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What’s the best bottle of wine you’ve ever had!
Posted on 4/27/18 at 4:36 am
Posted on 4/27/18 at 4:36 am
Name your best wine tasting experience.
My top experience was an Opus One but I failed to get the vintage. I’m guessing 2008-2010 but this was the one that drove me to collecting. I started researching wine shortly after. I own more top tier bottles than I’ve tried, but want to get some cellar time before popping open.
My top experience was an Opus One but I failed to get the vintage. I’m guessing 2008-2010 but this was the one that drove me to collecting. I started researching wine shortly after. I own more top tier bottles than I’ve tried, but want to get some cellar time before popping open.
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Posted on 4/27/18 at 5:08 am to Lookin4Par
Cain 5 but I love Caymus as well.
Posted on 4/27/18 at 6:13 am to Lookin4Par
ETA: vintage
This post was edited on 4/27/18 at 6:42 am
Posted on 4/27/18 at 6:18 am to Lookin4Par
E. Guigal, Cote Rotie, 1997
Amazing how distinct the flavors are.. Started off with a fruit taste, like apples, the finish was floral, like roses.
Amazing how distinct the flavors are.. Started off with a fruit taste, like apples, the finish was floral, like roses.
This post was edited on 4/27/18 at 6:49 am
Posted on 4/27/18 at 6:40 am to Lookin4Par
Selene (Sauvignon Blanc). Don’t recall the year, but it would have been mid- to late- ‘90’s. Ive never found it since.
Posted on 4/27/18 at 6:51 am to sml71
Chateau ste Michelle, Chardonnay circa 2016
Posted on 4/27/18 at 6:51 am to Lookin4Par
the first one. strawberry hill. circa 1987
Posted on 4/27/18 at 7:13 am to Lookin4Par
Caymus!
Can’t remember others!
I prefer bourbon!
Curious to see what others say!
Can’t remember others!
I prefer bourbon!
Curious to see what others say!
Posted on 4/27/18 at 7:53 am to Lookin4Par
1991 Stags' Leap Winery Cabernet
1996 BV Georges de Latour Cabernet
1996 BV Georges de Latour Cabernet
Posted on 4/27/18 at 8:21 am to Lookin4Par
Tough call... Larkmead, Quintessa, Far Niente, Nickel & Nickel, Caymus Special Selection, Dominus, and Phelps Insignia are some of the best I have had as far as Cabs go. No particular, overly-aged vintages. Such quality wines.
ETA: Forgot about Heitz Cellars. Martha's Vineyard Cab is superb. They also make a port that is great. Chateau Montelena cab is on my hit list. I've had their white Bordeaux/chardonnay before which was outstanding.
I'm still patiently waiting an opportunity to taste some of the top-tier Bordeaux.
ETA: Forgot about Heitz Cellars. Martha's Vineyard Cab is superb. They also make a port that is great. Chateau Montelena cab is on my hit list. I've had their white Bordeaux/chardonnay before which was outstanding.
I'm still patiently waiting an opportunity to taste some of the top-tier Bordeaux.
This post was edited on 4/27/18 at 8:24 am
Posted on 4/27/18 at 8:35 am to Lookin4Par
My palette isn’t quite refined enough to differeniate a great wine from a good wine, so I tend to associate my “best” wines with time and location.
So with that said, I’d say it’s some random Italian white wine I had while sitting outside of the Duomo in Florence in perfect weather with my then new fiancé (and now wife).
Alternate: all of the wines my wife and I tried on the same trip while on our Lake Como/Valtellina Valley tour. We went to a local Valtellina winery, got a tour, met the owners, were given more samples than we could handle plus two free bottles by the owner. Such a great time!
So with that said, I’d say it’s some random Italian white wine I had while sitting outside of the Duomo in Florence in perfect weather with my then new fiancé (and now wife).
Alternate: all of the wines my wife and I tried on the same trip while on our Lake Como/Valtellina Valley tour. We went to a local Valtellina winery, got a tour, met the owners, were given more samples than we could handle plus two free bottles by the owner. Such a great time!
This post was edited on 4/27/18 at 8:39 am
Posted on 4/27/18 at 8:52 am to Lookin4Par
Posted on 4/27/18 at 9:01 am to Lookin4Par
Odette Estate Cab was up there
Cheval de Andes 2013 was also an ah ha moment in wine for me
Cheval de Andes 2013 was also an ah ha moment in wine for me
This post was edited on 4/27/18 at 9:01 am
Posted on 4/27/18 at 9:03 am to Lookin4Par
1961 Cheval Blanc
Posted on 4/27/18 at 9:10 am to kingbob
Oh I get it now. The blackberry doesn't pair well with the shrimp and tomatoes in creole jambalaya.
Posted on 4/27/18 at 9:23 am to TH03
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Oh I get it now. The blackberry doesn't pair well with the shrimp and tomatoes in creole jambalaya.
Posted on 4/27/18 at 9:29 am to jordan21210
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I’d say it’s some random Italian white wine I had while sitting outside of the Duomo in Florence in perfect weather with my then new fiancé (and now wife).
This is how it is for me. One of my most enjoyable bottles of wine was sharing a Chianti Classico in a Montalcino park overlooking the Tuscan countryside with some great friends. We drank the wine out of plastic cups and used a dull knife to share local salami and cheeses. It was a perfect moment and the combination of the wine, salami, cheese, ,friends and the vista made it so.
On the same trip we went to a little vineyard in Gaiole in Chianti called Isodi. They make fantastic Chianti and Super Tuscans. We drove up and thought the vineyard was closed. The 80 year old owner of the vineyard walked up shirtless speaking only Italian. He ended up giving us a tour of the winery in Italian and somehow we all got the point of what he was saying. He then took us to a tasting and shared his phenomenal wines with this. It turns out that he runs the vineyard with his twin brother and nephew.
To me, wine is way more than drinking or tasting to try to find a hint of this or an odor of that. It about sharing something you enjoy with those you love.
This post was edited on 4/27/18 at 9:35 am
Posted on 4/27/18 at 9:37 am to jordan21210
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I tend to associate my “best” wines with time and location.
with ya there! That being said...best bottle of wine was a bottle I picked up from a drug store in Paris for about 5 euro... we had just gotten engaged the day before and spent the night passing the bottle back and forth on the bank of the Seine for hours. No fine vintage bottle will ever top that 5 euro bottle
Posted on 4/27/18 at 9:54 am to Lookin4Par
I can't remember the vintage, but it was certainly an oldish Vega Sicilia.
Posted on 4/27/18 at 10:08 am to Lookin4Par
No clue what it was, but it was a bottle a friend pulled from his cellar at his house one night. It was a French red(Bordeaux I think) from the late 80's. That's all I know about it. I'm not much of a wine guy, but I immediately recognized how good that one was.
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