What did you drink tonight?

I just got back from the Portland area. The surrounding areas are reportedly under non-burn requirements and under a high-risk fire advisory due to the shortage of rain.

. . . . Pete
 
Brennan 2009 Pinot Noir, Gibbston Valley, NZ.

Gorgeous texture with finely balanced tannins and oak.

Purposeful port like oxidation but still masses of fresh red fruit which makes it seems young and old in good measure.
 
originally posted by GarethB:
Brennan 2009 Pinot Noir, Gibbston Valley, NZ.

Gorgeous texture with finely balanced tannins and oak.

Purposeful port like oxidation but still masses of fresh red fruit which makes it seems young and old in good measure.
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oh fuck. are teh archives backed up?

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originally posted by .sasha:
originally posted by SFJoe:
Pete, my thought exactly.
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I didn't realize you were such a big fan of B that you can't stop until the bottle is empty
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I think I went through 3 or 4 cases of the '89 Coudoulet. It was, what, $8.99 on closeout at the Wine Club?
 
originally posted by Peter Creasey:

Dan, Four nights? You must have had a double magnum of it!?!

. . . . Pete
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Only me drinking and one glass with dinner each night. Man's gotta show some restraint some time. It held up beautifully with just recorking the 750.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
originally posted by Brian C:
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.
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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.
Always trying to look to the bright side...

(corrected- "east slope")
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The scale of the fires is amazing.

I have never been up that way for morels. Does the east slope get enough rain?
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Yeah, most years (this year was exceptionally dry, hence the current situation), plus its where the burn ecology is strongest, probably comparable to the dry Idaho mountains where they haul a ton of them out. There's usually occasional rainfall until early June with the flushes following the rain events.
this post was from very near, if not in, the current burn zone.
Generally good, but sometimes, competative picking...
 
2006 Bea Pagliaro had a very yeasty finish last night, inevitably making me think of unsanitary shepherdesses; must have been a bad frontal lobotomy.
 
2010 e.muller schartzhofberg kabinett last night was a coiled spool of electric fruit and minerals. After about 30 minutes in decanter it let us in just enough to put us in awe of how delicious it is and at how amazing it will be in 10-15 years.
 
2009 mount blanc Belluard was really nice tonight. Minerality is still there and the little bit of age has added an extra dimension, but the wine is still fresh and delicious.
 
2009 Breton Morgon VV. Enjoyable, but, frankly, I liked it better on release and for a couple of years afterwards, for the fruit and vibrancy it showed, but which have diminished with no real gain in things I find as equally interesting or compelling.
 
About 12 or 13 years ago I picked up a bottle of 1996 M. Esmonin Clos St. Jacques at auction. After coddling it all this time turns out it was heat damaged.

I'm sad.
 
1996 Closel Clos du Papillon Cuvee Speciale - very sweet and young. Even the color was more green than gold. A really great showing. Density and finesse and also delicious.
 
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
1996 Closel Clos du Papillon Cuvee Speciale - very sweet and young. Even the color was more green than gold. A really great showing. Density and finesse and also delicious.
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Nice to hear it wasn't premoxed. Mine were. Still holding on to an '89, though and those have always shown beautifully.
 
Last night '03 la Parcelle Bouchard. Just ok. Perhaps the warmth of the summer was just too much. Blowzy, soft. Still nice flavors, but not precise or convincing. Or I'm coming around to Sharon's view generally. The former I suspect.

Tonight however, was a type O champagne. Peters rose for Albane. 3/13 disgorgement. 2007 base. Amazingly light and for a saignee.* But has the persistence and lithe structure. Just gorgeous. And delicious.

*[ETA] I misunderstood. It is a blend of Chardonnay cuvée AND a saignee.
 
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