Wine Thread

[WinstonSpencer]

This has been a mild wine-drinking summer for us. However, we were treated to dinner one evening about 2 months ago where we had a bottle of Far Niente Cabernet. Simply put, it's the best wine I've ever had. I believe it was a 2004 vintage. Pretty label, too.

Cool. That wine has been on my "To Try" list for a while. Definitely a stand-out label.

[mrtr33]

Petite Petit. Still awesome. Still 40% off at the local Whole Foods.

Cool. That wine has been on my "To Try" list for a while. Definitely a stand-out label.

I suggest pulling the trigger. I've seen in some grocery stores they'll offer a 6 pack for like 30% off of the total price. Figure you get one bottle of Far Niente, and 5 other $10 bottles or so, and it's like only having to pay a normal price for the Far Niente. Just a thought, and it's still expensive, but honestly, I'd forgo a few weeks of the regular rotation for a bottle of it, though.

[Eville]

It looks like I've come a long way from page one. We took a 4 day weekend trip over Thanksgiving to the South of France, specifically the Rohne valley. We spent a full day driving around to the different wineries in the Chateauneuf-du-Pape area tasting and stockpiling. I came home with 18 bottles left after the rest of the weekend. This was some of the best wine I have ever had. Here's a picture of the back of the van after the last winery of the day.


Tonight I'm cracking open a bottle of Domaine de Mourchon Tradition 2009. 65% grenache, 25% syrah, 10% carignan from 40 year old vines.

ETA: Pretty good. Really mellow and velvety feel, not much tannin. Dry on the finish. I think this is my last bottle of this. Wish I had another.

[ggiese]

It looks like I've come a long way from page one. We took a 4 day weekend trip over Thanksgiving to the South of France, specifically the Rohne valley. We spent a full day driving around to the different wineries in the Chateauneuf-du-Pape area tasting and stockpiling. I came home with 18 bottles left after the rest of the weekend. This was some of the best wine I have ever had. Here's a picture of the back of the van after the last winery of the day.


Tonight I'm cracking open a bottle of Domaine de Mourchon Tradition 2009. 65% grenache, 25% syrah, 10% carignan from 40 year old vines.

ETA: Pretty good. Really mellow and velvety feel, not much tannin. Dry on the finish. I think this is my last bottle of this. Wish I had another.

The Rohne Valley, eh? I'm completely envious. I'd love to do one of those French winery tours - even more than I'd want to do a Northern California wine crawl. Have you by chance checked out the movie Bottle Shock?

Not that it compares, but recently a good friend introduced me to the Cooper Hawk winery. I believe they're only located in a handful of states with only a few restaurant locations/tasting rooms, but there is a local location with a tasting room. And not one of the wines I tasted I would not want to buy a bottle of. I'm not a huge Chardonnay fan, but I have to say they have one of the most incredible Chardonnay's I've ever tasted!

[WinstonSpencer]

It looks like I've come a long way from page one. We took a 4 day weekend trip over Thanksgiving to the South of France, specifically the Rohne valley. We spent a full day driving around to the different wineries in the Chateauneuf-du-Pape area tasting and stockpiling. I came home with 18 bottles left after the rest of the weekend. This was some of the best wine I have ever had. Here's a picture of the back of the van after the last winery of the day.


Tonight I'm cracking open a bottle of Domaine de Mourchon Tradition 2009. 65% grenache, 25% syrah, 10% carignan from 40 year old vines.

ETA: Pretty good. Really mellow and velvety feel, not much tannin. Dry on the finish. I think this is my last bottle of this. Wish I had another.

Damn Eville, that sounds like an amazing experience. French wine country is definitely on my bucket list. Just curious, did you encounter any difficulty with language barriers? Were local attitudes generally favorable?

[gogotron]

Williams Selyem and Araujo

[Eville]

Damn Eville, that sounds like an amazing experience. French wine country is definitely on my bucket list. Just curious, did you encounter any difficulty with language barriers? Were local attitudes generally favorable?

Late reply, but the general attitude of everyone there, especially the people at the wineries was favorable. They were just as happy to sell me wine as I was to drink it. At least one person at each spoke English well so there weren't any language barriers.

[BurninMaduro]

I was buying bottles of MacRostie Pinot 2007, specifically Carneros region (not Wildcat Mountain) for a while about 3 years back. Insane bottle of wine, truly reminds you of Dr. Pepper. Still have a few bottles stashed away. If you can find a bottle, highly recommend