Virtue

• June 2014

  SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: our origins and future in a single glance I am going to ... wineries that recognized its virtue-- from all over California.And Lopez is not alone: there is also the Galleano Home Vineyard and the amazing Hofer vineyard. But how could the rest of us have been unaware of these treasures? I feel as though we have a nearly civ... Read More

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• June 2014

  OK, time to up the ante: multiple quotes at once. How about a baker's ... ... wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you choose. But get drunk.” "A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine"“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold w... Read More

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• June 2014

  OK, quiz time. Thought I'd start a challenge where we can throw quotes out at the group, which has to then guess attribution. Who said it, and if possible when, why, etc.?Hints are allowed, even preferred. Person who gets the attribution right then gets to offer up their query.This would've been a lot more fun 20 yrs ago before the web. So yeah,... Read More

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• May 2014

  Patience is indeed a virtue...  the 09 Georis Cab franc is now opening up..   gone is that darker blackberry, and the black forest cherry has arrived!  YUM.  Yep, ripe cherry and a tad of cocoa.   So very nice. Read More

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• April 2014

  Yes Jon...patience is a virtue.  Even for lesser things than Amarone.  Speaking of which, it was conspicuously absent from your line-up!  That's a sin.What did you have for dinner? :) Read More

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• April 2014

  Had some neighbors over Friday for an Italian themed potluck. Good thing I have neighbors who can cook and who appreciate my wine...makes for a nice group effort.Not much time to go over everything in detail, but I continue to enjoy 2011 Barbera d'Alba, and also the 2011 Tommasi Soave that I picked up last minute was a real surprise. I'll be buy... Read More

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• January 2014

  Yeah yeah yeah - I bet you just like the name!!It is a good one though.Maybe ... to rave about. But there is virtue in the good enough.Some of the wines on that list are just awful IMO but some of them have headed up a newer category of wine that just exploded over the past 2 years - sweeter reds. Gallo's entry in that has been a huge success ... Read More

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• August 2013

  Hi! I've been so busy (lots of work related travel) - I've ... ... ... Washington, BC) - by virtue of access if nothing else. This access is also inherantly limited by the sad truth that I don't have any wines with some cellaring time. This is really the first year I've gotten into wine that doesn't fall into the "drink now" category. I did g... Read More

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• February 2013

  Saw this story about Antonio Galloni leaving the Wine Advocate.  (I first saw it somewhere else, but this was the easiest one to link to today.)  I haven't got any particular sense of what Galloni likes, although one kind of assumes that Parker would hire someone somewhat in his own image if he was planning to turn over some of the areas Bob has... Read More

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• June 2012

  There hasn't been one of these threads here in quite some time so I thought I'd start it up again. Weather is warm here so I popped a Rosé.What are you drinking? Read More

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