Wine Geekery

[neufox47]

Nice tip. Looks like Cameron bought a yacht with some of his De Negoce money. Lol.


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[chaka]

Is there anything from Amador that isn't a fruit bomb? Years ago when I lived in Auburn we were so excited to visit the area. We brought back a bunch of bottles purchased in the excitement of the moment during fun tastings, only to decide during the eventual consumption of said bottles that we didn't really care for any enough to re-purchase. Its been awhile, I just recall most being super fruit forward and one dimensional.

[XXX-er]

I think we sent all your wine back but IME NZ wines from the Marlborough region are worth checking out, my go-tos are Stoneleigh Pinot gris and fo red their Pinot noir

[liv2ski]

It's wine club shipment season and my goodness, I just have to say for my taste buds, the zins coming out of Paso Robles are just so up my alley.

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[irul&ublo]

Just cracked a bottle of the De Negoce Vonsee Romanee…delicious


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[irul&ublo]

Didn’t taste any pencil lead though


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[Cruiser]

Had some nice pencil lead going on in both of the cab francs in this lineup from this morning. The Saumur was mighty good.

[cravenmorhead]

Bell pepper is one of the few flavor characteristics that I don't like at all in wine, so I've pretty much given up on cab franc.

[irul&ublo]

Bell pepper is one of the few flavor characteristics that I don't like at all in wine, so I've pretty much given up on cab franc.

Try a Chinon from the Loire


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[Cruiser]

So I guess the pics are still not working on the app. Is that shit ever gonna get fixed cuz this place is a hell of a lot more interesting with pics?

[chaka]

A few nice bottles last night... The library Ridge stole the show.

[ripvw]

https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/win...SRFM1NBRYXGDSQ

If you can get around the pay wall, pretty sobering article about the condition of the Sierra foothills wine region.

[skaredshtles]

https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/win...SRFM1NBRYXGDSQ If you can get around the pay wall, pretty sobering article about the condition of the Sierra foothills wine region.

Get around the paywall: https://archive.ph/S0goG

[PB]

Library ridge .....Since most of us can't see them, which ones and what vintages?

[Cruiser]

Virtually every winery in California is oversupplied right now. So many of these guys sold fruit or juice into the bulk market to diversify their revenue steam but the bulk market is dead because everyone has plenty of wine to sell already.

If my business was growing bulk wine grapes in Lodi I would be looking for something really tall to jump off of. I know of a grower in Stags Leap who was getting $18k per ton for her fruit 3 years ago but couldn't even find a buyer for it for $6k last fall. She ended up letting most of it hang cuz she didn't want to spend the money to harvest it without a buyer lined up.

[chaka]

PB: yeah, sorry about the pic fail, thought tapatalk would work. three wines, not all Ridge:2018 Lachini Estate pinot noir2014 Covalli Barolo2009 Ridge Lytton Estate petit sirahAll very different, all very enjoyable.