What are you Drinking . . . Wine?

MartinL said:
I got an astonishing Kim Crawford (New Zealand) Marlboro Sauvingnon Blanc for .025% the cost of my new M8 (give or take a decimal point).
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Kim Crawford Savignon Blanc is my usual summer wine, it is cheaper than an M-8 but goes for around 20 US in Japan. His Riesling and unoaked chardonnay are both very good.
 
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steamer said:
Kim Crawford Savignon Blanc is my usual summer wine, it is cheaper than an M-8 but goes for around 20 US in Japan. His Riesling and unoaked chardonnay are both very good.
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Nice to know. My wife and I will be walking the Nakasendo Way early to mid-September: Kyoto to Narai. Do they have stuff to take pictures of in those parts?:D
Martin
 
steamer said:
I guess the Stelvins are not really for a vin de garde, but they seem to work fine on wines that aren't made for the long haul. Just don't tell me the screwtop Plumpjack is showing better or I'll have to rethink my first statement.
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To my taste the cork-finished Plumpjack is the winner. The screw-capped wines got funky with age. The extractables from the cork are important in post-bottling chemistry for vins de garde.

Yestrday I shot some HP5+ in the IIIf with my new 50/1.4 Nikkor-S.C. I love the balance of this lens on that body. Then we had some pink wine over ice while preparing dinner, and a surprisingly well-preserved 1982 Ch. Figeac with the meal. I love the balance of this wine. It aged gracefully and well because it was under a cork.

Cheers! - John
 
I'm one of those who think the first obligation of wine is to be red.

As for Espana being near the Middle East -- Well, Espana was invaded by the Moors in 711, but mainly across the strait from northern Africa, it seems.

This gives rise to at least two stories: 1) The word "ojala", meaning roughly "one hopes" is believeably connected to the Spaniards hearing the Moors pray, starting "OH, Allah". 2) "No hay Moros en la costa" is the rough Spanish equivalent of "The coast is clear".

Other than that, Espana is where it has always been , in southwestern Europe.
 
Almost all Spanish words strating with "al" are of arabic origin: almohada (pillow) readily comes to mind. Ojalá is just a corrupted pronunciaton of "inch allah" (may God want) The romanized-arabic ch is roughly equal to the Spanish J, or English H.

But as wines go, some of the best com from Ribera del Duero. As summer wines, albariño... and then you've got the really wonderfull brandies... I'll take Lepanto any day you wish!
 
Mmmm, Wine.

Mmmm, Wine.

Excellent thread.

I (mostly) second the notion that any wine I drink should be red. I've been a wine amateur for some time, now, and only recently opened a bottle that had "matured" somewhat - nothing special, a 2001 BV Cabernet - but once it relaxed a little, that first glass was very much "oh, my." So very nice.

I'm fairly excited, then, about the 1991 in the cupboard; there are certain indications that this is "the year" for that one.

All that said, however, my taste for whites was renewed by Rombauer's Chardonnay (Carneros). So very nice, if a little overpriced.

(Yes, these are all California wines. So sue me; I also like a good Louis Jadot every once in a while.)


Cheers,
--joe.
 
I'm partial to pale ale's but I do like Riunite Lambrusco, probably because it's served cold and only costs $6.99 for a magnum at Vons.
 
Hah! Last night you gave a useful lens suggestion, but added an oblique reference to drinking that I couldn't figure out if it was about your own or (supposedly) mine for starting an incoherent thread (either/both equally likely). Now we have the partial answer?

Since when did 7.99 become a "really cheap" bottle of wine? Does it come in a jug? Does it come in a box? Then it's not really cheap.
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Martin et all,

I have been too embarrassed to respond. I read this thread yesterday, not realizing I was the one that created it. I normally do not drink wine, and I bought that particular bottle for cooking, but I had wee bit too much. It was mighty tasty to say the least.

Evidently, I was also encouraging my child to mess up the house, wifey wasn't too happy with that either.

So Martin, I am glad I was able to reccomend a good lens to you. Can you let me know which one it is? I think, the only lens that I have been interested in is the ASPH summilux 35mm, so I am assuming it was probably this one. I have an older summilux, which is great, but it does not focus close enough for my tastes, and I believe the newer ASPH lens does.

In reference to the wine; It is came corked in a bottle, and it seemes cheap to me, since all the other wines around it were selling for two, three, and four times that amount, so it seemed fairly cheap. So, I am happy to know that if it comes in a bottle and has a cork, then it is a real bottle of wine.

For the rest, thanks for the history lessons of soem the phrases. I teach, on occasion, Social Studies, in Middle School, and when we are studying a specific region, regardless of how many times we have teach them where places are, they are always asking me where that place is, in the Middle East?

Cheers, Enjoy your day!
 
John,

From Budweiser at the Mabuhay to Plumpjack in Sonoma?

Thanks for the input on cork vs. caps.
I had always heard (including from a wine tasting instructor at the Calif. Culinary Academy) that screw caps would eventually be the answer once the image problem was overcome.
Since you are enjoying a "Rose from 4 Rhone varietals" and I cannot even name 4 Rhone verietals, I will defer to your expertise, and quit boring my friends with my "Knowledge" on this subject.


Cheers,
Gary
 
cjm said:
I'm partial to pale ale's but I do like Riunite Lambrusco, probably because it's served cold and only costs $6.99 for a magnum at Vons.
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Love the Lambrusco. Some are much more expensive. Always good.
 
I'm cracking up that Sisyphus started this thread in the forum equivalent of drunk dialing!

From Budweiser at the Mabuhay to Plumpjack in Sonoma?
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Yeah Gary - it's been a long strange trip. That was Bud in that cup at the Mabuhay? Don't ask me. I was too busy throwing them back, throwing them at people and slamming to notice - either at Mabuhay or at the Eye-Beam. Hey, I survived.

Wine is my day job now. I love screw caps. They are the perfect closure for most of the wine made and consumed in the world. The more bottles that are finished this way, the more good cork will be available to me.

That said, I have tentative plans to make particular wines and put them under screw caps. I believe consumer acceptance is adequate, but I'm still trying to convince mysel that screw cap closures are environmentally viable.

Cheers! - John
 
micromontenegro said:
But as wines go, some of the best com from Ribera del Duero. As summer wines, albariño... and then you've got the really wonderfull brandies... I'll take Lepanto any day you wish!
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I have twelve bottles of Albariño left.

But for brandies I prefer Cardenal Mendoza or Luis Felipe. The latter being over a hundred bucks per bottle keeps me from having it stocked though....

Seeing a summer out here is looking more like early spring, I'm sticking to Pastis, for now.
 
My wife's family is from Tokaj and we still get the best wines from these willages.

Anybody knows the tokaji wines?

Try it! ;)
 
[QUOTE: That was Bud in that cup at the Mabuhay? Don't ask me. I was too busy throwing them back, throwing them at people and slamming to notice - either at Mabuhay or at the Eye-Beam. Hey, I survived.]

Yes I seem to remember Bud in those long neck bottles as the beverage of choice.
Do you work for the mayor? (Ha! that sounds criptic).

Gary
 
Pepe: Cardenal Mendoza is simply wond'rous!

Superbus: Sadly, Tokaj wines are becoming hard to obtain in my part of the world. When and if I find a bottle, it tends to be one with very few "baskets" (I don`t know the proper English word for it). I think good ones are right up with the very best wines in the world
 
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