for champaign - veuve cliquot ... the price is great, and and the quality and flavor really doesn't get better - even if yo move up to bottles that are vastly more expensive.

for red and white - the chateaunuff du pape region produces several amazing cabernets and chardonnais

Penfolds is an exceptionl aussie vineyard with a ton of old vine

:thumbsup

I can talk wine for days and days

afetr all im a Wino Wanna Be

Forest, you clearly know what you are talking about so I have a question. Sometimes when I am in Europe they have "organic" wines on the menu that are usually red and served cold. They are always awesome. What makes them organic and why are they served cold?

You can't beat a Borolo.. Well if you like a heavy wine which we do here. Montreal is amazing for wine.. Most SAQ signature stores(high end liquer stores) have Borolo only sections.. Italians definitely dominate the wine scene but I have to say the taste of good Hermitage wines are always intriguing.. So unique of a flavour it is nice and different..

I have actually had one 'good' californian wine.. Great taste, but the body was lacking, as it is with all wines except for Italians in my opinion...

now now serge

some great rioja's come from spain

good everyday drinking wines

Ill bring you some when i get home

:thumbsup

I don't drink wine.

Organic is Big over here and becoming bigger in the states
No man made chemicals used as pesticides or fertilizers

all natural ggrowing conditions

AND ALL red wine is supposed to be servered at CELLAR TEMP!


NOT room temp

Proper Cellar temp is 58-60f MAX!

give the wine room to open up and expand as it warms

If you open a bottle at room temp its got no were to expand and develp

americans tend to bruatlise their wines and we also tend to drink them way to young

its tough to compare any wines with BIG REDS in italy

the vine is soo old and the grape so strong

the BIGGEST wines in the world are italian

IMHO

best wine I've ever tasted:

Chateau Margaux 2000

http://store4.yimg.com/I/randalls_1765_34297110

pricey (450$) but worth it for a special moment:thumbsup

I still have around 24 bottles of the 1998 in my cellar and ALOT more... My cellar is worth more than my whole house.

Heh, my GF and I love to go downtown to the main Signature store and stare at the bottles of '99 Chateau Haut-Brion .. One day when I have enough money to justify spending 900.00 for a regular bottle we are going to get one..


What kind of Decanters/glasses do you guys have?
I have two decanters, the crowd favorite is the Vinum Extreme(I imagine we all know what that looks like), however it isn't as efficient as my magnum decanter
(the one on the far right)
http://www.riedelcrystal.com/library.../Decanters.jpg

As for glasses I tote the complete Riedel red wine set.. What really surprises me is when I run into people that 'love' wine but don't have the proper glassware for it.. Kind of like Beckham wearing cross trainers in a game in my mind.. Most people fail to realise how different and enhanced wine tastes when drank with the proper glass. Hell Riedel even makes special juice glasses which enhance the flavour of juice.. Most people would say 'yea right' which is what I said when talking with the representative at my old cellar design store, but after spending the bucks on the set and then doing a taste test and comparing the same wine, with and without decanting, and then with my old glasses compared to the Riedels you realise how much of a huge difference those glasses make..

50 great wines

OK so i missed it
LOL


51 bottles of Great wine

Probably why Beajoulais is so big in the states.. Disgusting stuff if you ask me

the biggest prob with a wine like that is you ned to have the storage facility for it

58f
75% humidty

and dont plan on drinking it for atleast 10 years

99 is a BBBBAAABBYYYYYYY

and Chateau Haut-Brion is one of the most respect houses in france

i thnk its popular for 2 reason

GOOD marketing

and its cheap

I drink it

ALL wines have their place and time

Thats good stuff chilled outside in the summer or on a picnic or bbq

I suppose it is all a matter of taste.. If I am hot and want to cool down I will usually just get a cheap aussie white wine some 7-up and go nuts with that.. But if it is red I would go with a cheap table wine, or une Vin de Table instead.. Just me though.. all a matter of taste.
Oh and ALL wines don't have a time and place, unless you can give me ONE good time or place for a Blush :D hehe, ugh..

As for a cellar. Will this do?

http://www.vintagecellars.com/images.../genovese2.jpg
http://www.vintagecellars.com/images.../genovese1.jpg

I wish it was in my house :) But alas, not until I build my house of my dreams would I invest in something like that..

If you got a chick that you want to fuck and she doesnt drink anything else

PERFECT time for a blush wine



:1orglaugh :Graucho :thumbsup

KILLER fucking celler btw

Im going to build my dream house Around the cellar design.

2 great quote from 2 wine lovers

Ernest Hemmingway

" A day without wine is like a day without sunshine"

My Uncle Tony...

" A day without wine should be Called Off"

too verry good solid vineyards from California

Clos du Bois is one of my everyday drinking wines

The sterling Merlot (depending on the vintage and vinyard produced from) can be a top notch wine

I don't know about you but I definitely wouldn't be able to get it up after a bottle of blush.. would be too focused on the bloody taste in my mouth..
Gah.. I remember liking that stuff as a kid, and then trying it later in life and making it through one sip before I dumped the bottle out..

yuck yuck and yuck.

sutter home makes a "blush" style wine

cant remember the name been years

but its actually quite crisp and clean and not to fruity at all

I stick to reds mostly and the ocasional Chard

Coppala Blue Label Merlot

Coppola RULES!!!!!

the vineyard is like 150 years old or somehting like that

was started by a fisherman in the 1800's

the Chateu is stunning

the grounds and perfection


and He has Upstairs all sorts of memerobila from the God father and other of his movies

Fancis has owned it since the 70's and has done a superb job bringing the wine to one of the best in the napa valley

How much do you have to spend to build a nice wine cellar? Not including the price of the wines, of course.

something like that will cost in the range of 25k-75k probably

and they might even throw in a case of wine for you

:Graucho

Blackstone Merlot

talk to MikeW..he just built one in his house
;-))

They did an AWESOME job as well

lucky bastard

:thumbsup

Hopefully closer to the 25k mark. I would think you could get something much nicer than what is in that picture for 75k.

its depends on if the shelvef are hand crafted or machine made

the type of wood

the amount of Prep need to airtight the room

ect ect ect

soo many variables for cellar constrution

My uncles cost him 22k and is no where near as nice as that one

But all the shelvef are hand carved cedar

simpley beautiful

97 cakebread cabernet

has to be 97!

I've been drinking too much wine to have a favorite.
Wines that I've had in the last month that stand out in my mind are all from cali.

the 95 shafer HSSLD I talked about in another thread, 96 opus, 97 cakebread, 96 heitz.

When I'm home, I like to pull a bottle out of the cellar @ 54-56 degrees and decant it for 1/2 hour or so letting it warm up a bit.

most unusual bottle I've had has been a 64 lafite. 64 was a shit year but has sentimental value so I've got a few bottles.
It was great! so thick and old but still held great taste. I've since opened a couple more bottles from other sources that have been vinager.:(

Rick all the trouble we have gotten into together and we have never drank any wine during or around these events...

I love good merlots, but am quite happy with Mondavi Coastal as my staple wine... buy it by the cases and drink it quite a bit.

I always default to it when out as well if no one is sure what they want, its a good idea until I get a bill for $260 ($20 in a wine store) in vegas for the bottle...lol

And I special order almost all the red organic wines our local shops can get in, think I have sampled around 20 different red organics as they come in (they sell out quite fast here as well).

Rick a wine night is in order next time we see each other... looks like enough of us here would be into it as well

You going to come to a show again?

Barolo :thumbsup

95 Caymus

http://www.fairtale.nl/images/jager.jpg

:glugglug

Cakebread is by far one of my favourites.....

whitney

I agree :)

Went to a wedding there last year during harvest. It was OUTRAGEOUS. The wines are becoming more and more commercialy available as well which is nice for we East Coasters,