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Benziger reserve heritage 05.  Starting to opn, still tart, but slight meat and salt overtones on the mid palate with a lot of smoke on the tail end.

Sagrantino di Montefalco (
artinelli) 2003
acid, tight cherry and lead, metallic notes go on, ends with almost a burnt wood taste.

92 Dominus at Bokx...what can I say?  Decanted for almost and hour, with a bone-in Ribeye.

Really concentrated pepper and jammy taste, with more coffee undertones.  lasted quite a while on the tongue...

For Christmas, my almost-brother-in-law and his wife made us a spiced wine, according to a traditional recipe of some sort.

I'm saving it for the weekend at the very least, but I'm pretty excited about it.

Quote from: Luminous Crayon
For Christmas, my almost-brother-in-law and his wife made us a spiced wine, according to a traditional recipe of some sort.

I'm saving it for the weekend at the very least, but I'm pretty excited about it.

Very cool...you must let us know...

Currently drinking:

Anderson Valley SUMMER SOLSTICE 7.0% "cream soda", Vanilla, smooth ..I picked up hints of chocolate but people told me I was crazy.

Bell's Oberon-delicious....orange, banana clove...get it from the tap if you can; not as good bottled great warm season beer.

Dogfish head MIDAS TOUCH 9.0%! Honey, saffron   Great beer...heavy eye lid feeling after 1 or 2 great for a hot afternoon. Smoooooooth. One of my favorite Dogfish head beers.

Quote from: Sarisa
Currently drinking:

Anderson Valley SUMMER SOLSTICE 7.0% "cream soda", Vanilla, smooth ..I picked up hints of chocolate but people told me I was crazy.

Bell's Oberon-delicious....orange, banana clove...get it from the tap if you can; not as good bottled great warm season beer.

Dogfish head MIDAS TOUCH 9.0%! Honey, saffron   Great beer...heavy eye lid feeling after 1 or 2 great for a hot afternoon. Smoooooooth. One of my favorite Dogfish head beers.

very good stuff and good descriptions.

Lat night we had a Hedges 05 reserve cab that had berry and a toasted butter at the back of it. 

My first gallon of homemade wine has been cracked open and tasted. It's blackberry, and it came out perfectly.

My second gallon of homemade wine is about a week into fermentation. It's pear, and I have a very good feeling.

Now that sounds awesome and a great project, lc...

I am just not at peace unless I have too many insane projects going on at once. This one turned out deliciously, though!

Also....scary that my taste seems to be changing a bit...in the more expensive direction.  I've had a few wines lately that I rememer liking earlier vintages of, and there were serious issues.  Poured half a bottle of Shiraz out a few nights ago. 
Drinking an 01 Balmoral syrah tonight.  i remember it being good.  I hope so...

Enjoying a bottle of Brew Dog's "5am Saint" with my lunch. Mid-brown with a definite bite of bitterness to the aftertaste, it's really fantastic, especially with the sweet and subtly spiced Moroccan-style dish I was eating. At a healthy 5% alcohol by volume I feel it may just improve my performance at work this evening.

I drank my first non-wine or champagne alcohol on my own on Friday night. Malibu Pineapple Juice.

...yes, it was suggested by a younger, asian, female friend as something that would be safe for me. Later on I had a Mike's Hard Lemonade. It has 'hard' in the name so I must be an alcoholic now.

My roommates got me some "Sink the Bismark" as a get-well-soon present. Since I can't mix my medication with alcohol, I just took a whiff.

I almost blacked-out.

Quote from: Ninja D!
I drank my first non-wine or champagne alcohol on my own on Friday night. Malibu Pineapple Juice.

...yes, it was suggested by a younger, asian, female friend as something that would be safe for me. Later on I had a Mike's Hard Lemonade. It has 'hard' in the name so I must be an alcoholic now.

loL
Hardcore, indeed....