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originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
SFJoe, you lived to tell the tale!

I was at the cellar earlier. One sip was all that viscous vanillan mess deserved.

Was there any Foillard or Chandon de Briailles left when you got there?
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Oh, rest assured, there was no second sip for me.

Both the Foillard and the bit of the CdB that were left showed very well in my glass. The bit of '08 tannic grip in the Foillard was welcome with the salumi.
 
Well.

Agree on SQN.

But I think the stated elegance of the Nosiola is very much an acquired taste. I certainly admired the wine, but its intense and dominant florality permeating nose and palate alike had me admiring it at a very slow pace. For now.
 
originally posted by .sasha:
Well.

Agree on SQN.

But I think the stated elegance of the Nosiola is very much an acquired taste. I certainly admired the wine, but its intense and dominant florality permeating nose and palate alike had me admiring it at a very slow pace. For now.
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I hear you on the Nosiola. Whole lotta Nosiola in that glass.

You have never been a particular orange fan, have you?
 
originally posted by .sasha:
why, does this qualify as orange ? how much skin contact ?
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I'm not sure. Definitely some, to me it tasted of it in the aromatics and it had the mentioned tannic structure.

But a more delicate version than many.
 
It was the contemplation of potential food matches that had us puzzled.

Or was that just to draw the attention away from SQN ?
 
I had an SQN once in the late 90s I think, maybe in 00. It was special. I couldn't take more than a sip and I poured the rest away. For me that's special as I can drink almost anything if put to it. Back then, at least, the names of the wines weren't as repulsively twee as the wines..

I've managed to avoid the stuff since. According to Parker, as I remember, this is because I can't think outside the box. He's right. I can't manage to think about the stuff, clearly at all, much less outside the box. It's too mind-boggling.
 
Friends in CA are big fans of SQN and have been since its beginning.
Hence, I get a chance to try almost all of the wines, some on several occasions.
Overall, they are not my style.
But once and awhile, there is a bottle that impresses.
Curiously, I don't remember the ones that do; just the ones that don't.
'Wonder why that is?
Best, Jim
 
originally posted by Florida Jim:
Friends in CA are big fans of SQN and have been since its beginning.
Hence, I get a chance to try almost all of the wines, some on several occasions.
Overall, they are not my style.
But once and awhile, there is a bottle that impresses.
Curiously, I don't remember the ones that do; just the ones that don't.
'Wonder why that is?
Best, Jim
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I wish you would be more specific and mention that at no time have I ever served you a SQN at my humble abode. This a board that would ban me for all eternity having committed such a cardinal sin. This group would never forgive such an egregious error.
 
originally posted by Lou Kessler:
Clarification

I wish you would be more specific and mention that at no time have I ever served you a SQN at my humble abode. This a board that would ban me for all eternity having committed such a cardinal sin. This group would never forgive such an egregious error.
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The MA contingent would let you slide, Lou. I personally have served Carlisle and Saxum before the God of Thunder (for sport of course) and lived to tell the tale. Of course, we are but fringe Disorderists most of the time so take it for what it's worth.
 
originally posted by Lou Kessler:
Clarification
originally posted by Florida Jim:
Friends in CA are big fans of SQN and have been since its beginning.
Hence, I get a chance to try almost all of the wines, some on several occasions.
Overall, they are not my style.
But once and awhile, there is a bottle that impresses.
Curiously, I don't remember the ones that do; just the ones that don't.
'Wonder why that is?
Best, Jim
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I wish you would be more specific and mention that at no time have I ever served you a SQN at my humble abode. This a board that would ban me for all eternity having committed such a cardinal sin. This group would never forgive such an egregious error.
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I wouldn't. As long as you were doing it as a joke.
 
originally posted by Dan McQ:
originally posted by Lou Kessler:
Clarification

I wish you would be more specific and mention that at no time have I ever served you a SQN at my humble abode. This a board that would ban me for all eternity having committed such a cardinal sin. This group would never forgive such an egregious error.
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The MA contingent would let you slide, Lou. I personally have served Carlisle and Saxum before the God of Thunder (for sport of course) and lived to tell the tale. Of course, we are but fringe Disorderists most of the time so take it for what it's worth.
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Now I know why "The Shot Heard Around The World" took place in your fair
state. Carlisle is reasonable but Saxum served to THOR and you lived to write about it? Yours is truly a BRAVE & Noble Group.
 
originally posted by Lou Kessler:

Now I know why "The Shot Heard Around The World" took place in your fair
state.
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On whose planet did it, Lou? Bobby Thompson's fabled dinger took place in the Polo Grounds, dude, Manhattan all the way.

Mark Lipton
 
On whose planet did it, Lou? Bobby Thompson's fabled dinger took place in the Polo Grounds, dude, Manhattan all the way.

Mark Lipton
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And I thought you were from the heartland!

The term also refers to the beginning of the American Revolutionary War.
 
Your high position in an institution of higher learning explains a great deal why most of our citizens can't pass an eighth grade civics test.
Damn! I hate the thought of having to learn to speak Mandarin at my age.
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
On whose planet did it, Lou? Bobby Thompson's fabled dinger took place in the Polo Grounds, dude, Manhattan all the way.

Mark Lipton
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And I thought you were from the heartland!

The term also refers to the beginning of the American Revolutionary War.
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Also?
 
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