kirk wallace
kirk wallace
And .sasha is right: the screw cap makes it easier for the bartender.
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What did you drink tonight?
- Thread starter Kay Bixler
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Claude Kolm
Claude Kolm
2012 Poulsard "En Chôné" from Pignier. All strawberries and minerality in a light, smooth body.
U
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'11 Lemberger "S" from Andi Knauss showed great yesterday, at the Chambers Halloween extravaganza. I need to dig up my notes on this from the winery visit, because despite the wine's pure and no-nonsense primary directive, it also has a bit of texture to lure the educated top 1% of the pointy crowd.
kirk wallace
kirk wallace
god. that brings back memories. i can still hear the lions roaring at sunset.
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
Did they sleep afterwards?originally posted by kirk wallace:
i can still hear the lions roaring at sunset.
Robert Dentice
Robert Dentice
2012 Gunderloch Rothenberg GG under screw cap. Delicious. Need more. Purchased this because the 2013 won the Berlin Cup GG tasting. I can see why.
kirk wallace
kirk wallace
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Did they sleep afterwards?originally posted by kirk wallace:
i can still hear the lions roaring at sunset.
lions sleep during the daytime.
kirk wallace
kirk wallace
Better and better. 12 GG kalkofen is just great. Even at 13% abv. Complex and yet light. Really winning.
Oswaldo Costa
Oswaldo Costa
Good bottle of 2012 Balthazar Cuvée Casimir Balthazar last night. Interesting how such a fair amount of northern Rhone syrah is carbonic (Allemand, Balthazar, Dard & Ribo, Stéphan). Feel a bit ambivalent about the joys of being able to drink them early v. the olfactory homogenizing aspect of the carbonic process (which may be a user illusion).
Jay Miller
Jay Miller
originally posted by kirk wallace:
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Did they sleep afterwards?originally posted by kirk wallace:
i can still hear the lions roaring at sunset.
lions sleep during the daytime.
Not in the mighty jungle.
kirk wallace
kirk wallace
originally posted by Jay Miller:
Not in the mighty jungle.
Fair point, but a) life is different than in song and b) lions tend to be in the bush (and the veldt) but not the jungle.
kirk wallace
kirk wallace
or was the point of the song that that particularly night was an unusually safe and peaceful one?
Jay Miller
Jay Miller
originally posted by kirk wallace:
a) life is different than in song
What?
originally posted by kirk wallace:
or was the point of the song that that particularly night was an unusually safe and peaceful one?
Or they were hit by tranquilizer darts and carried from the veldt to the jungle. Soon they will wake up.
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
You may recall they were also sleeping near the village.
kirk wallace
kirk wallace
what did you drink last night? (your notes are more likely more comprehensive than mine.)
Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis
Oh, and before all the water, some wines from Pierre Overnoy:
2011 Poulsard - Very fresh, delicate, a lighter sort of vintage about which I get rather excited
2011 Poulsard - Necessary to demonstrate that, yes, there can be bottle variation with these wines; not gratuitous (so we tell ourselves)
2009 Poulsard (magnum) - gratuitous (admittedly); also, in dramatic contrast to the 2011, the color of Beaujolais; I taste some cinnamon here (brett?)
2003 Poulsard - Its own thing, but if you must do everything by comparison, closer to the 2009 than either of the 2011s
2011 Chardonnay - Electric; really liking this despite being painfully young
2010 Chardonnay - Slightly appley at first, but less so with time
2009 Chardonnay - Am I remembering correctly that this existed? I do not recall much about it, but have vivid memories of Arno walking around carrying five bottles of Overnoy Chard in his arms, all at once; it made me nervous
2007 Chardonnay - nice but perhaps a little plodding; hard to prefer it next to the 2007 Savagnin
2005 Chardonnay - Many thought this odd; I thought it perhaps the only Chard that was even beginning to show some real maturity, and it was beautiful
2007 Chard/Sav blend (green wax) - corked; damnit
2007 Savagnin - One of the three or four standouts; crisp and lighter (for Savagnin), but not ephemeral
2005 Savagnin - I have experienced some variation with this wine, but this bottle was quite nice
2004 Vieux Savagnin Ouille - Clearly off in some non-corked way; science experiment gone wrong
2003 Vieux Savagnin Ouille - My favorite of the three V.S.O. (well, really of the two correct bottles); young, has ages to go
2000 Vieux Savagnin Ouille - a treat to be able to try this; starting to show some development; unfortunately, I had to catch a train before this could really open up
2011 Poulsard - Very fresh, delicate, a lighter sort of vintage about which I get rather excited
2011 Poulsard - Necessary to demonstrate that, yes, there can be bottle variation with these wines; not gratuitous (so we tell ourselves)
2009 Poulsard (magnum) - gratuitous (admittedly); also, in dramatic contrast to the 2011, the color of Beaujolais; I taste some cinnamon here (brett?)
2003 Poulsard - Its own thing, but if you must do everything by comparison, closer to the 2009 than either of the 2011s
2011 Chardonnay - Electric; really liking this despite being painfully young
2010 Chardonnay - Slightly appley at first, but less so with time
2009 Chardonnay - Am I remembering correctly that this existed? I do not recall much about it, but have vivid memories of Arno walking around carrying five bottles of Overnoy Chard in his arms, all at once; it made me nervous
2007 Chardonnay - nice but perhaps a little plodding; hard to prefer it next to the 2007 Savagnin
2005 Chardonnay - Many thought this odd; I thought it perhaps the only Chard that was even beginning to show some real maturity, and it was beautiful
2007 Chard/Sav blend (green wax) - corked; damnit
2007 Savagnin - One of the three or four standouts; crisp and lighter (for Savagnin), but not ephemeral
2005 Savagnin - I have experienced some variation with this wine, but this bottle was quite nice
2004 Vieux Savagnin Ouille - Clearly off in some non-corked way; science experiment gone wrong
2003 Vieux Savagnin Ouille - My favorite of the three V.S.O. (well, really of the two correct bottles); young, has ages to go
2000 Vieux Savagnin Ouille - a treat to be able to try this; starting to show some development; unfortunately, I had to catch a train before this could really open up
kirk wallace
kirk wallace
'98 JJ Christoffel UW Auslese *** -- just sweet and pleasant last night; seemed very closed. tonight it is much improved; excellent acidity balancing the relatively serious sweetness; still, not heavy on the palate; a lot of complexity: orange peel and ginger with a touch of cayenne pepper; that sort of thing. not quite the peacock's tail, but a very nice glass. very primary still; seems like lots of life ahead.
also, re the above, to me, the '11 Poulsard that was hand carried back from Auge was noticeably fresher and more complete than the LDM labeled bottle; i can't say i cared for the '09 Poulsard, but having it in magnum there on the table sure looked impressive. the '03 was surprisingly nice. not as heavy as its color suggested it was going to be.
that '11 chard was just so good; and the '07 sav was its equal.
i really wanted to sit with the '03 and '00 Vieux Sav for hours; we rushed them and that was a terrible mistake; but both show themselves to be really excellent wines for the future.
also, re the above, to me, the '11 Poulsard that was hand carried back from Auge was noticeably fresher and more complete than the LDM labeled bottle; i can't say i cared for the '09 Poulsard, but having it in magnum there on the table sure looked impressive. the '03 was surprisingly nice. not as heavy as its color suggested it was going to be.
that '11 chard was just so good; and the '07 sav was its equal.
i really wanted to sit with the '03 and '00 Vieux Sav for hours; we rushed them and that was a terrible mistake; but both show themselves to be really excellent wines for the future.
U
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Non-lurker tried to intimidate me with '75 Conseillante from magnum tonight. Non-lurker succeeded.