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yeah that price is dumb. used to get it for just under $20 when it was a hidden gem. it is very good for its style, though.
Nice bottle - can still buy it around here for $34 - if you like it try 8 Years in the Desert - when Orin Swift sold the original winery he could replicate or modify the Prisoner blend for 8 Years - thus the name
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yeah that price is dumb. used to get it for just under $20 when it was a hidden gem. it is very good for its style, though.
Nice bottle - can still buy it around here for $34 - if you like it try 8 Years in the Desert - when Orin Swift sold the original winery he could replicate or modify the Prisoner blend for 8 Years - thus the name
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yeah that price is dumb. used to get it for just under $20 when it was a hidden gem. it is very good for its style, though.
house wine is DuBoeuf Beaujolais Villages
special occasion is Etude Pinot Carneros annual or heritage
I've been to that movie! Was selling find wine and we had a winery that was up and coming. Oddly enough, I do not recall the name of it, but it will probably come to me in a day or two. All I have is "stop" thinking about something when my mind will reveal it to me. But, they received several mid-90's scores for their Cabernt Sauvignon which I had on glass pour in a bunch of restaurant! Guess what they did? Of course! They jacked up the price to where it could not be glass poured around here any more, and I lost them all!
Then I had a chance to work with the arrogant a**hole of a "sales mangler" who caught a whole lot of crap on my route! And he screwed up my route royally, because I had to run him to Cleveland airport in mid-afternoon, and my route was nowhere near there! Once I dropped him off, I gave up and went home! I just called everyone else on the phone.
I am so sorry for that! I once went to a tasting, back when the release of the Beaujolais Nouveau was a thing, of the entire line of DuBoeuf Beaujolais! That was where I discovered that I absolutely hated the taste of the Gamay grape!
yeah...the Nouveau can be very variable year to year
the annual vintages are generally good and some years are very good
The only ones I found palatable were the Moulin a Vent, and the Chiroubles (I think). Also, I recall the Fleurie as passable. And let's not forget that Burgundians call the Gamay grape, the "disloyal plant"!
Exactly! Because Beaujolais is a lightweight wine made by a lightweight grape! Nothing wrong with that, but my palate wants something more impressive.
I don't know if you are aware of a wine importer named Kermit Lynch, but we were lucky enough to welcome him to our portfolio one year. His wines were absolutely incredible! They were unlike anything I had ever tasted before! So intense! So full of life! So charming! So evocative! So alluring!
He wrote a book called "Adventures Along the Wine Route" which chronicled his travels through France searching for good wine! It is an excellent read, and I would advise you to look for it. Well worth the read!
Well, puttering around the wine cellar, I came across my remaining 2 bottle of 1982 Chateau Mouton Rothschild! I scraped my butt with glass back when I was young and poor, and bought 3 bottles for $85 a piece! I can't imagine what they'd be worth today! But, I did not buy them for an investment, I bought them to drink! I opened one 20 years ago, on it's 20th birthday, and committed an infanticide! It was nowhere near ready to drink! There were articles in the Wine Spectator in the years after the '82 vintage that claimed that the wine were too "fat", too ripe to have the structure to age well. That bottle 20 years ago put the lie to that!
So, I will have to invent some occasion to open one more of these with my dearest friends and loved ones. Here's my issue. I know that corks can get crumbly when they get old. I also know that some Bordeaux producers do "recorking" tours where local collectors can come and have their wine recorked. I never hear of any such thing in my area, so these are the original corks. Also, I know that Grand Cru Bordeaux corks are extraordinarily long! I'm thinking of going to a local wine shop to see if they have any of those CO2 decorkers. This is a chamber which holds a CO2 cartridge, and has a needle that you push through the cork. Less resistance, and no twisting! You then press a button on the back of the chamber to disharge CO2 under the cork, and the pressure of the CO2 pushes the entire cork out of the bottle.
What think you, enophiles?
Might try the butler's thief first - the 2 prong tool that slides prongs down both sides of the cork - try it slowly to test the condition of the cork. If cork begins to deteriorate, stop and slip it out. That's my old reliable when corkscrew starts to crumble cork.
Without further research, I would do the needle/CO2 project but air it judiciously to pop it out slowly and gently. I'd experiment first with an inexpensive bottle. But see below.
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I see what you're saying. What we call the "AH SO" opener up here. I have several of those openers, and they require you to twist the cork, and also tha the blades are long enough to cover the length of the cork, and I do not know if that is possible! The ones that I have seem to be sized to American length corks, not Bordeaux Pemire Cru length corks!
I'm leaning more and more to CO2!
Recently visited Biltmore Estates and tried a Petite Syrah made at their winery. I really liked it and was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for other Petite Syrahs?
I like the CO2 idea but go soooo slowly so it barely oozes out of the bottle.
I've used the ah-so and it does require some subtle twisting - done it before to test the cork...
But I'm a high tech guy so going slowly with CO2 would probably be my option 1 with that bottle
The Little Penguin - Eastern Austrailia
Cabernet Sauvignon
$6.99
I don't think I've ever opened a bottle and said "this literally tastes like strong grape juice". It's fruity, but pretty smooth and the price is under where I feel it should be.
Out of 3 .......I give it
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