I'm trying to get used to wine for our Paris trip, so I'm drinking this (I know, it's a Colo wine, but we had some laying around the house, so what the heck)
I couldn't tell you whether it sucks or not. I don't know how to tell if wine is good. Here's what their website says about the 2002 version.
BookCliff Vineyards Ensemble 2002
(Silver medal winner at the Eastern International Wine Competition 2005)
Medium red garnet color. Vanilla in the nose, jammy with bright berry flavors. A touch of black currant in the finish.
Varietal: 48% Merlot, 29% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Cabernet Franc
Appellation: Grand Valley
Production: 698 cases
Alcohol: 13.8%
Harvest: 9/21/02 - 10/06/02
Aging: Barrel fermented, malolactic fermentation. Merlot aged for 9 months in French oak barrels, Cabernet Sauvignon aged for 9 months in French and American oak barrels, Cabernet Franc aged for 9 months in French barrels.
I have yet to notice any vanilla in my nose, and I have no idea what "jammy" means.
I wonder if they make beer in France....
I'm not a wine expert at all, so when I was invited to dinner at a guys house I was working with in France I stopped off at the local store and bought the most expensive bottle of wine I could find. Had no idea what it was, but it wasn't all that expensive (30 Swiss Francs or about $25). Not crazy expensive or anything. Anyway, I show up to dinner with this bottle of wine and they go running into their library room and pull out a wine book and find it vineyard and read about the wine before they open it. It was really interesting to see how they studied it and talked about the area that the grapes were grown int. It was so incredibly French of them.
But did they like it
We finished the bottle, so I guess they did. It was at this guys house that I had Leffe Blonde Ale for the first time. No 1664 in his fridge.
Of course, we were eating raw donkey so we needed a good belt of something to wash it down.
I'm trying to get used to wine for our Paris trip, so I'm drinking this (I know, it's a Colo wine, but we had some laying around the house, so what the heck)
I couldn't tell you whether it sucks or not. I don't know how to tell if wine is good. Here's what their website says about the 2002 version.
BookCliff Vineyards Ensemble 2002
(Silver medal winner at the Eastern International Wine Competition 2005)
Medium red garnet color. Vanilla in the nose, jammy with bright berry flavors. A touch of black currant in the finish.
Varietal: 48% Merlot, 29% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Cabernet Franc
Appellation: Grand Valley
Production: 698 cases
Alcohol: 13.8%
Harvest: 9/21/02 - 10/06/02
Aging: Barrel fermented, malolactic fermentation. Merlot aged for 9 months in French oak barrels, Cabernet Sauvignon aged for 9 months in French and American oak barrels, Cabernet Franc aged for 9 months in French barrels.
I have yet to notice any vanilla in my nose, and I have no idea what "jammy" means.
I wonder if they make beer in France....
I'm not a wine expert at all, so when I was invited to dinner at a guys house I was working with in France I stopped off at the local store and bought the most expensive bottle of wine I could find. Had no idea what it was, but it wasn't all that expensive (30 Swiss Francs or about $25). Not crazy expensive or anything. Anyway, I show up to dinner with this bottle of wine and they go running into their library room and pull out a wine book and find it vineyard and read about the wine before they open it. It was really interesting to see how they studied it and talked about the area that the grapes were grown int. It was so incredibly French of them.
But did they like it
We finished the bottle, so I guess they did. It was at this guys house that I had Leffe Blonde Ale for the first time. No 1664 in his fridge.
Of course, we were eating raw donkey so we needed a good belt of something to wash it down.
I'm trying to get used to wine for our Paris trip, so I'm drinking this (I know, it's a Colo wine, but we had some laying around the house, so what the heck)
I couldn't tell you whether it sucks or not. I don't know how to tell if wine is good. Here's what their website says about the 2002 version.
BookCliff Vineyards Ensemble 2002
(Silver medal winner at the Eastern International Wine Competition 2005)
Medium red garnet color. Vanilla in the nose, jammy with bright berry flavors. A touch of black currant in the finish.
Varietal: 48% Merlot, 29% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Cabernet Franc
Appellation: Grand Valley
Production: 698 cases
Alcohol: 13.8%
Harvest: 9/21/02 - 10/06/02
Aging: Barrel fermented, malolactic fermentation. Merlot aged for 9 months in French oak barrels, Cabernet Sauvignon aged for 9 months in French and American oak barrels, Cabernet Franc aged for 9 months in French barrels.
I have yet to notice any vanilla in my nose, and I have no idea what "jammy" means.
I wonder if they make beer in France....
I'm not a wine expert at all, so when I was invited to dinner at a guys house I was working with in France I stopped off at the local store and bought the most expensive bottle of wine I could find. Had no idea what it was, but it wasn't all that expensive (30 Swiss Francs or about $25). Not crazy expensive or anything. Anyway, I show up to dinner with this bottle of wine and they go running into their library room and pull out a wine book and find it vineyard and read about the wine before they open it. It was really interesting to see how they studied it and talked about the area that the grapes were grown int. It was so incredibly French of them.
But did they like it
We finished the bottle, so I guess they did. It was at this guys house that I had Leffe Blonde Ale for the first time. No 1664 in his fridge.
Of course, we were eating raw donkey so we needed a good belt of something to wash it down.
I bet that tastes like ass.......
It was very good. We had this discussion once before:
Coca-Cola from Mexico in a bottle... Made w/ actual sugar and not that high fructose corn syrup stuff. Such a great find at the grocery store yesterday.
Coca-Cola from Mexico in a bottle... Made w/ actual sugar and not that high fructose corn syrup stuff. Such a great find at the grocery store yesterday.
Where did you get it? Where do they use actual sugar? We hosted an exchange student for a while from Chile and she commented that the Coke didn't taste the same here, so I'm guessing Chile uses sugar as well.
Coca-Cola from Mexico in a bottle... Made w/ actual sugar and not that high fructose corn syrup stuff. Such a great find at the grocery store yesterday.
Where did you get it? Where do they use actual sugar? We hosted an exchange student for a while from Chile and she commented that the Coke didn't taste the same here, so I'm guessing Chile uses sugar as well.
I found it at Caputo's in Algonquin. I've heard rumors of Costco having it but I haven't looked for it there yet.
