What did you drink tonight?

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Kay Bixler

Kay Bixler
So dead here, it's either this or a cooling unit discussion. Please use this thread to commemorate your nightly tipple. No elaborate tasting note required, just tell us what you're drinking.

Us? 2010 Mongeared-Mugneret Vosne-Romanée, easy drinking Burgundy that covers all the bases. Sometimes it's leafy and high-toned, sometimes it's spicy and warm. Lovely wine but tough to justify at $45 USD.

Also open: 2010 Chateau du Hureau Saumur-Champigny "Tuffe" is a lean, herbal scented cabernet franc. Tremendous match with lamb and white bean chili. Raspberry fruit, beautiful stem tannin.
 
Hehe, yeah. You know you are in trouble when people can't muster any energy for snarkiness or obfuscation. Did Fatboy hit his monthly post quota too early in the month? Dag.

Drinking the 2011 Lagier-Meredith Malbec tonight, their inaugural public release vintage. Pretty good. Parker gave it 75 points. I am way 77 points on this!

Helps that I had a beer first maybe.
 
77 points is pretty good, right? Almost 80 and that's a B.

Thank you for chiming in.

Come on VLM, Jay, Brad,.sasha, Sharon, Don and everybody else, what wine went down your gullet tonight?
 
$45 is a damn good price for Vosne-Romanée, even for a producer not highly sought-after like Mongéard-Mugneret. Is that a wholesale price? Even if it is, marking it up to retail would be $67.50, still quite decent for village Vosne these days.

We're going to Central Kitchen in a bit, and I've pulled mid-1990s Tempier, Maume Lavaux-St Jacques, and Allemand, along with a 2004 Fürst Centgrafenberg Silvaner Kabinett trocken, but looking at last night's menu on line, I'm not sure any of those (except maybe the Fürst) really works. Hmmm. They've got some interesting wines by the glass, and I may just go that route. Will report back.
 
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
77 points is pretty good, right? Almost 80 and that's a B.
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It's actually pretty good, *I* like it and "officially" gave it 88 points. Lots of fruit, no green meanies contra Mssr. Arpy, not over oaked. Nice floral and citrus dimensions. Has length. I suspect in a few minutes when the steak is done and consumed alongside it shall taste even better.

Whoa, am I seriously trying to participate in civil dialogue on Disorder?

Where's the fucking Klonapin?

I know where.
 
originally posted by Claude Kolm:
$45 is a damn good price for Vosne-Romanée, even for a producer not highly sought-after like Mongéard-Mugneret. Is that a wholesale price? Even if it is, marking it up to retail would be $67.50, still quite decent for village Vosne these days.
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Ah, Lafarge . . .
 
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
77 points is pretty good, right? Almost 80 and that's a B.

Thank you for chiming in.

Come on VLM, Jay, Brad,.sasha, Sharon, Don and everybody else, what wine went down your gullet tonight?
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I contracted a nasty case of the Levodian flu and haven't had a drink in two weeks.

Perhaps your note serves a reminder that I must overcome these insignificant obstacles and fulfill my duty to the politburo. Let me check what's in the garage.
 
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
originally posted by Claude Kolm:
$45 is a damn good price for Vosne-Romanée, even for a producer not highly sought-after like Mongéard-Mugneret. Is that a wholesale price? Even if it is, marking it up to retail would be $67.50, still quite decent for village Vosne these days.
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Ah, Lafarge . . .
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Jeez- Just checked wine-searcher and $45 isn't far off the prices they show. He could make a lot more money selling to negociants (and probably does to a large extent).
 
originally posted by Claude Kolm:
$45 is a damn good price for Vosne-Romanée, even for a producer not highly sought-after like Mongéard-Mugneret. Is that a wholesale price? Even if it is, marking it up to retail would be $67.50, still quite decent for village Vosne these days.
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I continue to struggle with M-M (although I haven't tasted their 2010s yet, even though I own a few), but for a very specific reason. The wines seem perfectly fine, except for some kind of a raw wood tannin element. I am pretty sure it's not stems, which I can tolerate in all shapes and sizes, and as this has been bugging me going back to 1998 vintage, it's probably something in the cellar. Or in my head. And this is by no means saying that there is too much new wood, which seems par for the course; rather, that it might be something in the quality of the wood or in its treatment.
 
Enjoyably serviceable 2011 Vajra Langhe Nebbiolo for dinner at the restaurant, and now 2004 Willi Schaefer GD Spatlese #9 at home, which is lovely and delicate, much more fun than a recent bottle of the #10.
 
no one comes here anymore, its too busy.

2009 foillard cdp from magnum. delicious. but ever so slightly corked. but its so freaking cold here who cares?
 
originally posted by .sasha:
Let me check what's in the garage.
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that would be 2012 Niedermenniger Sonnenberg Spatlese Trocken and Krettnacher Altenberg Spatlese Trocken, Hofgut Falkenstein.

Crunchy! Trocken on slate! Where are GG and FB when I need them?

There is something synonymous about these wines and the weather in New England tonight.
 
Out to dinner at a friend's house with a bunch of other friends to combat the ongoing freeze. I brought along the 2000 Dom de Pegau and the 2011 Sebastian Dampt Cote de Lechets, both of which were rockin'.

Mark Lipton
 
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