Yearly Archives: 2006
Underappreciated Whites
I was picking out a white wine to drink and realized I had not an Austrian Riesling for a long time. WOW! I drank: 2001 Rudi Pichler Terrassen Riesling Smaragd It was still an infant, with great acidity and minerality, almost a salty/saline quality (in a good way). These are phenomenal whites. It wasn’t cheap, [More]
Very Fine Wines, Indeed
We had our company holiday party and there were some mind-blowing wines: 1997 Pahlmeyer1997 Allegrini La Poja1997 Produttori del Barbaresco Rabaja and Montestefano Magnums!1995 Lynch-Bages1982 Haut Brion The Pahlmeyer blew me away the most; still has a lot of life, great Bordeaux aromas and flavors but with that plush, opulent California fruit. This is a [More]
2003 Saint Cosme CDR: Still the King
I thought I would never get to drink one of these babies again; they have been sold out for months. Then my colleague pulls one out of his wine storage at the shop after a miserable day of lugging hundreds of cases. Yay! It had actually changed quite a bit since my last taste. It [More]
Bouzy
How can you not want to drink Champagne that says “Bouzy” on the label. Bouzy is actually a region of Champagne and some of the tastiest rose champagnes come from Bouzy (hee hee…Bouzy). I went a little nutty with some x-mas dough I got and sprung for a couple bottles of the Paul Bara Cuvee [More]
