Tasting Notes

[Peter Czyryca]

Here's a classic tasting note we can all appreciate (from CT):

2003 Smith Haut Lafite:
Is this Bordeaux? Ripe berry nose gives way to a full-bodied, sweet, ripe new-world red with little to no noticeable tannins. Just a touch of earth buried under the gobs of fruit. Good, but if I wanted this, I'd have spent half the price on an Aussie bomb.

Guess what the taster "rated" it?

90 pts.

Points rule.

 

[Joe Perry]

Smith Haut Lafite makes red wine?

 

[Joe Dressner]

Joe:

Its great to see that people from the Food Forum are joining in here at the wine forum.

Welcome aboard,

Joe

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by Joe Perry:
The world wyrm, well done.

It isn't better sushi? Joel?

 

[Thor]

Smith Haut Lafite makes red wine?

In a manner of speaking.

Claude Kolm is a huge fan.

 

[Chris Coad]

originally posted by Peter Czyryca:
Here's a classic tasting note we can all appreciate (from CT):

Who or what in the world is "CT"? Clyde Tolson?

 

[Jeff Grossman]

I took it for the Campus Times, the newspaper at my undergraduate college.

 

[Putnam Weekley]

Can. Not. Keep. Up. With. The inside. Jokes.

My fault. Sorry.

 

[Chris Coad]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
I took it for the Campus Times, the newspaper at my undergraduate college.

Cool, I'd totally missed their wine coverage. Thanks, Jeff!

 

[Chris Coad]

originally posted by Putnam Weekley:
Can. Not. Keep. Up. With. The inside. Jokes.

My fault. Sorry.

Ooh! I'm so outside that I didn't even realize there were inside jokes. Care to elaborate a little bit to help out those of us who always miss those kinds of things?

 

[MLipton]

originally posted by Chris Coad:

originally posted by Peter Czyryca:
Here's a classic tasting note we can all appreciate (from CT):

Who or what in the world is "CT"? Clyde Tolson?

Uhh... Connecticut? Outr, I realize, but sometimes youse just gotta call 'em as you sees 'em.

Mark Lipton

 

[Jeff Grossman]

Must... resist... joke... about... three... Semantics profsumpires...

 

[Joe Perry]

I love playing too cool for school! What does ASAP stand for? DMV? MTV? Fuck acronyms, they are the highway to hipsterism.

Long live feigned idiotism!

 

[Chris Coad]

originally posted by Joe Perry:
I love playing too cool for school! What does ASAP stand for? DMV? MTV? Fuck acronyms, they are the highway to hipsterism.

Long live feigned idiotism!

Those are easy. ASAP=As Soon As Possible, usually. I'm not sure about the others in wine talk, unless you mean DMV like the Department of Motor Vehicles and MTV like the TV network.

So, Mr. Smartypants, who is "CT"?

 

[Rahsaan]

originally posted by Chris Coad:
So, Mr. Smartypants, who is "CT"?

How about this for a URL:

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www.cellartracker.com

Although I should know in advance that it obviously won't function in any Chris Coad browser.

 

[Chris Coad]

That looks like some kind of software. This is a software-generated note?

Oh, never mind. Whatever. Forget I asked.

 

[Joe Dressner]

I also had no idea what CT was.

 

[mlawton]

originally posted by Joe Perry:
I love playing too cool for school! What does ASAP stand for? DMV? MTV? Fuck acronyms, they are the highway to hipsterism.

Long live feigned idiotism!

A Syrah and a Pinot. I think it's a new hipster winery in California.

DMV=Drink more Viognier, it's the new sponsor of Hospice du Rhone

MTV=Mumm, Tattinger and Veuve Clicquot. It's a new trade organization dedicated to the homogenization of Champagne and the promotion of "tete de cuvee" consumption by hip-hop stars.

 

[Chris Coad]

originally posted by Joe Dressner:
I also had no idea what CT was.

We are brothers in apparently feigned idiotism, it seems. Nice.

 

[David M. Bueker]

originally posted by Joe Perry:
Smith Haut Lafite makes red wine?

They don't, but Smith Haut Lafitte does.