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Posted by Covv Tse-tung on 09/28/05 02:51
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.
> 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.
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.
> 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.
--
"Tis an ill wind that blows no minds"
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