Which wine are you drinking today?
Posted by: naim_nymph on 20 October 2012
Wine ratings....
0/10... Undrinkable poison (or corked) …a non-starter.
1/10... Horrible nasty tasting plonk. Best used for a sink waste cleaner.
2/10... Very poor effort, not enjoyable to drink but maybe used for cooking.
3/10... Grimace wine ...with too many concessions that leaves one wanting.
4/10... An okay wine with some virtues but far from good quality.
5/10... Good drinkable fair to middling wine but far from flawless.
6/10... Very good wine, drinkable. Would buy again at the right price.
7/10... Excellent wine, very drinkable and enjoyable.
8/10... Excellent plus wine, highly enjoyable, class!
9/10... A special wine with the most fantastic taste.
Ten!.. Perfection!
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Just uncorked an Angel's Flight : )
My previous bottles of this have been nice and this isn't bad either, this the has hints of liquorice…, it really needs to be decanted and goes without saying - room temp… and given some time (2 hours) to smooth out an otherwise cold hairy tongue after taste, can be very grizzly if opened up too cold [I know… I tried] Nice colour and good body but more than slightly strong.
When warmed up proper is very happy face drinkable though : )
score = 6/10
Debs
Opened another bottle of this tonight. Delicious with wood smoked barbecued lamb cutlets rubbed in cumin, paprika and salt
New Zealand claret style wine from excellent 2013 vintage in Hawkes Bay. Delicious ripe fruit but good tannic structure so will last another 5 years.
2013 was indeed an excellent vintage for pretty much all red varietals in NZ.
Currently drinking a Mud House Single Vineyard 2014 Pinot Noir Claim 431 Vineyard.
I recently picked up a case of Peter Lehmann Portrait Cabernet 2010 as an "everyday" wine. I had the first bottle a couple of evenings back. Considering how inexpensive it is, I was pleasantly surprised by the quality here
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I recently picked up a case of Peter Lehmann Portrait Cabernet 2010 as an "everyday" wine. I had the first bottle a couple of evenings back. Considering how inexpensive it is, I was pleasantly surprised by the quality here
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Spending a large sum is not always necessary. You can find quite a good number of labels producing honest good wines and selling their bottles at a very reasonable price.
It's very hard to know how producers cut the grapes they use and if they follow the rules.
And this sadly concerns a lot of them.
Btw wine changes with altitude, pressure, temperature etc
So sometimes even 300 meters higher or lower or a day in a truck under the sun can be bad. Or even good sometimes.
In the end is your nose, your mouth and how it makes you feel.
Cheers!
Il brigante!
Today is the third Thursday in November.
Beaujolais Nouveau Day!
This used to be a huge event when I first started in wine, in the UK certainly. Not any more so much and even in the eight years I have been in France its importance has waned. It is still a massive event in Japan for some reason.
Of course you have been able to buy a wine with "2015" on the label since about Easter when the first wines from the southern hemisphere arrived (South African Chenin Blanc normally). And nature does not work to a timetable in quite such an arbitrary way, meaning that on the third Thursday in November, sometimes the wine is completely finished, and sometimes it is still going through the last motions of fermentation (slightly fizzy, green and with live yeast).
2015 is a great year across France, and was a warm summer, meaning that this year is a good one for BN (and will be for Beaujolais, Burgundy and France in general).
This wine is a Beaujolais Villages Primeur, which is about as good as Beaujolais Nouveau can get (damning with feint praise rather) but was full of the crunchy blue fruit aromas and flavours that you would hope for, and chillably quaffable.
But it was given to us by a supplier - I certainly wouldn't go out of my way to part with cash for one. Nice to take part though - and traditionally it is fine to start drinking this at 11am.
Castillo de Molina (Viña San Pedro)
Cabernet Sauvignon
Reserva 2011
Rapel Valley - Chile
Strong and Intense
I went for a run here yesterday morning, .
So we drank this at lunchtime. Keep it local!
(St Paul de Vence, where I live. You can see the vineyard on the facing slope of the hill)
The wine does not get exported because he makes about 3000 bottles only, from a patch of land that would be worth as much as any Burgundy Grand Cru, or Napa Valley site - IF it had planning permission to build (which it doesn't have and would never get).
Today is the third Thursday in November.
Beaujolais Nouveau Day!
My last BN day was in the UK, must've been 1991 - nice to bring back the memories, glad that my wine tasting has evolved in a different direction 
No Beaujolais Nouveau for me this weekend. Instead I drank the last of my 2001 vintage Penfolds Bin 389.
And jolly nice it was too. Just a shame that Bin 389 is no longer the bargain it once was. A bonus was that while I was digging out the Bin 389 I came across a couple of bottles of Kalimna Bin 28 Shiraz from the same vintage along with a half a case of Wynn's Coonawarra Cabernet that I'd quite forgotten about - result.
Naturally sparkling. Autumn and spring. Frugally superb and gently straight.
A remedy particularly when it's snowing outside.
Col Vetoraz - Valdobbiadene Cartizze Superiore.
A masterpiece.
The appellation has a certain cachet for me...
Not without its unique inebriating qualities; rapid and forward, making the "smart tap" all the more valuable. The real blush may come the morning after 
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Might be getting a bit long in the tooth, based on my tasting - guests seemed to like it, though