SkinsNDeacs
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Next time you are opening the cellar - send out an invite, we'll have a Pit wine tasting party. I'll bring the silver oak.
That is not a bad idea...
Next time you are opening the cellar - send out an invite, we'll have a Pit wine tasting party. I'll bring the silver oak.
A few nights ago I had the pleasure of doing a small tasting (only about 20 people) with Jacques Lardiere...winemaker at Louis Jadot. How great is it to do a Burgundy tasting with one of the most respected winemakers in the world? He was cool as hell too, when I told him my wife and I are headed to Burgundy this summer he gave me his card and insisted that I call his assistant to set up a personal tour of his winery.
Go ahead and bash me, but I really like this:
Picked up a couple of bottles of his 2009 Beauijolais-Villages last night Reasonably priced, good stuff.
I've had a couple different vintages of the Prisoner recently. I'm usually not into CA red, but its pretty decent. It's different each year, but it's mostly a Zin/Cab blend.
http://www.orinswift.com/wines/the_prisoner.php
2011 supposed to be a good year in VA
http://news.yahoo.com/us-winemakers-hope-grand-cru-heat-wave-194406606.html?bouchon=511,dc
Toured Napa and Sonoma last week. NC wines are just as good.
I've been to Italy and France and tried as much wine as possible. To me, Italian wine is far better than French wine. NC wineries seem to make more Italian style wines than French. Napa/Sonoma make more French wines. That's the main reason NC wines taste better to me. NC wines weren't that good a few years back, but now that the vines have some age on them they are much better.
This has to be a joke
Really like Orin Swift wines. Saldo and Prisoner are good, the Papillion is spectacular.