Sweet Wines
Aug 27, 2009 | 2:06 pm
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Check out the pricing on the 2001 vintage and you will see what I mean....
Aug 27, 2009 | 4:39 pm
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Totally agree on this one, great bottle of wine for a good price. I think last years vintage made WS top 100.
Aug 27, 2009 | 8:26 pm
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As noted above, there's a whole world out there. I'm fascinated by some of the available Madeiras, and although I think of Marsala as an ingredient in Zabaglione, I've friend's mother, once a young Italian post-War Bride who treats it as the nectar of the Gods. I seem to recall a sweet Lacrima Cristi from near Naples and at least one sweet red from Greece.
Of course, those of us around when wine was almost unknown in the US beyond emptying Chianti bottles for candle holders atop red checked table cloths, recall the drinking explosion among young women introduced to two wines still on shelves (but never to pass my lips)...Mateus Rose and Lambrusco from Riunite. I knew women who, had their sides been pierced by the legionnaire's lance, would have bled Lambrusco.
Of course, those of us around when wine was almost unknown in the US beyond emptying Chianti bottles for candle holders atop red checked table cloths, recall the drinking explosion among young women introduced to two wines still on shelves (but never to pass my lips)...Mateus Rose and Lambrusco from Riunite. I knew women who, had their sides been pierced by the legionnaire's lance, would have bled Lambrusco.
Aug 27, 2009 | 8:39 pm
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Personally, I prefer the Chateau de Fargues 1975, that I paid $25 for, or the Doisy Daene 1929 that I bought for $60 in 1980, Than to drink a Yquem a generation too young for it to taste the way it was intended to taste when consumed. And as for buying and drinking mature Ch. Yquem, well I'd rather own a nice car.
Aug 28, 2009 | 5:30 am
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Discovered Ice Wine at SEADOO... 
Great stuff... and found even better at another winery for cheaper (1/3 the price... so I got 3 bottles)
Now I need to collect my bottles sometime since we pooled them together in the shipping box 
Great stuff... and found even better at another winery for cheaper (1/3 the price... so I got 3 bottles)
Now I need to collect my bottles sometime since we pooled them together in the shipping box
Aug 28, 2009 | 4:28 pm
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I bought a bottle of this white port:
while I was in Macau. It's really tasty and worth the trouble to schlepp it home.
I have never encountered it stateside, but I'm sure it's available somewhere.
while I was in Macau. It's really tasty and worth the trouble to schlepp it home.
I have never encountered it stateside, but I'm sure it's available somewhere.
Aug 28, 2009 | 9:38 pm
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Reminds me of an old Frank Zappa tune (with or without the Mothers of Invention and Captain Beefheart) called WPLJ (White Port & Lemon Juice). I tried it and didn't think much of it. Of course the song doesn't exactly give you the right proportions. 
Aug 28, 2009 | 10:22 pm
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I always have them break out the Port early on International Flights.
I also bring home a bottle or two of Proek Hectorovich whenever I can.
I also bring home a bottle or two of Proek Hectorovich whenever I can.
Aug 29, 2009 | 8:15 am
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Aug 29, 2009 | 11:40 am
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I quite enjoy both sweet and sparkling wines myself. I have a couple of colleagues who do too. We'll go for a couple great bottles of champagne from cocktails straight through the main course and then switch over to the dessert wines - often bypassing any standard white or red pairings.
Not to say I don't appreciate everything... but I say enjoy what YOU like!
Not to say I don't appreciate everything... but I say enjoy what YOU like!