The Official Wine Thread

[Piobaire]

Had an 08 Mosquito Hill Chard last night from Oz. Not bad. A little more mineral than most Left Coast wines and little more oak and butter than Froggie ones. Then I had a couple of glasses of an 08 Claypool PN. Finishing that right now.

 

[tattersall]

Tonight is a red from Chinon - Domaine Baudry Les Grezeaux 2007. Nicely balanced and not overly tannic ~$30. Pretty good all around.

 

[Piobaire]

Just had my first Kistler, a bottle of 2008 Kistler Chardonnay Les Noisetiers. Very nice indeed.

 

[Piobaire]

From last weekend:

Eye: Clear, dark ruby, bright, medium bodied. Rim variation noted with mild bricking indicating some age.

Nose: Dark cherries predominant with some dark plumbs. Tobacco, earthy/soil, and when you first stick your nose in and sniff, earthy mushroom, like portabella gills.

Palate: Confirm the dark cherries, plumb, tobacco. Assertive tannins but they do not grip your tongue. Medium-minus on the acid level, medium to medium plus finish. Really a nice wine, drinking well, for $25.

Our last glass though it was changing and not for the better. The nose became hotter, more full of ETOH, as the fruits blew off. Left mainly ETOH and tobacco and earth. The fruits faded from the palate too and the tannins became more of the style of over steeped tea. The last glass was really a marginal drink at that point.

I don't think this has much time left given how quickly it lost fruit and integration after opening.

 

[Rambo]

What's "bricking"?

 

[Piobaire]

2008 JL Giguiere Pinot Noir Mossback. Nice, easy to drink Pinot.

2007 Domaine Le Colombier Vacqueyras CuvÃ

e G. Tannins, cherrys..haven't decided yet.

Bricking is a type of rim variation where it attenuates towards a brick colour. Associated with age and/or oxidation.

 

[gomestar]

Originally Posted by Piobaire

Bricking is a type of rim variation where it attenuates towards a brick colour. Associated with age and/or oxidation.
Unless it's the Nebbiolo grape (used in Barolo, Barbaresco, Langhe, Gattinara, Gheme, and a bunch more Piedmont DOC's) as this is a fairly indicative color of the grape no matter what age. notice a post a while back from Audio, one being a Zin and one being of Nebbiolo but not particularly old example:

Originally Posted by audiophilia

 

[Rambo]

Originally Posted by Piobaire

Bricking is a type of rim variation where it attenuates towards a brick colour. Associated with age and/or oxidation.
Thanks. So, more brick colored = more aged/oxidized?

 

[gomestar]

it means more aged for most examples. The exception is wine made from the Nebbiolo grape or wines that are oxidized. No need to assume a wine from the 80's is oxidized because of the rim color being more brick than purple.

 

[Piobaire]

Yes, I confused the issue by tossing out too much info. For the most part, bricking = age.

 

[Jerome]

Yesterday: Château Bonnet 2005 with Epoisses [cheese]...

 

[binge]

Bringing two bottles of (Duckhorn) Canvasback 2007 Red Wine to a dinner party tonight. We'll see how it goes.

 

[Mark from Plano]

Take-out Chinese with a 2009 Fritz Windisch Selzer Osterberg Riesling Auslese. Light acid, low alcohol (9.5%), slightly sweet. Pears and apples.

 

[indesertum]

i hate epoisses. tastes like fermented vomit/yeast cake. i dunno how ppl can stand it

 

[gomestar]

had this over the weekend. It was ok:

This is tonight, and it's still only ok, but it cost $9 and not $31 like the wine right above:

And I also picked this up, but it'll be in storage until a dinner with friends in the coming weeks: