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Posted by Aratzio on 09/28/05 04:21
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:51:44 -0700, Covv Tse-tung
<ChairmanCovv@hotmail.com> got double secret probation because:
>In article <2oijj1pif4hpejuldb4s5of5h1f7gu13d3@4ax.com>,
>a6ahlyv02@sneakemail.com says...
>> On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:17:05 -0700, Covv Tse-tung
>> <ChairmanCovv@hotmail.com> got double secret probation because:
>>
>> >In article <ou9jj1129u71kjn5fdoh1jbdqdll6t1b3h@4ax.com>,
>> >a6ahlyv02@sneakemail.com says...
>> >> On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:47:19 -0700, Covv Tse-tung
>> >> <ChairmanCovv@hotmail.com> transparently proposed:
>> >>
>> >> <sneck>
>> >> >
>> >> >The best BBQ sauce going, from Alabama by way of Oakland:
>> >> >
>> >> >http://www.super-que.com
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Had that at Rosenblum Winery Wine Club open house in June. Pretty
>> >> good. I like dry rubbed bbq rather than wet bbq. Back-Forty has some
>> >> excellent sauces too.
>> >>
>> >> Best BBQ in the Bay is BO's BBQ in Lafayette. Dry, slow smoked. Even
>> >> the bones are soft...
>> >
>> >Lafayette is a bit of a drive for me these days. I'm down
>> >in Banana Slug country.
>> >
>> >Rosenblum, eh? You are a man who knows his wines. They're
>> >one of the 'three R's'. I've got about 300 bottles in my
>> >cellar, mostly Napa cabs of various stripes, along with
>> >some classified growths, like '88 Margaux, '89 Lynch-Bages
>> >and '90 Latour. I could get really crazy with it, but Type
>> >II runs in my family, and I'd hate to have to donate a
>> >thousand bottles to a charity auction...
>>
>> I am more of a Pinot Noir drinker (BR Cohn Pinot should be out, I NEED
>> to road trip soon) but Rosenblum is close by (Alameda) so I can drop
>> in to pick up my wines and sample a little. That and they do make some
>> pretty tasty wines.
>
>I like their Zins, but tend not to cellar them. I do have
>some of their '99 Mt Veeder Yates Ranch Reserve cab
>downstairs, though.
>
>> The best Cab I have tasted in recent memory is the 2002 Baldacci
>> "Brenda" Cabernet Sauvignon, just released and only by mail or at the
>> winery. The Signorello "Padrone" is a close second.
>
>I'd say the '01 Paul Hobbs Stagecoach is my recent fave. I
>picked up a bottle of the '02 Rudd to try, maybe Friday
>nite. 95 points from Parker, for under a c-note.
Robert Young 98 Scion probably has the best *breeding* of anything I
own. But it is a few years away from drinking. With the limited
storage I have there is not much opportunity to *cellar*.
>
>> Only recently have had the proper storage and available funds to start
>> looking at the french wines. I have not purchased any, yet. I want to
>> taste them first and finding a tasting of the first growth is a little
>> hard.
>
>French wine is a different game. Each region in Bordeaux
>has its own blend ratio, from almost pure cab in Paulliac
>to 75/25 cab/merlot in Margaux to 50/50 in St Julien to a
>heavy cab franc influence in St Emilion. If we had had
>this conversation a week ago I would have sent you to where
>I shop in San Jose - they just had a '01 Bordeaux tasting.
>I bought pretty heavily into the '00s, and '03 futures. A
>lot of the high end French wines also tend to close up for
>years. Some of them you don't buy for yourself, you buy
>for your grandkids.
Well since I have no kids...
>
>And don't get me started on French pinots. Its easy to go
>broke looking for one you like. I like a lot of the Oregon
>pinots, as well as some of them from the central coast. I
>tend to look more for the vineyard - Sleepy Hollow, Bien
>Nacido, and Garys' are my favorites - then who bottled it.
>Maybe the best US pinot I've had was one of Helen Turley's
>Russian River wines.
My preference is the Russion River Pinots. We have 17 acres ON the
Willamette River in Oregon (my granddads place, my brother lives there
now). Been trying to find someone that would like to plant some pinot
for a 20 year lease and a few cases of the good stuff...
>
>> I only have storage for about 100 bottles (currently full). I plan to
>> get a much larger cooler as soon as my sister gets her "lovely" piece
>> of furniture out of my dining room.
>
>A lot of the folks I know that have bought wine coolers
>have had trouble with them. I'm lucky as the lower level
>of my house is dug into the mountainside, so my 'cellar' is
>a spare downstairs walk-in closet that's right again the
>mtn, and it stays at about 60 degrees in there year round.
I do my homework when I spend those kinds of dollars. But I have to
have more storage and a cellar in CoCoCounty is a bad idea unless you
spend a lot of money for very thick, very reinforced walls with the
adobe clay down a couple feet. Shit gets wet and shoves then dries and
sucks and the walls come down...
--
Pierre Salinger Hook, Line & Sinker - May, 2005
Hammer of Thor - July, 2005
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