Does Size Matter

Most growers I deal with do not have bottling equipment for magnums or larger bottlings. So invariable, they bottle large format wines by hand and prepare the wine somewhat differently than they would the normal run of the production.
 
originally posted by Chris Coad:
originally posted by Joe_Perry:
I agree with Karen.
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And by doing so, you declare yourself the enemy of all that is just and true. Unless I'm misreading Karen's post entirely.
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I think that is the other Karen...
 
Brad, Cliff, how would you describe the level of sweetness in the '04 Pinon Brut? I tend to enjoy dry-ish sparklers, for example I really liked Pinon's '06 Brut sec, more so than I've enjoyed his Vouvray petillants in the past. Tia
 
VLM and I both separately enjoyed 04 mags of Ferrando Carema White Label on Thanksgiving and loved it. This is not a valid data point but what the hell. We agreed on something and no one was shot. Magnums bring peace!
 
originally posted by slaton:
Brad, Cliff, how would you describe the level of sweetness in the '04 Pinon Brut? I tend to enjoy dry-ish sparklers, for example I really liked Pinon's '06 Brut sec, more so than I've enjoyed his Vouvray petillants in the past. Tia
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I would describe it as not too sweet.
 
That sounds fair to me. Though, it had a nice roundness and wasn't austere -- which I really liked, more than I like most other Loire sparklers. If you like them sharp and imposing, I'm not sure it would fit the bill.
 
I own a few mags and enjoy having them in the cellar. But haven't found an opportunity to open any of them - not because I don't have enough wine geeks at the table to finish one but rather because I have too many wine geeks and we opt to try more different wines rather than more of one wine. Of course, it may also be that, apart from an 88 morot beaune, most of them are too young for opening (e.g., '96 CFE, 96 Faiveley Clos du Corton, 99 Lafarge Ch. de Ducs).

I once owned a double mag of 1986 Laurel Glen, a fabulous wine - but I donated it to a charity auction. During the auction, I regretted my actions and started bidding to buy it back but it got too expensive for me. I hope whoever purchased it enjoyed it.

ONTH, maybe it was corked! That possibility always provides a disincentive to buying for me.
 
Several members of the Politburo found this thread title trite and a little juvenile.

Please do a better job of selecting thread titles in the future, or we may do it for you, comrades.
 
In a fit of nonsense, I bought a double magnum of 2004 Weinbach L'Inedit. I self-justified it by the fact that it was someone's birth year. I have no idea what I'm going to do with it other than paint it orange, and put it in the middle of I-95 and see who drives around it. Or I could paint it red and float it in Boston Harbor.
 
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