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Wedding Crashers - must be a guy thing. 2.5/5
I'm now obsessed with it. Getting the odd berry flavor. It's like, if you glimpse something obliquely then go to look at it head on, you don't see it anymore. That's what some flavors are like to catch. This is more complex than I thought. Am going to buy a bushel of weird fruits and try to understand their essences.
That's what Low said. Drugs? I think he said it was over drugs. Could be wrong.
That was a GREAT scene!!!
It's going right in the queue. Always wanted to try it just once. You can get the real stuff in Europe, still.
Hey, I had a glass of the Whitehaven last night with the intention of finding the dominant flavor. Without question it is a hard peach. After the initial exotic floral and citrus rush all subsequent and lingering notes are that of eating a hard peach. I had originally posted you some tasting notes I found online and I did not get the same flavors they did so I wanted to try again and I say they are remiss in two areas, not mentioning the grapefruit and not getting peach. It is UNMISTAKABLE and ultra-lingering, like you get minutes to figure it out.
Much as I know you are joking, I find his music to be overly sentimental. Besides... HE'S POLISH!
P.S. I can say that, I'm 1/4 Polish.
Friend sent me this link: http://www.style.com/eccodomani/about/merlot.html
I put it in the ibox for you. Hope you don't mind.
I moved them all up in my queue, interspersed with other movies I've wanted to see. I LOVED Bronx. The one who played C as a little kid was incredible. You just loved the kid. Charisma up the wazoo.
I enjoy the aesthetics of contrast. As much as I hate chronic frugality and the drone of utility, I DESPISE opulence (it is grotesque) and a lack of appreciation for good fortune. I hate to shop for sport and loathe the disposable mentality of modern civilization.
I binge on life.
Thank you, Raz :)
I was exploring the streets of Amsterdam alone one day while my host was at work. I dopily stumbled into a "cafe" and was struggling to equate the suspicious looking menu, which was in English, with our selection of cafe' and Latte this and that here in The States. I noted the enervated and unkempt clientele moping around like a modern remake of the Degas painting "The Absinthe Drinkers". "OH!", I blurted out to the scruffy, impatient and humorless clerk at the window waiting for me to order (with his elbow on the counter and head resting on his fist), and excused myself PROMPTLY. They really have pot bars in Amsterdam! The atmosphere gave me the creeps. The few people in there looked down on their luck and in desperate need of hygiene 101. http://www.theartgallery.com.au/ArtEducation/greatartists/Degas/Absinthe/
The Dutch people I met wouldn't go near pot because of the stigma. All you have to do is go into one of those bars and you understand. I thought it was just a generational thing, you know... defining your generation by denouncing the prior one, but I believe it was more a desire not to be associated in any way with the kind of people I saw in that bar.
Sledgehammer, eh? Sounds divine! I really love this wine, find it refreshing, well balanced and a bargain.
I don't think I have the same reaction to it you do. Sauvignon Blanc often evokes grapefruit but I find it to be more subtle and complex than you did. Cat piss and overly tart grapefruit are, to me, not pleasant aspects of many Sauvignon Blancs. The Whitehaven, though, is just citrus enough and is amazing with many foods, particularly fresh seafood like raw clams or oysters. And as you noted in your PM, it's great for clearing the palate and cutting away even fats and garlic when going from one dish to another.
A Bronx Tale - 4/5, terrific story, incredible acting.
Saw - 3/5, surprisingly entertaining despite godawful acting. Was happy it wasn't as gorey as I expected.
I don't know how to respond to this the more I think about it but I want to so will try.
Every once in awhile you get the opportunity to have an epiphany: The first time I truly glimpsed what genius meant regarding the fine arts and that it is far rarer than I'd ever imagined. The first time I HONESTLY understood that people who do not value the things I hold most dear are not necessarily lacking... I have always experienced aesthetics as a moral issue. I find that kind of funny but it's a visceral thing. Well....
...moving right along... Quality! I had an epiphany the first time I drank a wine and there was not one molecule of doubt in my mind that I was experiencing a thing of beauty, something rare and perfect. Something quantifiably superior. It changed me. I remember asking the very same question: Is a wine worth 10x that of another? Depends on what you are paying for. If you are paying for a bottle of prestige, a rare vintage @$5,000 a bottle, probably not, not to me at any rate. If you are paying a reasonable price for something that cost a lot to make because they are keeping yield down to bring quality up, or any number of reasons a truly superior wine would cost more than an adequate wine, WITHOUT QUESTION. Provided, of course, that one is not being irresponsible. Utility and frugality grow old, though. So, if you can afford a rare treat and believe you are able to appreciate it, have worked your way up to the point where it is not wasted, one MUST experience what a great wine really is if one is to understand wine at all. I would never pay a large sum of money for a wine I didn't know was considered to be great, though. Then it's up to me to decide how great it is according to my preferences and standards.
It's nice to have experienced both ends of the spectrum. They do exist. A truly great wine is not hype. It is truly great and well worth 10x the wine I drank tonight.
Sorry to go on so much about it.
Sledgehammer, eh? Sounds divine! I really love this wine, find it refreshing, well balanced and a bargain.
I don't think I have the same reaction to it you do. Sauvignon Blanc often evokes grapefruit but I find it to be more subtle and complex than you did. Cat piss and overly tart grapefruit are, to me, not pleasant aspects of many Sauvignon Blancs. The Whitehaven, though, is just citrus enough and is amazing with many foods, particularly fresh seafood like raw clams or oysters. And as you noted in your PM, it's great for clearing the palate and cutting away even fats and garlic when going from one dish to another. Here is a description I found online and do feel they are remiss in not mentioning grapefruit at all: "A well balanced off dry wine with a mixture of gooseberry, capsicum and some blackberry aromas."
And here, from another site:
Tasting Notes:
Colour / Appearance: Light straw, with lemon-lime tones
Aroma / Bouquet: Vibrant currant-leaf and gooseberry aromas, some pungent herbaceous nuances, and a hint of ripe citrus.
Palate: A full flavoured medium bodied wine, with an abundance of currant and gooseberry flavours, and a clean, lingering finish.
Cellaring: We recommend drinking our 2004 Sauvignon Blanc while it is young and fresh, but the wine is capable of developing nicely over the next three years if carefully cellared.
Serve: Chilled
Suggested Food Match: Summer salads, poultry and shellfish, particularly suited to oysters or green shell mussels, as well as lobster and white fish.
First of all, you must forgive my misspelling of YQuem (I always spell it phonetically for some odd reason, even when I'm conscious of it!). I have been spelling that wine wrong FOREVER! Do not let that mislead you - I have absolute respect for it.
Now, in the ibox there is a link, this one http://www.wine-searcher.com/
Type in the wine, the year, fill in all the blanks you can and you will get a list of the wines in ascending price order, I think. I don't think you have to prompt it to use price as the first criteria. Wine-searcher is a great tool. I signed up for the pro version. You'll see if it's worth the price for you. You get many more listings in the pro version. Anyway, I forget which place I wound up getting the '01 from but it was 200$. At the time, three places had it for that price, but one went up 40$ the day after I ordered mine.
I don't do this too often, spend THAT kind of money on wine, btw. Would not want to mislead anyone. Maybe half a dozen times a year I will drink something of this quality and it's usually a shared expense. I am determined to try certain wines within reason and this was one. I cannot wait for the 1986 to arrive in February. The place I ordered it from is getting a new batch right from the Chateau so the provenance is certain. I hope someday you get to try it.
Go here, http://www.houseofcaviarandfinefoods.com/
Click American Caviar then to American Sturgeon, here: http://cart.shoppingtechnology.com/secure/cart//item-detail.cfm?ID=AS-1002&storeid=15&webnam...
It's really, really good stuff. Had it at a friend's house once and was surprised by the price so got an 8.75 oz can myself and loved it again. Here's how I like it, no laughing :)
Wonder Italian bread, lightly toasted and buttered with any of a number of extra creamy butters they have now to mimic French butter. A little VERY finely chopped sweet onion and a bit of finely chopped hard boiled egg. THEN!!! Heap that caviar on the toast. I use about 1.5 oz per piece of bread.
If you like caviar you know how you like it. Just sharing :)
I finished the last ounce on a slice of buttered toast for breakfast this AM! Just as good like that and less work.
What on earth is that?
P.S. I think it preserves well because of the freshness of style and acidity, more like a grape juice, even.
If it's a pretty big red... yes. I even wrote a similar post a while back. Leaving a bottle uncorked overnight is equivilent to leaving a glass of wine on the table for hours because of the exposure to a greater surface area in the glass. I'm finding more and more that most big reds need lots of time to breathe. Your instincts are probably pretty good.
A few weeks ago I opened a bottle of Malbec (a type of grape mostly popular in Argentina but used mainly as a blending grape in other countries) with my friend and wine maker who'd stopped over. We poured our glasses full and were like, hmmm, it's pretty good. We got to talking, then my mom called and said she was stopping by. Friend left, hours passed as I straightened up, mom came over, talked with her. She left. I got a few phonecalls. It was hours and hours later that I got back to it. I picked up the glass and was shocked by how awesome the wine was. It really drove home how much breathing a wine might really need. Leaving a bottle open overnight or for a day is not as great and exchange of molecules as a glass, if you see what I mean. So sure, as long as it's not too warm out and the bottle isn't too empty.
I had some of the 2004 nouveau at a New Years party. He said it had been open for quite awhile (meaning weeks or months even, in frig) and it was still good, too. Go figure.
I really want to reply to this but my battery has just informed me it's almost dead. Will do so tomorrow because it is an issue that does interest me. I look forward to responding to this tomorrow.
good night again, lugan
Night Lugan. See you soon!
I'm anxious to see what Sauvignon Blanc you choose for your tasting.
Bought it through rare wines and something or other. I forget the place, but online. Good price. Some places are already asking 300$ and more for the half.
Do you enter other peoples notes into your DB (I assume this means data base)?
Here's the story. I have decided that you live only once and am going to try as many wines as I can honestly afford, within reason, that I believe will be a life changing experience. This was one of them and was 200$ for a half. That way I got to keep all my limbs and digits and it was worth every penny - really.
I needed something wonderful in life right now. BTW, I also found a really good caviar for not so much money if you like caviar and are interested.
Hey there! You really want to know?
Had a 2001 YChem before and then with superb caviar on buttered toast. It was a moment I will never forget. I'm actually happy that I can't afford to do this all the time because I cannot tell you what an experience it was.
Hard as I tried I could not put a name to some of the flavors I was getting from this wine (some evocative of exotic fruits I have had only a few times), which is why I'm buying another bottle or two or three. I have already ordered a 1986 (a minimum of 20yrs of oxydization actually adds to this wine and I've never had a 20yr. old YChem) and a 1989 as well. Anyway, apricot was unmistakeable in the '01, and white raisins (botrytis, or noble rot, as well) are a given but were so present one has to mention them. I detected a flavor I thought was quince but for some reason I could not be certain. Pear, a little grapefruit & touch of honey. I also tasted butter, a creamy, saltless butter. All this aside, I have never had a wine this good in all my life. One of the reasons it was hard to pull the wine apart is that it was so well integrated and refined that nothing jumped out from the perfectly harmonious nectar. The intense sweetness was not even remotely cloying due to a seamless balance. With each wine that I have loved there is something outstanding and other worldly. With the 2001 YChem it was the texture. I can't describe the color of a German wine I love called 303, and so it is that the texture of this YChem defies description as well. I actually don't feel comfortable saying what the almost oil based silkiness reminded me of. Anyway, the wine was so elegant one might have to call it understated. Nothing showy, nothing out of proportion, NOTHING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT! This is the real deal. This is elegance. And the finish was long so you really could sip it over a long period. A wine like this is an experience one takes to the grave. And here is what those in the know have to say about it (I intentionally read nothing about the wine before having it and did not taste some of things he did, which is why I HAVE to try it again):
CHÂTEAU D’YQUEM botrytised sweet white2001, Superior First Classified Growth in 1855, Sauternes AOC, Bordeaux
Simply Marvellous ! 100/100 Parker
100/100 Parker
The greatest white wine in the world, the most prestigious, in the best vintage tasted in the last decade: Yquem 2001 is the greatest wine in the world.
The one and only Superior First Classified Growth of 1855, in its bright golden robe is overwhelmingly complex and aromatic, elegant and refined . It dominates the whole vintage brilliantly .
Intense aromas of ripe fruit (mirabelle plums, apricots, mangoes), of dried fruit (figs, raisins, quinces) and white fruit (pears, peaches) come through one after the other, before hints of safran, curry, mint and eucalyptus take over.
The attack is somptuous, full and ample.
The structure is smooth and absolutely heavenly, harmonious and beautifully refined.
The aromatic length seems to last forever !
« Never has Yquem reached such perfection » Yquem 2001 will be available from the 15th of October 2005
Mail Order Wife - 3.5/5
The Son's Room - Dignified and sensitively handled study of grief. Italian, subtitled. LOVED the closing song, Here We Are by Brian Eno. 3.75/5
Chopin? You sentimental fool.
BTW, Mondovino is a movie about the wine industry, in case you haven't come across it.
Convenient setup. They blame everything on you. At least in PM.
I probably would have done the same thing. Glad you made the mistake first. Thanks for sparing me. So, any good dope there? As in gossip, of course.
Will certainly try it and thanks. BTW, try this one. I bought it cause I loved the label but it turned out to be WOW!!!!! Only 17$ here. http://www.wine-journal.com/clos_siete.html
If you ever see Mondovino, he is the wine doctor running around the world telling everyone to oxygenate their wine. Found this out after looking it up online. This wine is a monster. HUGE!!!!!!! It needs lots of time to breathe, if you do try a bottle.
I trust you see your name in the ibox.
I had another bottle of Whitehaven 2004 Sauvignon Blanc tonight after another GORGEOUS wine I want to write about at length sometime so I'll not mention it yet. The Whitehaven is nice. I think it was only around 20$ as well.
And you just happend to be there.
You ever notice how many bad board people Susie hangs out with?
Did he say a bad word?
Music to my eyes.
We'll pick something. Okay?