Wine-savvy

[bods1000]

hey, bods!!! wassup??? i'm in hk pa rin..... working.

 

you guys seems enjoying manila this halloween.hehehe

just got a sip of the chateau angelique monbousquet, nice pare, its also nice with the price. i'm also trying my collection of napa valley wines (Fife & others), wala lang.

 

have you seen the place called the cork in rockwell? the entrance to that resto had a post full of corks.

 

bods.... yung long lost meeting natin na di matuloy tuloy.... pagbalik ko na lang.

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palagi ka kasing wala eh!

call me up when you're back, ok, baka sakali matuloy na tayo hehehe.

 

yup I'm familiar with that Cork place but I have not seen it up close...pag napunta ko ng Rockwell lalapitan ko nga yon...pare hwag mong ubusin yung mga Napa mo - magtira ka sa atin as you promised

 

regards!

[bods1000]

Another thing - I'm not much into French wines because I don't know how to pronounce their darned names! I mean kelan ko lang nalaman na beaujolais is pronounced like beelaszh or something

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heh, heh, bods, beaujolais is pronounced something like this: bohw-zhjo-lay...the s at the end of a word is never pronounced...

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yun ang sabi sa akin nung ahente na nakasabay ko dati - hindi na ako nakipagtalo dahil naka-miniskirt sya eh

[KIASU]

I STICK TO CABERNETS AND MERLOTS.

I TRIED DOM PERIGNON AND IT WAS BLISS!

[caloy76]

why do u eed corks?

[freakish]

yes it has a cork - just can't recall kung oak o plastic....

god, she will really k*ll me now if I say I'm going to Toronto to pick up some cork

...you could start your own cork collection hehehe....

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hey, who knows? you might be able to visit the country sometime...and in case you'll be in town, contact me, ok? weather and time permitting, we can go to those wine tasting/vineyard tours.

 

when you say plastic cork are talking about the plastic-plastic? coz the cork of this yellow tail is kind of rubbery one. It doesn't disintegrate easily.

 

Okidoki, here’s my little review with the yellow tail shiraz as promised...so bear with me okay?

 

Just finished wolfing down a plate of spaghetti and pieces of honey garlic chicken wings, and I decided to open the bottle since my father-in-law started asking if I have any liquor available (i gave a kiddie halloween party last oct 31st with their parents). Anyways, I pour down some in my wine glass(the wine is dark red almost purplish in color), just a little amount and smelled it…nothing really interesting. So I started to swirl it (as what those guys from the tasting tour tells us to do) to bring out the flavor’s smell…and tried sniffing again…and there it was.. a fruity smell (don’t know what fruit though specifically). Then I took a sip…hmmnn, i played with it inside my mouth for a while and swallowed it. nice and good, very easy and smooth on the throat.

It was a good drink.. I ended up drinking a full glass…although it has a high alcohol content (13.5%/750ml, by my current standard anyways), I still enjoyed it. Not a bad wine for a neophyte like me. That was my first full-glass of wine for this year, hehehe...i'm still looking forward for the show at the end of this month (nov. 25, 26, 27) for more wine tasting experience.

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[exciting_night_owl]

ang sarap ng robert mondavi red wines. specially yung mga reserved.

[agxo3]

  hey, who knows? you might be able to visit the country sometime...and in case you'll be in town, contact me, ok? weather and time permitting, we can go to those wine tasting/vineyard tours.

 

when you say plastic cork are talking about the plastic-plastic? coz the cork of this yellow tail is kind of rubbery one. It doesn't disintegrate easily.

 

Okidoki, here’s my little review with the yellow tail shiraz as promised...so bear with me okay?

 

Just finished wolfing down a plate of spaghetti and pieces of honey garlic chicken wings, and I decided to open the bottle since my father-in-law started asking if I have any liquor available (i gave a kiddie halloween party last oct 31st with their parents). Anyways, I pour down some in my wine glass(the wine is dark red almost purplish in color), just a little amount and smelled it…nothing really interesting. So I started to swirl it (as what those guys from the tasting tour tells us to do) to bring out the flavor’s smell…and tried sniffing again…and there it was.. a fruity smell (don’t know what fruit though specifically). Then I took a sip…hmmnn, i played with it inside my mouth for a while and swallowed it. nice and good, very easy and smooth on the throat.

It was a good drink.. I ended up drinking a full glass…although it has a high alcohol content (13.5%/750ml, by my current standard anyways), I still enjoyed it. Not a bad wine for a neophyte like me. That was my first full-glass of wine for this year, hehehe...i'm still looking forward for the show at the end of this month (nov. 25, 26, 27) for more wine tasting experience.

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Freakish - Good review of the Yellow Tail. Sounds like it was pretty well-rounded, soft tannins (didn't make you pucker up, did it?), and therefore pretty well balanced between tannins and fruit.

 

One thing to note - if you like it, you like it! Reviews should only be there to help you choose froma stack of unknown wines. It's no substitute for tasting a wine yourself and deciding if you like it or not.

 

Wine tasting/vineyard tours in Toronto? Didn't know there was much of that up there! Last time I went wine-tasting up around that way (or at least close to it!) was the Finger Lakes area of New York. Many years ago. The wine was awful! Haven't been back since.

 

I do know that there are some wineries outside ofVancouver, on the Pacific side of Canada. I also just went wine tastin gin Washington, around the Seattle area and also eastern Washington (Yakima Valley).

 

13.5% is pretty average for a shiraz. Some zins tend to the "big" side, with alcohols running upwards of 15%, especially those that are harvested later in the season (not yet technically a late harvest but more sugars than normal).

 

The Yellow Tail I've had (and I've had more than one! ) had a synthetic cork. A closed-cell foam center with a plastic sleeve over it. It's better (I think) than the ones made of plastic that's been rolled and formed. Those are too dense and I always wonder if they out-gas. If they do, the wine will pick up a really funky taste.

[freakish]

Freakish - Good review of the Yellow Tail. Sounds like it was pretty well-rounded, soft tannins (didn't make you pucker up, did it?), and therefore pretty well balanced between tannins and fruit.

 

One thing to note - if you like it, you like it! Reviews should only be there to help you choose froma stack of unknown wines. It's no substitute for tasting a wine yourself and deciding if you like it or not.

 

Wine tasting/vineyard tours in Toronto? Didn't know there was much of that up there! Last time I went wine-tasting up around that way (or at least close to it!) was the Finger Lakes area of New York. Many years ago. The wine was awful! Haven't been back since.

 

I do know that there are some wineries outside ofVancouver, on the Pacific side of Canada. I also just went wine tastin gin Washington, around the Seattle area and also eastern Washington (Yakima Valley).

 

13.5% is pretty average for a shiraz. Some zins tend to the "big" side, with alcohols running upwards of 15%, especially those that are harvested later in the season (not yet technically a late harvest but more sugars than normal).

 

The Yellow Tail I've had (and I've had more than one!  ) had a synthetic cork. A closed-cell foam center with a plastic sleeve over it. It's better (I think) than the ones made of plastic that's been rolled and formed. Those are too dense and I always wonder if they out-gas. If they do, the wine will pick up a really funky taste.

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hey agxo3--- yes there are a lot of wineries in the Niagara Region and one i know in particular in the Greater Toronto Area (somewhere Vaughn)is Magnotta. In the Niagara Region, I think they do their Wine Festival during November and you can go wine tasting hopping from winery/distillery to another. There will also be a Gourmet Food and Wine Expo that I have been talking about on the last week of November, and they will feature California wines.

 

try visiting Ontario next time you are in the East coast and go for a those tours. aren't they fun? ( i mean aside from the free wine, hehehe)

 

so the rubbery cork is called synthetic cork...i do learn something everyday,

hehehe aside from the taste of yellow tail, i also like the price (i checked it and it's about C$11.45 only), even better if it's free(gift)! :cool:

[spicy999]

Try ko lang 'to!

Are there any wine drinkers here? Let's share naman dito...

Favorite wines.......favorite varietals (do you go for cabernet? merlot? shiraz? etc)...fave brands....opinions against the use of plastic stoppers vis-a-vis cork?

any wine bars you've been to here or abroad? fave food to go with wine?

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ever tasted chinese wine??

[50fd]

i'm a drinker i almost drink everyday. mostly beer, cuervo, black label, and gin. i rarely drink wine and champane. and when i drink i just drink and i notice wine has a lot of variety and each of them really taste different.

now can someone educate me what are the different kinds/variety of wine? what is cabernet? merlot? shiraz?

[agxo3]

i'm a drinker i almost drink everyday. mostly beer, cuervo, black label, and gin. i rarely drink wine and champane. and when i drink i just drink and i notice wine has a lot of variety and each of them really taste different.

now can someone educate me what are the different kinds/variety of wine? what is cabernet? merlot? shiraz?

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Cabernet sauvignon, merlot, shiraz/syrah, petite sirah, grenache, mourvedre, alicante bouschet, charbono, zinfandel/primitivo, cabernet franc.............all of these are different varieties of grapes. This is not a complete list, BTW. Some are made into wine by themselves, others are blended with outher varietals. For example, a claret is typically a blend of cab. sauv. and merlot, sometimes with some cab. franc thrown in.

 

French and Italian wines are typically labeled by region - Bordeaux, Burgundy, Chianti.......they all use different varietals. For example, a Bordeaux may be a cab. suav., a merlot, a blend of the two, or a blend of the two plus cab franc. Chianti can be a sangiovese, or a merlot, or a blend.

 

They do all taste different, and that's what makes wine tasting so exciting.

 

One thing to note - the only wines that can be called champagne are those made in the Champagne region in France (Reims, Epernay and that area). All others are sparkling wine, but not champagne. That doesn't mean that they're not good, just that they're not champagne.

 

Hope this helps a bit.

[bods1000]

I STICK TO CABERNETS AND MERLOTS.

I TRIED DOM PERIGNON AND IT WAS BLISS!

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you can't go wrong with these reds, pare!

 

cheers!

[bods1000]

why do u eed corks?

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you mean, corks in wine bottles? Well, sabi nga nung iba, it's for that unquantifiable element called romance in winedrinking....

 

if you mean naman why we collect the corks - that I can't explain to you - we don't know why we just collect them for some unknown future purpose siguro, like how some people collect stamps, coins, ballpens, fountain pens, matchboxes hehehe

[bods1000]

  hey, who knows? you might be able to visit the country sometime...and in case you'll be in town, contact me, ok? weather and time permitting, we can go to those wine tasting/vineyard tours.

 

when you say plastic cork are talking about the plastic-plastic? coz the cork of this yellow tail is kind of rubbery one. It doesn't disintegrate easily.

 

Okidoki, here’s my little review with the yellow tail shiraz as promised...so bear with me okay?

 

Just finished wolfing down a plate of spaghetti and pieces of honey garlic chicken wings, and I decided to open the bottle since my father-in-law started asking if I have any liquor available (i gave a kiddie halloween party last oct 31st with their parents). Anyways, I pour down some in my wine glass(the wine is dark red almost purplish in color), just a little amount and smelled it…nothing really interesting. So I started to swirl it (as what those guys from the tasting tour tells us to do) to bring out the flavor’s smell…and tried sniffing again…and there it was.. a fruity smell (don’t know what fruit though specifically). Then I took a sip…hmmnn, i played with it inside my mouth for a while and swallowed it. nice and good, very easy and smooth on the throat.

It was a good drink.. I ended up drinking a full glass…although it has a high alcohol content (13.5%/750ml, by my current standard anyways), I still enjoyed it. Not a bad wine for a neophyte like me. That was my first full-glass of wine for this year, hehehe...i'm still looking forward for the show at the end of this month (nov. 25, 26, 27) for more wine tasting experience.

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oh I'd love to - never been to North America! and yes, I'd get in touch with you if ever talaga....

that's synthetic, as agxo also said ..... most wines that do not use real oak corks use these rubbery stoppers - they're quite good for the purpose. Lindemans of Australia have been using these synthetics since I started buying them four or five years ago.....

Thanks for the review - now if only all wine reviews were as unintimidating as yours - very homey hehehe...very seductive pati your description as you took a sip of it hehehe....Yang Yellow Tail medyo may short finish lang pero it's good for the buck na din....as agxo also said, it's not tannic so it's a very friendly easy-drinking wine...

[masi]

oh I'd love to - never been to North America! and yes, I'd get in touch with you if ever talaga....

that's synthetic, as agxo also said ..... most wines that do not use real oak corks use these rubbery stoppers - they're quite good for the purpose. Lindemans of Australia have been using these synthetics since I started buying them four or five years ago.....

Thanks for the review - now if only all wine reviews were as unintimidating as yours - very homey hehehe...very seductive pati your description as you took a sip of it hehehe....Yang Yellow Tail medyo may short finish lang pero it's good for the buck na din....as agxo also said, it's not tannic so it's a very friendly easy-drinking wine...

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just to add...

 

on reviews.... reviews are ok but be wary as taste buds of every reviewer are unique to the reviewer... i usually ask for the tasting notes... a good wine store would have an "official" book for notes of the wines they sell. the notes provide a general guide to the character of the wine...body, boquet, etc. so when you taste it you know what to look for and what you are getting. i recently got a 2002 cab sauv rostchild -chilean from magnum. it was good, little tannins, smooth, body was alright but i expected it to be fuller... this wine needs to be kept for about a year.

 

on artificial corks ... this is to keep the cost of the wine lower. the demand for corks have put the supply at critical levels. so to keep the cost of corks in check the artificial cork was created. Its good to as an alternative for your drinking wines but not for collection. Todate, most topend wines still use cork.