Grain Wine

• May 2013

  http://www.bigtablefarm.com/A new find for me today, and one that seems to ... ... ... bouquet of flint, cereal grain, vanilla, lemon and green pear. The palate of this wine is rich with cider apples, bees wax, nougat, yeast and yet the perfectly balanced acids will carry this wine into the future. Clare has already consumed more than her fair... Read More

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• April 2013

     I just posted almost all of my notes on Bordeaux 2012 on my ... ... me. A very fine tannic grain, with sheer elegance.  We also enjoyed a truly excellent Chateau Leoville Barton 1999, which I have always enjoyed and it is still on its early peak: nuanced, subtle, deep enough, and certainly with a smooth and lingering finish.  From a double... Read More

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• April 2012

  Was fortunate enough to attend a very well put together Amarone dinner in LA ... ... and not much bitterness (grain, wheat), just good clean fruit elements that you’d expect to find in a hybrid of Chardonnay and semi-sweet to dry Riesling. Not that a Soave is supposed to taste like Chardonnay or Riesling, but I personally found relatable eleme... Read More

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• August 2011

  Tonight I will be fixing a frittata with mushrooms, carmelized onion, tomatoes ... ... bruschetta and a whole grain baguette.  I'm drawing a blank on the pairing.  Any suggestions for me?  Tonight is DEFINITELY a wine night.&nbs Read More

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• December 2009

  Color: light yellowNose: petrol and mineral. Lemon oil and custard. Very ... ... has. Essence of distilled grain on finish. If stored well, still a beauty....if you like aged Austrian riesling.93-94 p Read More

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• June 2009

  So naturally what I mean by that title is,that much, if not most, of the wine ... ... Brouilly 2007 Thenevet Grain & Granite Regnie 2007 Clos de la Roilette Fleurie2007 Domaine de Billards Barbet St. Amour   2007 Georges Trichard Chenas     What was a bit of a surprise was that all the other wines found fans from the simple Pizay to the ether... Read More

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  June 2009

  Tuthilltown Spirits Hudson Four Grain Bourbon NV

  Snoothrank:

  Caramel, dried apples, cinnamon, cedar aromas. Flavors are far subtler, with melted butter, wood smoke, cinnamon and oak, with a bit of an harsh heat of alcohol on the very finish which may be the result of too little time on oak. Read More

  Wine review by mark

  
  
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  April 2009

  Carsebridge 28 Year Old 1979

  Snoothrank:

  An increasingly rare single grain whiskey that offers suprisingly smooth creamy vanilla and honey flavours without being to sweet. The crispness of the single grain seems to compliment the sweetness which is not at all cloying. Read More

  Wine review by Steven Taylor

  
  

• January 2009

  I admit it; I love to go out for dinner.  I love it even more someone else ... terrine - cornichons, whole grain mustardduck rillette - endive & orange marmaladecrispy baby artichokes - onion rings, garlic confit, meyer lemon, sweet carrot puree, fines herbes aioliSecond Appetizer: 2002 Rochioli Estate PinotNext up was a great wine from one of... Read More

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• June 2008

  I have prematurely become an old man in at least one respect, I yell at mass ... Like most of these pieces a grain of salt is necessary but usually not offensive. Easy enough to let go the assumption that most New Yorkers have manicured lawns with croquet courses out back and certainly easy to ignore the triple layered confection being extolle... Read More

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