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Estimating White Wine Sweetness
...to assessing how sweet a wine may be. That guide is simply the percentage alcohol, which is listed on the bottle. For what it is worth, if the alcohol content is less than, say 11%, then the wine ...
Brentwood Online Auctions?
...hough the shipping costs can effectively ruin whatever deal you might think you're getting (a 15 USD bottle of 89 William Hill ended up costing 40 USD after shipping). I still wonder about th...
Bewers Question
...d of meade brewing. Meade is honey wine, for those who are unfamiliar. I had an idea to test aging in the bottle. I tought I'd take a few small vials (.5 - 1 oz) and fill them with the meade when...
REQ: Good store between RDU and Greensboro, NC
...as a reasonable price, and is likely to be open. I'd buy and fly from Phoenix, ('bout $16 a bottle) but w/the scrunity being given to carry on (not to mention my wife's propensity f...
Is there a secret ingredient to Guacamole that I am unaware ...
Quite a few ingredients actually. Lime juice (fresh from a lime, not a bottle), red pepper, salt, maybe some minced jalepinos, and some cilantro. The lime juice salt and red pepper are pretty essentia...
Pricing wine to match menu prices
Back in the day, I vaguely remember a "wine rule" that somehow related the price of a bottle of wine at a restaurant to the average price of an entree on the menu. Does anyone remember how i...
Wine tasting in the Rhone,Mosel and Rhine Valley
...iquette when you come upon a wine grower that is offering a wine tasting. Are you obligated to purchase a bottle of wine or can you just sample along the way? I can drink just so many bottles and don&...
1990 BV Georges de LaTour...drink it or leave it?
Drank it last month. It was dead. Thought it might have just been a fluke. Had a bottle tonight. Burned bandage smell. Dead as Jake Marley. Sorry if you already spent money on it. There's sti...
I'm excited!
...s irritably anything specific they are looking for....and/or are curious about.... For the price of a bottle of wine, I'll get to eat, drink, be merry, and support a good cause. Earlier what ...
Does anyone know how to make mint sauce? I have a lot of min...
...han let it cool down. Taste and add sugar or water to get to the taste you prefer. put in a sealed jar or bottle....
Last word on food and wine
...then slowly sinks through the vat and ferments the beer, Jurinbg bottling some of the yeast is put in the bottles and actuaslly can develope and age in the bottle for a couplke of years. does this se...
FA: 1996 Williams Selyem Riverblock Vineyard Pinot Noir
...alley, Sonoma County Origin: California, U.S.A. Qty Available: 1 Estimates US$: $55 - $80 Bottle Size: 750ml Provenance: removed from professional wine storage facility Conditi...
wine snob
... francis (the winery, that is) was a big advocate of plastic corks, as am I after pouring too many corked bottled down the sink over the years. I buoght a case of their '94 Cab (and after the fir...
Nay to Cabernet
...dry-aged filet as much as a pinot noir? Is chardonnay REALLY a good wine for seafood? I once did a 100 bottle wine list with no merlot but for one from Navarra, Spain, blended with tempranillo. Nee...
FS: Small wine collection
...1992 Diamond Creek Red Rock Terrace 100 1989 Caymus Double Magnum 300 1998 Viader (2) 105ea Lastly, 1 bottle of 1992 Ch Montelena Anniversary edition Chardonnay 50 Please email with any reasonable...
The Big, Bold, and Beautiful
...d the early 80's late 70s. They were being sold at a ridiculous price - especially considering their bottle age. It was perfectly easy to buy it at more than 30 years old! BTW. Isn't it Moul...
inexpensive wines?
As a recent birthday present, I was given two bottles of wine purchased from Wal-Mart. They were the 1998 Ch St Michelle Merlot, and a 1999 Jadot Borgogne/Pinot Noir. I was pleasantly surprised at the...
What to drink with ...
... that? Any ideas? 'Follow up will be baked halibut with beurre blanc aux framboises and the last two bottles of our Gewurztraminer Grand Cru Eichberg 1993 ... I had been thinking of Pinot Gris dÂ...
Group Tasting 9/01
...ote in my travels I did see some newly released 99 Soave, but I trusted the 'aged'. I think bottle age made this wine more interesting. Its a testament to how poorly this wine now sells ...
Storage question.
Hmmm. I don't know *what* exactly happens to a cork while inside a bottle nor afterwords, but I do have realized that a 20 year-plus Bordeaux cork indeed feels quite heavier immediately after pul...
January Friday Busines Lunch Notes - 90 Pol Roger, 74 Sterling......
...ured that I had a sure winner here, guaranteed to stump the crew, but one couple had opened the identical bottle for dinner the night before. Foiled again! A 90%Marsanne, 10% Roussanne blend, this win...
First Wine tasting - Rhone
It's the red that has a logo engraved (embossed) on the bottle. I don't know if it's only for that Font du Michelle. At the tasting they told about another wine from them that costs the...
Drink When, Age until - Haut-Brion, Opus One???
Tom, You have of course singled out the two finest estates in Napa. I had a bottle of the '78 Montelena last year, and it was still in fine form: rich, fruity and complex with no hints of decline...
Stadlmann wines?
...orie. Anyhow, about zierfandler, I know what the grape is, but I have never tasted it. I am told this bottle is from old vines. I believe that it the grape can be called Cirfandli (in Hungary?). ...
Irish Cream and Coffee Cheese Cake
I'm still looking for someone else's bottle ....
Wine with Lunch - June
A very nice lunch was shared at Gavroche today, with the following wines tasted blind. 1975 Ch. Pontet Canet – my offering – it was good a year or two ago, and I was hoping, but it had faded â...
Wine ,Chocolate and Shoes Makes One Happy.
... of expensive so most of our customers are looking going well that's nice but you know I can get two bottles of this that is maybe just a touch below the quality of that one, for you know half th...
Wine ,Chocolate and Shoes Makes One Happy.
... of expensive so most of our customers are looking going well that's nice but you know I can get two bottles of this that is maybe just a touch below the quality of that one, for you know half th...
Irish Cream and Coffee Cheese Cake
...e as well) but I suppose that in the right situation, say one in which I was going to use someone elses bottle, I could definitely see myself partaking in this form of blasphemy. The reason for a...
Clos Vougeot vs Clos de Vougeot (repost of notes on 99 Burgs, Rhones,etc)
Sorry if this is a copy. I posted some notes yesterday, but they don't show up on my newsreader. Notes are below. But one thing I was really looking for feedback on is Clos Vougeot/Clos de Vougeo...
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