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Kanonkop
Pinotage (South African) --truter@mweb.co.za
Like
others before me, the 1947 Chateau Cheval Blanc remains firmly etched
in my memory. The last time I had it was in 1986, and it was still
showing aging potential and incredible balance! --clemensd@paternoimports.com
I am
a relative neophyte to wine, having just become interested in the
last two and a half years. Nevertheless, I have observed an interesting
phenomenon pertaining to the flavor and enjoyment of wine. While
it is obvious that a really bad wine will be remembered for the
fact that it is bad, it seems that the flavor and enjoyment of any
acceptable wine is directly related to the emotional state of the
taster at the time. For example, one of my favorite wines is an
1995 Assemblage from the Concanon Vineyard in California. I first
tasted this wine while enjoying an outdoor picnic of cheese, bread,
and pate at a small roadside table on the coast near Carmel. It
was the mid-point of a wonderful day with our closest friends. The
wine was wonderfully suited to the occasion, and I subsequently
purchased several bottles. However, I have noticed that, while this
is still a fine little wine, subsequent tastings just don't seem
to match what I remember at Carmel?!? I have noticed this about
other things as well, food, beer, ice cream.... Have you ever enjoyed
eating out at a particular establishment with friends so much that
you want to take someone else there. Then when you do, it just isn't
what you remembered? Thus, I respectfully submit that perhaps how
much a particular wine is enjoyed is not so much dependent on the
quality of the wine as it is the total quality of the event being
experienced. --steve.smith@tasb.org
When
my first child was born, we opened our bottle of 1957 Tokai Essencia.
As a one of our friends said after she tasted it, "Now I know where
good grapes go when they die." --fgh@iname.com
I have
tasted some pretty expensive French wines over the years, and the
Chateau Montrose 82, by then 15 years old, was a great wine for
sure, its taste lingering until the following morning, but the best
red I have ever tasted was a very modest Bordeaux superieur from
a very small producer from Brannes, south of St Emilion, who called
himself "Chateau de l'Armandaille". The guy had just taken over
a small winery and was doing his best and selling his wine for about
15 francs a bottle at the time, trying to built up a clientele.
He had produced an incredibly fruity wine exploding with aroma of
red fruit, and which, although quite young, wasn't tanic at all
thanks to a very high proportion of Merlot. I was lucky enought
to get a case of the nectar, which unfortunarly didn't age very
well. But honestly, the first few bottles beat a 15 years old Mouton
Rotshild, and even the Chateau Montrose, hand down. For white, I
am affraid I have more expensive taste. Meursault, or vintage champagne.
--lesath@hotmail.com
1985
ROMANEE CONTI + 1971 LA TACHE. --unknown@sdn-ar-001nmalbup296.dialsprint.net
1972
blackberry wine own brew on a port yeast fermented for 6 months
at about 75f. Worst was an algerian red in 1958 age about same year.
--septic@talk21.com
I like
Italy's Torgaio and also Porto. --soleluna@yahoo.it
Best
wine ever tasted-- 1991 Opus One, but only after it breathed for
half an hour. --ellenf1024@aol.com
The
worst? MD 20/20, white, 'mad dog'. --unknown@abd8cd22.ipt.aol.com
More
longer you keep you could get the best ....only the wine..
--zawmin70@yahoo.co.uk
Being
a son of a Galician man (Galicia-Northwestern part of Iberic Peninsula),
since my early years, it was showed to me how important and how
pleasurable was to drink and honour this liquid, as important as
bread to human race. Along all these years, now I'm 54 years old,
I've showed to myself, not to drink labels but to drink wine, not
to drink with the nose, but to do it with feelings. It would be
unfair to point out the best wine I had, since, the real important
thing is that the liquid be honest, since it so hard to produce
it. It can be a homemade wine or a celebre chateau, it gives so
hard work! The worst? I do my best to forget it! Only due the manipulation
of wine's gods, or devils, I'll dare to mention a wine, that was
incredible sophisticated, in taste and smell, it was a white Chenin
Blanc SavenniËre from Mr Jean Baumard, more exactly, a "Clos
de Saint Yves" 1989. Fortunally, I was the victim of this wine in
a small village, somewhere, in the Loire Valley, France. --baru@planeta3.com.br
I've
worked for a vineyard/winery for the past five years and in that
time have learned not only a wealth of information on wine, but
also on the entire culture surrounding it. Even so, I know that
I've only brushed the surface of a vast and varied topic. As for
vintages, I'm partial to Scheid Vineyards 1997 Monterey Chardonnay.
Sure I'm biased. It's wine!--alyc@hotmail.com
I can't
recall any wine I would consider "best". The worse was a homemade
German cherry wine, aged in a wooden cask for years - pooowwweeerrrfffuuulll.--jikekens@odyssey.on.ca
Well,
I don't remember the label name, but about two summers ago I had
an incredibly sassy cabernet sauvignon--what a flirt! It tickled
my tongue all the way down! I told the other sisters that we should
definitely stock up on this for our matins, but Mother Clara Aloysius
of the Burning Cross put her foot down: "Liebfraumilch is the only
wine I will allow!" she huffed, and that was the end of that. I
lit a candle. When I came across this website, it was like my prayers
were finally being answered. Thank you, thank you! --maryglands@cyberhost.com
The
best sweet wine I have tasted was from M Chapoutier made from Muscat
grapes.... is there a rival for this.. please e mail me. Also I
would like to know more about sweet wines.--wwm@acadia.com.sg
For
First time Wine taster (White Wine) Taste Inniskinn Canadan IceWine.--Fan@netnet.com.sg
Not
really wine. - Tasted cherry Port and Port from the Paranoma Vineyards
in Tasmania tasted fantastic. Rich, velvety and full of flavour!--dlhtg@singnet.com.sg
The
most recent and memorable tasting event I experienced, in Singapore,
was the Primum Familiae Vini Gala Dinner at The Shangri-la on 3
March 1998, where I tasted 12 exquisite wines all of them wonderfully
made but some have aged gracefully and was good drinking that evening.
The wines were 1986 Pol Roger Cuvee Sir Winston Churchill, Marchesi
Antinori Cervaro della Sala 1996, Joseph Drouhin Beaune Clos des
Mouches Blanc 1992, Torres Mas La Plana 1994, Robert Mondavi Napa
Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve 1994, Chateau Cos d'Estournel
1986, Hermitage La Chapelle 1983, Chateau Mouton Rothschild 1985,
Vega Silicia Unico 1981, Dow's 1980 Vintage Port, Gewurztraminer
Hugel Selection de Grains Nobles 1989, Scharzhofberger Auslese Goldkapsel
1989. My preference for the best vintage wine that evening was the
Vega Silicia Unico 1981. There were many off wines I have tasted
however none will remain in my memory. It is always good to keep
fond memories which is worthwhile and pleasurable.--soofung@pacific.net.sg
Need
advice, what are the best red wine from South Africa. Heard of a
few names but not sure how good are they.--pkytan@pacific.net.sg
Celebrating
many years ago one stripe on the arm having gotten thru OCS, visited
NYC. Dinner at Chauveron (no longer there on 3rd Ave.) ended with
a half bottle of Y'Quem 1929. Thought I had died and gone to heaven.
Almost 50yrs later still remember vividly that breathtaking elixir.--rons560@pig.net
the
best wine experience i have would be the one thats drunk with good
friends at the right place and time.it helps if its a good vintage--wallywee@pacific.net.sg
I agree
with BetterResults@netscape.com, wine from Margaret River - Leeuwin
and Evans and Tate is quite good...btw, are you Aussie and West
Australian? That would kinda explain why you are partial to wine
from that region.--theous@mbox4.singnet.com.sg
Dry
Creek Special Reserve.--snuzanne@netscape.net
1994
Cab Merlot from the Margaret River winery Leeuwin in Western Australia,
1993 Sparkling Shiraz from Rockfords in the Barossa valley, South
Australia, an 89 Penfolds Bin 333. Haven't tasted too many bad ones
luckily.--BetterResults@Netscape.com
I completely
agree with benfarm! The wines in Upstate NY are fantastic! Until
I moved to W. NY, I was not much of a wine drinker. After touring
the wineries on Keuka Lake (the smallest of the Finger Lakes), it
changed my attitude forever! I happen to be partial to Bully Hill,
which, as far as I know, is only available in NY State. I can't
remember the name of the worst wine I ever tasted, but I believe
it's fairly common & comes in a brown pottery-looking bottle.
I think it was German?...--sunder1@cwix.com
The
worse was Mar Khayyam, a cabernet Sauvignon from the Egyptian Vineyards.
I had in cairo two years ago. The best was a Baugalois (SP) froom
FLeurie France, a very small village in the Burgundy area of about
500 people.-- mzk1539@aol.com
The
mood, the time, the food, the person/persons your with all add to
the wonders of enjoying wine.Those who say any white is the best,
have not tasted real red. Burgundy is the best; my penultimate was
a '59 Volnay consumed in 1989 in France - a memorable night shared
with good friends. The worst, and only glass I ever rejected completely
was a Retsina bought in the US and terrible.--jaiacovino@aol.com
Perhaps
the best red wine I've ever had was the 94 vintage of Vieux Telegraphe
Chateauneuf du Pape. It was extremely warm and mouthfilling like
a benevolent cluster bomb exploding in your mouth with black fruits,
basil and anise, and black pepper all in a smooth seamless package.
The best white wine was an amazingly honeyed, ethereal Chapoutier
Hermitage Blance cuvee De L'Oree 96 vintage at M Chapoutier's tasting
in Dallas, TX.--pln@airmail.net
In
1965, while traveling in France in the Burgundy region, I stopped
at a town with a quaint name which meant little to me at the time.
It was about noon and I had stopped for lunch. I was delighted to
learn that roast lamb done rare was even better than the medium
I had had at home and the local wine with the same name as the village
transported me to heaven. But then what should I have expected from
a '59 Nuit St.George?--JDaveJ@apl.com
More
of your wine responses here...and
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