Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
All your Barricade is belong to me.
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What did you drink tonight?
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All your Barricade is belong to me.
Claude Kolm
Claude Kolm
Can the grammairienne please explain the above sentence to this illiterate plebe?originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
All your Barricade is belong to me.
Appropriate name for today, though.
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
Oswaldo Costa
Oswaldo Costa
English, as she is spoke.
kirk wallace
kirk wallace
Would that it were.
Larry Stein
Larry Stein
originally posted by mark e:
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Drinking German tonight too.
We are, too. Nice juicy Knauß Trollinger 2012 with grilled shishito peppers, fresh sausages, eggplant, onions and sweet corn from the garden.
We had that tonight with a simple green salad and pork tenderloin. Lovely wine.
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13 knauß riesling sekt [non-zero]. the holzfaß cuvee, with ~5g/l iirc. the dosage brings out the fruit. fun, sparkly and enjoyable. less than zero, but more than most.
13 knauß riesling g has the extra finesse of the vintage. more linear, and yet more complex than usual. 13 was a heartbreaking vintage in swabia, but where it worked, the results are heart stopping.
12 knauß zweigelt s -- ought to have been teh first s.m. steak wine. standards are slipping.
12 knauß spaetburgunder / pinot noir s is more subtle than the 11, at a slight cost in intensity. cool, minerally and suave. if you ever wondered why pinot glasses are teh huge, the answer is that this enables fatguys to plunder a full 60% of the bottle while teh n00bs pay homage to mr manners.
11 dolde rote jura (a mix of pinot, dornfelder and whatever else came to hand) is surprisingly lovely with bottle age. nice terroir expression, with an appealingly balanced rusticity. hum. i have to admit, "terroir expression," is a phrase i never thought i'd utter in conjunction with dornfelder.
12 knauß rote reben also chides me for underestimating the charm of teh well crafted cuvee. iirc the biggest part of this is zweigelt plus a shit load of other stuff, and truth be told, it behaves like a kind of zweigelt g - fresh nose, good, tannin-buffered mid palate dark fruit, and a zippy finish. great table wine, in the sense that one might have described a lesser vintage of meyney or haut marbuzet as such in teh dayz when bordeaux still proffered great hooch at table wine prices.
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13 knauß riesling g has the extra finesse of the vintage. more linear, and yet more complex than usual. 13 was a heartbreaking vintage in swabia, but where it worked, the results are heart stopping.
12 knauß zweigelt s -- ought to have been teh first s.m. steak wine. standards are slipping.
12 knauß spaetburgunder / pinot noir s is more subtle than the 11, at a slight cost in intensity. cool, minerally and suave. if you ever wondered why pinot glasses are teh huge, the answer is that this enables fatguys to plunder a full 60% of the bottle while teh n00bs pay homage to mr manners.
11 dolde rote jura (a mix of pinot, dornfelder and whatever else came to hand) is surprisingly lovely with bottle age. nice terroir expression, with an appealingly balanced rusticity. hum. i have to admit, "terroir expression," is a phrase i never thought i'd utter in conjunction with dornfelder.
12 knauß rote reben also chides me for underestimating the charm of teh well crafted cuvee. iirc the biggest part of this is zweigelt plus a shit load of other stuff, and truth be told, it behaves like a kind of zweigelt g - fresh nose, good, tannin-buffered mid palate dark fruit, and a zippy finish. great table wine, in the sense that one might have described a lesser vintage of meyney or haut marbuzet as such in teh dayz when bordeaux still proffered great hooch at table wine prices.
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Ian Fitzsimmons
Ian Fitzsimmons
2007 Desvignes Morgon Javernieres: a bit of that weird sauvagité you get in cru Beaujolais with age sometimes. Bret? Goes away with 1/2 hour decant, when the wine is smooth, suave, and delicious with grilled steak (NY strip, natch').
2010 Belliviere Jasnier Rosiers: pretty, flirty, charming. Don't see this as a long-termer.
2007 Foillard Morgon 3.14: pleasant, fresh raspberry. Not the depth I'd look for; either too young or a bit older than optimal.
2010 Occhipinti Frappato: Tough the first night, dominated by tannin. Second night: lovely, with pretty cherry fruit, rather pinot-like, but buffer and more chiseled.
Cheers.
2010 Belliviere Jasnier Rosiers: pretty, flirty, charming. Don't see this as a long-termer.
2007 Foillard Morgon 3.14: pleasant, fresh raspberry. Not the depth I'd look for; either too young or a bit older than optimal.
2010 Occhipinti Frappato: Tough the first night, dominated by tannin. Second night: lovely, with pretty cherry fruit, rather pinot-like, but buffer and more chiseled.
Cheers.
Next year will be a big one, gonna be a crazy fire season in OR and WA this year. Lots of the east slope ablaze right now.originally posted by SFJoe:
I look at those Oregon morels the way a kid looks out the window of class waiting for recess. All that fun is out there, and here am I, stuck with my multiplication tables.
Always trying to look to the bright side...
(corrected- "east slope")
originally posted by Brian C:
Next year will be a big one, gonna be a crazy fire season in OR and WA this year. Lots of the west slope ablaze right now.originally posted by SFJoe:
I look at those Oregon morels the way a kid looks out the window of class waiting for recess. All that fun is out there, and here am I, stuck with my multiplication tables.
Always trying to look to the bright side...
I had the same view last year as the Rim Fire burned, but was horrified when the idiot local NFS did everything they could to stop picking.
georg lauer
georg lauer
originally posted by fatboy:
12 knauß rote reben also chides me for underestimating the charm of teh well crafted cuvee. iirc the biggest part of this is zweigelt plus a shit load of other stuff, and truth be told, it behaves like a kind of zweigelt g - fresh nose, good, tannin-buffered mid palate dark fruit, and a zippy finish. great table wine, in the sense that one might have described a lesser vintage of meyney or haut marbuzet as such in teh dayz when bordeaux still proffered great hooch at table wine prices.
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The 2010 surprised me last week. Always liked it, but it even aged for the better.
Also Beurer Schilfsandstein 2009 and 2010. The former fruit and stone, the latter even more stone and laser-sharp acidity. Both refreshing.
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originally posted by georg lauer:
Also Beurer Schilfsandstein 2009 and 2010. The former fruit and stone, the latter even more stone and laser-sharp acidity. Both refreshing.
agreed, this one makes much the same point -- how easy it is to neglect the "lesser" wines in comparison to their "betters" -- but i think it evokes a subtly different theme. in this particular case, i can think of a zillion reasons why other sites among beurer's holdings make clearly better wine. but even said that, there is something about the schilf i always find personally compelling (even as jochen explains that the reasons why i likes teh hooch also make it largely unsaleable to hans t volk), such that it is almost always one of my favorite wines in the cellar.
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georg lauer
georg lauer
originally posted by fatboy:
originally posted by georg lauer:
Also Beurer Schilfsandstein 2009 and 2010. The former fruit and stone, the latter even more stone and laser-sharp acidity. Both refreshing.
agreed, this one makes much the same point -- how easy it is to neglect the "lesser" wines in comparison to their "betters" -- but i think it evokes a subtly different theme. in this particular case, i can think of a zillion reasons why other sites among beurer's holdings make clearly better wine. but even said that, there is something about the schilf i always find personally compelling (even as jochen explains that the reasons why i likes teh hooch also make it largely unsaleable to hans t volk), such that it is almost always one of my favorite wines in the cellar.
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Oha, I never knew it should be the stepchild, has always been my favorite.
kirk wallace
kirk wallace
may i request that the politburo register user Hans T. Volk? i know one member that would enjoy addressing posts to him.
kirk wallace
kirk wallace
Hadn't opened one of these in a while. This botte was soft and relatively one dimensional. Not terrible, but not up to Nik standards. Maybe some of them do actually age?
OTH, '02 Altzinger steinertal GV was beautiful. Complex, touch of white pepper, minerality and acidity to spare. Gorgeous drinking.
OTH, '02 Altzinger steinertal GV was beautiful. Complex, touch of white pepper, minerality and acidity to spare. Gorgeous drinking.
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originally posted by fatboy:
(even as jochen explains that the reasons why i likes teh hooch also make it largely unsaleable to hans t volk)
not since he slapped "cuvee goetze" neck label on it
Oswaldo Costa
Oswaldo Costa
After a sequence of rubbery specimens, last night's 98 Chamonard Morgon was once again lovely. Relief.
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originally posted by georg lauer:
Oha, I never knew it should be the stepchild, has always been my favorite.
it's only a stepchild in teh eyes of hans t. volk. too much acidity, says hans.
your thoughts prompted me to open 11 schilf tonight.
Also Beurer Schilfsandstein 2009 and 2010. The former fruit and stone, the latter even more stone and laser-sharp acidity. Both refreshing.
quite. even in 11 -- for me the worst year in swabia for riesling since 03 -- it transcends the vintage. sure, it's aging slightly faster than the 10, but the freshness and structure are quietly compelling. other than by dumbly recalling this from memory, i wouldn't stand a chance of calling it blind.
also guy de bussiere's pinot noir from 08. one of my desert island wines. the stupid, prejudicial bullshit that manifests itself in french retirement law is a reminder how close we are still to teh baboons.
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originally posted by .sasha:
not since he slapped "cuvee goetze" neck label on it
much as i love you dotster, and regardless of what teh cadres told you in middle school, you is nevah gonna be vox t. volk. "cuvee goetze" notwithstanding.
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originally posted by Brian C:
Next year will be a big one, gonna be a crazy fire season in OR and WA this year. Lots of the east slope ablaze right now.originally posted by SFJoe:
I look at those Oregon morels the way a kid looks out the window of class waiting for recess. All that fun is out there, and here am I, stuck with my multiplication tables.
Always trying to look to the bright side...
(corrected- "east slope")
The scale of the fires is amazing.
I have never been up that way for morels. Does the east slope get enough rain?