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What kind of WINE did you drink last night? (2 Viewers)

Whatever happened to that wine it forward thing that was on here about seven (???) years ago? Why did that end?

I would do that again in a heartbeat.

 
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Lucky me. The man with the $$ came into town yesterday.

02 drc la tache

90 drc la tache :shock:

09 hundred acre ark

04 Jarvis reserve cab

 
Doing a South Africa Wine Dinner Saturday night

Huge fan of the Jean Daneel Chenin Blanc. I will have to get you a bottle of that as well Raiders

 
'DA RAIDERS said:
'Jules Winnfield said:
Doing a South Africa Wine Dinner Saturday nightHuge fan of the Jean Daneel Chenin Blanc. I will have to get you a bottle of that as well Raiders
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i have yet to drink a south african red i really enjoyed. i'll try and grab a bottle of that pinot tonight.
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Landskroon - Paul de Villiers Cabernet Sauvignon ReserveLandskroon - Paul de Villiers Shiraz ReserveLandskroon Cape VintageHermanuspietersfontein KleinboetJean Daneel Signature Red And for really nice whites:Jean Daneel Chenin BlancHermanuspietersfontein #5
 
you get it jules?

i threw in a premiere cru burgundy that i like that i found at costco of all places. $30

2010 domaine faivley

 
'DA RAIDERS said:
you get it jules?i threw in a premiere cru burgundy that i like that i found at costco of all places. $302010 domaine faivley
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Oh I got it and I am very happy to see the Premiere Cru Domaine Faiveley. I have actually poured their Mercurey at a French Wine dinner that I hosted two years ago. Solid solid bottle and many thanks for that.I am going to have to dig around in my cellar for a couple bottles to send you.Thank you so very much! :thumbup:
 
'Jules Winnfield said:
'DA RAIDERS said:
you get it jules?i threw in a premiere cru burgundy that i like that i found at costco of all places. $302010 domaine faivley
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Oh I got it and I am very happy to see the Premiere Cru Domaine Faiveley. I have actually poured their Mercurey at a French Wine dinner that I hosted two years ago. Solid solid bottle and many thanks for that.I am going to have to dig around in my cellar for a couple bottles to send you.Thank you so very much! :thumbup:
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Had two good reds in the past week:

2010 Martinelli (Russian River Valley) Vellutini Ranch Zinfandel. A big, full wine. 16.9% alcohol. Smooth but big flavor. Shared my bottle with Mrs. Karpis and my brother-in-law over ribeye steaks to celebrate my birthday.

2011 Twenty Bench (Napa Valley) Cabernet. This needed to open up a little more...drank it pretty much straight out of the bottle. Second glass was a little more mellow. Tried this at a tasting a few weeks ago and was really impressed for the price. $20-25.

 
Ray Karpis said:
Had two good reds in the past week:

2010 Martinelli (Russian River Valley) Vellutini Ranch Zinfandel. A big, full wine. 16.9% alcohol. Smooth but big flavor. Shared my bottle with Mrs. Karpis and my brother-in-law over ribeye steaks to celebrate my birthday.

2011 Twenty Bench (Napa Valley) Cabernet. This needed to open up a little more...drank it pretty much straight out of the bottle. Second glass was a little more mellow. Tried this at a tasting a few weeks ago and was really impressed for the price. $20-25.
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That Twenty Bench is part of the North Nine Wine Company. I used to drink a lot of the Rock & Vine and the Regusci Stags Leap Cabernet and Merlot are in my cellar. That Rock & Vine was a tasty little Bordeaux blend

 
I know next to nothing about wine, but figured you guys could help me out. My wife was out with her friend and ordered a wine that she loved. It's in my best interest to find out where I can buy this wine. Here is all the text from the bottle:

"erben von beulwitz 2010 Kaseler Nies' chen riesling kabinett"

Any advice on where to go to order this online, or where to find it in a B and M store? I've looked at BevMo and no luck. And I've searched online and it's just a bunch of weird confusing sites that keep popping up.

Any help is appreciated.

Now back to the bourbon thread...

 
kutta said:
I know next to nothing about wine, but figured you guys could help me out. My wife was out with her friend and ordered a wine that she loved. It's in my best interest to find out where I can buy this wine. Here is all the text from the bottle:

"erben von beulwitz 2010 Kaseler Nies' chen riesling kabinett"

Any advice on where to go to order this online, or where to find it in a B and M store? I've looked at BevMo and no luck. And I've searched online and it's just a bunch of weird confusing sites that keep popping up.

Any help is appreciated.

Now back to the bourbon thread...
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Here's a 2009

 
Christo said:
kutta said:
I know next to nothing about wine, but figured you guys could help me out. My wife was out with her friend and ordered a wine that she loved. It's in my best interest to find out where I can buy this wine. Here is all the text from the bottle:

"erben von beulwitz 2010 Kaseler Nies' chen riesling kabinett"

Any advice on where to go to order this online, or where to find it in a B and M store? I've looked at BevMo and no luck. And I've searched online and it's just a bunch of weird confusing sites that keep popping up.

Any help is appreciated.

Now back to the bourbon thread...
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Here's a 2009
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Awesome. She's insistent on trying to find the 2010 because she "knows she'll like it." But I'll go with the 2009 if we can't find the 2010. Thanks.

 
kutta said:
Christo said:
kutta said:
I know next to nothing about wine, but figured you guys could help me out. My wife was out with her friend and ordered a wine that she loved. It's in my best interest to find out where I can buy this wine. Here is all the text from the bottle:

"erben von beulwitz 2010 Kaseler Nies' chen riesling kabinett"

Any advice on where to go to order this online, or where to find it in a B and M store? I've looked at BevMo and no luck. And I've searched online and it's just a bunch of weird confusing sites that keep popping up.

Any help is appreciated.

Now back to the bourbon thread...
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Here's a 2009
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Awesome. She's insistent on trying to find the 2010 because she "knows she'll like it." But I'll go with the 2009 if we can't find the 2010. Thanks.
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they will be similar and frankly any kabinett around $20 will be comparable. get a jj prum if you want to knock her socks off. readily available all over.

 
DA RAIDERS said:
kutta said:
Christo said:
kutta said:
I know next to nothing about wine, but figured you guys could help me out. My wife was out with her friend and ordered a wine that she loved. It's in my best interest to find out where I can buy this wine. Here is all the text from the bottle:

"erben von beulwitz 2010 Kaseler Nies' chen riesling kabinett"

Any advice on where to go to order this online, or where to find it in a B and M store? I've looked at BevMo and no luck. And I've searched online and it's just a bunch of weird confusing sites that keep popping up.

Any help is appreciated.

Now back to the bourbon thread...
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Here's a 2009
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Awesome. She's insistent on trying to find the 2010 because she "knows she'll like it." But I'll go with the 2009 if we can't find the 2010. Thanks.
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they will be similar and frankly any kabinett around $20 will be comparable. get a jj prum if you want to knock her socks off. readily available all over.
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So it sounds like a Kabinett is a later harvest wine? She likes her wine sweet, so I guess maybe Kabinetts are a bit more sweet than your average wine?

 
  • Prädikatswein, recently (August 1, 2007) renamed from Qualitätswein mit Prädikat (QmP) wines made from grapes of higher ripeness. As ripeness increases, the fruit characteristics and price increase. Categories within Prädikatswein are Kabinett, Spätlese, Auslese, Beerenauslese, Trockenbeerenauslese and Eiswein. Wines of these categories can not be chaptalized. All these categories within Prädikatswein are solely linked to minimum requirements of potential alcohol. While these may correlate with harvest time, there are no legally defined harvest time restrictions anymore.
  • Kabinett wines are made from grapes that have achieved minimum defined potential alcohol levels. Those minimum requirements differ by region and grape varietal. Essentially, Kabinett is the first level of reserve grape selection.
  • Spätlese wines ("late harvest") are made from grapes that have achieved minimum defined potential alcohol levels. Those minimum requirements differ by region and grape varietal. Essentially, Spatlese is the second level of reserve grape selection.
  • Auslese wines ("select harvest") are made from grapes that have achieved minimum defined potential alcohol levels. Those minimum requirements differ by region and grape varietal. Essentially, Auslese is the third level of reserve grape selection.
  • Beerenauslese wines ("berry selection") are made from grapes that have achieved minimum defined potential alcohol levels. The concentration of the grape juice may have been facilitated by a fungus Botrytis, which perforates the skin of the grape forcing water to drip out and all remaining elements to concentrate. Due to the high potential alcohol level required for this category of ripeness, these wines are generally made into sweet wines and can make good dessert wines.
  • Trockenbeerenauslese wines ("dry berries selection") are made from grapes of an even higher potential alcohol level, generally reachable only with the help of Botrytis. The grapes used for Trockenbeerenauslese have reached an even more raisin-like state than those used for Beerenauslese. Due to the high concentration of sugar in the raisin-like grape, these wines can only be made in a sweet style and make extremely sweet, concentrated and usually quite expensive wines.
  • Eiswein (ice wine) wine is made grapes that freeze naturally on the vine and have to reach the same potential alcohol level as Beerenauslese. The grapes are harvested and pressed in the frozen state. The ice stays in the press during pressing and hence a concentrated juice flows off the press leading to higher potential alcohol levels which in turn generally result in sweet wines due to the high potential alcohol. The taste differs from the other high-level wines since Botrytis infection is usually lower, ideally completely absent.
On wine labels, German wine may be classified according to the residual sugar of the wine. Trocken refers to dry wine. These wines have less than 9 grams/liter of residual sugar. Halbtrocken wines are off-dry and have 9-18 grams/liter of residual sugar. Due to the high acidity ("crispness") of many German wines, the taste profile of many halbtrocken wines fall within the "internationally dry" spectrum rather than being appreciably sweet. Feinherb wines are slightly more sweet than halbtrocken wines. Lieblich wines are noticeably sweet; except for the high category Prädikatsweine of type Beerenauslese and above, lieblich wines from Germany are usually of the low Tafelwein category. The amount of German wines produced in a lieblich style has dropped markedly since the style went out of fashion in the 1980s.

 
A few weeks ago, i enjoyed a bottle of 2010 Chateau Pierral Bordeaux Supérieur.

Most ratings I've seen are ~89 and it can be had for $15-20. I thought it was excellent.

 
Tasty little Malbec I drank last night was a simple Ruta 22. I was showing the difference between Mendoza and Patagonia (a land area in southern Argentina that is desert and virtually treeless) Malbec. Ruta 22 is the name of the main route used to travel between west and east Argentina and being that this region is very dry with serious swings in the temperature, the fruit must be solid and sturdy with some seriously concentrated juice

My notes:

Nose of all dark fruit (think blackberry, blueberry, plum, etc..) with tobacco notes and vanilla and spice from the barrel aging. This is a bigger and fuller bodied Malbec (more so than Mendoza counterparts in this price range) and in the mouth it has black fruit all over the palate and a longer finish that sings with anise and a touch of cracked black pepper

I haven't seen this for over $10 in the shop around here in the northern Twin Cities so buy a bottle and try it. I would have a hard time going back to simple Mendoza Malbecs after trying this one.

 
DA RAIDERS said:
'Jules Winnfield said:
'DA RAIDERS said:
'Jules Winnfield said:
'CletiusMaximus said:
Wine guys: These are the wines my company ceo gave me this year - let me know what I've got. I told him I like "big reds", but I'm more about bourbon and beer and mostly just try to bs my way through when it comes to wine.Arundel 2006Damilano Barolo 2001Georey-Chambertin Claude-Dugat 2002 (also says "Robert Kacher Selections" on the label)Damaru 2008I'd like to know if these are good "special occasion" type wines, and if so whether I should decant, how long I can or should cellar them, etc.Thanks wine dudes.
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'06 Arundel Farm Estate Shiraz is a wine that I would drink around 2016 and beyond'01 Damilano Barolo is ready now and you want to do this with some Lamb Shanks. That would be a really nice pairing'02 Gevrey Chambertin is a nice wine. I really like this wine but I would hold it still. Can you drink it? Sure but a few more years of cellaring would be for me'08 Damaru is ready next year and another 3-5 years after
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The gevrey is a Pinot, it will not be a big wine at all. That being said, they are some of my favorite wines in the world.
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Absolutely.Two weeks ago I attended a tasting of 2010 Bouchard Pere & Fils and William Fevre. I think you would have enjoyed the selection of red we tasted.Savigny Les Beaune Les LavieresVosne RomaneeBeaune Clos De La MousseGevrey ChambertinPommard Premiere CruChambolle MusignyVolnay CailleretsBeaune Greves Vigne De L'Enfant JesusNuit-Saint-Goerges Les CaillesLe Corton Chambertin Clos De Beze
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Sweet Jesus that's a nice line up. I've had a lot of them. Love me some burgundy!!
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Hey Raiders. Just did a Drouhin tasting with Laurent Drouhin on Wednesday. I will get the wine notes on here about the lineup he brought with him. Aside from the Burgundy wines, his Oregon vineyards are producing some spectacular wine

 
Jules Winnfield said:
DA RAIDERS said:
'Jules Winnfield said:
'DA RAIDERS said:
'Jules Winnfield said:
'CletiusMaximus said:
Wine guys: These are the wines my company ceo gave me this year - let me know what I've got. I told him I like "big reds", but I'm more about bourbon and beer and mostly just try to bs my way through when it comes to wine.Arundel 2006Damilano Barolo 2001Georey-Chambertin Claude-Dugat 2002 (also says "Robert Kacher Selections" on the label)Damaru 2008I'd like to know if these are good "special occasion" type wines, and if so whether I should decant, how long I can or should cellar them, etc.Thanks wine dudes.
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'06 Arundel Farm Estate Shiraz is a wine that I would drink around 2016 and beyond'01 Damilano Barolo is ready now and you want to do this with some Lamb Shanks. That would be a really nice pairing'02 Gevrey Chambertin is a nice wine. I really like this wine but I would hold it still. Can you drink it? Sure but a few more years of cellaring would be for me'08 Damaru is ready next year and another 3-5 years after
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The gevrey is a Pinot, it will not be a big wine at all. That being said, they are some of my favorite wines in the world.
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Absolutely.Two weeks ago I attended a tasting of 2010 Bouchard Pere & Fils and William Fevre. I think you would have enjoyed the selection of red we tasted.Savigny Les Beaune Les LavieresVosne RomaneeBeaune Clos De La MousseGevrey ChambertinPommard Premiere CruChambolle MusignyVolnay CailleretsBeaune Greves Vigne De L'Enfant JesusNuit-Saint-Goerges Les CaillesLe Corton Chambertin Clos De Beze
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Sweet Jesus that's a nice line up. I've had a lot of them. Love me some burgundy!!
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Hey Raiders. Just did a Drouhin tasting with Laurent Drouhin on Wednesday. I will get the wine notes on here about the lineup he brought with him. Aside from the Burgundy wines, his Oregon vineyards are producing some spectacular wine
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LOVE the Domaine Drouhin Laurene

 
You fellas check out The Velvet Devil by Charles Smith (Merlot)? Tough to beat for $12, although I liked the previous years taste to this one a little more.

 
Any recommendations on a bottle opener. We have one of those Houdini/rabbit type (not sure of the brand). It's worked well and I like that type but it's worn out and need another.

 
phrozen said:
jamny said:
Any recommendations on a bottle opener. We have one of those Houdini/rabbit type (not sure of the brand). It's worked well and I like that type but it's worn out and need another.
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http://www.beveragefactory.com/wine/wineopeners/waiter/5100RD.shtml?CAWELAID=1372130142&catargetid=1553582277&cagpspn=pla&gclid=CM6dv_Os9rcCFUOi4AodRDUAAw

I use a hinged wine opener. Nothing fancy but works every time.
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Yeah, it's a simple process. No need to complicate it. Some of those cork screws are $50 :lmao:

 
Christo said:
phrozen said:
jamny said:
Any recommendations on a bottle opener. We have one of those Houdini/rabbit type (not sure of the brand). It's worked well and I like that type but it's worn out and need another.
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http://www.beveragefactory.com/wine/wineopeners/waiter/5100RD.shtml?CAWELAID=1372130142&catargetid=1553582277&cagpspn=pla&gclid=CM6dv_Os9rcCFUOi4AodRDUAAw

I use a hinged wine opener. Nothing fancy but works every time.
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Yeah, it's a simple process. No need to complicate it. Some of those cork screws are $50 :lmao:
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I didn't look far enough.There's one for $200 :o

 
Christo said:
phrozen said:
jamny said:
Any recommendations on a bottle opener. We have one of those Houdini/rabbit type (not sure of the brand). It's worked well and I like that type but it's worn out and need another.
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http://www.beveragefactory.com/wine/wineopeners/waiter/5100RD.shtml?CAWELAID=1372130142&catargetid=1553582277&cagpspn=pla&gclid=CM6dv_Os9rcCFUOi4AodRDUAAw

I use a hinged wine opener. Nothing fancy but works every time.
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Yeah, it's a simple process. No need to complicate it. Some of those cork screws are $50 :lmao:
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this one is a steal at this price IMO

http://www.beveragefactory.com/wine/openers/le-creuset_LMG10L-50.html

 
Christo said:
Christo said:
phrozen said:
jamny said:
Any recommendations on a bottle opener. We have one of those Houdini/rabbit type (not sure of the brand). It's worked well and I like that type but it's worn out and need another.
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http://www.beveragefactory.com/wine/wineopeners/waiter/5100RD.shtml?CAWELAID=1372130142&catargetid=1553582277&cagpspn=pla&gclid=CM6dv_Os9rcCFUOi4AodRDUAAw

I use a hinged wine opener. Nothing fancy but works every time.
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Yeah, it's a simple process. No need to complicate it. Some of those cork screws are $50 :lmao:
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I didn't look far enough.There's one for $200 :o
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just linked it :lmao:

 
phrozen said:
jamny said:
Any recommendations on a bottle opener. We have one of those Houdini/rabbit type (not sure of the brand). It's worked well and I like that type but it's worn out and need another.
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http://www.beveragefactory.com/wine/wineopeners/waiter/5100RD.shtml?CAWELAID=1372130142&catargetid=1553582277&cagpspn=pla&gclid=CM6dv_Os9rcCFUOi4AodRDUAAw

I use a hinged wine opener. Nothing fancy but works every time.
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Nah. Got that. Those Houdini/rabbit type are the best. Pop/pop and open.

 
jamny said:
phrozen said:
jamny said:
Any recommendations on a bottle opener. We have one of those Houdini/rabbit type (not sure of the brand). It's worked well and I like that type but it's worn out and need another.
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http://www.beveragefactory.com/wine/wineopeners/waiter/5100RD.shtml?CAWELAID=1372130142&catargetid=1553582277&cagpspn=pla&gclid=CM6dv_Os9rcCFUOi4AodRDUAAw

I use a hinged wine opener. Nothing fancy but works every time.
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Nah. Got that. Those Houdini/rabbit type are the best. Pop/pop and open.
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if you have the means, i highly recommend this.

 
Quint said:
phrozen said:
2010 Switchback Ridge Petite Sirah
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2010? that's infanticide.

how was it?
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Very solid wine even at its young age.

I had been on the Switchback Ridge waiting list for over a year and finally was able to purchase wine for their 2010 release. I bought 3 bottles of merlot, 3 petite sirah, and 3 old vine petite sirah.

I decided to cellar the old vine and 2 of the regular sirahs so I opened up one to try it out. Fantastic wine very smooth, great mouth feel, and excellent balance. Plus it is 16.1% ABV ;) . Looking forward to seeing how it turns out after it is aged for years.

 
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