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Thanksgiving Day wines continued.........


Also, Don't forget dessert wines for afterwards. Ice Wines from canada are insanely good but also insanely expensive. Usually made from the Niagra and the vidal grape (if I remember correctly)

Port is also a good call. Go for a nice LBV for about $20. This should cover everyone for a small glass as port is difficult to chug down. It's a great pairing with the mince pies and pumpkin pies. Apple pie might clash a bit but have some afterwards. A bottle of port will last for 1 week after opened (no it doesn't last indefinitely) so bring it home!!!!

Good luck and post up what you've guzzled!!!

Happy T-day!
 
I'm a big Conundrum fan. Couple bottles / week.
For red...what the hell's wrong with $9 Barefoot IMO...nothing, always have several of that.
I'm really on the fence on the pricey wines. Opus One.....I don't understand the pricing..good stuff for sure.

Really got into wine the last few years, one of the reasons I'm stoked about moving to CA.


So I can listen to the Napa vs. Sonoma stories. Yeehaw. I do like your 'make your own' wine idea. That would kick major ass.

My ONLY question:

Mud discounts and do you ship? Ha~
 
Picked up a bottle of Syrah for dinner tonight... having red meat. Dunno what I'll grab for tomorrow, maybe really a Pinot Noir :gasp:
 
TJDIV said:
I'm a big Conundrum fan. Couple bottles / week.
For red...what the hell's wrong with $9 Barefoot IMO...nothing, always have several of that.
I'm really on the fence on the pricey wines. Opus One.....I don't understand the pricing..good stuff for sure.

Really got into wine the last few years, one of the reasons I'm stoked about moving to CA.


So I can listen to the Napa vs. Sonoma stories. Yeehaw. I do like your 'make your own' wine idea. That would kick major ass.

My ONLY question:

Mud discounts and do you ship? Ha~
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Conundrum- Good stuff but Buy Sokol Blosser Evolution #9- it's basically the same and it's less than half the price. I know the owners and they are the nicest people you've ever met. Conundrum was owned by a Napa winery (Caymus) and had a Napa appelation but they sold it and now it's a California appelation. God knows who makes it and what's in it now.

Pricey wines- there are wines that cost $25 that are just as good as Opus and all the other wines. Markham's cabernet vineyards are literally next to some opus vines and also Screaming Eagle. A matter of 8 feet away. Markham cab is $22 and screaming eagle sells for $1000 per bottle. Don't let price ever dictate what you buy. It's like owning a Lamborghini or a Chevy. When you break them down, they are just cars. Wines are the same priciple. You can still get to the same place regardless of price!

Sonoma is great. Napa is too but it's soo busy and too much traffic. Wish I lived there!

I do ship and I'll sell any of my wines to any MUD members for wholesale cost. I can mix cases or do 6 bottles.

:cheers:
 
NaterGator said:
Picked up a bottle of Syrah for dinner tonight... having red meat. Dunno what I'll grab for tomorrow, maybe really a Pinot Noir :gasp:
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I had popcorn chicken and microwave mashed potatoes with a Sonoma Merlot. Perfection!
 
The Syrah was fantastic. A 2005 vintage from the Sonoma valley.... I gotta go look at the label.


Oh, and the cuts of cow were perfect too. A good precursor for turkey day :cool:
 
jsaltlick said:
Conundrum- Good stuff but Buy Sokol Blosser Evolution #9- it's basically the same and it's less than half the price. I know the owners and they are the nicest people you've ever met. Conundrum was owned by a Napa winery (Caymus) and had a Napa appelation but they sold it and now it's a California appelation. God knows who makes it and what's in it now.

Pricey wines- there are wines that cost $25 that are just as good as Opus and all the other wines. Markham's cabernet vineyards are literally next to some opus vines and also Screaming Eagle. A matter of 8 feet away. Markham cab is $22 and screaming eagle sells for $1000 per bottle. Don't let price ever dictate what you buy. It's like owning a Lamborghini or a Chevy. When you break them down, they are just cars. Wines are the same priciple. You can still get to the same place regardless of price!

Sonoma is great. Napa is too but it's soo busy and too much traffic. Wish I lived there!

I do ship and I'll sell any of my wines to any MUD members for wholesale cost. I can mix cases or do 6 bottles.

:cheers:
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Well...looks like I need some #9 from you.

Proceed to checkout? :D
 
1. Give me a snobs comparison of The Red Mountain Apellation in Easter Washington State and Napa Valley. (Warning: I'm biased as I live in the RMA and just went to Napa for the first time last week. I was NOT impressed.)
2. I've got a home raised turkey brining away. It's been more or less free range since April. 32 pounds plucked and cleaned. Bronze. I'm brining it in salt water, gewurztemeiner (sp?), OJ, Cranberry Juice, etc. And stuffing it with sausage, cornbread, morrels, hazelnuts, herbs, etc. What wine should I serve with it tomorrow?
 
jsaltlick said:
Swedish Good. Yellow Tail bad.
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I thought It better than the $3. Chuck ;)and I was camping out in the middle of Death Valley (everything taste better when your camping)

This last weekend My wife, (back to the whites) and I shared a bottle of Flisinger Gewurztraminer 2005 part of our Temeculla stash served chilled It was little sparking kinda champagne like, with grape fruit and a dry finnish very drinkable, with dinner of bow tie pasta in a light garlic butter and asparagus and I cooked :bounce2:.....hows that...I know It's not Necked Swedish babes but Oh well .....Dusty 66
 
apocalypsegrrrl said:
1. Give me a snobs comparison of The Red Mountain Apellation in Easter Washington State and Napa Valley. (Warning: I'm biased as I live in the RMA and just went to Napa for the first time last week. I was NOT impressed.)
2. I've got a home raised turkey brining away. It's been more or less free range since April. 32 pounds plucked and cleaned. Bronze. I'm brining it in salt water, gewurztemeiner (sp?), OJ, Cranberry Juice, etc. And stuffing it with sausage, cornbread, morrels, hazelnuts, herbs, etc. What wine should I serve with it tomorrow?
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Napa is overdone with people that have huge bank accounts and little taste. Sonoma is a laid back place as wine country should be.

Have it with a gerwurtztraminer!!!!! Hell, it'll taste like it anyway. Wish I was going to your house!!!!!!!!!!:cheers:
 
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BTW, not familiar with the Red Mountain Appelation. Prolly doesn't make it out here. Love to try it!!!!!! Never said I knew everything (although I act like I do.)
 
burlew said:
When I drink wine I am fine for the first glass, but into the second I become flushed and get an immediate headache…red really hurts….What wine will not do this and why does this happen. Someone said I am allergic to the tannins (spelling). I love wine, but the pay off is not fun…:cheers:
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I used to have this problem with red wine too. Especially Cab. The solution for me was to pay more money for my wine. Then the tannins are aged out or something. I still don't like cab much, probably because of negative associations from the headache days. Try a nice syrah (I suggest Terra Blanca's 2002 reserve, you can buy it online.) Then take 3 advil and a B12 before bed.
 
Argentina

I recently tried two fairly inexpensive Argentine Malbec's...2005 Simonassi Malbec....nice for about $8/btl and a 2006 Punto Final Malbec..a little more but worth it. I also picked-up a 2004 Lancatay Bonarda that I have not tried before but was recommended.
Finally, I'm sitting on 4 bottles I carried back from Argentina in early 2006...a 2003 Fabre-Montmayou Malbec, a 2003 Bodega Lurton Reserva Cab-Sauv, a 2003 Luigi Basca Reserva Cab Sauv, and a 2003 Alfredo Roca Cab Sauv. What are your thoughts on the 2003 bottles....should I let them sit to improve as they age or break them out for the next occasion ?
 
Dusty 66 said:
I thought It better than the $3. Chuck ;)and I was camping out in the middle of Death Valley (everything taste better when your camping)

This last weekend My wife, (back to the whites) and I shared a bottle of Flisinger Gewurztraminer 2005 part of our Temeculla stash served chilled It was little sparking kinda champagne like, with grape fruit and a dry finnish very drinkable, with dinner of bow tie pasta in a light garlic butter and asparagus and I cooked :bounce2:.....hows that...I know It's not Necked Swedish babes but Oh well .....Dusty 66
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Damn that sounds good. Is Flisinger from Temecula? Gerwurtz has a litchi-nut taste and does have that bit of spritz. Sounds great with the eats in death valley.

All I have to look forward to is dry turkey and painful religious arguments from my pseudo-relatives tomorrow.

Still no pics of the wife, huh? :flipoff2:
 
JAPFPE said:
I recently tried two fairly inexpensive Argentine Malbec's...2005 Simonassi Malbec....nice for about $8/btl and a 2006 Punto Final Malbec..a little more but worth it. I also picked-up a 2004 Lancatay Bonarda that I have not tried before but was recommended.
Finally, I'm sitting on 4 bottles I carried back from Argentina in early 2006...a 2003 Fabre-Montmayou Malbec, a 2003 Bodega Lurton Reserva Cab-Sauv, a 2003 Luigi Basca Reserva Cab Sauv, and a 2003 Alfredo Roca Cab Sauv. What are your thoughts on the 2003 bottles....should I let them sit to improve as they age or break them out for the next occasion ?
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Malbecs are always a home run.

As far as the others I'd say drink them! I just had a 1996 Brunello last weekend that I've been saving since 1999 and it was crap. Waiting is overrated. I bet those cabs could hold for another 2-3 years but why bother? They won't evolve much more and you run the risk of waiting too long and killing the flavors. If not this holiday season, drink em all by New Year's 2009. I know the Lurton one and they make great stuff. The others prolly don't even make it to the USA. Drink them with people that will appreciate something a bit rare.
 
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