What's in your glass tonight?

[tjgaul]

Opened an Eclipse Stag's Leap Merlot last night at the 15 month mark. So far I think I've done pretty well at avoiding temptation. This is only the 3rd bottle out of 30. I know this kit supposedly hits its stride at the 24 month mark, but it sure tasted good last night. Pic is a little blurry, must have been the wine.

 

[Boatboy24]

LR Vermentino with take out pizza from a local 'joint'. Got to our baseball game through BP and field warmups, then the lightning came. So an 'almost' night off. Got to go for takeout which was good and went well w/ the wine.

Forgot to mention a few nights ago I opened an RJS LR Monastrell/Petite Verdot started in June of 2014 and bottled in April of 2015. This wasn't very pleasing early on, but is very enjoyable now with a very 'old world' feel to it.

 

[FTC Wines]

Wow!! Wife said we are having Vovka Alle Penne tonight, can you find us a special Wine? Well I pulled a 2011 Barolo from our chiller it was from the Wine Toy Store. It’s probably the best wine we have had in years! And we did 2 weeks in Napa last year, also Oregon & Walla Walla. Awesome is all we can say. Roy

 

[geek]

Roy, save me one for year-end

 

[FTC Wines]

Dawn & I were just talking about you & how we haven’t seen much from you on W T. If there is another bottle left I’ll save it for us to share. Do hope you & your wife make it down this year. Roy

 

[geek]

I hope so, although it may not be likely to go for Christmas this time, I just don’t want to make that long drive trip again and airfare is just too expensive, but we’ll see....it would be nice seeing you both again [emoji4]

 

[geek]

The pair....

 

[ibglowin]

Those wines seem to have evaporated..........

 

[geek]

Those wines seem to have evaporated..........

Yep, went to my friend's restaurant (which we're allowed to bring my wine) and got those 2 under control pretty quickly.
The VRM is very nice just a bit off dry.

 

[jgmann67]

With family visiting from Texas and NE PA, we opened a few bottles last night, including a raspberry dragonfruit Shiraz, a 2016 California Chardonnay, a 2015 Corvina blend, a 2016 Lodi OVZ and @boatboy24’s Cabernet Rose (as I thought, Mrs Mann liked it very much).

Tonight is Lasagna for dinner. What to drink, what to drink?

 

[cmason1957]

Had a group of winemaker friends over for supper last night. Everyone brought food. Most of the wine came from my basement. Food started with jalapeño poppers and chips with spinach artichoke dip, main course was a smoked brisket that I did, cheesy potatoes, Italian salad, roasted potatoes and strawberry shortcake (that was amazing). Wine was eclectic Chambourcin, chambourcin rose, st. vincent rose, blackberry, amarone, some commercial white wine. The evening closed out with bonfire and blackberry port with live music. Sorry no pictures, to much drinking.

 

[Boatboy24]

Yep, went to my friend's restaurant (which we're allowed to bring my wine) and got those 2 under control pretty quickly.
The VRM is very nice just a bit off dry.

I'm really liking the VRM - it isn't going to last long.

 

[Boatboy24]

With family visiting from Texas and NE PA, we opened a few bottles last night, including a raspberry dragonfruit Shiraz, a 2016 California Chardonnay, a 2015 Corvina blend, a 2016 Lodi OVZ and @boatboy24’s Cabernet Rose (as I thought, Mrs Mann liked it very much).

Tonight is Lasagna for dinner. What to drink, what to drink?

Glad she liked it - you seemed fairly certain she would. I hope they bring that one back.

 

[Boatboy24]

During the initial measuring/analysis of the musts yesterday, Dad pointed out that all his 'good stuff' is still sitting in my wine fridge after their move last year. So he started taking inventory and decided that we should open one of his 2014 Cain Cabernets. Really nice wine - roughly 60% Napa and 40% Sonoma, IIRC. While that was going down, I opened a bottle of our 2016 Zin based blend (somewhat based on "The Prisoner"), and ran it through the Vinturi into a decanter, where it sat for about an hour. Consensus was that it was every bit as good as the Cain. Very pleased about that.

 

[ibglowin]

2013 Columbia Crest Reserve Malbec. Absolutely nothing wrong with this wine. Fantastic color. Really nice finish. Good to the last drop and hitting on all cylinders. Wish I had more.

 

[Ajmassa]

2013 Columbia Crest Reserve Malbec. Absolutely nothing wrong with this wine. Fantastic color. Really nice finish. Good to the last drop and hitting on all cylinders. Wish I had more.View attachment 51324

Really digging that label with the vineyard info too.

 

[sour_grapes]

I used a fair amount of a simple 2016 Bogle Merlot to make braised short ribs (which I will document elsewhere). Bogel Merlot is my go-to cooking wine and all-around, nice, simple red wine. I was surprised to observe that it was quite a bit thinner and lighter than I am accustomed to. Obviously, the big boys strive to be consistent year to year, but they seemed to have fallen short of the mark. (Was there a Megapurple shortage? )

After that was kicked, we stayed on theme and opened a 2015 Columbia Crest Horse Heaven Hills (H3) Merlot. In tasting them back-to-back, I declared the H3 to be the clear winner, but they were both quite acceptable (despite remarks in the paragraph above).

 

[tjgaul]

My wife snuck behind my back the other day and opened ceeaton's Raspberry wine. Fortunately, she saved more than half the bottle to share with me last night. Truly delicious. Not near as tart and berry-ish up front as mine and much deeper color. Really nice mouthfeel and the refreshing berry flavor came through right at the finish. I got the dreaded comment from my wife "I wish you could make raspberry wine like this". Maybe I need a consulting session.

Thanks Craig - nice bottle

 

[geek]

How old is that Raspberry wine?

 

[geek]

Last night I opened one of the couple bottles left for my 1st wine from grapes, started October 2013.
Cheapest wine so far also, 3 36lbs boxes bought at BigY for $50, 2 Merlot and 1 Cabernet.

This blend is nice and smooothhhhhh....