Bogle family vineyard 2021 old vine Zinfandel. 2021 liked it quite a bit

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Flowers Meeting Camp Ridge Pinot Noir 2015.

Water dog reserva 2020 Portuguese blend
70% castelao
30% touriga nacional
Pretty solid bottle for 17$. Might grab another but I usually like just trying new bottles generally.

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2020 Brooks Rastaban Pinot Noir.

2022 Alexander Brown Uncaged Pinot Noir.

202 Elk Cove Mount Richmond Pinot Noir.

2021 Elk Cove Pinot Noir.

2020 Turley Deaver vineyard red Zinfandel.

2021 Quivera Vineyards Black Boar red Zinfandel.

2016 drumheller cab

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Mollydooker The Boxer 2019

Gots a Roederer Estate L'ermitage brute 2015 on tap for Thanksgiving

Our favorite bubbly

2021 First Drop Mother's Milk Shiraz

Karen Birmingham Zinfandel Reserve 2021

Protos 5 ano 2018 reserva

2011 was fantastic. Splurged (40$) for this one. Quite good but not memorable

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Ramon Bilbao rioja reserva 2015
90% Tempranillo
5% Graciano
5% mazuelo Pretty good. Bold

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Ridge Pagani Venyards Zin 2017

The last one from a memorable case we had shipped home when we visited the winery. Made from some 100 year old vines the oldest zin vines in Sonoma region.

Casa Santos Lima Red blend.

A real connoisseur’s high dollar bottle from Portugal. Paired this $8 bottle with spicy curry lentils with coconut cream and rice, and garlic naan.

Food is great, wine is rough. Funny thing is, I’d say about 35-40% is really nice, the rest isn’t.

Damn, that sounds like a nice pairing. Ever since the closing of Ledger David you be wondering in the wilderness.

I almost quit wine completely….I have 6 bottles of LD left, I was almost to tears over the summer not having a bottle of their Sauvignon Blanc. I am not a white wine guy, but damn a bottle of that chilled in the summer……man. So good. And I am dwindling on my Serra bottles, down to about 5-6 each of 2012 and 2013 Cab Franc….LD only released 30 cases of Petit Verdot the final year. They didn’t release a PV every year, only when it was plentiful and special. They used the PV as a special something in their better blends, got one of those Petit Verdot bottles left too. It’s like unicorn single cigars, I have a hard time opening them. Actually started purposely buying only cheap wine on sale, that’s where I found Portuguese and Spanish wines to be a pretty good value.

My daughter requested Sheppards pie a couple weeks ago, I opened a bottle of Serra Cab Franc and used it to make the Sheppard’s Pie. Minus 2 glasses of course. Unfortunately the only local place I know of that’s still doing small production great work that isn’t a secret to me is Cricket Hill. I need to get out there and see how Duane and his wife are doing, you would really like them both. Good, friendly, smart people…..nothing like me.

You gonna share the shepherd pie recipe? Never had it made with wine but I want it now

Had a bottle of some Zinfandel the other day with a buddy but I forgot the name. We were socializing and **** and I didn’t take down the name.

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