bods1000 Posted December 11, 2015 Author Share Posted December 11, 2015 Rubicon would overpower the garroxta - its a bit on the mild side. A good rioja would do well, or a GSM (grenache-syrah-mourvedre). Or a really good pinot noir. With kesong puti I'd go even lighter - a light pinot, like a David Bruce 2005 or a young, light, bright zin from around the Lodi area. The Ravenswood 2012 should still be good - I'm just now drinking my 2009 Edizione Pennino zins from Inglenook and they are wonderful. I also have some 2010 Noah;'s zins that are drinking really well right now. The questions is - which of the Ravenswoods? they make a number of different levels of the zins you really need to specify which one. If you can find Ridge, give it a try. The 2011s are very nice. Seghesio with the blue foil is quite good. But my favorite from the Dry Creek area is the Zichichi Estate zin from 2009. Stags leap - again, which one? 2012 is one I would hold for another 2 years, at least. If you can find Caymus, or Mt. Veeder, go for it!Would the Ravenswood zin pair well with the kesong puti? There are not many good pinots here but I'll try looking for one at Santi's. Conversely, if you're bringing a Rubicon, what cheese would go well with that? Kami na bahala sa cheese. I'll go check what Ravenswood it is. I doubt if we have Caymus or Mt Veeder here. Speaking of premium, I once bought a Mt Langi Ghiran Cliff Edge Shiraz. No great shakes. Too green - that's a 2013 vintage. I nearly fell off a cliff. Quote Link to comment
agxo3 Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 Would the Ravenswood zin pair well with the kesong puti? There are not many good pinots here but I'll try looking for one at Santi's. Conversely, if you're bringing a Rubicon, what cheese would go well with that? Kami na bahala sa cheese.I'll go check what Ravenswood it is. I doubt if we have Caymus or Mt Veeder here.Speaking of premium, I once bought a Mt Langi Ghiran Cliff Edge Shiraz. No great shakes. Too green - that's a 2013 vintage. I nearly fell off a cliff.Cabs go well with a mild blue cheese. Or. A good (real French) Brie or a Crottin de chavignol. Or maybe even an aged Gouda. Don't know much about Aussie wines. With all the local wines here no reason to go far afield excep for some premium Old World wines. Quote Link to comment
bods1000 Posted December 15, 2015 Author Share Posted December 15, 2015 So a gouda, it is. I'm not sure what a mild blue cheese is. All the blue cheese I've tasted are not mild haha. I've gotten in touch with masi. Told him you'd be here in April. Si Ferdie madali na ma-contact. Quote Link to comment
agxo3 Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 So a gouda, it is. I'm not sure what a mild blue cheese is. All the blue cheese I've tasted are not mild haha. I've gotten in touch with masi. Told him you'd be here in April. Si Ferdie madali na ma-contact. Blue cheeses go from mild to really stinky. A Point Reyes Blue would be considered mild. Broke tradition this year and did NOT open a rubicon for Christmas dinner. Instead we had a 2006 Retzlaff Family Reserve cabernet sauvignon. Very nice with the prime rib and the Smithfield ham (a lot like the old-style "Chinese" hams I grew up with). but, since my daughter was feeling like she missed something, we opened a 2002 Rubicon for Christmas Day dinner...... On the 27th we took my wife out for her birthday celebration to a SF restaurant called La Folie. Very nice, French cuisine. Casual but elegant. Great food! We split a half-bottle of the Chinon you see in the picture, and I later had a glass of a very nice 1976 Chinon. THAT was an experience! At $25 for the glass you know it had to be good! But they let me have a taste first before pouring me the glass. That was nice of them.....See you in April!! Quote Link to comment
agxo3 Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Blue cheeses go from mild to really stinky. A Point Reyes Blue would be considered mild. Broke tradition this year and did NOT open a rubicon for Christmas dinner. Instead we had a 2006 Retzlaff Family Reserve cabernet sauvignon. Very nice with the prime rib and the Smithfield ham (a lot like the old-style "Chinese" hams I grew up with). but, since my daughter was feeling like she missed something, we opened a 2002 Rubicon for Christmas Day dinner...... IMG_2590.JPGOn the 27th we took my wife out for her birthday celebration to a SF restaurant called La Folie. Very nice, French cuisine. Casual but elegant. Great food! We split a half-bottle of the Chinon you see in the picture, and I later had a glass of a very nice 1976 Chinon. THAT was an experience! At $25 for the glass you know it had to be good! But they let me have a taste first before pouring me the glass. That was nice of them.....IMG_2579.jpgSee you in April!! Not going to flood you with pics of Christmas dinner (or the wife's birthday dinner) but I couldn't resist this one to close out the year......this, my friends, is how you do a prime rib. USDA Prime (not a lesser cut!) roasted on the bone. Simple salt and pepper crust, but I left it in the fridge for 2 days with the salt and pepper to let the flavors all permeate the meat. Quote Link to comment
bods1000 Posted January 5, 2016 Author Share Posted January 5, 2016 Wow! That meat looks so sinful lol! Had a lot of ramen during the holidays as we were in Tokyo, this - plus an unforgettable Osaka steak: Quote Link to comment
Gravity05 Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 I like malbec, pinot noir or cabernet sauvignon. Quote Link to comment
Radiomir Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 Chateau D'Yquem, Lynch-bages, Caymus, Pio Cesare, Gaja, insignia Robert Phelps, Pichon Lalande, Richebourg, Hermitage,Cote de Blonde or Brune, Littoral , William Selyem, Cos Estournel, Chateau Mouton, Chateau Armallac, Charles Shaw. Just the few of my favs. Quote Link to comment
bods1000 Posted January 24, 2016 Author Share Posted January 24, 2016 Chateau D'Yquem, Lynch-bages, Caymus, Pio Cesare, Gaja, insignia Robert Phelps, Pichon Lalande, Richebourg, Hermitage,Cote de Blonde or Brune, Littoral , William Selyem, Cos Estournel, Chateau Mouton, Chateau Armallac, Charles Shaw. Just the few of my favs.You're the man! Quote Link to comment
agxo3 Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 (edited) Chateau D'Yquem, Lynch-bages, Caymus, Pio Cesare, Gaja, insignia Robert Phelps, Pichon Lalande, Richebourg, Hermitage,Cote de Blonde or Brune, Littoral , William Selyem, Cos Estournel, Chateau Mouton, Chateau Armallac, Charles Shaw. Just the few of my favs.You put Charles Shaw in with the good to great wines? LOL..... Charles Shaw is the classic "we can't sell it so we'll dump it on the broker market" cheap wine with no provenance. Used to be called "2-buck chuck" because it was under $2 at Trader Joe's (in NY it was 3-buck chuck because it was $2.99 when NOT on sale!). Some history - In the wine glut of mid-90's winemakers were selling off their lowest quality wines instead of bottling them and incurring yet even more losses. Bronco Wines bought them up, put them in the cheapest bottles they could find and sold them at Trader Joe's (what some referred to in those days has the "poor man's Whole Foods") for $1.99. In fact, there were some decent bottlings. The early cabs were halfway decent, they had a nice (drinkable) chardonnay, and they had one stellar syrah. Within 2 years, Costco began carrying Cameron Hughes wines - a similarly brokered wine (IOW, the label did NOT produce their own wines, but bought from others and bottled under thier own label). Cameron Hughes has developed the reputation Charles Shaw never had for good wines at good value prices. And these days, even Whole Foods has a $2.69 wine that's better than 99% of the Charles Shaw wines ever bottled. ***Sorry for all the edits, maybe someday I will learn to type!***Wow!That meat looks so sinful lol! Had a lot of ramen during the holidays as we were in Tokyo, this - plus an unforgettable Osaka steak:Nice hunk of meat! Edited January 25, 2016 by agxo3 Quote Link to comment
bods1000 Posted January 28, 2016 Author Share Posted January 28, 2016 You put Charles Shaw in with the good to great wines? LOL..... Charles Shaw is the classic "we can't sell it so we'll dump it on the broker market" cheap wine with no provenance. Used to be called "2-buck chuck" because it was under $2 at Trader Joe's (in NY it was 3-buck chuck because it was $2.99 when NOT on sale!). Some history - In the wine glut of mid-90's winemakers were selling off their lowest quality wines instead of bottling them and incurring yet even more losses. Bronco Wines bought them up, put them in the cheapest bottles they could find and sold them at Trader Joe's (what some referred to in those days has the "poor man's Whole Foods") for $1.99. In fact, there were some decent bottlings. The early cabs were halfway decent, they had a nice (drinkable) chardonnay, and they had one stellar syrah. Within 2 years, Costco began carrying Cameron Hughes wines - a similarly brokered wine (IOW, the label did NOT produce their own wines, but bought from others and bottled under thier own label). Cameron Hughes has developed the reputation Charles Shaw never had for good wines at good value prices. And these days, even Whole Foods has a $2.69 wine that's better than 99% of the Charles Shaw wines ever bottled. ***Sorry for all the edits, maybe someday I will learn to type!*** Nice hunk of meat!His list was a real head scratcher! Parang listahan lang na nakuha kung saan, which should explain why Charles Shaw is in there. Lol. Totally clueless. Quote Link to comment
bods1000 Posted January 28, 2016 Author Share Posted January 28, 2016 The rocker Dave Matthews has come up with his own wine. The Dreaming Tree. Rated 50 by the writer, on a scale of 0 - 100, where a 0 rating is, according to the writer, "a crime against grapes". A cab, good enough, which "will not challenge your tongue or your credit card to a duel". Quote Link to comment
Radiomir Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 Charles Shaw why not have you tasted it? it's my everyday wine. Years ago I bought 4 cases of 96 Chateaus Plagnac at Trader's Joe for $3.99 now if you follow Bordeaux 1995, 1996 is a good year. It's AOC is only Bordeaux but in a good year there is a lot of sleeper. I'd consume that wine everyday like there is no tomorrow. comparing it to a first growth on a bad year there is no contest.The great Bordeaux that I tasted are the ones that is 15 years or older. Like a 1982 Chateau Talbot that has been decant for at least6 hours. Last December we opened a bottle of 98 Heitz Cellar Martha's Vineyard and a 2000 Chateau La Tourette AOC is Pauillac.The Heitz is good but the French is simply superb it's the terroir. I stay away from Burgundy Though it's a tough nut to crack. It's either a great wine or bad. Also Merlot based from the Right bank except Cheval Blanc which is Cabernet Franc. But if you're looking for Cabernet Franc Look for the Loire region Chinon, Bougeil. Quote Link to comment
BMC Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Good read. Permission to hang around. Quote Link to comment
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