Wine-savvy

[Raintribe]

Sitting down with a glass of red in the garden right now. Lit candles and a couple of incense sticks. Ahhhh...nothing like good wine as a prelude to even greater sex. The sad thing is...there are only crickets in the garden. I am so dying for a kiss right now.

 

Happy Easter wine drinkers!

[cebucitylocal]

Sitting down with a glass of red in the garden right now. Lit candles and a couple of incense sticks. Ahhhh...nothing like good wine as a prelude to even greater sex. The sad thing is...there are only crickets in the garden. I am so dying for a kiss right now.

 

Happy Easter wine drinkers!

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:* friendly smack on cheek,Happy Easter my friend.Enjoy your crickets,next easter you will only have ice and polar bears in your garden

[bods1000]

Sitting down with a glass of red in the garden right now. Lit candles and a couple of incense sticks. Ahhhh...nothing like good wine as a prelude to even greater sex. The sad thing is...there are only crickets in the garden. I am so dying for a kiss right now.

 

Happy Easter wine drinkers!

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when you're here in Manila, I will find a good garden for you to sip wine. I'm gonna bring a fleshy cabernet and some good...............

 

 

 

 

........crickets. I do hope madami pang crickets dito sa Manila

Happy Easter, ms. Rain.

[bods1000]

I said "drinkable"!   

 

Also - I'm speaking from the perspective of one buying and consuming wine in this part of the world - that is, the San Francisco Bay Area, where everything is pretty expensive. (OT - Have you checked out real estate prices around here lately? A run-down, 50 year old, fixer-upper in a slightly scary neighborhood - that is, the sounds of gunshots that are your nightly lullaby are more than 2 blocks away - 2-3 bedrooms 1 bath, about 1300 sq. ft./130 sq. m. -> $400,000. 20 million Pinoy pesos.)

 

Back to the subject at hand - fellow wine geeks, check out www.egullet.org. Scroll down a bit to the eGullet Culinary Institute board. Now running - a course on "Evaluating Wine", covering the basics of wine tasting, among other things. Check it out - it may be a bit challengining to find ALL the items listed so you can compare and identify the aromas in wine, but I think you should be able to find most of them in your local stores. Remember where the instructor says "fresh", she later says if fresh is not available you can substitute dried fruit, which I believe is available there. I would figure that you could even substitute a fruit jam where a fresh or dried fruit is nowhere to be found.

 

Bods, may I suggest that this could be one of the activities for your long-planned EB.

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the idea sounds good..I'm gonna study that website.

thanks pare!

What did you have on Easter

[bods1000]

I like Franzia wines.

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whenever Franzia is mentioned, I remember that Leno episode wherein he displays this Franzia in a 2liter box, at the back of which says I WONDER WHY I'M DRINKING ALONE? or something to that effect

 

cheers, Franzia lover!

[agxo3]

the idea sounds good..I'm gonna study that website.

thanks pare!

What did you have on Easter

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Ah yes - Easter dinner. A big thing around these here parts -

 

had my brother and his family, my sister-in-law and her kid, and a friend and his wife (kitchen's being renovated so they can't cook!) join us for Easter dinner. A great success in spite of a comedy of circumstances which was not so funny at the time. I meant to throw some meat on the grill (a marinated sirloin and some pork loin) - so I fired up the gas grill, all 48,000 BTU of it. BUT - the wind came up and I could never get the temprature up. The wind was so strong that it even blew the flames out at one point. So an hour after we had planned to be eating, my friend and i went over to his house to pick up some coals and cook the old fashioned way. It worked, and 3 hours after everyone showed up we finally sat down to dinner.

 

However, what that gave us the opportunity to do was - why, drink some wine, of course!

 

We started with a Merryvale Anitigua (a dessert wine - Moscato) "cocktail". You take a wine glass, drop in a few small cubes of ice (I know - heresy!!!), splash the antigua over it to the level of the ice, then take a Meyer lemon (a bit seeter and more "orange"-y than a regular lemon) and squeeze some juice in (to taste - I put about 1/2 tsp.).Stir and drink.

 

Then when THAT bottle was gone (which didn't take all that long, it seemed) we opened a 1995 Beaulieu Vineyards zinfandel. 1995 was rated the best vintage of the 90s for Napa Valley zins, and this was a prime example of why that was. Silky smooth, nicely rounded, well-integrated tannins and fruit, a loooooong finish. Red berries (and lots of 'em!), that characteristic black pepper finish. Some currant in the middle palate and plum at the back.

 

We followed that with the '97 Noah's zin I've raved about before. It started out rougher than the BV, but after a half hour or so, it came right in and after that you would have been hard pressed to pick one over the other.

 

A great success in the wine department!! We stuck to three bottles for the night, a low total for us given the number of drinkers, but it was all very pleasant anyway.

 

Hope you guys had a good Easter and a good Holy Week!

[fashionmannequin]

Oh, yes!.....I love Red Wine!....Kapag meron kami get together ng mga female friends ko, ako lagi taga-dala ng red wine...Yun lagi contribution ko.

[bods1000]

Ah yes - Easter dinner. A big thing around these here parts -

 

had my brother and his family, my sister-in-law and her kid, and a friend and his wife (kitchen's being renovated so they can't cook!) join us for Easter dinner. A great success in spite of a comedy of circumstances which was not so funny at the time. I meant to throw some meat on the grill (a marinated sirloin and some pork loin) - so I fired up the gas grill, all 48,000 BTU of it. BUT - the wind came up and I could never get the temprature up. The wind was so strong that it even blew the flames out at one point. So an hour after we had planned to be eating, my friend and i went over to his house to pick up some coals and cook the old fashioned way. It worked, and 3 hours after everyone showed up we finally sat down to dinner.

 

However, what that gave us the opportunity to do was - why, drink some wine, of course!

 

We started with a Merryvale Anitigua (a dessert wine - Moscato) "cocktail". You take a wine glass, drop in a few small cubes of ice (I know - heresy!!!), splash the antigua over it to the level of the ice, then take a Meyer lemon (a bit seeter and more "orange"-y than a regular lemon) and squeeze some juice in (to taste - I put about 1/2 tsp.).Stir and drink.

 

Then when THAT bottle was gone (which didn't take all that long, it seemed) we opened a 1995 Beaulieu Vineyards zinfandel. 1995 was rated the best vintage of the 90s for Napa Valley zins, and this was a prime example of why that was. Silky smooth, nicely rounded, well-integrated tannins and fruit, a loooooong finish. Red berries (and lots of 'em!), that characteristic black pepper finish. Some currant in the middle palate and plum at the back.

 

We followed that with the '97 Noah's zin I've raved about before. It started out rougher than the BV, but after a half hour or so, it came right in and after that you would have been hard pressed to pick one over the other.

 

A great success in the wine department!! We stuck to three bottles for the night, a low total for us given the number of drinkers, but it was all very pleasant anyway.

 

Hope you guys had a good Easter and a good Holy Week!

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no wines for me last Easter as I am the only winedrinker in the family - kaya it was the same ole Pale Pilsen and a bottle of Jack Daniels

I've been reading and hearing about Merryvale and BV for a long time now kaya lang walang distributor nyan dito so hanggang imagine na lang...

[bods1000]

Oh, yes!.....I love Red Wine!....Kapag meron kami get together ng mga female friends ko, ako lagi taga-dala ng red wine...Yun lagi contribution ko.

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you sound like great company!

would you like to join our wine EB if and when there is one?

what reds do you usually drink?

 

your sig is eye-catching - Kleenex husbands

you know, women are like wines in a wine-tasting event - SNIFF, SIP, SWIRL, SPIT OUT :cool:

 

cheers! Have a nice day!

[bachr32]

Im a love wines pero I don't have much knowledge on their names and kinds, maybe pwede nyo ko i orient.

 

I like tha last one I've tasted 2 days ago, its sweet and smooth. Ang tatak nya Moscatel by torres

[bods1000]

Im a love wines pero I don't have much knowledge on their names and kinds, maybe pwede nyo ko i orient.

 

I like tha last one I've tasted 2 days ago, its sweet and smooth. Ang tatak nya Moscatel by torres

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welcome, pare!

if you backread through the thread madami kang matutunan sa wine (well, I hope so)..

For starters, which do you prefer ba - red or white?

[bachr32]

thanks, i'll do that (back thread)

 

I prefer red wine, pero im quite an adventurer when it comes to drinks

[bods1000]

thanks, i'll do that (back thread)

 

I prefer red wine, pero im quite an adventurer when it comes to drinks 

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well, we all are...when we started drinking wine, that was the start of a great adventure..

sige pare...if you have questions sa mga nabasa mo, feel free to ask, ok?

[Guest globetrotter]

i do like red wine kaya lang di ako expert but i want to learn how to gauge whether its indeed good or not.hope this thread can help me.

i usually prefer merlot and red wines from chile.full body kasi at smooth.i dont prefer california red wines kasi usually fruity.sometimes i try red wines in the plane when im travelling kaya lang usually di masarap,mapait.

[bods1000]

i do like red wine kaya lang di ako expert but i want to learn how to gauge whether its indeed good or not.hope this thread can help me.

i usually prefer merlot and red wines from chile.full body kasi at smooth.i dont prefer california red wines kasi usually fruity.sometimes i try red wines in the plane when im travelling kaya lang usually di masarap,mapait.

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well the only expert here is sir agxo peace!

pare if you backread, there are posts here that may help you or inform..

yeah Chileans now are at par with the rest of the world - nadevelop na din yung wine industry nila, like what happened with Australia and South Africe - a lot of good wines there...

 

also, it's not advisable to take something alcoholic on a flight as it would worsen your jet lag - you're right, pare - kung magkaka-jet lag ka na din naman, better drink something excellent kesa yung mga mapakla na wines sa plane...

I do believe that in First Class mas maganda ang mga wines nila - what's your experience with this, pareng agxo?