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I'm sure there's some wine drinkers in here...A new foray into Spanish wines has sparked my wine interest recently. I just bought a case of this today...great stuff and not too expensive. It's actually Portugese but close enough.
and I bought a couple bottles of this one as well, kinda pricey but wow! fuckin amazing stuff. Thinking of buying a case just cause it's that shit you'll break out for special occasions once or twice a year.
what kind of stuff you guys drinkin, and plaese to not post any 2 buck chuck jpg's, thanks. haha
and I bought a couple bottles of this one as well, kinda pricey but wow! fuckin amazing stuff. Thinking of buying a case just cause it's that shit you'll break out for special occasions once or twice a year.what kind of stuff you guys drinkin, and plaese to not post any 2 buck chuck jpg's, thanks. haha
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I am on my way to a party right now, but I promise I will get cold retarded with this thread tomorrow. Lots of pictures and big baller wines! Spanish Riojas are fantastic and a great value. I am about to get a couple bottles to take to the party.
Muga Riojas are so dope and on point. Had a chilled Muga Rioja Blanco with dinner last weekend and it was very nice. Also check out Conde De Valdemar and Lorinon Riojas. Very good and not too expensive.
he was real in to cali wines. i know they dont last as long, but he liked them. his wine buddies always ragged on him for not being more into french wines. maybe he knew he wouldnt be around long enough to drink them when they were ready...
one of the last things he did though was to buy a couple bottles of 2003 beau castil(sp?) for my niece's 21st birthday. they are supposed to hold up, guess we'll see in 2024!
real pimps carry winelists into the bathroom and take advantage of that Verizon Wireless
Chan, holler about some french wines, I don't know what I'm doing but I like!
i'm trying to get into spanish wines a little more since i was just there and i tended to enjoy them. 20 cents a glass for rioja in the rioja--and they were solid. spanish wines just tend to be a little too alcoholic for me--above 14 percent and the alcohol tends to coat the palate and starts to get in the way of the wine IMO.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordeaux_Wine_Official_Classification_of_1855
but these fools i know here do catering, usually really nice parties too. very sophisticated. they get steal an unbelievable amount of wine and liquor. some of the shit they come away with is ridiculous though - vintage 1969, 1981, etc., i mean $300 bottles of wine on the regular. they just keep them around for when they bring girls back home. what a fucking fantastic way to impress a girl huh ....
i actually had the opportunity to drink a 1976 rausan-segla about 6 months ago. a gift from friends of my parents who have been buying bordeaux's from back in the late 60s and kick bottles down to friends and family as they reach maturity. (obviously nice folks). anyway it was crazy to drink something that was older than me. the thing was it wasn't a mindblowing wine or anything. it just tasted like a young average to above average french table wine. but the mindblowing thing was that it was 30 years old. it started to fade rapidly after about an hour of opening but i still can't get over how fresh and young it came on. i haven't been around long enough to experience too many older wines, but i definitely got a glimpse of how beautiful of a thing they can potentially be.
but not so great when it comes to hangovers
Also temperature is key, most people either drink their wine too cold or too warm. Red wine should be at 15C/60F for heavier varieties, so slightly below room temperature (15-20 mins in fridge will do). White should be colder but not be fridge cold, trick is let it warm for 20 mins or so before serving if it's at fridge temperature. DON'T STORE YOUR WHITES IN THE FRIDGE, only put it in there when you're prepared to drink it that day.
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NICE!!!!!!
I try.....
btw I think I'm eating at le bernardin next week. I am excited.
very nice. I think my roomate and I are going to eat at Jar next week. One of his homies is the sommalier there.
" New World wins again in a vintage rematch
By Sally Pook
(Filed: 25/05/2006)
At the time it was unthinkable. French wine, surely the finest in the world, was put to a blind taste test against the best California could offer.
It was 1976, the tasting was in Paris, and wine from the New World was considered no better than cheap Retsina. Imagine the heart-stopping moment, then, when nine experts, all French, ruled that Californian wine was superior.
"You cannot underestimate how much the 1976 tasting shocked, and then revolutionised, the wine industry," said Steven Spurrier, who staged the event. "It was iconic, the first chink in France's armour, and a huge, huge shock."
The Judgment of Paris, as it has become known, was re-enacted yesterday, 30 years to the day after the original, with two teams of tasters in London and the Napa Valley, California, thanks to Mr Spurrier's wit and ingenuity.
The London tasting, held in the cellars of Berry Bros & Rudd in Piccadilly, included all of the original red wines tasted in 1976, along with new French and Californian wines, representing the best that has emerged from the two regions over the past 30 years.
Part of the point of the exercise was to see whether the 1970s Californian reds had aged as well as the great Bordeaux first growths. The views of nine of the best European tasters will be made known today.
Jasper Morris, one of only 250 Masters of Wine in the world, and the buying director of Berry Bros, said: "The Judgment of Paris was a wake-up call to the French.
"Wine-growers prone to complacency were forced to smarten up their act but it was also a rallying cry to other potential wine-growing countries."
At the time of the judgment, Mr Spurrier was running a small wine shop in Paris, the only Englishman to do so. He considered a Californian wine-tasting a suitable way to celebrate the American Bicentennial - and thought it would be fun to test it against the French.
At the tasting of 10 red and 10 white wines, evenly split between French and American in both classes, the panel awarded the top place in both categories to Californian wine. A Chateau Montelena Chardonnay 1973 topped the white wines, beating famous French names such as Puligny-Montrachet.
In the red category, a Stag's Leap Cabernet-Sauvignon 1973, now unobtainable, beat names such as Chateau Mouton-Rothschild 1973 (now roughly ??100 a bottle).
There was only one journalist there. The French media stayed away, assuming the result would be a bore.
George Taber, of Time, did attend, mostly, it was said, because he was on a wine tasting course. He had a scoop."
BTW Californian wines won again in the rematch.
that's dope. Stags Leap is one of my favorite Cabernets.
My stepdad bought a case of Heitz '95 Martha's Vineyard Cabernet, drinking that is what really got me started on wine. That shit was like $150 a bottle and it was gooooooooood. After doing a little research I found out that Heitz and Stags Leap share the same plot of land where they grow the grapes so I decided to try out their Cabernet, really really good.
I've heard from more than one wine salesman that those 2 are the best Cabs to come out of Napa which really isn't a region known for it's Cabernets.
A bottle of any of the recent vintages of Stags Leap will set you back like $40-$50, not too bad and it's a great wine.
Cas and I stepped our wine game up with this little number, I set the temp according to what kind of wine I'm storing in there, it's frrrreeeesssshhhhh.
except it was the 2002 not the 2001. Went to a really good liquor store in my area to find it and he ended up recommending the first 2 I mentioned in the thread starter. This one is really good too.
They're wines that are still being tested on the public before a release.