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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Krusher on July 09, 2004, 10:57:44 AM
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My wife is working the Argentina run now. Last night she brought home a new Malbec called LUIJI BOSCA made by LUJAN DE CUYO. (I hope I spelled the name right)
It is very nice, if you are into wines I would suggest you give it a try.
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I've hardly ever been disappointed by a South American red.
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Originally posted by beet1e
I've hardly ever been disappointed by a South American red.
Perhaps ...
I must say the one I've tried would find usage only to remove the bugs of a car windshield (or the headlamp I don't want appear narrow minded :p )...
At first the taste was strange then my teeth enamel started to crack ...
no more Peruvian wine for me ! ever !
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I like to see French wine sitting on the shelves of the local wine store.
Unsold.
While I buy anything but.
Salute to South American wine :aok
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Originally posted by Habu
I like to see French wine sitting on the shelves of the local wine store.
Unsold.
While I buy anything but.
Salute to South American wine :aok
good, so people with a real education can have wine.
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They can't even give French wine away in Northern California. Except to auto mechanics, who use that foul swill as a parts cleaner.
I was surprised by a couple of Australian reds that weren't half bad, BTW.
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Originally posted by Habu
I like to see French wine sitting on the shelves of the local wine store.
Unsold.
While I buy anything but.
Salute to South American wine :aok
Like we care, we already sold the crate:aok Some Napa Valley wines are as good as their French cousins.
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"French" and "whine" go together somehow.
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I have found red wines from Argentina to be quite nice. I'll have to pick some up next month when I pass through Argentina.
Krusher, I was going DFW to EZE direct but now will need to stop off for several days in Chile so I'll be heading to Chile direct.
I'm off to Brazil next Wednesday. Had a business class ticket through Miami, but I upgraded the round trip to first class, and on a 777. Now that's the way to fly!
I've flown 85K miles on AA this year.
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Originally posted by rogwar
I have found red wines from Argentina to be quite nice. I'll have to pick some up next month when I pass through Argentina.
Krusher, I was going DFW to EZE direct but now will need to stop off for several days in Chile so I'll be heading to Chile direct.
I'm off to Brazil next Wednesday. Had a business class ticket through Miami, but I upgraded the round trip to first class, and on a 777. Now that's the way to fly!
I've flown 85K miles on AA this year.
I am betting you have flown on a flight or two that my wife works.
The Santiago run has been changed for the next few months so she jumped to Argentina.
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Can you still buy Boone's Farm Apple Wine?
How about Blueberry Hill or the Strawberry one?
99 cents a quart.......
o/ o/ "Those were the days, my friends, I'd thought they'd never end.......................... o/ o/
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last time i visited my sister and her husband i went to purchase a Napa Valley Chardonnay, but they didn't have the one i wanted...I ended up buying a Chardonnay from Washington State from Columbia Vineyards that was recommended by store manager. It was very good. And at $20 a bottle, about half the price of Napa Valley
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Originally posted by straffo
good, so people with a real education can have wine.
Here in the "Oil Patch" (that'd be the Gulf of Mexico region, for the unenlightened) they've found a new market for all those marked-down French wines: the roughnecks use it as a hand cleaner and general all-purpose de-greaser. If you've ever been on a drilling operation, you know how handy that is to have something so cheap and plentiful.:D
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Originally posted by TalonX
Can you still buy Boone's Farm Apple Wine?
How about Blueberry Hill or the Strawberry one?
99 cents a quart.......
o/ o/ "Those were the days, my friends, I'd thought they'd never end.......................... o/ o/
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Originally posted by xrtoronto
last time i visited my sister and her husband i went to purchase a Napa Valley Chardonnay, but they didn't have the one i wanted...I ended up buying a Chardonnay from Washington State from Columbia Vineyards that was recommended by store manager. It was very good. And at $20 a bottle, about half the price of Napa Valley
duty free at 6 bucks a bottle :)
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Originally posted by SFRT - Frenchy
Like we care, we already sold the crate:aok Some Napa Valley wines are as good as their French cousins.
This has made me laugh on many occasions.. Folk here thinking they were really sticking it to the French by leaving french wine on the shelves. This climaxed along the time of freedom fries and french hate with me seeing folk buying French wine then pooring it out saying they were boycotting it... hahahahahahaha Damest thing I had ever seen involving wine.. lmao
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I just suck at wine tasting, everything above say $3 tastes good enough for me.
Last week at a dinner I was given two glasses of Ribera del Duero wines and told to taste both and tell which one i liked most.
Inevitably I happily chose some el cheapo $20 stuff over $600 "Dominio de Pingus" to the amusement of all attending wine aficionados.
- The dinner wasn't that fancy, just one of the guys there is somehow related to the Pingus wine cellar owner-
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A Guide to Australian Table Wines
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A lot of people in this country pooh-pooh Australian table wines. This is a pity, as many fine Australian wines appeal not only to the Australian palette, but also to the cognoscenti of Great Britain.
"Black Stump Bordeaux" is rightly praised as a peppermint flavoured Burgundy, whilst a good "Sydney Syrup" can rank with any of the world's best sugary wines.
"Chateau Bleu", too, has won many prizes; not least for its taste, and its lingering afterburn.
"Old Smokey, 1968" has been compared favourably to a Welsh claret, whilst the Australian wino society thouroughly recommends a 1970 "Coq du Rod Laver", which, believe me, has a kick on it like a mule: 8 bottles of this, and you're really finished -- at the opening of the Sydney Bridge Club, they were fishing them out of the main sewers every half an hour.
Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is "Perth Pink". This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is BEWARE!. This is not a wine for drinking -- this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.
Another good fighting wine is "Melbourne Old-and-Yellow", which is particularly heavy, and should be used only for hand-to-hand combat.
Quite the reverse is true of "Chateau Chunder", which is an Appelachian controle, specially grown for those keen on regurgitation -- a fine wine which really opens up the sluices at both ends.
Real emetic fans will also go for a "Hobart Muddy", and a prize winning "Cuiver Reserve Chateau Bottled Nuit San Wogga Wogga", which has a bouquet like an aborigine's armpit.
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Originally posted by flyingaround
A Guide to Australian Table Wines
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Real emetic fans will also go for a "Hobart Muddy", and a prize winning "Cuiver Reserve Chateau Bottled Nuit San Wogga Wogga", which has a bouquet like an aborigine's armpit.
hahaha I almost missed this one :)
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xrtoronto,
I have been suprised by the wines out of the Columbia Valley. Right now enjoying some decent Rieslings from there .. Hogue is a good winery for Riesling and Gehwurtraminer. Have yet to try a Pinot Noir.
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"Have yet to try a Pinot Noir."
That's the best stuf out of the Northwest IMO. Love a good Pinot Noir.