Wine..Wine..Wine

[Precision]

Shred the Gnar Bro. during June bloom and come on over...we'll have a feast, hope you like Mexican food ?   

Bring some Hella Napa Valley's finest, and we'll provide the glasses.  

[Greg Dent]

We have quite a few favourite wines. First though if you like sweeter wine try a white zinfendel. Its sweeter and is a rose. Very nice. 

 

We love cab blends merlot or Sauv. Doesn't matter straight merlot but one grape that was thought extinct due to it being ruined in Europe from mold is not grown exclusively in Chili. That is the Carmenere grape. 

 

We like a few from California mostly reds but we went to a few wineries in the Niagara Region of Ontario and actually bought into a wine club at 13th st winery in St Catherines Ontario. They have a really awesome chardonnay that is very dry. We fell in love with it. Their Reds are incredible. We get 6 bottles delivered every 3 months to our home. Nice to have that because you can build up a small collection. 

[hazel]

I personally love Chilean and Australian wines. A good pinot noir is my favorite.

[Tortuga]

Today!

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[Gary910]

On 5/19/2018 at 6:29 AM, Tortuga said:

Today!

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Brother Richard... Ol' Buddy, Ol' Pal, I think we need to be re-acquainted...

[New World Explorer]

On 5/14/2018 at 8:59 AM, hazel said:

I personally love Chilean and Australian wines. A good pinot noir is my favorite.

Australia is the eighth-largest wine-producing country in the world ...

[dove]

I recently recorded and watched a documentary moderated by the actor and vintner, Sam Neill. It's called Great Innovation..The Rise of Australian Wine.

 

It mentioned that Australia is now the 5th largest exporter of wine on earth.

 

They talked a lot about Penfold's and their Grange Hermitage wine.

 

This fact surprised me, that 98% of Australian wine is screw-capped. Shows what a change in thinking about corked wine..

 

It's on National Geographic if anyone is interested in looking it up...It was quite interesting.

[Tortuga]

The local wineries in Napa are wondering what affect the smoke from the fires last year and this year will have on the grapes and if it will affect the taste of the wine. I might have to do my own research. 

[dove]

6 minutes ago, Tortuga said:

The local wineries in Napa are wondering what affect the smoke from the fires last year and this year will have on the grapes and if it will affect the taste of the wine. I might have to do my own research. 

I think for sure the prices will rise..

[dove]

7 minutes ago, Dove said:

I think for sure the prices will rise..

Or, people will be buying more Australian wine...ha

[Tortuga]

10 minutes ago, Dove said:

Or, people will be buying more Australian wine...ha

Unless Trump puts tariffs on that too..

[dove]

He probably drinks wine too but of course he can afford any tariff he puts on it...

[Thesauron]

A sommelier I know here sighed over the lack of nature wines at the store shelves here. He said he wished they would remove some of those cheap boxes in favour of quality wines with limited or no additives.

https://www.winemag.com/2018/04/17/natural-wine-guide/

[Tortuga]

Has anyone here used a blender to aerate red wine?

[SUNRAY]

On 10/20/2018 at 4:09 PM, Tortuga said:

 

The local wineries in Napa are wondering what affect the smoke from the fires last year and this year will have on the grapes and if it will affect the taste of the wine. I might have to do my own research. 

 

Richard, it's funny you mentioned this. We had to return our last 2 bottles of Frey white wine. The first bottle "smoked" as we took out the cork. The seconed "smoked" the second time we took the cork out!!😦

[Zephyr]

On 12/29/2018 at 9:09 PM, SUNRAY said:

Richard, it's funny you mentioned this. We had to return our last 2 bottles of Frey white wine. The first bottle "smoked" as we took out the cork. The seconed "smoked" the second time we took the cork out!!😦

Never heard of this...tell me more plz...why returned?

[SUNRAY]

6 hours ago, Santiago2020 said:

Never heard of this...tell me more plz...why returne

As I said, smoke came out of the bottle after the cork was removed..

[SUNRAY]

Just now, SUNRAY said:

As I said, smoke came out of the bottle after the cork was removed..

Our experience may be unique to certain bottles..normally we like the brand because it says "no added sulfites"..

[Zephyr]

13 minutes ago, SUNRAY said:

Our experience may be unique to certain bottles..normally we like the brand because it says "no added sulfites"..

I will pay attention next time I open a bottle. I didn’t know.  Thx

[acm2625]

Have you ever had chocolate or strawberry chocolate wine?

Yummy