Wine Asylum

Last time you were accused of being a wine snob?

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jimbill

My last time was in a Carmel Valley wine tasting room and they had a petit verdot wine. The person behind the bar explained the wine in detail, as well as explaining that the grape was a Bordeax blending grape. I asked why the wine was bottled in a Burgundy bottle.

My daughter deemed me a wine snob.

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Usually that is being cheap - triodesteve 09:10:15 10/03/09 (1)
wineries will use whatever is on hand to bottle small quantities (I'm guessing they don't bottle much of the PV on it's own) I almost always have glass left over after a bottling and have to pay to store it at a warehouse till next year....it gets expensive, but that doesn't make it right.

Pacific Rim here in WA (used to be party owned by the Cardinal Zin guy) bottles all their riesling in Claret bottles...I don't get it, but I'm sure a marketing person was involved somewhere in that decision making process.

BTW, was the Petit Verdot grown in Monterey? Seems like it wouldn't be warm enough there to ripen all the way.
Steve
- Heller Estate. - jimbill 14:02:15 10/03/09 (0)
  I believe it is their own fruit. Mountain vineyards above
  Carmel Valley. Room attendant says it gets really hot during the day and cool at night.
  
  Your bottle explanation makes sense. BTW, when are you shipping my wine?
Last weekend... - mkuller 09:01:43 10/02/09 (0)
...when Joe at Hillcrest Cellars asked me if I was interested in tasting his merlot.

Merlot? No thanks, I'm not really a fan.

"Sounds like you saw 'Sideways'", he says.

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