Wine collecting/tasting

I have a set of these,.. they really are nice

 

Agreed... I love red wines from Spain as well as chile... To be honest I have founf that I really anjoy red wines from most warm climate regions.....

 

i have a huge stemwear fetish... its horrible, my family mkaes fun of me. I sit on my comp and look atglasses.... but the mondavi ones beet out the ridel ones hands down....

 

River Road '06 Chardonnay
Courtney Benham Lake County '07 Sauvignon Blanc
THe Crossings '07 Sauvignon Blanc
Burgans '07 Albarino

Wine is expensive...but detailing supplies, cigars, liquior, etc. are expensive or can be.:thud:

 

My wife is always bringing back wine from Germany/France/Italy. Nothing special I don't think heck half the time (o.k 95% of the time) I have no clue what it is cause I can't read it lol. They go pretty good with cigars

 

Not wine but close enough. I have my first batch of beer brewing. Its an Amber. I don't really like light beer. Process wasn't too hard just have to be patient. Should be bottling it this weekend. Used a kit for first batch and probrably will for a few until I finish reading my book. Attached pic is cooling before adding the yeast.

 

the wine corse i am in right now has started qith a bang, wetest 6 wines a week for 13 weeks. We are done five weeks. I have learned a ton, its amazing how intense wine can get anc I havent even skimmed the serfice.

so this week we did reisling, i have always love riesling but my love of them has been revived.
What i love about reislings is how diffrent they can be, from dry to sweet.
The germans have mastered the art of wine making
right now i am enjoying a nice sparkling reisling, i belive there called keht instead of champagene.... mmmmm wine (and no im not drunk im half a glass in)

 

Correct me if I am wrong. I had a class that was Food Management (elective) that said champagne could only be labeled that if it was either bottled or the grapes came from Champagne, France. I can't remember which.

 

its true it needs to come from Champagne france, however there are lots of new world sparklings that break this rule and call themselves champane.

a goodtrick fro getting a good bubbly is looking for a traditional or french method (will say on the bottle) sparkling wine. It is made the same way as in champagne. It dosent garuntee anything but its a good indication they really look the time to make the sparkling work.
The traditional method is a very long labour intensive so alot of the time wineryies wont do it with not so great grapes

 

well some good news. the 05 brodaux's are in.
I had a chance to try a cheaper bottle (about 24 bucks) and it was fantastic, a bit young but wow. Nice rich flavours. Great fruit and well balanced even for its young age. It was amazing.
then my dad in his craziness decided to get me to pick up a case.
So i picked him up a case of the 05 Ormez de pez. We havent cracked it yet but it was a not ovelry exeosnive cab based wine that comes from a house that is known for aging well and very costiant wine bottle to bottle.
All i can say is i had quiet the grin on my ol' face looking around at the new stock

 

hmmm..I'm going to have to see if I can pick up some of these brodaux's...where did you get it Mike?

Yesterday I picked up about 8 red wine and 6 white's.

 

willowpark

 

so im sick of hw, waiting for dinner and its cold out so why not talk about wine..what could be better

so I finished my wset level 2 and started level 3...looks like this one is alot more advanced then the last

as for good wines to look out for. one I had was osoyoos Larose. A frech wine company paired up with jakson tigss to open a new vinyard/winery. They started producing in 04 and just released the 05/

I had the chance to try the 05. I was blown away, normaly canadian wine is well.. candian wine. This one had none of the fruit i was expecting. It had a great earthyness and flintiness that I would expect from a bordaux not a candian wine. The wine was young but would be great in the celler for 5-10 years. It had grat stucture, nice flavor, a healty amount off tanin and aci. It was suprisnlty good.

It is hard to imagine that a true bodaux style of wine was produced in north ameraica but I think it finnaly happened.

A wine to stay away from is the 04 chataue margaux, I was simply disapointed in this wine, it had no fruit (to be expected) only had a light earthyness it should have. It was bland, very flat and in all honestly not worth the price at 500 bucks a bottle. the only way i would pick it up was ifI was picking up a case and ahd 30-40 years to celler it. It has great long term aging potential (as 04 was a good but not great year) but lets face it, by the time your wealthy enough to afford it your to close to death to give it the age it needs. If you had a child in 04 pick them up a case, they will thank you when they open a bottle on their 30th, 40th and 50th birtdays

well sorry for my attempt at writing abotu wine, i just needed soemthing to fill my time and get get school of of myhead... well off to opena bottle of the 03 kundee estate zin (great wine btw)

 

well I have to brag, i know its bad of me but i just need to share with the world that today i received notice that I passed my WSET Level 2. I know hold my intermidate level in wine and spirts.... im gitty as a school girl right now

 

Congrats! Have any of these courses been related to beer? I have gotten into micro brews. Very good stuff. Oh yeah....I am getting ready to bottle my first Belgian. Going to be about 8.5% alcohol content.

 

thanks, and no none of these have been related to beer, we do mostly wine and some spirit but no beer... not a big deal to me since i cantdrink beer...

home made beer, its made in much the same way as homemade wine correct?

let us know how it goes

 

eeee...well done Mike :drinking: :drinking:

Now my confidence level on your wine choosing ability has grown by two levels :giggle:

Just messing with you, congrats :applause: :applause:

Oh by the way...did that hot girl in your class pass too, you know the one you were telling me about, the one that works on that restaurant you recommended to me...just wondering that's all.

 

haha thanks carlos, and i dont know. I only got my mark. I guees it means a trip to visit her at work lol

 

Man...that kind of sucks not being able to drink it. Maybe you can drink some hard cider. My dad makes that but it turns out kind of dry b/c he used champagne yeast. But wine is good also. Yeah homeade beer is kind of like making wine. I tasted it the other day when I was taking a gravity reading. Its not too bad, it just didnt have any carbination. I had one the other day that was aged in a bourbon barrel. Now thats good.
I keep forgetting to open wine although I will open one when my red or white bottle for cooking is empty.

 

its no biggy i cant drink beer, i can do drink cider but im a bigger fan of wine and and the hard stuff.

a bourbon barrel, that would be cool. maybe ill try picking up an old cask for again wine.
and i know what you mean on having to wait for bottles, oh well wine ages better in larger vesels so a carboy will allow it to age better then bottles