Wine-savvy

[Duckie4120]

Welcome to the thread! We're all here to learn and share experiences. Coppola has a wide range of wines from supermarket label to signature, estate labels. Agxo would be in a better position to talk about Coppola wines.

 

Wine appreciation is a personal choice. What maybe good for you may not appeal to the other. This is what makes it a fascinating subject.

 

Thank you for the warm welcome sir! I do agree that it is a fascinating subject. Very few of my friends are into wine so I often enjoy it alone or with my mom when my family drops by for a visit.

[agxo3]

Welcome to the thread! We're all here to learn and share experiences. Coppola has a wide range of wines from supermarket label to signature, estate labels. Agxo would be in a better position to talk about Coppola wines.

 

Wine appreciation is a personal choice. What maybe good for you may not appeal to the other. This is what makes it a fascinating subject.

 

Ah, yes! Coppola! He's got TWO wineries now - Rosso and Bianco in Sonoma County, near Healdsburg. The old Chateau Souverain property. He's got his Director's Cut and Director's Rserve wines coming out of this facility. Then he's got Rubicon Estate, where his top end wines come out of - Rubicon, Cask Cabernets, Pennino Zinfandels, the Captain's REserve wines (cab, cab franc, syrah, merlot....)

 

I belong to the Rubicon club so I get at least TWO bottles of Rubicon a year, two Cask Cabernets, a couple of Pennino zins, and assorted Captain's REserve wines.

 

I generally like Coppola's wines - I find them well made, showing real pride of product and place. My fave, of course, is the Rubicon. A big, hearty, well-crafted cab, from grapes grown on the estate. Big fruit, big but well-integrated tannins. Easy to drink young (well, not too young. Maybe 4-7 years?) but built to last. I'm just now opeining my '95s and '96s. And they are - wonderful. Come visit some time, give me a bit of advance notice, and I will set up a tasting at the winery. I get entry into the member's lounge and access to wines that the main tasting room is NOT tasting.

 

The Director's wines are the lower end, but no less well-made. But aimed more at the mass market, so they tend to be softer, more rounded, easier to drink NOW One of teh best bargains is the Rosso - a red table wine found at Costco for $6.99! Consistently good, if not astounding, but certainly a great daily drinker - and at that price, certainly affordable as well!

[masi]

Ah, yes! Coppola! He's got TWO wineries now - Rosso and Bianco in Sonoma County, near Healdsburg. The old Chateau Souverain property. He's got his Director's Cut and Director's Rserve wines coming out of this facility. Then he's got Rubicon Estate, where his top end wines come out of - Rubicon, Cask Cabernets, Pennino Zinfandels, the Captain's REserve wines (cab, cab franc, syrah, merlot....)

 

I belong to the Rubicon club so I get at least TWO bottles of Rubicon a year, two Cask Cabernets, a couple of Pennino zins, and assorted Captain's REserve wines.

 

I generally like Coppola's wines - I find them well made, showing real pride of product and place. My fave, of course, is the Rubicon. A big, hearty, well-crafted cab, from grapes grown on the estate. Big fruit, big but well-integrated tannins. Easy to drink young (well, not too young. Maybe 4-7 years?) but built to last. I'm just now opeining my '95s and '96s. And they are - wonderful. Come visit some time, give me a bit of advance notice, and I will set up a tasting at the winery. I get entry into the member's lounge and access to wines that the main tasting room is NOT tasting.

 

The Director's wines are the lower end, but no less well-made. But aimed more at the mass market, so they tend to be softer, more rounded, easier to drink NOW One of teh best bargains is the Rosso - a red table wine found at Costco for $6.99! Consistently good, if not astounding, but certainly a great daily drinker - and at that price, certainly affordable as well!

 

 

It's funny considering the "equity of the brand", nobody is distributing Coppola wines here. (Now can somebody from an ad agency explain this to me!) The only time I get to try it is when you fly over with a bottle or I visit my friend in Vallejo and takes time out to drive me to Napa!

Edited July 25, 2008 by masi

[Duckie4120]

It's funny considering the "equity of the brand", nobody is distributing Coppola wines here. (Now can somebody from an ad agency explain this to me!) The only time I get to try it is when you fly over with a bottle or I visit my friend in Vallejo and takes time out to drive me to Napa!

I was wondering the same thing. It's pretty good wine and not necessarily expensive. Not sure which of those agxo mentioned, but what we drank was priced around $15. What I have found recently is an Australian wine called Monkey Bay? Sounds interesting. Anyone know if it's worth trying?

[floppydrive]

Yeah I recember Spanada, the label has a Spanish Galleon.

 

There is another US wine which was popular during those day of Boone's Farm, Andre. The bottle shape was like that of Welch Grape juice. The label just skips me.

Is it "Chablis"? Your question won't let me sleep. hehehe

[floppydrive]

I was wondering the same thing. It's pretty good wine and not necessarily expensive. Not sure which of those agxo mentioned, but what we drank was priced around $15. What I have found recently is an Australian wine called Monkey Bay? Sounds interesting. Anyone know if it's worth trying?

Monkey Bay's good! It's distributed by Fort & Tay here. Someone gave me a Sauvignon Blanc. very good! Nice legs, very fruity, not too acidic. Very nice! Specially with Vongole. :upside:

 

It's kind of expensive here though - around 700+ a bottle.

[bods1000]

pareng bods, i have to be following you closely just in case i get a shadow of your sex appeal. :upside:

 

that would be alright as long as you follow me with a wine bottle in hand. Let's just drink na lang, pare as there is not even a shadow :goatee:

[bods1000]

It's funny considering the "equity of the brand", nobody is distributing Coppola wines here. (Now can somebody from an ad agency explain this to me!) The only time I get to try it is when you fly over with a bottle or I visit my friend in Vallejo and takes time out to drive me to Napa!

 

for that matter, is it distributed anywhere else in Asia? Sometimes a winemaker may not consider a certain region to be a good market for his wines, for one reason or another. Maybe there have been some inquiries too with Coppola, but he may not be biting yet hehehe....

[bods1000]

Thank you for the warm welcome sir! I do agree that it is a fascinating subject. Very few of my friends are into wine so I often enjoy it alone or with my mom when my family drops by for a visit.

 

welcome to the thread, pare! Dumadami na naman tayo ulit hehehe...

yes, wine is not a big thing here and it is very unfortunate.

[Duckie4120]

welcome to the thread, pare! Dumadami na naman tayo ulit hehehe...

yes, wine is not a big thing here and it is very unfortunate.

 

Thank you sir! Glad to be part of this thread and hopefully learn a little bit more about this little "interest" I seem to have taken up.

[Brownman]

Fellow oenephiles just finished bottling Orange Chocolate Port perfect for the Chistmas gathering.

Part of my daily wine rotation besides Barolo and Shiraz are Pascual Toso's Malbec and Sergo Alighieri's Masi...I did Napa tour after visiting relatives in Chico on my way to San Fran...

Happy to meet you all!

[agxo3]

I was wondering the same thing. It's pretty good wine and not necessarily expensive. Not sure which of those agxo mentioned, but what we drank was priced around $15. What I have found recently is an Australian wine called Monkey Bay? Sounds interesting. Anyone know if it's worth trying?

 

In that range, it would most likely be one of th Director's Cut wines. Or it may be one of his older vintages - either the Diamond series or the Family Series, made when he only had the operation in Rutherford (Napa Valley).

[agxo3]

Yeah I recember Spanada, the label has a Spanish Galleon.

 

There is another US wine which was popular during those day of Boone's Farm, Andre. The bottle shape was like that of Welch Grape juice. The label just skips me.

Is it "Chablis"? Your question won't let me sleep. hehehe

 

For a long time, chardonnays produced in California were called "chablis".Chablis is a town in France, and the predominant (perhaps only!) white wine grape grown in the town and area around it is - chardonnay. So THEIR wine is called Chablis. Now, of course, you can't call chardonnays Chablis anymore unless it's from Chablis.

 

The wine in the Welch's grape juice-like bottle might have been MD20-20 (Mogen David). OR, it could have been Lancers?

[masi]

For a long time, chardonnays produced in California were called "chablis".Chablis is a town in France, and the predominant (perhaps only!) white wine grape grown in the town and area around it is - chardonnay. So THEIR wine is called Chablis. Now, of course, you can't call chardonnays Chablis anymore unless it's from Chablis.

 

The wine in the Welch's grape juice-like bottle might have been MD20-20 (Mogen David). OR, it could have been Lancers?

 

 

NAILED IT!!!! It's Mogen David!!!!

[bods1000]

Thank you sir! Glad to be part of this thread and hopefully learn a little bit more about this little "interest" I seem to have taken up.

 

that "little" interest could balloon to gigantic proportions that would capture you for the rest of your life - like what happened to most of us here hehehe....leaf through the back pages, pare, I'm sure you can pick up some nuggets of knowledge here and there...