I have a monthly subscription with a local wine bar and am looking to add some semi-annual vineyard shipments.
Anyone have or tried the Corvina system? Really intruiging option for me. Might use a couple amazon gift cards I have to buy one. $10 for the argon cartridges kinda sucks but I waste enough wine that I think it would save me in the long run.
A Corporate VP in my company has two for his cellar and loves being able to taste the wine throughout the years. He also has a cellar that allows for the full usage of one of those. Unless you are really trying to space out the time between glasses from a bottle to taste the aging difference I don't see a huge value in it.
Yeah out of state retailers can't ship into the state anymore, unfortunately, just direct from winery shipments from out of state. JJ Buckley, B-21, and wine bid still do somehow, not sure how. Plum markets carry wines that Kermit Lynch imported, though if you're looking for anything particular.
Yeah, the benefit to me would be the ability to pull one glass from a nice bottle when I just want a glass or two for the night. And when the wife wants white and I want red, etc. I have probably poured $200 of wine down the drain in the last year. Watching the aging process on some great bottles would be interesting as well, but I usually pull those for special occasions when at least a bottle is going down anyway.
Yeah, plum is definitely one of my go-to spots. The club was cool because it was a bunch of new to me stuff, from regions I don't know as well. At least winery wine clubs can ship here!
Few favorites from the last month or so: 2004 Von Strasser Cab 6L. Holy shit this wine was incredible. Drank at McCreadys Tavern in Charleston for my buddy's rehearsal dinner.
Huge fan of Elk Cove Pinot. Discovered it in Jackson Hole a few years ago and my brother brought a case or two of the 2009 back when he moved back home. Now, I have started to find a couple places that have the 2011 and 2013, regularly, in Nashville.
2011 and 2013 are considered down years for Oregon Pinot due to the colder temp's in 2011 and the rain/cold snap that hit right during harvest in 2013. They really just needed some age though since I think 2011 and 2013 are great value buys right now and tasting great.
I'm going to France next month and have a wine tour set up while were staying in Avignon. Doing wineries in chateauneuf, gigondas and maybe vacqueyras. So excited. Anyone spent any time drinking in southern France? Also doing Paris, Lyon, Baux de Provence, Cassis, and Marseille in addition to stops in little towns along the way.
Maybe the down year is the reason I am able to find them all the way in Nashville? Either way, I've enjoyed a couple of bottles of the 2011 that I've bought in the past couple of months.
I have not, but Ill be going the same time as you, staying in the same towns as you, and going to the most of the same wineries as you.
I'd guess so, and I didn't mean to make it seem like 11's are bad, because I love them. The industry viewed that year as a down year because they weren't as immediately approachable. This makes them easier to find, and typically at a decent discount. I'd keep buying them as long as you can find them.
I didn't take it like this at all. I'm just happy that I am able to find them in Nashville consistently.
Had that '13 Truchard Cab at a convention this year. I'm very biased towards Washington Cabs and typically stay in state as I think a 40 dollar Cab in Washington would price out at at least 80 in Napa, but that 30ish bottle of Truchard was a great bargain( Only had half a glass as it was at a Cabernet tasting) I love high tannin reds, so this medium level one was still as good as a lot of the higher end Cabs I've had from Napa. Great buy if you're looking for something that's a great bang for your buck.
Posting from mobile so spoiling for presumed picture size. Great QPR Bordeaux blend from Argentina. ~$22 Spoiler
We did 3 days in Burgundy on our honeymoon and then took a train and spent 3 days in Nice. I tried to convince my wife to do the Rhone but I took what I could get. I'm a sucker for Cote-Rotie in the Northern Rhone but I also love a good Southern Rhone. CdP is obviously amazing but there is something great about uncovering a great Gigondas or Vacqueryas.
So when you get a beer that tastes awful and like it shouldn't that beer is skunked. What's a similar term for wine? We opened a Trader Joe's Pinot Gris from Willammette that we've had several times before and it tasted way off, very bitter. We just opened another of the same bottle and it tastes like normal. I haven't experienced a wine gone bad like that before
nope. http://www.thekitchn.com/what-is-corked-wine-what-does-corked-wine-taste-like-164148 might have been something else causing the spoilage (like over heating) but usually people use the term "corked" for spoiled wine.
DistantFactor - Do you have any recommendations for places to stay in WV when we head out there for the Gophers @ Oregon State in September? It is my wife and I with our 2.75 yo son and my parents are joining us so that we can do some things together and take advantage of babysitters. I think the ideal thing would be some sort of B&B or VRBO that would have at least 2 but preferably 3 bedrooms so we'd have some privacy and be able to separate a napping kid from adults. De Ponte Cellars has a 3 bedroom guest house at their winery but its both expensive and making a big compromise on days/schedule because somebody has booked what would be the ideal time for it. I booked what was available but I'm hoping to find something else that fits our schedule better. Any thoughts on heading out to the Coast for a couple days after hitting WV and before heading to Corvalis? Any other good ideas for things to do with a toddler? We could do a little hiking in the Gorge/Multnomah but a half day would probably be the max for toddler and grandparents. Thanks in advance.
With that many people I recommend renting a small house in the Dundee area, it is centrally located in wine country and they have lots of options. Something like this place: https://www.vrbo.com/850971 There are a lot of options is you look in Dundee, and can expand out to Carlton or Chehalem Hills. I'm not real knowledgeable on the B&B's out there so unfortunately I don't have any good recommendations for that. The other nice part about staying in Dundee is you are right next to Highway 99 which takes you right out to Lincoln City on the coast. You could make this a day trip pretty easy, little over an hour to Lincoln City from Dundee. Lincoln City is one of the nicer Oregon Coast towns I'd would recommend you visit. They have some nice beaches, no sales tax outlets, and a boardwalk to take the family to. Just dress warm since it is usually window and temperate on the coast year round. For kid activities I could recommend a lot of things in Portland, but outside of Portland there are a lot of parks you can take them to for hikes and site seeing. I'm a big fan of Champoeg park along the Willamette River during that time of the year. I'll noodle on that one a little more to see what I can come up with.
fwiw we tried to do air bnb a few years ago in WV and got turned down by all because we had kids. One kid is probably easier but my buddy works for air bnb and was traveling with us and we still couldn't get a place.
Drag everyone to de garde for dope beer and block 15 South Town tap room in Corvallis. There's quite a few good Airbnb options in Corvallis, including many near my house.
Is Uber readily available in WV? The last time I was there was 2011 and I didn't even know what Uber was at the time.
One of my wine clubs, purple hands, has a brewery next to it and a pot shop next to that. A solid little stretch right in Dundee.
I opened a 2011 Stoller last night and it was tasty but lighter than the two bottles before it. They picked early in 13, before the rains hit, so theirs is one of the best vintages in the whole valley.
Awesome good to know, I'll keep my eye out for some. I have some 2011 Holstein I found on winebid. Otherwise just 14s and the 15 kropf. Going to try a bottle of most of them in the next few months but will probably lay some down as well.
Generally for WV wine, from the few 15s I've had so far in tastings I feel like they will mature faster than the 14s. The 14s are gowing to be epic but need another year I feel like minimum to start hitting prime tasting.
I don't care to take a picture but I opened 2012 Reynvaan Syrah In The Hills tonight. This is delicious.
I could have sworn I saved the Willamette Valley write ups in here but alas, time to go digging for them got a little more than a year left before I leave and I still haven't done any wine tasting when I literally live in the Willamette Valley
If you throw a dead cat you hit one of 4 things in Portland metro/just outside the metro. 1) brewery 2) winery 3) dispensary 4) strip club It's basically an adult playland.
Anywhere, really. The beat wine experience I had was a tasting at this fantastic place in Zagreb. Could not recommend it more. Dubrovnik is great but more expensive than zadar, Split, Zagreb. This whole place is amazing and the wines are incredible. Yep. Had a big conversation about this at the wine tasting in Zagreb. We asked for the 4 glass per person Zagreb regional tasting (Croatia has 4 major regions with hundreds of distinct grapes) but hit it off really well with the guys and probably got like 9 glasses each as well as some sips of random stuff. Then i loaded up in stuff to go from their shop