsace Gewürztraminer in the style of Vin jaune. Rosé was from 2020, we were turned onto aging our rosés for a season after release and most of the time it is the right call. Gewürz was something special from 2016 and totally singing.

Some of the bottles we bought over the pandemic are really starting to come into their own. And a few times I have noticed wines that are too young when before I couldn’t tell the difference. Making progress.

No bottle shots because tgr hates ios 16.

[alpinevibes]

A couple of bottles of grower champagne and some White Bordeaux to accompany some Hamma Hamma oysters and our Feast of Seven Fishes


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[oftpiste]

Insert clapping hands emoji.

Christmas Day we had rosé of ungrafted, old vine Mosel Spätburgunder (Pinot Noir) and also Alsace Gewürztraminer in the style of Vin jaune. Rosé was from 2020, we were turned onto aging our rosés for a season after release and most of the time it is the right call. Gewürz was something special from 2016 and totally singing.

Some of the bottles we bought over the pandemic are really starting to come into their own. And a few times I have noticed wines that are too young when before I couldn’t tell the difference. Making progress.

No bottle shots because tgr hates ios 16.

[Art Shirk]

Went through far too many bottles last night but this was the stand out.

Anyone else had their wines: https://www.phillipshill.com/Wines




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[whipski]

one thing I know let those old Italian grapes breathe

[Cruiser]

Pulled this out of the cellar to decant while my rack of lamb was in the sous vide cooker and it was corked

[Cruiser]

Dug around and found an acceptable substitute cuz the lamb is ready for the grill

[whipski]

Somehow we suffer through

[Kenny Satch]

This wine taste great and it does not give me gout.
Goes with anything.

Also Three Thieves Pinot Noir is a light wine and not a powerful taste but it shines it you let breathe for an hour or longer. The next day if some is left over it always tastes better and it also causes me no gout.

[oftpiste]

fucking corked wine, amiright?

Popped an '05 Ridge Montebello the other night with some Peruvian food at a resto in PDX. It's drinking dandy.