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Recent Tasting Note
- Wine Tasted:Tasting Notes:Won the 'Concours des Vins Medaille d'Or 2008' for Châteauneuf- du- Pape quite an Honor, your honor? Is great composite blend of 65% Grenache, 20% Mourvedre, 10% Cinsault, 5% Syrah with initial bottle whiff of faintest yellow raspberry. After decanting and hour oening up, glass nose drew on licorice black cherry and almost pomegranate frangrances. A stout structure with real gem quality, has a clear garnet translucency, with mid solid palette presence, flavors run to slight acrid tannic black currant und again with pomegranate fruit but not unpleasant flat monobloc smooth feel. Moves through to very controlled lovely (me? I sensed 'lovely'?) knife spice edge, to white pepper finish of 25 seconds...no fireworks, but nice multi-layered presentation fruit, spice, balance acid e tannin for solid impact. Layer quiet fruit balance acidity e tannin smooth power.
Nancy Parode Member For: 2 years 50 weeks
Nancy Parode is a freelance writer, Navy spouse and avid traveler. Her travel and home education articles have been published in magazines and newspapers as well as online. She has lived in Italy and Ireland and traveled extensively in Europe and the United States. Nancy and her family currently live in Maryland.
What I Think
A fair restaurant corkage fee is:
$10 - $15
My wine travels have taken me to the following wine regions:
Oh, wow. Napa and Sonoma Valleys, every region of Italy, France's Loire Valley, Burgundy and Alsace, Germany's Mosel, Baden, Franken, Pfalz, Rheinhessen, Rheingau, Nahe and Württemberg; various parts of Maryland and Virginia...it's a long list.
What I think of the movie Sideways:
I haven't seen it.
My "wish list" of wines I want to acquire soon:
I'm looking at summer white wines right now...Albariños from Spain, Fiano di Avellinos from Italy...and I'd love to try some new dry rosés from the Loire Valley.
My biggest wine pet peeve:
Wines that are overpriced because they are popular or have a well-known name. Oh, and corks that break. I'm a big fan of screw tops and those cool German glass stoppers.
A tell-tale sign of a wine snob is:
Someone who won't let anyone else share opinions in a conversation about wine.
The wine region I most want to visit:
Bordeaux in France and Rioja, La Mancha and Jerez in Spain. Of course, I want to go back to every region I've ever visited, too!
The people with whom I most often enjoy wine:
My husband, my friends Gene and Sherry, who share my love of southern Italy, and my husband's wine aficionado colleagues.
The best wines I have ever tasted:
You know, I tend to love the wines that go with amazing meals and happy times spent with friends. To me, where and with whom you drink wine becomes part of the experience. I do love the Mosel's amazing rieslings and the amazing way Fiano di Avellino (perhaps a Feudi di San Gregorio or Mastroberardino) pairs with the bold seafood dishes you find in Naples and the surrounding seaside towns. I'm a lot more about the entire wine experience and much less interested in labels, price tags and scores. But that's just me.
My dream wine to one day taste or own:
I'd love to own some of the Mosel's best rieslings, perhaps from Markus Molitor. Once, long ago, I tried a red wine from the Ahr region of Germany and it was wonderful. Ahr wines are almost impossible to find in the U.S., but I'd happily add Ahr reds to my collection.
My favorite wine quote:
"I feast on bread and wine, and feasts they are." - Michelangelo
The last wine I had that I absolutely loved:
A beautiful Auxerrois from Weingut Adam Müller in Leimen, Germany...we tried it in the vineyard...you can read about it here.
