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Wine and Beer Enthusiasts
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Terrific beer; do enjoy.
It seems so; cannot fault the selection.
My tipple tonight was an exceedingly good Côtes du Rhône, Domaine Roche Audran.
Followed by a Noval Tawny Port (Over Forty Year Old).
Oh, the "how many" is something regularly reflected in the crates that make a regular appearance at my house.
I applaud the choice of beer and the quantity of that same beer.
We're going to be in this area of Tampa, check out the concentration of breweries!
Corsica?
How did you find it?
I do not think that I have ever had any of their wines, although I do recall having sampled a wine from Sardinia and one from the Basque region.
I was recommended to try a wine shop nearby (Le Repaire de Bacchus, great name) that also does wines by the glass. I saw it on the menu, so I went for it. Nice acidity and minerality with maybe some grassy notes. It was bloody hot today, and it went down very nicely.
Thank you.
What grape?
Something local, or perhaps Sauvignon Blanc (which I find excellent in hot weather), or a blend with same.
Great question, I’m not too sure. It wasn’t listed, and I failed to ask. It might have been Sauvignon Blanc, albeit if so a fairly unique expression. Or it might have been a local variety, I understand that Corsica grows and makes wine from quite a few Italian varietals.
To my surprise, I can't really recall the Sardinian wine - which tells its own tale, it was forgettable - while the Basque wine I must say was execrable, but whether that was a characteristic of the wines from the region, or just characteristic of that particular wine, I cannot say.
Both of these wines were produced at a private wine tasting - everyone was invited to bring one wine the others attending were not likely to have come across before - in the flat of an academic friend who turns up at some of the wine tastings and classes I occasionally attend; I brought a Meursault.
But, local varietals can produce some terrific wine.
I think one really has to rely on curation and the curator when trying wines from new regions. Some years ago I had a very nice red from Uraguay, a place whose wine I hadn’t heard much about. Once I trust a person’s recommendation, I’ll try almost anything they suggest. That’s not to say I always love it even like it, but I’ve been delightfully surprised many times.
Oh, yes, agreed, absolutely. Couldn't agree more.
I spent around an hour today in my favourite wine shop; my friend, the manager, was on a late lunch break, but the owner - whose recommendations I would also trust - and who knows my preferences, and is prepared to suggest new things to try knowing these - appeared.
He suggested that I remove ("I wouldn't risk that one") one of the three (different) Pouilly-Fuisées from the small crate I was putting together, and I did so, leaving two - one which I know I love, and one which he and the other chap in the shop recommended.
Now, I didn't take another of his recommendations - apart from the Alto-Adige, I'm not mad about some of the Italian whites, and the last Italian white he recommended I didn't much care for - so, reminding me of what I want - namely that, "you want weight, and balance, and body and elegance in a white wine," he put his hand on a white Chäteauneuf-du-Pape, reminding me that this is under-rated but excellent (a recommendation with which I agreed).
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Oh, yes actually I really like white Châteauneuf-du-Pape...
This very same chap was the person who introduced me to Meursault all of five years ago.
And he was the person who explained to me why I liked a particular (red) Châteauneuf-du-Pape, "you like smoothness, and that wine has 100% Grenache which is what gives it that smoothness you like so much", alas, this is a wine that he hasn't been able to lay hands on for at least nine months.
Actually, he has several different reds from Châteauneuf-du-Pape, some of which he is honest enough to admit are over-priced for what is on offer in the bottle, pointing out that you pay for reputation and name.
Today, on his recommendation, I also bought - the seventh bottle in a crate of six whites (mostly from Burgundy) - a bottle of French red wine, from a vineyard adjoining Châteauneuf-du-Pape, "every bit as good as CdP, that is a great wine for the money, it just doesn't have the name," - that is comprised of 100% Grenache (whereas the most explicit and informative of labels on one of the actual Châteauneuf-du-Pape reds informed me that it was comprised of 50% Grenache and 50% Mourvèdre, the others, vastly more expensive, and undoubtedly delicious, were a lot more opaque about such details, merely mentioning several grapes including the aforementioned pair).
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Now, that is a beverage I have not come across before.
I had to check it out online; what is it like?