http://www.westcoastwine.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php WCWN Tasting Notes Forum WCWN Forums - UBB.threads(tm) http://www.westcoastwine.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=353761#Post353761 Posted by BEB:
[b]Melville Winery Carrie’s Pinot Noir Santa Rita Hills 2005[/b] This wine is still young and takes a little bit to open up. Once it does, it offers both a nose and palate of cherry, cola, ground clove, brown sugar with a slight banana fosters fi]]> Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:46:06 PDT http://www.westcoastwine.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=353717#Post353717 Posted by Noel:
Dinner last night (1 July 2009) was a quiet one at Sala with Doc and our wives (unfortunately, the spouses Stockbroker couldn't join us). The wine theme was Burgs, and, since we were only four for the evening and the Doc is a very early bird, we limi]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:48:05 PDT http://www.westcoastwine.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=353701#Post353701 Posted by Andrew M c N e e s:
100% agree on the peay, those guys know how to inject so much minerality into there white wines. huge and rich like kongsgaard, but more rhone, zero heat and pop and pour so well but I'd have to guess they'd age out nicely.]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:41:37 PDT http://www.westcoastwine.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=353692#Post353692 Posted by TomHill:
Cracked last night w/ leftovers: 1. [b]Ravenswood Icon SonomaVlly RTW (13.9%; 68%Syrah/21%Grenache/11%Mourvedre) 1993[/b]: Dark/muurky color w/ some browning; lovely/complex/perfumed cedary/pencilly light licorice/anise slight roasted/pungent/Rhonis]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:37:24 PDT http://www.westcoastwine.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=353670#Post353670 Posted by Brian Buzzini (MRBUZZ):
[b]1995 Chateau Montelena Cabernet Sauvignon The Montelena Estate - USA, California, Napa Valley (6/30/2009)[/b] Still gorgeous dark garnet in color....old wine cellar nose, with perfumed cherry, leather, earth dust. Quite young tasting, yet smoot]]> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:03:42 PDT http://www.westcoastwine.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=353658#Post353658 Posted by geo t.:
[b]1970 Robert Mondavi Napa Petite Sirah, 12% alc.:[/b] Slightly cloudy, almost inky dark garnet color, and little rust as of yet; lovely aromatics of sweet spices and red and black berries carry over onto the palate with some earth underneath it all]]> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:04:23 PDT http://www.westcoastwine.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=353621#Post353621 Posted by Bryan Briscoe:
Found 2 of these buried in the passive cellar the other day(all these years I thought they were pinots). Deep sunflower yellow color in the glass. Intense nose of chalky mineral and very penetrating, bright lemon citrus. In the mouth a barge full of]]> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:30:30 PDT http://www.westcoastwine.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=353620#Post353620 Posted by TomHill:
You guys sound like a bunch of old geezers sitting around in their wheel chairs at the ShadyAcres Nursing Home, remeniscing about the good ole days (by crackey)!!! Not the life for me. Tom ]]> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:10:42 PDT http://www.westcoastwine.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=353605#Post353605 Posted by Ken Zinns:
[quote=Florida Jim]Ken, If you could bring home only one of the wines you tasted, which would it be? Why? Best, Jim [/quote] Hi Jim, I've been out most of the day, but hopefully you saw my reply earlier today in the thread on the General Board thr]]> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:41:08 PDT http://www.westcoastwine.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=353600#Post353600 Posted by CNSmith:
My Braodbent VV has no vintage. There's a lot# on the capsule, and a VV seriaal number - that's it. The 9% really helps this out. Otherwise, I could never get out of the pool.]]> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:27:45 PDT http://www.westcoastwine.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=353583#Post353583 Posted by BEB:
Christian Lauverjat Moulin des Vrilleres Sancerre 2007 Sancerre for under $20? It used to be that only the better Sancerres could begin to think of pushing $20, but now, it seems that most all of them are if they want to have any street cred. Ex]]> Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:02:53 PDT http://www.westcoastwine.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=353578#Post353578 Posted by Noel:
There are some bottles of the 2002 Bocquenet Échézeaux available in Manila for exactly the same price as offered by Flickinger (appx. $110 equivalent in local currency). I haven't tried this wine yet, but am a bit curious about it. Could those wit]]> Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:40:33 PDT http://www.westcoastwine.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=353575#Post353575 Posted by herried:
recently had the 97 Insignia at a restaurant in SF. It sounds like we were drinking the same wine.....someone must have changed the year on the labels. I'm just glad I didn't buy it off their list. Still pricy for what it was. $80 at release....shoul]]> Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:44:43 PDT http://www.westcoastwine.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=353571#Post353571 Posted by ksyrah:
I love the Chermette Beaujolais wines, pretty much across their line-up. When I'm feeling mildly under the weather (not often), I've found that a glass or two of their Beaujolais Cuvee Traditionnelle VV is chicken soup for the soul. -Al]]> Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:08:42 PDT http://www.westcoastwine.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=353565#Post353565 Posted by John Tomasso:
This was the "hommage (sic) to Chablis" bottling. Pale gold - starting to taste its age, there is a hint of a sherry like note lurking behind some fading tropical fruit flavor The acidity is still very bright, and the wine is alive, but I would d]]> Sat, 27 Jun 2009 05:24:20 PDT