Levi Dalton
Levi Dalton
Purchased grapes from other growers. Actually, in 1976 they started purchasing grapes from Gabutti, but didn't own that vineyard until a few years later.
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Live Blogging '77 Mendoza Malbec
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Purchased grapes from other growers. Actually, in 1976 they started purchasing grapes from Gabutti, but didn't own that vineyard until a few years later.
Jeff Connell
Jeff Connell
I once had a mind-turningly good 1977 Brundlmayer Gruner Veltliner.
Having actually lived through 1977 in a non-infant, non-newborn state, I might argue the best efforts of the year were turned in by the Talking Heads, the Clash, and Woody Allen.
"Dazed and Confused" (1993) gets the time just right.
I have a few bottles of '77 port in case any 77'ers do visit.
"Dazed and Confused" (1993) gets the time just right.
I have a few bottles of '77 port in case any 77'ers do visit.
Zachary Ross
Zachary Ross
originally posted by Bwood:
Having actually lived through 1977 in a non-infant, non-newborn state, I might argue the best efforts of the year were turned in by the Talking Heads, the Clash, and Woody Allen.
"Dazed and Confused" (1993) gets the time just right.
I have a few bottles of '77 port in case any 77'ers do visit.
Elvis Costello was impressive that year as well.
Steve Edmunds
Steve Edmunds
Lars; '73 was quite good in CA, and there are, no doubt a few of the Cabernets from that year that would still be quite good if you can track them down. Mayacamas '73 was quite special.
originally posted by Bwood:
Having actually lived through 1977 in a non-infant, non-newborn state, I might argue the best efforts of the year were turned in by the Talking Heads, the Clash, and Woody Allen.
"Dazed and Confused" (1993) gets the time just right.
I have a few bottles of '77 port in case any 77'ers do visit.
Agreed about D&C. I graduated from HS in '77. Is that offer open to me?
Mark Lipton
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
originally posted by Steve Edmunds:
Lars; '73 was quite good in CA, and there are, no doubt a few of the Cabernets from that year that would still be quite good if you can track them down. Mayacamas '73 was quite special.
I agree. It was lovely.
As was Caymus. And something else from that vintage I also had the pleasure of drinking but notes about which are lost to eRobertParker.
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
originally posted by Steve Edmunds:
Lars; '73 was quite good in CA, and there are, no doubt a few of the Cabernets from that year that would still be quite good if you can track them down. Mayacamas '73 was quite special.
I agree. It was lovely.
As was Caymus. And something else from that vintage I also had the pleasure of drinking but notes about which are lost to eRobertParker.
Yes, I have fond memories of a '73 Caymus Estate, too (never been as fond of the SS, even in their non-spoofed era). I recall many knowledgeable folks placing '73 on a par with the more-hyped year of '74.
Mark Lipton
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by Bwood:
Having actually lived through 1977 in a non-infant, non-newborn state, I might argue the best efforts of the year were turned in by the Talking Heads, the Clash, and Woody Allen.
"Dazed and Confused" (1993) gets the time just right.
I have a few bottles of '77 port in case any 77'ers do visit.
Agreed about D&C. I graduated from HS in '77. Is that offer open to me?
Mark Lipton
Sure is. I'll bet I haven't opened a bottle of port in 5-6 years. I also graduated from HS in '77.
And I agree with Zachary about '77 being a good vintage for Elvis Costello.
originally posted by Zachary Ross:
originally posted by Bwood:
Having actually lived through 1977 in a non-infant, non-newborn state, I might argue the best efforts of the year were turned in by the Talking Heads, the Clash, and Woody Allen.
"Dazed and Confused" (1993) gets the time just right.
I have a few bottles of '77 port in case any 77'ers do visit.
Elvis Costello was impressive that year as well.
'77 was the year My Aim is True came out, correct? And, checking out Wiki, it looks like it was the year he formed the Attractions, so '77 was probably not just impressive, but his most important, breakthrough year.
Steve Edmunds
Steve Edmunds
Mondavi Reserve '73 was also very nicely put together, with a high percentage of Cabernet Franc, very structured and fine.originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
originally posted by Steve Edmunds:
Lars; '73 was quite good in CA, and there are, no doubt a few of the Cabernets from that year that would still be quite good if you can track them down. Mayacamas '73 was quite special.
I agree. It was lovely.
As was Caymus. And something else from that vintage I also had the pleasure of drinking but notes about which are lost to eRobertParker.
lars makie
lars makie
Thanks for this. I'll go into my BV at some point with fairly high hopes (it looks like it has been well stored). I'll also keep my eye out for some other CA '73s.originally posted by Steve Edmunds:
Mondavi Reserve '73 was also very nicely put together, with a high percentage of Cabernet Franc, very structured and fine.originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
originally posted by Steve Edmunds:
Lars; '73 was quite good in CA, and there are, no doubt a few of the Cabernets from that year that would still be quite good if you can track them down. Mayacamas '73 was quite special.
I agree. It was lovely.
As was Caymus. And something else from that vintage I also had the pleasure of drinking but notes about which are lost to eRobertParker.
Eden Mylunsch
Eden Mylunsch
originally posted by Yule Kim:
'77 was the year My Aim is True came out, correct? And, checking out Wiki, it looks like it was the year he formed the Attractions, so '77 was probably not just impressive, but his most important, breakthrough year.
Hard to disagree with any of that. I've only recently (last coupla years) become a Costello adherent. I mean, I've always liked his music but he and the Grateful Dead were probably the two artists who I was never quite able to figure out why people named their children after them (ie: Elvis Mitchell, Lou Costello, Jerry Lewis, Britney Pigpen Spears, et al) and went to great lengths to obtain recordings of all of their music. I've got a friend who worked in the record business for about 25 years and he was able to retire after overseeing multiple reissues for multiple labels of the catalogs of Elvis Costello and ECM. I tried to get him to put Costello in a studio with Karen Mantler for a Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell tribute album but it didn't work out because Mantler fancied herself more like Tina Turner than Terrell and despite the similarities in Terrell's and Turner's initials, she wouldn't make the leap due to the variance in hairstyles.
So at this late stage of my life, I've begun to spend more time with Elvis' music. It's not that I'm not rabid for it or anything, but when you're stuck in an iron lung as I am your musical choices aren't always your own. I'll admit that early on I kind of got sidetracked by Joe Jackson's records of the late 1970s and while I fell off of that turnip truck long ago (said fall being part of the raison d'etre for the iron lung), I still enjoy listening to Jackson's core group of albums more than I enjoy listening to Elvis' recordings (although the Memphis Sessions is a certifiably brilliant piece of work, and "Burning Love" is as good of a song as "Every Day I Write The Book" or "When Green Eyes Turn Blue". I'm sure that if he had it to over again, Elvis would have overcome the Colonel's objections and would have gone ahead and cut "Toledo" with Burt Bacharach, but at least he did a good did a good job of further confusing Toledo Ohio with Toledo Spain in the minds of people who don't do so good with geography.
As for my 1977 anniversary commemoration, I think I started music school in Hollywood back in 1977. I would hope that the port of that vintage has evolved more than my musical aesthetic has.
-Eden (it's not bad, just unfocused and scattered all over to hell and back, but that could be due to the meds)
Karen Goetz
Karen Goetz
originally posted by Eden Mylunsch:
"...when you're stuck in an iron lung as I am ...that turnip truck... (it's not bad, just unfocused and scattered all over to hell and back, but that could be due to the meds)"
Eden,
We've not met in your current incarnation, however, I'm disturbed enough by your allusions to quasi-imprisonment and restraints to send you a NWR missive from the land of rapid transit. I hope I'm not taking liberties...
Surely you jest. ?! If not, were you tumbling from the turnip truck or tippling from the turnip truck?
Karen
originally posted by Karen Goetz:
We've not met in your current incarnation,
Whoa! You've met Eden in a previous incarnation? I am impressed, Karen. Eden may not retain much from a previous incarnation (I, for instance, retain little from my years as a banana slug) so you may have to reintroduce yourself.
HTH
Mark Lipton
Eden Mylunsch
Eden Mylunsch
originally posted by Karen Goetz:
We've not met in your current incarnation, however, I'm disturbed enough by your allusions to quasi-imprisonment and restraints to send you a NWR missive from the land of rapid transit. I hope I'm not taking liberties...
Feel free to do so. It's about the only fun I have these days since I stopped be a libertarian and resubscribed as a democrat (better primary choices out here). As for imprisonments and restraints, I've scant interest in reliving scenes from Law & Order SVU (however, appearing on "Cops"has been a lifelong dream of mine). Not to worry about me in an iron lung; I was watching a rerun of "The Big Leboski" and got all inspired by the guy who wrote "Branded" being in the iron lung and all when Walter Sobchak comes a callin'.
Surely you jest. ?!
Moi jest? NO. It's my friend Beau who Gestes. He lives in Berkeley and sold his car but still goes to work in the City, and since he doesn't have anything saved for retirement he says his motto is "'til death do I BART". (and DON'T call me Surely)(insert surley emoticon here)
(see, it's not totally hereditary, it's partially my environment). I'm feeling better now.
If not, were you tumbling from the turnip truck or tippling from the turnip truck?
Actually, it's Nip 'n' Tuck all the way, particularly here in Malibu. And don't be texting while you're driving, whether or not its a BART train, a Berkeley Bus, or a tandem bicycle. It's not safe. We had this celebrity plastic surgeon named Frank Ryan (he made Heidi Montag who she is today) drive right off the road last week a mile from here and killt himself because he was texting a friend about what a nice day it was to be driving and texting. Darwin can be so cruel sometimes...
-Eden (hay, I was just raising a little Cain with the falling off the turnip truck remark)
Scott Kraft
Scott Kraft
originally posted by Bwood:
"Dazed and Confused" (1993) gets the time just right.
As usual, Bwood nails it.
Scott Kraft
Scott Kraft
originally posted by SFJoe:
Jeff Connell!
As usual, SFJoe nails it!