Live blogging: Soul Flavors

Look, it's Brad, Sharon and Coad all in one live thread! I think the only elements missing are cast members from Battlestar Gallactica and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and maybe a character from the His Dark Materials series, to complete this universe.
 
originally posted by Bwood:
Look, it's Brad, Sharon and Coad all in one live thread! I think the only elements missing are cast members from Battlestar Gallactica and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and maybe a character from the His Dark Materials series, to complete this universe.
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This is a group you celebrate? You should set your sights higher in life.
In retrospect Sharon might make the cut but she'll have to keep better company.
Just a passing observation, nothing personal.
 
Other wines included:

a good 1995 Brundlmayer Brut
a really good Condrieu
a really good 2007 Fritz Haag Spatlese
1990 Verset Cornas (WOTN)
a disappointing 1998 La Dominique
a disappointing 1995 Mayacamas Merlot
a good but nothing special 1998 Muller Catoir Mussbacher Eselshaut Rieslaner Auslese
a horrifying 1995 Armagh something or other

Perhaps other people can help fill in the blanks. There was a good white that other people seemed to recognize and a dessert wine Brad brought that was pretty uninteresting.
 
2002 Faury Condrieu. And I have to say that while others appreciated it, I was not a fan. A piney, lemon Pine-Sol thing going on.

The mystery white was a 2005 Gulfi Carjcanti. Not performing as well as I've had it. (In Paris.)
 
originally posted by Lou Kessler:
originally posted by Bwood:
Look, it's Brad, Sharon and Coad all in one live thread! I think the only elements missing are cast members from Battlestar Gallactica and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and maybe a character from the His Dark Materials series, to complete this universe.
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This is a group you celebrate? You should set your sights higher in life.
In retrospect Sharon might make the cut but she'll have to keep better company.
Just a passing observation, nothing personal.
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Nah, I aspire to nothing better at all. I enjoy all the Coad-created characters and find the accounts of their get-togethers compelling reading.

Tonight I read about Pip dining with Wemmick. It was a similarly enjoyable account.
 
The Condrieu was good of its kind, but I'm not sure I wouldn't personally have consumed it sooner. Viognier doesn't have enough acid for me in general.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
A piney, lemon Pine-Sol thing going on.
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As you know, that was exactly my feeling, too, but even under the best circumstances I'm not the biggest fan of Viognier. In fact, that's also why I'm generally not the biggest fan of Faury's Cote-Rotie because I believe he typically uses around 15% Viognier.
 
originally posted by Bwood:

Nah, I aspire to nothing better at all. I enjoy all the Coad-created characters and find the accounts of their get-togethers compelling reading.

Tonight I read about Pip dining with Wemmick. It was a similarly enjoyable account.
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I can only hope that Chris is developing the Disorder Universe answer to the Aged P...
 
originally posted by Steve Guattery:
originally posted by Bwood:

Nah, I aspire to nothing better at all. I enjoy all the Coad-created characters and find the accounts of their get-togethers compelling reading.

Tonight I read about Pip dining with Wemmick. It was a similarly enjoyable account.
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I can only hope that Chris is developing the Disorder Universe answer to the Aged P...
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And Uncle Pumblechook. Wait, there's already.....nevermind.
 
originally posted by Jay Miller:
Hmph. Well I happen to like viognier.

Lots of acidity isn't necessarily ... um ... necessary.
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Oh, sure, I don't assert it as some sort of universal. Just for me.
 
originally posted by Levi Dalton:
Gulfi Carjcante 2005 is usually a smile maker. Too bad it wasn't this time around.
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It wasn't bad. A bit more oak than I'd like, but pleasant flavors and minerality.
 
originally posted by Brad Kane:
originally posted by Levi Dalton:
Gulfi Carjcante 2005 is usually a smile maker. Too bad it wasn't this time around.
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It wasn't bad. A bit more oak than I'd like, but pleasant flavors and minerality.
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Yes, it didn't thrill me but it certainly got much better with air.
 
originally posted by Jay Miller:
originally posted by Brad Kane:
originally posted by Levi Dalton:
Gulfi Carjcante 2005 is usually a smile maker. Too bad it wasn't this time around.
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It wasn't bad. A bit more oak than I'd like, but pleasant flavors and minerality.
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Yes, it didn't thrill me but it certainly got much better with air.
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Hmm, oaky, haven't heard or experienced that. Interesting. I like a little wood in my whites.
 
originally posted by Levi Dalton:
Gulfi Carjcante 2005 is usually a smile maker. Too bad it wasn't this time around.
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Yeah, the two times I had it in Paris recently, it was really good stuff.

VLM, a bit of oak. I found it pretty Burgundian.

But not at Soul Flavors, where it was wan and washed-out, to my tastes.
 
As far as I can discern, the Gulfi Carjcante '05 was made of three batches blened together, one fermented in stainless steel, one in 3 yr or so oak barrels, and one in new oak.

I have taken to describing it and the much more reductive '06 as Macon-like.
 
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