Darn, I wish their wines were distributed in Illinois. I think I would love them. Also, my customers rally appreciate unique boutique wineries that produce great wine. Now for a decent nights sleep, maybe I slept 8 hours combined in the Hospital between Thursday night and Friday night. Sometime it would be fun to tour your regions wineries with you!

only one would survive

Nonsense.....I’d gladly show you around .

I can only name a coupe BOTL here I wouldn’t.

Schmidt Family Cab Franc while watching Colter Wall and now the Wood Bros

Frank, I enjoy debating with Z and certainly think he is one of the good guys. His point of view causes me to think and understand both his and my views better. He provides useful information for me to take into account. I occasionally change my point of view based on his thoughts on an issue. I am glad he questions my viewpoint ruthlessly. I know my laughing at him is not malicious, I think his laughing at me is not malicious. We would get along just fine.

Well, I shared my cab franc with Barbara Wagner last night.

She was in the seat next to me and is the mayor of Mt Shasta......you could call her center left for the new left....she asked me about women’s liberation using clothing as an example (mind you she brought up politics not me, I just ate the dark chocolate she offered me) I told her I’m glad women feel safe to dress as they want but I don’t like societal/peer pressure for decision making. And that I personally love the female shape but do like a little left to the imagination. Was an interesting conversation with someone who didn’t want to state any positions while pointing things out. I wouldn’t vote for her but I’d certainly drink wine with her anytime. I knew we wouldn’t be BFF when I answered whom I thought Colter Wall reminded me of and I said “his songs remind me of Chris LeDoux” and she had no idea who he was.....maybe she look his music up now that we had our strangers in the night moment.

Didn't really know him untill he passed and Garth Brooks paid tribute to him in song. When I looked him up, listened to his music and learned of his career I was rather amazed.

totally confident you would...I was just stirring up stuff.

Are there any MA holes that don't???

I didn’t have the heart to wait for too long before pumping out a response.
I raced home at a consistently rapid pace to pound this out to ensure an evenly allocated distribution.

So without skipping a beat, here it is -

When joining the forums here, my primary interest was of course the cigar experience. Of course.
But when I discovered the wine forum, I felt it incumbent upon myself to share my breadth of knowledge.
However, I soon discovered you to be the local connoisseur. This forum was your baby.
Out of respect for you and your limited expertise, I quietly bowed out.

I was recently brought back though from related subject matter in posts on other forums.
So I took another look...

After going through your questions and perusing a number of your posts,
I was flabbergasted. Befuddled. Stymied. Flummoxed. Bewildered. Perplexed. Aghast.
It seems we are living parallel lives Spey! Truly remarkable...

From the variety of experience, to your recommendations and analysis, I could see a younger me in your words.
I laughed to see the same mistakes, but was jubilant to see the same enthusiasm and thirst for knowledge.
Much of your advice and analysis is more than adequate. Some of it actually quite good!
I only saw serious mistakes in roughly 30% of your posts. But with it, I could see the evolution of someone who,
given perseverance and guidance, truly has a future in the business. You lack some of the subtleties of understanding
this fine art of the vine, but in time, I feel you do in fact have what's necessary to become a master.
It's important that you do not rush it though. Let it happen naturally. Organically.

In experience, knowledge, understanding and interpretation, the similarities are undeniable.
Whilst I am certainly more advanced than you, we are apparently on the same trajectory.
I am here to help you in any way that I can. In knowledge, advice, or just to share a moment along the way.
Do not be intimidated. Contact me any time I can be of assistance. This is exciting!

I am truly your amico della vite
IZON
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Oh yeah, NEVER drink chamomile tea. It’s a palate killer.

O through Z 1 mistake Mueller Thurgau was the dominant white grape in Germany only through the mid eighties.

1 through N. 1 verbal mistake green pruning only, no attachment to whole cluster verbiage even though whole clusters are pruned.

1 mistake ancient Romans used airborne indiginous yeast. Not airborne indiginous yeast caught on bread.

1 non verifiable point beat sugar would have breen likely used in ancient greece to start a stuck fermentation, but I find no verification.

Shooting from the hip Izon. Not bad on my part. Ill give you the Roman thing and the Greek thing. The other 2 were mostly correct. So about 6 and 1/2 percent error. Any others you think are wrong research harder Izon, I am correct.

And you are welcome for the education about wine.

Is it your goal to intercept, absorb and destroy any information
that would give birth to an epiphany in the appreciation of wine? The feelings of joy? Of life?

Are you the contraceptive sponge to the life of understanding???

Run with that one. Good material potentially. There is a ton of accurate but useless information in my ramblings. Though I would look up mega purple and a few others, kind of interesting. Wines are for drinking, epiphanies are for religion.

You spit those words out!



Epiphanies are religion free moments of clear vision. A mortal exaltation

My dog channels Ron Tin Tin. He is rather dogmatic in his principles. Glad he doesn't channel Lassie , what a biotch. This post thread has went to the dogs, and you sir are barking up the wrong tree. I imagine to be fair to all I should mention a really good wine. Bellefontaine Cabernet Sauvignon from the vin de pays de oc in southwest France. Rich, dark berry fruits, medium body with soft tannins. An absolute steal for $8.99/bottle. To me it is as good as many $40/bottle I have tasted recently. I think it is from Herault, but don't quite remember.

neighbor came by and handed me a bottle of Broadbent Madeira Malmsey, 10 years old.
wonderful dessert wine...
port?
Spey?

Spey - are you familiar with Les Volet? Unoaked French Chardonnay. Picked up a couple of bottles, and know I prefer French to California chard, but haven’t tried this one. Well priced so worth a shot.

No, I am not. But it's certainly worth a try. Inexpensive and good France chard, Novellum, le Croix, Louis Latour grand Ardeche.

Thanks for the recs. I’ll report back. Probably open one tomorrow