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PCF Wine appreciation thread. (6 Viewers)
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Copper44
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Happy New years everyone! Enjoying anniversary dinner with the wife!
Copper44
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Wow. A bold declaration of your passion. Nice. You’re leaving a ton on the table in my experience, but that is a very solid bottle, without question.
TheChipVault
Full House
Just taking an interest in this thread. Going to start reading from the beginning. I'm seriously considering going for my sommelier certification. Looking forward to learning from you. Cheers!
Bought this bottle as a future years ago, finally got around to it. Great drink.
Pleasant surprise of the month: robust (huge, actually) and delicious:
TheChipVault
Full House
Usually drink a Jadot PF but this came recommended.
TheChipVault
Full House
Sadly, we know a lot of wine lovers with similar taste, including ourselves. We have over 600 bottles in the house, and the only American non-reds are sparklers from Gruet in New Mexico. That we drink very little chardonnay or cab sauvignon and consider most US wine to be quite overpriced has much to do with that.
When we lived in Virginia, we enjoyed some unusual bottlings from a couple of vineyards in Loudon County, west of DC, mainly because Willowcroft and a neighboring vineyard worked with some unusual grapes, bottling pure Seyval, Traminette, Claire, Muscat-Ottonel, Vidal Blanc, even an Albarino.
As a matter of fact, we have little interest overall in American wine. All we buy and enjoy are zins (mainly Ridge), a few notable Santa Barbara pinots, and the Gruets. Nothing at all from the Pacific NW or upstate NY until you cross the border and hit Inniskillin.
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@pltrgyst i hear you. I find that many American wines (esp those that are distributed) are not balanced wines. They’re either over oaked chardonnays (eg rombauer), one dimensional Cabernets (eg silver oak or caymus), super fruity zins with >15% abv., etc etc
Add to this the trend of Napa valley wineries sourcing fruit from cheaper land and marketing that wine with their winery label and Napa prices (to your overpriced comment). When I visit local wineries I always ask where the fruit is sourced from for this reason.
But good, balanced, reasonably priced US wines are out there, you just have to, unfortunately, wade through the crap I describe above to get there. If you ever plan a trip to the Bay Area let me know and I’ll happily provide some fun recommendations.
Add to this the trend of Napa valley wineries sourcing fruit from cheaper land and marketing that wine with their winery label and Napa prices (to your overpriced comment). When I visit local wineries I always ask where the fruit is sourced from for this reason.
But good, balanced, reasonably priced US wines are out there, you just have to, unfortunately, wade through the crap I describe above to get there. If you ever plan a trip to the Bay Area let me know and I’ll happily provide some fun recommendations.
Last night Valentines/wine dinner with friends
RocAFella1
Royal Flush
Happy CNY!
Doing wine inventory yesterday, so opened a little something that was due.
All these nice, expensive wines deserve something special to cap the evening. If you've hit a jumbo casino jackpot lately, I'd recommend this:
Last delivery before the heat!!!! No more deliveries until November
, let the drinking start!
, let the drinking start!
RocAFella1
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(not my) Lent is over!
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So you can only accept wine deliveries four months out of the year? Yeeesh.Last delivery before the heat!!!! No more deliveries until November
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Is Rochioli also unoaked?Last delivery before the heat!!!! No more deliveries until November
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100% this.
For a quality drinking unoaked Chardonnay, I think you can do better than the $40+ your paying for W-S.
Their Pinot Noirs are also egregiously overpriced, in my opinion. But my pallete also doesn’t prefer fruit bomb, spice mine, sweeter Pinot Noirs and wine is almost 100% subjective. Buy and drink what brings you joy.
Very, very nice red. Miniature vineyards and wineries, though, mean high unit cost.
At 18E in its motherland, it has no hope of export.
$62 for a $15 wine…. Supporting Arizona wines . Friend paid for it, but still!
Also this is the wine made by Maynard James Keenan from Tool.
. Friend paid for it, but still!Also this is the wine made by Maynard James Keenan from Tool.
RocAFella1
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Fun Good Friday with grilled meats, the Becklyn and Fortunate Son were my personal favorites.
How was the Don Melchor? Some of their higher end Cabs are solid, but there are equally good bottles for less.
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RocAFella1
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