Forum: Wine & Food Talk

I cannot wait to arrive in Bordeaux. I'll be there Tuesday to taste the 2010 Bordeaux wine vintage. It's going to be a great trip! I'll start my...

2004 Poujeaux A real YUM, YUM wine. Seduces you with a ripe, opulent, hedonistic fruit of plum&ripe strawberry and mokka. Lovely drinking pleasure...

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With a closer look at the vintage reports on the 2010 harvest in Bordeaux, many may have noticed that significant coulure has occurred during the...

Hi, I am trying to find some information on a great wine I had last weekend. 1997 Chateau Sahuc Les Tour and it was excellent The reason I am...

2005 Le Vieux Donjon Châteauneuf-du-Pape - France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Châteauneuf-du-Pape (3/26/2011) Previously had this wine near 2 years ago....

Is buying en primeur actually a good deal? It certainly can be, but much depends on the vintage, your allocations and on available alternative wine...

1967 Château Mouton Rothschild; Only slightly above mid shoulder fill, ruby with orange rim, fantastic nose, leather, figs, blackcurrants, classic...

Note: here we have a *sample* 2010 Clos Fourtet Very difficult to taste at the moment! A real fruit bomb with a truckload of plums and too much...

SYRAHS ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON - (3/27/2011) Yesterday, I met with a group of friends to drink some wine on a Saturday afternoon. The theme was...

1929 Château Margaux; High shoulder fill, very light color through the bottle. Pale amber in the glass, acetone, caramel, nuts, enormous volatility,...

1976er Joh. Christoffel Jr. (Christoffel-Prüm) Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Beerenauslese; Golden, botrytis, apples, pineapples, citrus, intense, not...

1993 Henri Jayer, Vosne-Romanée; Bright ruby. A purity like no other, strawberries, some spicy notes, floral, touch of vanilla from cask's, roses...

1966 Château Margaux; Low neck will, ruby with brick rim. Floral, cedar, cassis, fruity, perfumed, intense, bell peppers and strawberries. Fresh...

1966 Château Cheval Blanc; Mid shoulder fill, ruby with brick rim. Coffee, plums, darker berries, figs, floral and violets, very complex, difficult...

1934 Château Cheval Blanc; Chr. Stausholm bottling (Denmark) and cork stated Stausholm as well. Top shoulder fill. Garnet with brick/ orange rim....

1928 Château Margaux; Mid shoulder fill, ruby with thin brick rim. Tobacco, cigars, spicy, cedar, compact, licorice, needs a lot of time to open,...

The list that is somehow both very easy, and very difficult to put together, because there is always another wine that should have been there as...

Drunk yesterday : Champagne Bollinger Grande Année rosé 1990 : good champagne but only good champagne. Not a real emotion. Have you ever had real...

Hi everyone, This is my first post here, after Jeff told me he had started this new board. Still trying to navigate my way around and get used to the...

To me it started with a 1979 Château Meyney, my own vintage. I really did not like wine much, but my father is a wine collector, and gave me this...

1934 Château Margaux; What a beautiful vintage this is! Mid shoulder fill, garnet all over. Floral from start, pure, violets, leather, more intense,...

1945 Château Margaux; It's always very special to try a wine from 1945. Again, a bit worried about the mid shoulder fill. Ruby, with brick rim, very...

1961 Château Margaux; Finally! I read about this wine probably ten years ago, and hoped it would some day come my way. It was described as the last...

1967 Château Margaux; Top shoulder fill, ruby with brick rim. Some cardboard like cork is coming and going a bit, is it a tiny bit of cork? Aged...

1961 Château Latour a Pomerol; Lafite-Bruxelles bottling, bottom neck fill. Ruby with garnet rim, cassis, floral, leather, cigars, violets, all the...

1952 Château Pontet-Canet; Cruse bottling, very top shoulder fill, garnet with brick/ orange rim. Leather, coffee, tea, chocolate, earthy, cherries...

1964 Schloss Johannisberg Grünlack Spätlese Ex Bibliotheca Subterranea; Pale golden color, pear, touch of petroleum in the back, ripe yellow apples,...

Thanks to the wine-journalist Panos Kakaviatos/DECANTER and of course the owner Didier Cuvelier I tasted yesterday night my first 2010 Bordeaux. The...

SPRING is coming........ Ingredients 300g Pasta 100g pumpkinseed 100g parmesan 100-150ml olive oil 1 organic lemon 1 bunch parsley 1 clove...

Thank you so much for sharing this recipe! I made it last night and it was absolutely to die for. Check out the photo (I'm proud). Lennie Ross...

The 2010 Bordeaux wine harvest is already rumored to be another strong Bordeaux wine vintage. While it’s still early, this first look at 2010...

What a treat, an initial pour brought up the very essence of grand Chablis on the nose, a tight knit blend of shell, sea spray and just a little...

2009 Emrich-Schönleber "Halenberg" GG, Nahe, Germany Clear winner of a 2009 Blind-Tasting last week. With view of the availability and QPR the...

Here comes the tuscan version of an apple cake........... Ingredients 4-5 apples 180g flour 100g sugar 100g butter 2tsp backing powder 3...

to have meaning. I mean really, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2009 and now 2010 have been touted as vintages of the century. Really? OK, Jeff, defend.

The 2010 vintage is exceptional and it seems that people from Bordeaux are quite annoyed to announce it. It is true that it is the fourth ‘Vintage of...

Since the day this Bordeaux wine was released, I have always felt 1989 Montrose the better wine of the dynamic duo. 21 years after the 1990 Montrose...

It seems that the Chinese are buying large chunks of Australia and Africa for the minerals, as well as propping up the Spanish economy. They are...

2007 Sine Qua Non Syrah Labels (USA, California, Central Coast) Tasted single blind in Izmir, Turkey among top 10 Syrahs of the World. My guess was...

Aging of Guigal Yesterday I had a dinner with my son, and I opened two halves of 1926 Léoville Barton. They were a little tired, so in the...

I a couple of wines from them recently, a Reserve Extra Brut and a Les Beaux Regards Chardonnay Brut Nature. The wines were from the 2006 vintage,...

2005 Baudry, Chinon La Croix Boisée: 14% alcohol; dark fruit and stem aromas, some smoke; big, rich, dense wine with palate weight and the texture...

Hello to all... This is a great initiative, Jeff. Since we're a bit 'outside the box' in the bastion of tradition which is Bdx, we don't...

Rendezvous on March 25th at 10:30 pm (GMT+1) Michel Portal, one of the greatest clarinettists, and Yaron Herman, an impressive young pianist, will...

Have you pictures of 1978 Rayas to check if mine are fakes ? I have bought 4 bt 1978 Rayas. On a forum, someone said that he has a fake...

2006 Pepière, Muscadet Clos des Briords: 12% alcohol; upon opening, good Muscadet with a sour edge – put aside for another day. Day two: a little...

Here comes an all-time classic by Marcella Hazan. Such pure&simple and delicious....... Ingredients 1 chicken 2 organic lemons salt&pepper ...