Mike Dashe's L'Enfant Terrible

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Joe Dressner

Joe Dressner
It's a silly name but a great wine.

Gouleyant and proof that you can find terroir in California to envelope and expresse the vine. This is not an intense heat, blistering sun, irrigated fertile soil transmitter but a high altitude, lower alcohol, zinfandel fruit bomb that you can compulsively and endlessly drink.

What a surprising wine and optimistic view of America's wine future! There have to be more sites like this! We need an intrepid explorer to find and bottle more of them.

Mike Dashe rocks!

I drank a bottle at Terroir, the great wine bar/retailer of San Francisco and then immediately bought 23 cases for personal consumption, Thanksgiving dinners and Christmas gifts.

I believe this means I own nearly 4.2% of the production.

A geek drinking at Terroir had bought a bottle of 1975 Joseph Swan Zinfandel, even further proof that there is potential to make good and even great wine in California! Who would have guessed!
 
originally posted by Joe Dressner:
A geek drinking at Terroir had bought a bottle of 1975 Joseph Swan Zinfandel, even further proof that there is potential to make good and even great wine in California! Who would have guessed!
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That wine wasn't exactly shy in the alcohol department...somewhere over 15% if I recall (or maybe that was the 76?) but it's not surprising to see that it's still hanging in there. Swan's 76-78 pinots were pretty good too.

Bought three bottles of L'Enfant Terrible directly from Dashe because nobody else seemed to have it in stock and the price was right and he seems like a nice guy who could make use of the full margin. Looking forward to trying it tomorrow night.

-Eden (last night's 1984 Forman cabernet also showed that CA has the potential to make great wine - or at least did at one time)
 
originally posted by Eden Mylunsch:Eden (last night's 1984 Forman cabernet also showed that CA has the potential to make great wine - or at least did at one time)
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Love those Forman's, Eden and glad to see that the Politburo, in their infinite wisdom, let you in.
 
originally posted by Joe Dressner:
A geek drinking at Terroir had bought a bottle of 1975 Joseph Swan Zinfandel, even further proof that there is potential to make good and even great wine in California!
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I got a healthy pour of that myself. Thanks Jim!
And Eden, the alcohol was indeed not invisible. The wine was definitely hanging in there and very good, though.
 
I bought a couple of these at Chambers Street right before their move in response/anticipation to all the early hype. Opened one that night and was sadly
disapointed. I found the wine hot, belying its 13.8% quoted alcohol content, muddy and disjointed, the fruit was bubblegum like without a proper structure of acid or tannin to balance it out - not unlike other Dashe wines I have tasted. This is far from a wine I would compare to anything Pacalet produces.

Maybe a bad bottle? Maybe suffering the same inconsistency of other low sulfur producers? I really wanted to like this wine, I doubt I'll buy again.
 
Swan is good stuff. It's a shame their licensing is wacky so they don't ship to NY.

I'm letting mes Enfants rest a bit: after a cross-country journey, they'll need some settling-down time.
 
Anyone other than me suddenly see posts in giant fonts from JasonA's post and including Jeff's? My settings haven't changed, 75%, but these last two posts are in an enormous font. I'm on IE, fwiw.
 
Everything looks normal to me. I've read the source of this page; nothing funny in there.

Did you visit a site that someone provided the clickie for? Perhaps your stylesheets are out of whack?

Try flushing the cache. (If you don't know how to do that in IE: click on the menu bar Tools -> Internet Options, then Delete... in the Browsing history section, then Delete All in the popup.)

Also, do you have a screen-magnifier that might be on?
 
I have the giant font, too.

Lemme experiment:

How's that?

...yes, as suspected: an extra h1 tag in Coad's post. Not sure why, unless he added it himself.
 
I liked the Dashe zin a lot, but don't think it is the second coming, but certainly promising. It wouldn't surprise me if the bottles moved all over the place. I've only had it at Terroir in SF.

I think that the Politburo should ban Dressner for using the word "slurpable". It is totally disgusting. If I were in charge, he'd be shot.
 
Nathan; Joe was merely channeling Kermit, I think, sucking him into the vortex that is wine consciousness, in the context of disorder, amid the frenzy of many disembodied voices, out the window of your mind.
Don't be concerned...
 
originally posted by VLM:
I liked the Dashe zin a lot, but don't think it is the second coming, but certainly promising. It wouldn't surprise me if the bottles moved all over the place. I've only had it at Terroir in SF.

I think that the Politburo should ban Dressner for using the word "slurpable". It is totally disgusting. If I were in charge, he'd be shot.
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OK, that's the last time I will use slurpable.
 
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