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Could not find any in the 505 but the 210 has plenty in stock. Bringing a few back home!
JCBurg
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Oh my mistake!
LOL I want to know how a large building contractor became a wine retailer as well!
True, except in Pennsylvania... there the state is the wholesaler and the dominant retailer for wine, and the only retailer for spirits, in the state.
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@ibglowin I opened one of the Kirkland Cotes Du Rone two days ago, very nice, initially has a slight reductive lees character which then opens up after several minutes to reveal a nice balance of fruit and tannin, put the cork back in, came back on the second day to even more silkier fruit. Very good now, but seems like this one could handle the cellar without any trouble.
Excellent! The mark of any good wine IMHO is how it holds up on day two. For $6.99 this is a crazy good deal. Case buy if you have the space. LOL I may snag a couple more if my local Costco ever gets any in stock!
Steve Wargo
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I picked up 3 bottles of the exact wine from COSTCO in October-2019. I'm glad to hear that it's worth drinking now and possibly cellaring a bottle for a later year. Thanks
Yea, this wine sounds about right for me.
Boatboy24
No longer a newbie, but still clueless.
Wine fairy stopped by here today as well.
Boatboy24
No longer a newbie, but still clueless.
Thank you Jim! I’d be remiss if I didn’t say that Mrs. Johnd is largely responsible for the label creation, and she does a wonderful job with them. I just stick em on and shrink the capsules....
There was a lot of wine making going on in 2016 down there in Louisiana. Nice trade.
Hope you enjoy them, the labels pretty much describe the grape source and some basic winemaking for each, except for the first and fourth wines. The Chilean Cab origin is obvious, this one was also barrel aged 6 months, and refused to go through MLF, it was my second attempt with grapes. The Zinfandel was my first grape wine, frozen must from Brehm, and also didn’t complete MLF. These two wines pushed me into my research on co-inoculation, and every subsequent wine has been successfully co-inoculated.
The Montsant wines are from GrapeMasters frozen must. The other two were fresh grapes from Lanza, they crushed, destemmed and froze them for me (no SO2 added) and then shipped the buckets.
Hope you enjoy them, and give me some feedback, I’d like to see how your evaluation compares to mine.
"Hi, uhhh, John, I think I have a small problem with one of my wines, and I would love to get your opinion on this. It tastes a lot like, uhh, Yellowtail Merlot, and I didn't expect that. Oddly enough, I happened to bottle the Yellowtail, I mean, I bottled MY wine in a bottle from Yellowtail, and I didn't bother to remove the label. Also, I had a batch of cheap fruit wine that tastes funny. My wife thinks it tastes a bit like Mad Dog. (Embarrassingly, I happened to bottle this in an old bottle of Mogen David that I happened to have lying around.)
I was wondering if I could send you these two fine, but subtly flawed, wines to you for your opinion? I certainly wouldn't expect anything in return, but, if I may perhaps be of service to you in the future in evaluating any of your wines, please let me know.
Yours, etc.
Sour_Grapes"
HaHaHaHa!
I was wondering if I could send you these two fine, but subtly flawed, wines to you for your opinion? I certainly wouldn't expect anything in return, but, if I may perhaps be of service to you in the future in evaluating any of your wines, please let me know.
Yours, etc.
Sour_Grapes"
HaHaHaHa!
"Hi, uhhh, John, I think I have a small problem with one of my wines, and I would love to get your opinion on this. It tastes a lot like, uhh, Yellowtail Merlot, and I didn't expect that. Oddly enough, I happened to bottle the Yellowtail, I mean, I bottled MY wine in a bottle from Yellowtail, and I didn't bother to remove the label. Also, I had a batch of cheap fruit wine that tastes funny. My wife thinks it tastes a bit like Mad Dog. (Embarrassingly, I happened to bottle this in an old bottle of Mogen David that I happened to have lying around.)
I was wondering if I could send you these two fine, but subtly flawed, wines to you for your opinion? I certainly wouldn't expect anything in return, but, if I may perhaps be of service to you in the future in evaluating any of your wines, please let me know.
Yours, etc.
Sour_Grapes"
HaHaHaHa!
LOL!! You’re a mess!
@mainshipfred , that is an impressive scientific experiment that you started! Especially in reference to that cab blend with the clone169!
Nice job @Johnd ! I have been interested in the playing with the cab clones. Do you think it is worth it?!?
Nice job @Johnd ! I have been interested in the playing with the cab clones. Do you think it is worth it?!?
I'm very pleased with both the Koch Cab and the Clone 169 Cab. I have 100% pure varietals of each that were barrel aged, the 50/50 blend that was aged in glass with oak staves (the one pictured), and a blend with some leftover Malbec from Chile'. Though I did some trials, the blends were more a matter of convenience than they were intentional / scientific, but they've all turned out pretty nicely.
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