Wine thread - what are you enjoying?

[TulseLuper]

Good Gamay is terribly underrated.

We've been on a Featesca Neagra kick in recent months. This will be the next fashionable variety.

This would surprise me but I wouldn't mind it. I spend a good amount of time in Romania and have drunk loads of Feteasca there. Seems to me to have a pretty low ceiling and small personality. Good value though. Haven't seen the producers you mentioned so will try them if I get the chance.

Hungarian wine, on the other hand, needs a bigger moment than it's seen. Truly a world-class wines from all over, not just Tokaj. Awesome whites both unique and lovable all over Somlo and Badascony, some decent Pinot Noir and native reds from Eger...

 

[SIY]

This would surprise me but I wouldn't mind it. I spend a good amount of time in Romania and have drunk loads of Feteasca there. Seems to me to have a pretty low ceiling and small personality. Good value though. Haven't seen the producers you mentioned so will try them if I get the chance.

Hungarian wine, on the other hand, needs a bigger moment than it's seen. Truly a world-class wines from all over, not just Tokaj. Awesome whites both unique and lovable all over Somlo and Badascony, some decent Pinot Noir and native reds from Eger...

We have a Romanian buddy who discovers serious small growers. So Feteasca Neagra may have a higher ceiling, but finding the good ones here is not trivial!

This weekend is my wife’s birthday, so we have magnums of some ‘95 Cote-Roties. A remarkably underrated vintage.

 

[TulseLuper]

We have a Romanian buddy who discovers serious small growers. So Feteasca Neagra may have a higher ceiling, but finding the good ones here is not trivial!

I suppose that helps. Is he an importer? Would love to see his book and try some good ones. My go-to wine shop in RO is Hungarian so it's been a while since I tried to pick out a nice Feteasca. I usually just drink what friends have.

Enjoy the Cote-Rotie!

 

[SIY]

I suppose that helps. Is he an importer? Would love to see his book and try some good ones. My go-to wine shop in RO is Hungarian so it's been a while since I tried to pick out a nice Feteasca. I usually just drink what friends have.

Enjoy the Cote-Rotie!

Not an importer but a serious taster. Knows his stuff.

Cote-Rotie is my favorite appellation, the ‘95s are coming around, and these are good ones (Jasmin and Ogier LBH), so I’m optimistic...

 

[Wes]

I have been enjoying Chianti - they don't get a lot of respect, and that keeps prices low...

 

[Wes]

Then, there's this:

An area of Burgundy in the Cote that gets very low regard. But this is a 2005 and look at the maker.

They took forever to come around but taste great right now.

 

[Helicopter]

Then, there's this:

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An area of Burgundy in the Cote that gets very low regard. But this is a 2005 and look at the maker.

They took forever to come around but taste great right now.

Me too. Chianti is my go to wine. Waifu just got her olfactory perception back after the Rona, so we had Champagne left over from NYE tonight with Pizza. The standard VC, whatever that is. Champagne is my #2 wine. I will have either with just about amything.

 

[Wes]

Centuries before Europeans discovered the tomato, Italians had already created Chianti to go with "red gravy."

 

[GD Fan]

Me too. Chianti is my go to wine. Waifu just got her olfactory perception back after the Rona, so we had Champagne left over from NYE tonight with Pizza. The standard VC, whatever that is. Champagne is my #2 wine. I will have either with just about amything.

Champagne is tremendously versatile - it pairs with just about anything.

(Same with pizza!)

 

[Thomas savage]

Total shite i wouldn't wish on my mother in-law ..

Iv a nice pommard at home, waiting till no bugger is about to enjoy that .

Wines wasted on humans.

 

[Thomas savage]

Centuries before Europeans discovered the tomato, Italians had already created Chianti to go with "red gravy."

Yes! Gravy !

We need a Italian American gravy thread ! And its not Italian as no true Italian puts gravy on pasta!

 

[Wes]

I used a common term in New Orleans - "red gravy" means tomato sauce. The area was settled by mostly Sicilians but I dunno how that term got started - maybe the French called it that.

 

[StefaanE]

We have to support our friends Down Under!

 

[PaulD]

Champagne is tremendously versatile - it pairs with just about anything.

I drink it when I’m happy and when I’m sad.
Sometimes I drink it when I’m alone.
When I have company I consider it obligatory.
I trifle with it if I’m not hungry and drink it when I am.
Otherwise, I never touch it—unless I’m thirsty.
-- Lilly Bolinger

 

[TulseLuper]

Speaking of Champagne.

Highly recommended.

@SIY how was the Cote-Rotie?

 

[SIY]

@SIY how was the Cote-Rotie?

Absolutely wonderful. The Vernay brothers did very minimalist winemaking with superb fruit. It's a pity they sold out, but I understand the economics.

Last night, for my wife's birthday party, we opened '95 Jasmin and '94 Ogier Cote-Roties, both from magnum.

 

[TLEDDY]

At the risk of being the object of derision:

Champagne - Gruet, non-vintage, Brut; Produced outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Around $20.00

Canernet Sauvignon - Gallo, Reserve by Gina Gallo; any vintage although I liked 2012 best. Around $45.00, compares to some of the best over $150! Sadly, it has been discovered and getting difficult to find.

It annoys me to open a poor bottle of $50.00 wine; the more costly the bottle, the greater the pique.

 

[TulseLuper]

'95 Jasmin and '94 Ogier Cote-Roties

Big old mags, love it. Don't know these but will check them out. TBH I haven't had a lot of Cote-Rotie. I have a bottle of '11 Cuilleron but that's it in the cellar - Cornas and various de-classified N. Rhone is where I have usually looked for Syrah. And Condrieu I love.

Had this Mosel Cabernet Sauvignon last night. Vines planted on prime Riesling real estate 25-30 years ago "as a joke". More than a curiosity - loved it.

 

[Wes]

speaking of Champagne...

A non-blinded taste test on Jan. 20th yielded a clear winner:

Both are Grand Cru, and 2008 declared vintage, but the La bas de Saran was better.

 

[GD Fan]

Best BdM I've had in ages.