zin was good. the middle one is orin swift "abstract red". It has a different taste profile. For awhile there were a few style imitators but I haven't seen one in awhile.
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After dinner dessert wine and Cab we had with steak dinner we shared with my Mom who my wife and I had been making sure she is eating well as sister who lives on her property had knee replacement and is staying with her daughter. Both were excellent. Closing Bell (link to 2020 version), from the warmest part of Monterey County, was very hard to open. Scheid exclusively uses screw-top closures on their wines, but not on Closing Bell that combines two Portuguese grapes with Tempranillo. The corked top had been dipped in wax and side of cork also had gotten attached to the bottle. I got through the cork with corkscrews, but it wasn't coming out, so I poured it through screened aerator into a glass. After cleaning bottle with a brush, I poured the half-bottle we did not drink last night back into it.
Interesting way to label the dessert wine. In Portugal, Tempranillo is called tinta roriz or aragonez. Why call two of them by their Portuguese name and one of them by its Spanish name? I guess that is what the vines were labeled as when planted probably. Still seems odd to me.
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And now, for the rest of the story ........ please!
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Top photo is a small part of the see-through wine room wall at a hotel in Ortisei. The two bottles are what our jet-lagged group actually drank last night.
Full disclosure: This is a friend of mine. He gave me the bottle for helping him out with something.
One of the best Pinots I have had in a long time. Tastes like 2000 in the best way possible. CA winemakers had discovered "ripe" pinot but had not yet discovered "syrah jr". His day job is Bremer Vineyards where he makes great Cab, Chard, and Sauv Blanc.
This is really small production stuff. But damn, my friend really impressed me with this one:
One of the best Pinots I have had in a long time. Tastes like 2000 in the best way possible. CA winemakers had discovered "ripe" pinot but had not yet discovered "syrah jr". His day job is Bremer Vineyards where he makes great Cab, Chard, and Sauv Blanc.
This is really small production stuff. But damn, my friend really impressed me with this one:
Wine disaster at Taos!
I had a few bottles to take dinner after skiing. Since I thought it might be too cold in the car, I put them in my boot bag. in the boot up room, I was g I ING to put my bag in cubby. u set my bag on the bench as I reorganized the stuff I already had in the cubby.
But it didn't occur to me that the wine made my bag top-heavy. it roll off the bench, the heavy bottle landed on another, and my bag starts bleeding! (wine that is).
I ran into the bathroom and opened my bag in the sink. A lot of my stuff stayed dry.
Many thanks to the Taos staff for helping me clean up.
I had a few bottles to take dinner after skiing. Since I thought it might be too cold in the car, I put them in my boot bag. in the boot up room, I was g I ING to put my bag in cubby. u set my bag on the bench as I reorganized the stuff I already had in the cubby.
But it didn't occur to me that the wine made my bag top-heavy. it roll off the bench, the heavy bottle landed on another, and my bag starts bleeding! (wine that is).
I ran into the bathroom and opened my bag in the sink. A lot of my stuff stayed dry.
Many thanks to the Taos staff for helping me clean up.
With a label like 'Bolan' there had better be a Bosnian connection.
All I can tell you is he grew up in Kansas lol.
If you are going to eat the perfect food, you might as well drink a perfect wine.
This is the second and last bottle of this wine. We shared the first one with a very good friend almost 10 years ago, and I was afraid this second one could be going down hill, but boy. Was I wrong. Dusty, ridiculously beautiful nose, and deep, deep flavors. How can you have such a dry and long finish? Good figure. Unforgettable wine. Mendieta 94 right now
This is the second and last bottle of this wine. We shared the first one with a very good friend almost 10 years ago, and I was afraid this second one could be going down hill, but boy. Was I wrong. Dusty, ridiculously beautiful nose, and deep, deep flavors. How can you have such a dry and long finish? Good figure. Unforgettable wine. Mendieta 94 right now
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Surely Lagrein is one of the "hiding in plain sight" greats. This young riserva was just stunning. In particular it doesn't strike me as something that requires acquiring a taste, in the way that Nebbiolo, for example, may for North Americans. Certainly this example had dark lush fruit and was structured like a Bordeaux, albeit with a different flavor profile.
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Clio from Juan Gil at Aceq in Arroyo Seco during the Taos mini gathering. Good wine and a good restaurant.
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Just how cheap is wine in the Dolomites? Very cheap. This is a list of most of the bottles our group drank at dinners in our first hotel. (They were charged to my room so I was settling up expenses this morning and thought readers of this thread might be interested.)
3 from bottom notes?
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