Pow! Right in the kisser

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:

We're still (still!) muddling through '06s, with drips of '07s, at the one or two purveyors of CRB in these lands.
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So odd. It's not as though they make 20,000 cases. And they sell out fast at the winery.

But I guess if the retail outlet can't move '07 they may not run out to buy '08.

Are they relatively expensive?
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
originally posted by David M. Bueker:
I thought this was about wine. Then I found out it was about Sauvignon Blanc.
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Cory, is that you?
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I actually sort of in a weird way like CRB's sauvignon blanc. It tastes like wine and real rock candy, which then reminds me of Wallace stegner, and how can that not put a nice smile on your face?
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:

We're still (still!) muddling through '06s, with drips of '07s, at the one or two purveyors of CRB in these lands.
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So odd. It's not as though they make 20,000 cases. And they sell out fast at the winery.

But I guess if the retail outlet can't move '07 they may not run out to buy '08.

Are they relatively expensive?
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I think that despite the hipsterization of unheralded appellations, "Touraine" still suffers in France on the image front. Especially Touraine that costs twice other Touraines, even if it's 10x as good. Or more.

I think they go for 10? Something like that? Reds less, and the Gamay, f'rinstance, is distributed in a chain of organic food stores called Naturalia. I guess I shouldn't say "reds," because all of theirs I've seen in Paris have been Gamay at Naturalia and Sauvignon Blanc at Lavinia and a small wine store in the 2nd whose name I forget. I have to get the fix in Valaire or NY.
 
Nobody likes CRB in France. You ask for it and you get some lecture on something or other and then you're forced drink lambic pet-nat. It's ridiculous.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
originally posted by SFJoe:
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:

We're still (still!) muddling through '06s, with drips of '07s, at the one or two purveyors of CRB in these lands.
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So odd. It's not as though they make 20,000 cases. And they sell out fast at the winery.

But I guess if the retail outlet can't move '07 they may not run out to buy '08.

Are they relatively expensive?
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I think that despite the hipsterization of unheralded appellations, "Touraine" still suffers in France on the image front. Especially Touraine that costs twice other Touraines, even if it's 10x as good. Or more.

I think they go for 10? Something like that? Reds less, and the Gamay, f'rinstance, is distributed in a chain of organic food stores called Naturalia. I guess I shouldn't say "reds," because all of theirs I've seen in Paris have been Gamay at Naturalia and Sauvignon Blanc at Lavinia and a small wine store in the 2nd whose name I forget. I have to get the fix in Valaire or NY.
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I want to say I saw the gamay at a little organic food store (Perhaps Naturalia?) just down the street from Aux Tonneaux des Halles. I think I paid 7 is January of 2009. I think it was the only CRB I saw in Paris, unless they had some at Caves du Pantheon.
 
I saw a bunch of CRB at Lavinia about 4 or 5 years ago. One of the things that impressed me about the store along with the Allemand.

Haven't had the '09 SB yet though I have a bottle waiting for when I get back home.

The 2007 Mayacamas SB is quite good though I have no idea of how much it costs.
 
The 2007 Mayacamas SB is quite good though I have no idea of how much it costs.
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Mayacamas?! Damn! Blast from the past. Used to be around low-mid teens in the 90's. Cool winery. I should upload my pic of their cement vats.
 
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