2000 Graham vintage port from a half. Closer to mature than I expected.
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1998 Chateau St. Jean Cabernet Sauvignon Cinq Cépages
2016 Forge Cellars Les Ailes Riesling. Wow this is really nice. Waxy, oily, citrusy. Touch of funk on the nose. Really, really good.
1997 Lisini Brunello di Montalcino
Wow.
J3
2010 Betz Syrah La Côte Rousse. Slightly tired - good that I didn’t save it for an offline.
2007 Podere Poggio Scalette Il Carbonaione - must be one of the best QPR's. Had my price in at $40 and damn did i enjoy this.
2014 Valenti Etna Rosso Norma - needed time to pick up weight but there's better value out there. It's too bad that most of the Etna wines have had such large increases in our market over the past 5 years.
2017 Ramon de Casar Nobre Treixadura - thanks to OTW and Fut for the tip on this one - great wine.
2018 Tornatore Pietrarizzo Etna Bianco - thanks to Sunny for the tip on this one - a steal at the LCBO price. Very good etna bianco - would like to see how it gets with a bit of age.
2017 Valle dell'acate Il Frappato - off vintage for this wine. A little too cloying for a frappato.
2000 Château Faugères
2014 Domaine Pattes Loup, Chablis, Beauregard
2016 Piron, Chenas, Quartz
Tonight
2008 Stefania, Cabernet Sauvignon, Harvest Moon Special Reserve
2018 Sierra Cantabria Rosado. It won’t get into the 100 point conversation.
Next of Kyn #9
16.4% abv ... surprsingly well balanced but even so, i'm feeling a little hungover
2016 San Felice Chianti Classico.
2004 Karl Lawrence Cabernet (magnum). Outstanding.
2015 Sassetti (Pertimali) Brunello
Cork pulled 4+ hours prior but not decanted. Exceptional. That’s the way I would do it right now.
2011 Domaine Huet, Vouvray, Le Mont Demi-Sec
2010 Domaine Huet, Vouvray, Le Mont, Moelleux Premiere Trie
The demi-sec was more advanced than I expected, but that was my last bottle. The Moelleux is outstanding. No rush.
2016 Columbia Crest H3 Cabernet Sauvignon. This is definitely sporting some mocha on the mid palate.
2019 Fattoria Ambra Trebbiano
2019 Casa alle Vacche I Macchioni Vernaccia di San Gimignano - delicious
2016 Antolini Valpolicella Classico Persega - great value
Wines I served at my wedding last fall on my 1st Anniversary. Nothing crazy special but they were very good and brought back some nice memories of normalcy
2015 Atwater Dry Riesling
2016 Argyle Pinot Noir.
2005 Shafer Hillside Select
2014 Occidental-Cuvee Catherine Occidental Station Pinot
2011 Carlisle Zinfandel Hayne Vineyard
@billhike posted:2010 Betz Syrah La Côte Rousse. Slightly tired - good that I didn’t save it for an offline.
That's a bummer. I don't have a ton of experience with Betz but thought they used to age fairly well. I have a close fried that is on the list and he has gifted me a few bottles over the years. I just checked and have a few 2009 Clos de Betz. I'll have to tee one of those up soon.
Hope you are well billhike!
Lots of whites and rose for the summer:
2018 Tyler Chardonnay Zotovich Family Vineyard
2018 Walter Scott Chardonnay Cuvée Anne
2017 Ceritas Chardonnay Porter-Bass Vineyard
2017 Schäfer-Fröhlich Bockenauer Felseneck Riesling GG
2019 Ceritas Pinot Noir Rosé of Pinot Noir
2018 Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey Santenay 1er Cru Passetemps Blanc
2018 Weingut Keller Riesling von der Fels
2019 Jolie-Laide Pinot Gris
@glennk posted:That's a bummer. I don't have a ton of experience with Betz but thought they used to age fairly well. I have a close fried that is on the list and he has gifted me a few bottles over the years. I just checked and have a few 2009 Clos de Betz. I'll have to tee one of those up soon.
Hope you are well billhike!
Same to you and your family, Glenn!
2016 Couvent des Thorins Moulin a Vent.
over the past two night - 2017 Eric Texier Brezeme. Now this is a wine I own a few cases of in different vintages and typically enjoy. Some friends of mine split a case of the '17 on my reccomendation and after some time sent me this bottle to try. It's not right. Not flawed - no brett or TCA or VA etc... As Mrs. VeV said "it smells like hot leather and drinks like olive tapenade" and refused to drink anymore of it. I like olive/saline notes in syrah, but this was like drinking a tapenade smoothie. No fruit whatsoever and enamel peeling acidity. I had hoped it would get better overnight but it didnt budge. A shame.
2018 Vinyes Del Terrer, Macabeo, Blanc del Terrer
Only 1 bottle left of my summer house white.
2005 Lewelling Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Wight
2015 Monsanto Chianti Classico Riserva.
To celebrate a father and sons bday,
2015 Simon Bize Savigny-les-Beaune 1er cru
2005 Jacques Prier Santenots 1er cru Volnay
2006 Château Léoville Barton st-Julien
2010 La Tour Blanche Sauternes 1er cru
A friend invited me over to taste with them at his house. Great lineup that included:
1988 Bruno Giacosa Villero di Falletto - I brought this one from my cellar. In a great spot. Decanted first sediment. Wonderful to drink as it evolved over the evening.
2014 Sine Qua Non Grenache Testa dei Cherubini - beautiful wine that was inky black but probably the first SQN wine I’ve tasted that was close to being ready to drink
2014 Sine Qua Non Syrah Piranha Waterdance - still a baby but showing bacon fat and dark fruits. Needs another 5 years minimum
2010 Cune Gran Reserva.
1996 Louis Brochet-Hervieux HBH 1er Cru Champagne. Not having much luck these days with older Champagne. A bit controversial on release, today my other half didn't like it at all. I ended up finishing -- as opposed to enjoying -- the bottle. Not sure what we will do with the other one. Anyone have a boat that needs to be christened?
2008 Le Vieux Pin Syrah. First Syrah release from this Okanagan winery, from young vines. Showed very well on release; the question was how well it would age. And the answer is very well. Lovely wine, that doesn't feel its age. Wish I had more of the 2008.
2019 Domaine La Suffrene, Bandol, Rosé
2009 Faustino, Rioja, Gran Reserva I
2016 Lohan Yardy, Chenas, Les Deschamps
2017 Shane Pinot La Reine
2017 Knudsen Pinot
2014 Wind Gap Syrah
1970 La Brenta D'Oro, Barbaresco, Reserva Speciale....very much alive, showing bitter cherry, graphite tobacco. Fun to drink a birth year wine. Thanks for the present Javachip! Looking forward to the Barolo for MZ's bday.
Also, over the last couple of weeks:
2018 Jermann Pinot Grigio
2019 Miraval rose'
2019 Dom. les Aphillanthes, Nymphea rose....one of the better '19 rose's I've had.
2015 Carpineta Fontalpino Do Ut Des
I didn't find much to like in this wine. It was a fruity alcoholic unstructured mess. I liked the 2007, the only other vintage I have tasted, but this is totally different.