What's in your glass tonight?
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Boatboy24
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Always a good choice Jim!
I am out in SA, Tx visiting my folks for a few days, Stopped at HEB and they had some nice selections. Picked up a couple of 2013 H3 Cab Sauvs, a couple of J Bookwalter Notebook 5 NV (a great bottle of wine and really hard to find outside of WA, State) as well as some Charles Smith 2014 Kung Fu Girl Riesling (another perennial favorite) and some 2013 CSM Chardonnay . The CSM Chardonnay went perfect tonight with some stuffed Salmon (with crabmeat) filets. Cant wait to see what we pair the rest with over the next few days!
I am out in SA, Tx visiting my folks for a few days, Stopped at HEB and they had some nice selections. Picked up a couple of 2013 H3 Cab Sauvs, a couple of J Bookwalter Notebook 5 NV (a great bottle of wine and really hard to find outside of WA, State) as well as some Charles Smith 2014 Kung Fu Girl Riesling (another perennial favorite) and some 2013 CSM Chardonnay . The CSM Chardonnay went perfect tonight with some stuffed Salmon (with crabmeat) filets. Cant wait to see what we pair the rest with over the next few days!
Boatboy24
No longer a newbie, but still clueless.
Eclipse Barolo tonight.
Going with the Notebook 5NV tonight. 75% Merlot, 20% Malbec, 5% Cab Sauvignon. Should go nicely with a Costco pizza!
I went to Trader Joe's last night, so had to look over the wine section. I found a wine that as POSING as a Chateauneuf-de-Pape. It has a bottle that looks like a Pape, and is called something like "Pontifical." However, it is from Languedoc-Roussillon. It is a GSM blend and cost all of $5.99. Wow that is cheap.
It is not at all bad. It is quite thin, but is plenty tasty. Not bad to wash down a homemade pizza.
It is not at all bad. It is quite thin, but is plenty tasty. Not bad to wash down a homemade pizza.
Boatboy24
No longer a newbie, but still clueless.
Excellent choice. See if you can get your hands on the 2011.
2011 was the worst year ever for WA State wines and CA for that matter. Caveat Emptor! Wines are very hit and miss that year. Mostly miss.
Boatboy24
No longer a newbie, but still clueless.
2011 was the last year they used painted bottles on the H3 wines. 2012 -> they are using paper labels. CC even went to paper labels on their reserve wines this year.
90 degrees outside. Been looking for this and finally found a six pack here in SA. 96pts on the Beer Advocate.
Does not suck and it packs a punch for sure!
Does not suck and it packs a punch for sure!
Layer Cake Pinot Noir... And a first taste of my Eclipse Merlot. Good, young, fruit and a hint of bubble gum on the nose, big fruit on the palate with decent vanilla and light oak.
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Went to a fund raiser for our local library. Art, wine and yes horse ovaries, who could ask for more. Brookmere was the resident winery, they just opened an outlet about 1 mile south of town (the actual winery is about 2 hours north of me). I can make a round trip in about 25 minutes from my house and they are opened on Sundays, yea!
They had a few dry reds I really enjoyed at the Gettysburg wine festival about a month ago (fantastic Merlot). But they only brought this one to the tasting. So to help the library out, I bought a bottle. It is a Cab Franc/Chambourcin blend. Extremely dry, but yet fruity, lighter in body.
Doing some extensive tasting, no green pepper from the Cab Franc, just a real different yet pleasant aftertaste. Hints at a NY red grape. Nice oak, not over done for the lighter body. Always nice to try something new.
They had a few dry reds I really enjoyed at the Gettysburg wine festival about a month ago (fantastic Merlot). But they only brought this one to the tasting. So to help the library out, I bought a bottle. It is a Cab Franc/Chambourcin blend. Extremely dry, but yet fruity, lighter in body.
Doing some extensive tasting, no green pepper from the Cab Franc, just a real different yet pleasant aftertaste. Hints at a NY red grape. Nice oak, not over done for the lighter body. Always nice to try something new.
Well WS and Harvey Steinem really seems to like the H3 Cab still LOL They gave the 2012 92pts (unheard of for that price point) and the 2013 gets this.......
It did get better as we sipped on it for sure. Not sure it was 91pts though. Try for yourself and decide. I will start looking for the Kirkland CV Blend. Only 6000 cases produced vs 200,000 for the H3!
It did get better as we sipped on it for sure. Not sure it was 91pts though. Try for yourself and decide. I will start looking for the Kirkland CV Blend. Only 6000 cases produced vs 200,000 for the H3!
Boatboy24
No longer a newbie, but still clueless.
Tonight, I opened a bottle of "Composition" from Columbia Winery in Woodinville, WA. A Merlot/Syrah blend from multiple vintages, it's med-plus bodied with nice structure, but not a lot of flavors are hitting me in the face. It's a pretty nice wine, but rather forgettable. "Forgettable" not being bad, there's just nothing making me say 'wow', or 'ewwww!'. I think I paid $14 from a place that is not usually the lowest price. Maybe you could get it at Total Wine for $12 or $13. For $12, I'd say it's pretty good, but approaching $15, maybe not.
Columbia is one of those wineries that seems make a living off being so close to a giant well known winery (in this case Chateau St. Michelle) that they get enough overflow from them to make some money and stay in business.
Its a nice enough looking winery from the road and they do a lot of local weddings as they have a nice outdoor venue but....
The wines are like you say not all that compelling enough to really buy another IMHO. They have zero wines reviewed by WS.
Its a nice enough looking winery from the road and they do a lot of local weddings as they have a nice outdoor venue but....
The wines are like you say not all that compelling enough to really buy another IMHO. They have zero wines reviewed by WS.
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