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Never did like pumpkin pie, but taste changes and it may be time to try it again. Maybe an ice wine would match well. Your costume looks pretty done to me.
Not from me right now. Nice pumpkin. Is that you're Halloween costume?
Do you have any recos for Malbecs???
I bought a few bottles locally but couldn't find anymore. Ordered a case from these guys.
http://www.winex.com/wineSearch.aspx?CatID=0&SearchTerm=bogle
What store did you find it at?
lugan-When I looked again at my bottle, I saw it was a 2005.
You're not supposed to be drinking beer.
I have an antique beer bottle that's worth about $50, but it doesn't taste very good.
That's the one. It's wonderful and tastes like a $50 bottle.
2001 Bogel “Phantom” Old Vine Blend (California)
A MUST HAVE WINE! This blend of Old Vine 40% Zinfandel 50% Petite Sirah 10% Mourvedre has a medium dark color, and lots of wonderfully smooth black cherry and raspberry taste and flavor. The tannins are soft (hey, its old vines) and the wine has a pleasing touch of oak on the finish that lingers and lingers. Enjoy this red wine with a good grilled steak or even barbequed chicken. Watch out – this wine may run out fast as it did last year! $18.99
It is. You won't be disappointed.
Aye Aye Fats... that's in the red section I presume.
lugan-Check under all the cushions, get all the loose change you can gather and pick up a bottle of Bogel Phantom. Outstanding!! 17-20 bucks a bottle.
I love Malbecs!! The price seems awful reasonable. I haven't heard of this one. Not sure it's available in my area.
Funky Llama Malbec?
Hmmmm...you're right! LOL
Oh my! what nice strong arms you have ;)
Very informative, but what about Taco Bell?
Thanks
Well, I've been holding you up since July 7th and haven't dropped you.
Pairing wine with fast food just as appropos as with fine dining, says expert
By Judy Creighton, THE CANADIAN PRESS
Pairing wine with fast food just as appropos as with fine dining, says expert
A bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken suits Natalie MacLean just fine, thank you. It creates a challenge to do what she does best - pairing wines with food.
This internationally renowned wine aficionado and expert admits without abashment that she can't cook.
"But I've learned how to compensate for my lack of cooking skills by matching wines with every kind of meal, including fast food," says MacLean.
She and her family indulge in all sorts of ready prepared foods from dining out, takeout, TV dinners and deli stuff to canned beans and "even our son's mac and cheese, which by the way goes beautifully with a Chilean Chardonnay."
MacLean calls this pairing of wines with fast foods "shabby chic or like putting rhinestones on your jeans."
She stresses that the more important principle for her is that wine can go with all sorts of dishes.
"We don't have the wine culture that Europe does where they match wine with simple dishes, rustic dishes and everyday food," she points out. "We tend to think of wine as just for fancy meals and special occasions, but it is not."
"The same food-and wine-matching principles that you use for those fancy dishes can be applied to very basic fast food. It's about texture, weight and flavour. You are either complementing or contrasting."
So what would she drink with KFC?
"This a rich fatty dish, so to cut through the fat of the fried chicken you could choose a zippy off-dry Riesling," MacLean suggests. "Or a nice rich buttery Chardonnay from Chile or California because the fatness of the dish is going to marry with the fatness of the wine."
When sending out for Chinese food with its sweet and sour nuances, choose a wine that can handle both, she says.
"My favourite is off-dry Riesling from either Canada or Germany because it has a touch of sweetness, but it also has the acidity to go with the sour element in Asian cuisine."
And she adds that any wine that is bone dry is going to taste bitter with Chinese food.
With Indian food, it is very much the same principle, says MacLean because of the spiciness and "I would go with the low-alcohol white sparklers which have a little sweetness."
For wine drinkers who prefer reds over white "make sure you are choosing one that is not high in alcohol or tannins when eating spicy foods," she says.
"Go with fruity low-tannin reds like Pinot Noir, Beaujolais, Gamay or even Zinfandel."
Finally, MacLean deals with one of the most commonly ordered-in fast food - pizza.
"Pizza is easy," she says. "It is a classic match with Italian wines because two of the dominant elements are the cheese and tomato, so a lot of Italian reds have a good amount of mouth-watering acidity."
"That acidity cuts through the cheese and also matches the acidity in the tomatoes, so varieties such as Barberas and Chianti are wicked with pizza."
To assist wine drinkers, MacLean offers a free interactive matching tool on her website www.nataliemaclean.com/matcher.
"I believe that the old rules about white wine with white meat and red wine with red meat just don't give enough guidance any more."
http://ca.lifestyle.yahoo.com/food-entertaining/articles/drinks-desserts/cp/home_family-pairing_wine_with_fast_food_just_as_appropos_as_with_fine_dining_says_expert/print
Okay...just don't drop me :)
With pleasure!! I'll make it a nice Cabernet from Ashanti Winery.
FATS
You have half of that glass and I'll be the one pulling you up over the fence.
We'll let Fats pour that one.
Sounds good...
I'll have half a glass please :)
You're so lucky. Always a better deal on the West Coast. Enjoy the wine, I am.
swanlinbar-Have had in the past, but not current vintage. Liked it before, will have to try again. Thanks.
Found the Bo-Zo at Trader Joe's yesterday for $4.00 per bottle, and picked up a few on your recommendation. Really nice wine. What a great deal deal. Am off to get a case.
Had some of this last night with dinner,about $7 & change was very good,a red zin.http://www.ranchozabaco.com/OurWines/dancingbullmain.asp
I knew we could count on ya.
Does the Bo-Zo label have a picture of a clown?
Well I can afford to buy this one. Just bought a case on sale for 5 bucks a bottle.
Beauzeaux (Bo-Zo) A red blend, not too bad for the price. A little acidic, but good with food.
Let's let Fats buy, he's always near empty!
You're trying to mess with my head...lol...All I want to know is who's buying the next round???
After a few half full glasses of Cabernet Sauvignon I began wondering if there is such a thing as half full?
If half full is ok, then why is half empty not ok?
We are dealing here with gradations of a physical state. Just as full can be subdivided down, so too can empty be subdivided up.
Technically you may be right, in a purely literal sense, but I wonder how the Supreme Court would rule if physicists were allowed to participate and make a case for partially filled emptiness.
No such thing as half empty :)
What's a sip????? We're talking gulps here. Glass is less than half empty.
I believe he takes big sips, so his glass is always half empty.
You need to be looking at the glass half full :)
That would be nice, but I don't have that many somedays left. LOL
You're very welcome mnfats :)...and thank you muchly for the synopsis on South African wines :)
And hey you never know...you may get there someday :)
Thanks Susan-Looks like a nice place. I have tasted wines from Avondale winery, a little south of Ashanti. My experience with SA wines is the Shiraz & Cab has to be above $20.00. The Pinotage always seems to smell/taste of band aid or barnyard. I love the whites in any price range. I love Malbec, but have never had a South African one.
Thanks again for the post. Not sure if I would ever get to that part of world.
:):):)welcome:):):)
Thanks Susan :) :) :)
Hey guys...
I got to speak briefly with the couple from the South African vineyard. They have been back here for several weeks but are heading to South Africa again in June.
Here is their website...
http://www.ashantiwines.com/
In my previous convo with Mr. I understood that they did not yet have their own label but from the website it looks like they do. I guess I must have misunderstood. Anyways, the important thing is that we have a personal invite to tour the estate ifn anytime we are in the area :)
Calif. winemaking patriarch Robert Mondavi dies
By MICHELLE LOCKE – 4 hours ago
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Robert Mondavi, the pioneering vintner who helped put California wine country on the map, died at his Napa Valley home Friday. He was 94. Mondavi died peacefully at his home in Yountville, Robert Mondavi Winery spokeswoman Mia Malm said.
He was 52 and a winemaking veteran in 1966, when he opened the winery that would help turn the Napa Valley into a world center of the industry. Clashes with a brother that included a fistfight led him to break from the family business to carry out his ambitious plans with borrowed money.
At the time, California was still primarily known for cheap jug wines. But he set out to change that, championing use of cold fermentation, stainless steel tanks and French oak barrels, all commonplace in the industry today. He introduced blind tastings in Napa Valley, putting his wines up against French vintages, a bold move.
Always convinced that California wines could compete with the European greats, Mondavi engaged in the first French-American wine venture when he formed a limited partnership with the legendary French vintner Baron Philippe de Rothschild to grow and make the ultra-premium Opus One at Oakville. The venture's first vintage was in 1979.
The success of the Mondavi winery allowed him to donate tens of millions of dollars to charity, but a wine glut and intense competition gradually cost his family control of the business. In 2004, the company accepted a buyout worth $1.3 billion from Fairport, N.Y.-based Constellation Brands.
Mondavi was an enthusiastic ambassador for wine — especially California wine — and traveled the world into his 90s promoting the health, cultural and social benefits of its moderate consumption.
Born in Virginia, Minn., Mondavi got an economics degree from Stanford University in the 1930s and went to work at the Charles Krug Winery, which his Italian-born parents had bought after moving to California from Minnesota.
He married his high school sweetheart, Marjorie Declusin, in 1937, and they had three children, Michael, Marcia and Tim.
For 20 years, the winery was a family business. But Robert clashed frequently with his younger brother, Peter, who had a more conservative approach the business. According to Robert Mondavi's autobiography "Harvests of Joy," matters came to a head with a November 1965 fistfight.
"When it was all over, there were no apologies and no handshake," wrote Robert Mondavi.
In the late 1970s, Mondavi's first marriage ended; in his autobiography he wrote that his single-minded pursuit of the wine business was partly to blame. In 1980, he married a second time, to Margrit Biever, a native of Switzerland who had worked at the Mondavi winery since the late '60s.
By the mid-1990s, Mondavi had turned over operation of the company to his sons. But like their father and uncle before them, Tim and Michael clashed over management styles.
More troubles emerged as a grape glut soured the wine market in 2002 and lower-priced wines in the Mondavi portfolio faced tough competition from cheaper Australian imports and domestic brands like California's Two Buck Chuck.
Also a problem were the millions in charitable donations Mondavi and Margrit had pledged, including helping found Copia, The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, in Napa and giving $35 million to the University of California, Davis.
In her 2007 book, "The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty," author Julia Flynn Siler wrote that declining stock prices later left Mondavi in danger of not being able to cover the millions in gifts he and Margrit had promised.
A corporate restructuring in August 2004 boosted the stock price, but undercut the family's control of the company. By time it was bought out, Michael Mondavi, who disagreed with the board strategy, had already left the company, and Tim Mondavi had loosened ties.
Later there was a bittersweet family moment when Robert and Peter Mondavi, aided by members of the younger generation, made wine together for the first time in 40 years. Using a 50-50 split of grapes from Robert Mondavi and Peter Mondavi family vineyards, the brothers made one barrel of a cabernet blend that sold for $401,000 at the 2005 Napa Valley wine auction.
The auction lot was called "Ancora Una Volta," or "Once Again."
I will keep my eye out for that. Stonehaven makes a good Shiraz.
Hey, I've been on the wagon too. It's been 34 minutes.
Hope the blood pressure isn't too high.
Stonehaven Shiraz-3 Liter box. Price around 14 bucks.
I've been on the wagon for the last few weeks due to high blood pressure and medication. This is more by experiment than required by the Doctor. Couple more weeks and I will be tasting again.
Any recommendations?
That you were.
BTW: Have you tried any premium box wines lately?
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