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....Is my nectar of the Gods. A friend called me up recently, asking about a certain wine he had just opened. "It's all wrong" he said, "it's oxidized and tastes like sherry". I asked him what specifically the wine was, and after he read the label I had to suppress a bit of a giggle, The wine in question was an Alvear Pedro Ximinez Montilla-Moriles Solera 1927. It turns out he had mixed this up

KJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10224774383619390578noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3413725364548523976.post-15385326696458862102008-10-21T13:58:00.008-04:002008-10-21T16:35:06.978-04:00

Dr. Vino is giving away a few copies of his new book. All you have to do is tell him what your favorite season is for drinking wine. Right now is my favorite wine season, the weather is getting a little cooler, the leaves are turning, the winds whip up and rustle the branches and the scatter the fallen leaves. The air manages to smell clean, yet earthy at the same time. I crave Cru Beaujolais,

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The Lovely wife and I co-hosted a Beer tasting party with friends in Columbia Heights this past Friday, and I'm thrilled with how well it went. Even if I was a bit overzealous in the breadth of my selections for the evening. The turnout was great, everyone was inquisitive and adventurous, hey free beer and great pizza from Pete's Apizza who's gonna complain right? If I could make corrections for

KJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10224774383619390578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3413725364548523976.post-45489172559905701472008-09-02T13:38:00.004-04:002008-09-02T14:37:49.332-04:00

I saw this over at McDuff's Food & Wine Trail and was intrigued, it originally got started over at Very Good Taste. I thought it might be neat to see how I stack up...... The ground rules as stated were,1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.4) Optional extra: Post a

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Well, ultimate supremacy may be a bit overreaching, but it was a tasty showdown between Cabernets from Washington and California. Some of our group were conspicuously missing due to uncontrollable circumstances, or struggling under the oppression of a nasty illness, but we soldiered on. The evening began with a couple of rare treats from the yesteryear of California wine, a 1979 Gundlach Bundschu

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Wine Blogging Wednesday is being hosted this month by Tim Elliot at Winecast, a great wine podcast and blog. The chosen theme is European rieslings, and I picked two, a Bollig-Lehnert Trittenheimer Apotheke Riesling Spätlese 2005 and a Rene Mure Riesling Cote de Rouffach 2001. The Mure unfortunately had become oxidized and was a shadow of its former self. The Bollig-Lehnert was a different story

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Chateau Phelan-Ségur is situated on a gravelly mound in the appellation of Saint-Estèphe near Chateaus Montrose, Bel-Air and Calon-Ségur. The vineyards were purchased in 1805 and 1810 by Irishman Bernard Phelan, and the estate is currently owned by Xavier Gardinier. Xavier operates Phelan-Ségur along with sons Thierry, Stéphane and Laurent, with the assistance of controversial consulting

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I have felt the sun on my face, and it is drinking Mascarello wines on an otherwise ordinary Wednesday. Mauro and Giuseppe Mascarello along with Importer Alberto Panella paid the shop a visit. I tried to play it cool in the face of what they may have to share…Mauro Mascarello is a producer of Barolo in the traditional style, with minimal intervention, and no fining or filtering prior to bottling.

KJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10224774383619390578noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3413725364548523976.post-45955406294017875442008-03-29T16:20:00.001-04:002008-04-22T14:40:11.705-04:00

Just for fun, I decided this afternoon, to taste a couple of double IPA's against each other. For comparisons sake let's say....Dogfish Head Burton Baton, this oak-aged double IPA from the occasionally wacky, often experimental Delaware Brewer DogfishHead, is very aromatic with spicy/piney hops, woody overtones, and sweet vanilla malt. The beer is amber colored verging on brown with a complex

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Older vintages, say pre-1995 are a rarity for me. Having been around wine for only the last 10 years, and serious about it the last six, the wines I know are typically younger wines. I do have a modest cellar, and there is a mish-mash of Bordeaux, Nebbiolo, Burgundies, and others hiding in it, that I look forward to enjoying as they age. I may never have the guts to let any of them go for too

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I ended up with a touch less than half a bottle of this monster shiraz leftover from a tasting I was at this weekend. This wine comes from McLaren Vale vineyards planted in 1892, and is aged for 28 mos. in New American and Eastern European oak. You'd think that amount of time in new oak would overwhelm any wine, but the wine displayed surprising grace and elegance for all its richness. Smoky,

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