Recent content by Ned Hoey

Just the other day I went with Les Capriades pet nat rosé. Worked very well.

Yes if I may. Although I have been good about drinking what needs drinking, I have a few that qualify.

Almost a convergence.

Mmm ... they could, however as long as it isn't a red, there'll be hardly anything but glass to clean up. I had a bottle of rosé from Burgundy break in my bag, but the extreme dehumidification of the plane's air dried it all up by the time we arrived. The wine was gone, only glass remained. No...

Those CA retailers use linked but separate business entities for their direct imports (well, probably not Rare Wine Co) AND have no national distribution business as wholesalers themselves, which KLWM does. It's that particular difference between KLWM and the others that probably triggers some...

Well, it's a civil suit, so Greenberg has been ordered to pay Koch what he paid for the wine at the auction is all. The State would have to pursue a fraud charge in a criminal prosecution, which also has a higher burden of proof for him to be "guilty of fraud". That might mean getting, um...

A bootle of the 2001 opened about a year ago was fortunately not afflicted and great. Very much an evolving example of the note. I think one more remains. We'll have to try that one out sometime Slaton. Maybe, hopefully, my lucky streak will continue, trumping your unlucky one and not vice versa.

Ha, I do believe I've been there, actually. We indeed ordered that 05 Rougeard (very fine) and Metras (nice) as well. They were apparently fresh out of the Overnoy, imagine that. I don't think we had pizza though. A bunch of bottles were opened, that kinda obscured my memory of the food but I...

He did say, "the really good stuff", So given that, and setting aside the exception aspect, couldn't it also be said that those cherished particulars eventually give way to something less specific but delicious simply as Wine. I sure do cherish those when they come along. Then it's just a...

From the ground up!

Les Picasses straddles a low rolling ridge line running east-west that tops out at about 60m. It's about 1km north (and about .5 km east) of Beaumont en Veron centre, whose immediate surroundings are at about 35-45m. What I took away from a couple of visits to Chinon earlier this year was that...

Thanks. I did see this one. Initially it seemed like more than I wanted to spend to be getting a slightly better roast of the same quantity I was doing basically for free. To see what machines might be able to do larger batches, I checked out the smallest of the "pro" roasters out there...

Last year I went DIY on my stovetop too. Works well, but it is a less evenly roasted finished product. That does not seem to be a problem, seems to be fine for espresso. If you can cook bacon just how you like consistently, then you can roast beans and the amount of smoke/smell is roughly...

Radical price increases are lamentable of course, but my first thought at seeing the thread title was that the esca virus had spread in some new alarming way. So I guess that um, I'm relieved? Beaune Imports began importing to the Bay Area with either the '98 or '99 vintage. For Loire wines...

My girlfriend at the time got me to go see them at the Fox-Warfield in SF in August '81 (when it still had its original orchestra seating, prior to the "club" conversion). I was very impressed. The songs were even better live. I even recorded the show. Unfortunately it's only a barely acceptable...