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How many did you get a chance to try?
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If you purchase an online subscription you will receive a 48 hour sneak preview of the Top 100 before it's posted for the general public. By the time the paper version arrives in your mailbox many of the wines are already sold out.
(nt)
...#21 Neyers chardnonnay
#47 Prisoner zin
#78 Goria Ferrar Brut
How about you?
By the way, friends we had down to Santa Cruz over the weekend brought a bottle of 2006 Four Vines Maverick. I thought it was pretty good, but not great.
Brancott SB
Novelty Hill CS
Ch. Ste. Michelle CS Horse Heaven Hills
Yalumba Voignier
Ch. Haut Bages Liberal (laid down)
Schild Shiraz
Shoofly Shiraz
Peter Lehman Shiraz
Jacobs Creek Riesling
Waterbrook CS
d'Aranberg The Stump Jump
Perrin & Fils Les Cornuds
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I had some Gloria Ferrar's, but not sure if any were the Sonoma County.
Of the Four Vines zins, I usually like the Maverick the least. The Biker first, then the Sophisticate. Like all wineries, hits and misses.
I did try Tobin James wines. They sent 8 for $145. Not impressed with any of the wines so I cancelled the membership.
Just had a bottle of Trust Syrah. Excellent.
...eclectic than mine.I'll probably never taste more than 5 of the Top 100 any year.
I tend to focus on California reds, like zin, cab and pinot, since they're so accessible here, with an occasional Oregon pinot thrown in.
The others don't interest me as much, although I do get some exposure to foreign wines at friend's places.
If you had a Gloria Ferrar champagne, it was probably Sonoma since that's where they're located.
It was our house champagne until recently when I switched to the Roederer Estate, which we prefer for $3 more.
Edits: 12/08/09
Other than California sparklings?
I do like the Roederer Estates. We have a great restaurant here in Houston that sells it for $29. What a deal!
I also like Domaine Carneros. Taittinger makes some great stuff. Especially in France.
So why do you shy away from anything other than California reds?
...the Neyers on the list was one we've had.
Our house whites are Ferrari-Carano and Landmark Overlook.
We've had the Chalk Hill and Beringer Reserve which were both excellent.
But my fave is zin and drifting more towards pinot noir. I like a good cab, if it's not too expensive.
Syrahs are a little too heavy and Petit Syrah even more so.
I haven't cared for many of the blending grapes made into their own wines - merlot, carignan, grenache, petit verdot, cabernet franc, etc.
And I'm sure there are great foreign wines - I just haven't taken the time to learn about them.
Music is like wine. Like I said once before, I like classic rock and related genres of music, but although I've been exposed to a little of everything else, like be-bop jazz, classical symphonies, chamber music, showtunes and the like, they didn't connect with me.
of learning about wine by working in a good wine store was the need to try everything. How else could you recommend and sell everything?
Plus, I really enjoy finding new elements in wine. There are so many different grapes and winemakers trying to express them that I can't stay within a geographic boundary. I'd feel like I was missing too much.
...of being an audio equipment reviewer - I got to listen to pretty much anything I wanted to determine what worked well together and what I liked.So I know what you mean. I put myself through college bartending and it was quite an education in spirits.
But living in the SF Bay Area for 30 years - being an hour away from Napa, an hour and a half from Sonoma, with a weekend place in Santa Cruz - being able explore the wine from all of those areas doesn't leave a lot of time for the foreign grapes.
I always get advice at restaurants with heavy Italian or French wine lists but what I've found hasn't caused me to look much further.
Edits: 12/09/09
Listen to yourself..
You learned about many spirits. How many were from Napa or Sonoma?
You listened to alot of audio equipment. How much of it was from California?
You're right, those restaurant people were wrong. They got your taste wrong.
But don't stop exploring. Step on through to the other side.
Not a huge fan of opera in general. But I do appreciate it and have a few recordings that I listen to on occasion. I'm definitely glad that I looked into it.
I enjoyed a bottle of Pacific Rim Riesling tonight. Riesling offers something that no other white grape can. But you have to try them to understand.
It's not like I'm a fan of everything. I don't much care for sangiovese wines. WS is totally in love with them. But I do like nebbiolo. Grab a good bottle of Barolo with a few years on it. Get back to me...
...a few years ago I had an excellent reisling paired with spicy Asian food at the Slanted Door in SF.
Haven't had one since.
I was driving through Tuscany in 1992 during the release of the 1990's and had some great chiantis and reservas.
I like them a lot. Even the California sangiovese from Luna.
The others Italian varietals I've had were interesting but nothing has knocked my socks off.
(nt)
...how many are in your cellar?
Where's the link to the list?
I just have a big rack.
I may have jumped the gun on the question. They posted their list on their on-line site. The magazine comes later.
...I don't read the magazines I subscribe to online.And "cellar" is like that because it's anywhere you store them for a while.
Edits: 12/02/09
My Sister give me the magazine subscription every year for Christmas.
I subscribe on-line to give me access to their wine ratings. Another benefit is you get advanced emails of their tastings. A previous poster noted that by the time he read of a well rated wine he wanted, the store/winery was already sold out. I've been able to order a few wines from the wineries prior to the rush after the hard copy comes out.
Come on now, a cellar is a dedicated room and a rack is storage in a non-dedicated room. I learned this when, in college, I went to Brussard's Restaurant in New Orleans and I (young wine snob) asked to see their cellar. The waiter informed me that the "cellar" was a rack in the kitchen.
...stack cases under their houses.Some use a closet in the house lined with racks or just stacked with case boxes.
Mine is stored in a wine refrigerator (750 bottle capacity) in my garage.
Another friend has a wine refrigerator (maybe 300 bottles) with a glass in the doors in his family room.
I'd consider those all "cellars" - pretty much any place you store and bottle-age wine where you try to control the temperature.
Edits: 12/03/09
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