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RE: Pick your Wine of the Year for 2009...

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In Reply to: RE: Pick your Wine of the Year for 2009... posted by mkuller on December 14, 2009 at 13:54:00

I've been on a Rhone style run for the past few months so I'll nominate my current favorite, the 2007 Tablas Creek "Cotes de Tablas". About $25 a bottle, but sadly I recently missed out when a local retailer had it for $18.95 a bottle. Sold out quickly.

Budget wine of the year for me is the 2007 Corvidae Rook (Cabernet-Merlot-Syrah) from the Columbia Valley made by Owen Roe. Really good everyday drinking at about $12.00 a bottle. Liked it so much I bought a case.

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RE: Pick your Wine of the Year for 2009... - jimbill 12:19:42 12/15/09 (5)
Roessler "Savoy" 2007 for premium wine.

Siduri "Sonoma County" 2007 for budget.

Krug Grande Cuvee NV for special moment.
- Surprise... - mkuller 14:18:26 12/15/09 (4)
  ...all California and two pinot noirs for Mr. Eclectic.
  
  Sounds good to me...
  
  For the special champagne "moments", I like Veuve Clicquot.
  - Didn't want to confuse you. - jimbill 14:26:13 12/15/09 (3)
    Was considering the 2002 Ch. Pichon Longueville, but I was afraid you would accuse me of being eclectic.
    
    I do like the VC also, but the Krug is special. And the price is special.
    - I know that one... - mkuller 14:34:22 12/15/09 (2)
      ...from a friend who was collecting Bordeax cases in about 1982 when I was first learning about wines.
      
      Not a first growth, but considered to be very good, nonetheless.
      
      He used those some years later to fund a lot of his wine purchases.
      
      My wife gave me a bottle of champagne on our first date which was XMas eve, so we have a long history, or maybe I should say I do, of buying a bottle of expensive champagne around the holidays. Her birthday is also New Year's Eve.
      
      In the past few years I've paid $60 to $100 for some highly touted stuff, that I find I don't like any more than the VC at under $40.
      - The law of diminishing returns. - jimbill 14:54:41 12/15/09 (1)
        
        In Reply to: RE: I know that one... posted by mkuller on December 15, 2009 at 14:34:22
        
        Krug goes for $150+. Of course it's not four times better than VC.
        But it is a damn fine bottle of wine.
        
        Years ago I was given a bottle of Dom Perignon. Young wine snob that I was, I just knew that it was over-hyped and over-priced.
        
        So a buddy and I bought, if I remember right, a bottle of Taittinger NV (our recommendation at the time). Tried it first. Good stuff.
        
        Then we opened the DP. Had to eat our words.
        
        Sometimes it's a good idea to compare to really appreciate.
        
        Buying 1982 Bordeaux's was brilliant.
        
        About the only Dom I've had... - mkuller 19:17:27 12/15/09 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: The law of diminishing returns. posted by jimbill on December 15, 2009 at 14:54:41
        
        ...are the two bottles - the limit you can bring into the US - from the Moet and Chandon champagne cellars in Epernay, France where it's made.
        
        We were in Paris for half of our honeymoon in 1982 and went to the area on a bus tour.
        
        They cost $20 a bottle there then.

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