And yes, there are serious collectors in the NYC area who have old bottles stored in their cellars. 2000 Prager Riesling Smaragd Achleiten. About 50 or 60 wine lovers came together to celebrate Austrian wine the other night at Seasonal Restaurant in midtown Manhattan. That's right - Austrian wine, La Paulée style. wonderful old nose.

Always elegant hosts, the Cathiards ended the tasting with a round of Louis Roederer Brut Premier champagne, a tour of the cellar (Daniel takes great pleasure in opening it via remote control), and dinner. The verdict for these wines was that the 2000 was better with the steak, and the 1990 with the cheese.

The tapestry, with its bold vivid colors of burgundy, gold, and electric blue, is elegantly draped over the glass-enclosed barrel cellar below and depicts a merry feast of gorgeously dressed men and women playing instruments, dancing, and having a great time. Welcome!” Apparently, Rabelais celebrated the hedonistic pleasures of the body ….

It is incredibly glamorous and the cuisine (mushroom soup and steak) is paired with Chateau Pichon Longueville 2000 (delicious with its black currant and tobacco flavors), Les Tourelles de Longueville (their second wine), 1990 Chateau Pibron – another AXA acquisition. The Cellar. VerticalTasting Chateau Longueville 2000 - 2009.

This is done for practical, physical reasons in the cellars, and also because leaving a champagne on its lees keeps it fresher while waiting for the next outgoing shipment. When you’re shopping for bubbly between now until New Year’s Eve, how will you know how long that nonvintage bottle has been on the shelf? See exchange below.)

waiting for our 7pm dinner and what a fabulous day we have had at the Palais Coburg, viewing multi-million dollar wine cellars and meeting the celebrities of the wine world. Now the California wine conversation was interesting, because we were just served two wines, a Merryvale Chardonnay 2008 and a Domaine Roumieu Bonnes Mares 2000.

Gravner 2000 Ribolla Gialla. There was perhaps no bigger contrast during that original Orange wine dinner than the side by side service of Gravner’s 2000 Ribolla, produced without clay, and Gravner’s 2001 “Amphora” Ribolla, his first vintage with clay. Orange wines are sweeping the nation! Do they use aerators?

One of the few remaining traditionalists, Lopez de Heredia is known for outrageously long bottle aging in their legendary cellars prior to releasing the wine. Consider that their current release rosé is from the 2000 vintage (ten years older than the current release from Provence). Lopez de Heredia. But it was deliciously fun snapshot.

In the past few weeks I had the chance to enjoy a few wines from the cellar, things that are not by any means at peak maturity, but maybe approaching middle age. The current vintage is 2000, for example (and so far it is my favorite since 1995). But the wine does improve with further cellaring. Maybe so, maybe so.

Cave Spring Cellars Blancs de Blancs Brut 2004. Cave Spring Cellars CSV 2007. Flatrock Cellars Reserve 2007. Flatrock Cellars 2008. Lakeview Cellars Reserve 2000. Lakeview Cellars Reserve 2007. Pillitteri Estates Winery Exclamation Cellar Series 2006. Cave Spring Cellars CSV 2007.

On my recent trip to the Loire, I got an excellent chance to explore this issue at the cellars of none other than Domaine Bernard Baudry in Chinon, one of my favorite producers in the Loire. The 2000 Grezeaux was more advanced and leathery, with drier tannins–more of the drink now category. How does cabernet franc age?

Following your late afternoon arrival and settling in, we serve a Champagne reception, followed by a “ fine wine dinner&# with us at La Madèlene - 4 courses of typical Provencal fare prepared expertly by Jude and each course accompanied by a different fine Rhone wine from my cellar chosen carefully to pair with the food. link].

The goal is eventually to have dinner together twice a year, but we need to build our cellar in order to do that, so we meet once a year for now. Buying newly released wine for the cellar is the easy part. We began with two Corton Charlemagnes from the 2000 vintage. 2000 Boneau du Martray Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru , $100.

Everyone reaches into the cellar for the good bottles to help celebrate the passing of another year. 2000) Tarlant Champagne La Vigne d'Antan Extra Brut Non-Grefée Chardonnay , $65, was imported by Jon-David Headrick Selections, not sure who imports it now. December tends to be a good month for wine drinking. Very impressive.

The Aszu is run off to casks, and a slow second fermentation takes place for at least two years in underground cellars. Secrets of the Cellar. Lazlu takes us on a magical tour of the cellar, where the bottles of wine glow orange in the darkness like some luscious gold elixir. 2000 (white peach) and 2002. Disznoko Estate.

It is incredibly glamorous and the cuisine (mushroom soup and steak) is paired with Chateau Pichon Longueville 2000 (delicious with its black currant and tobacco flavors), Les Tourelles de Longueville (their second wine), 1990 Chateau Pibron – another AXA acquisition. The Cellar. VerticalTasting Chateau Longueville 2000 - 2009.

Extraordinary Vintages in Piedmont 1996 2000 2001 2004 Exceptional Vintages in Piedmont 1990 1997 1998 1999 2005 2006In an exceptional vintage set a Barbaresco aside for a minimum of four years before drinking. In an exceptional vintage set a Barolo aside for a minimum of six years before drinking.

I'm starting to believe that the Rosado, like their other Gran Riserva wines, shows best if you give it even a few more years in the cellar. Let's see if I can show some self control with my 2000's. Have you ever eaten a watermelon radish? They look like turnips on the outside, except that the tail has a pink hue under the skin.

It is incredibly glamorous and the cuisine (mushroom soup and steak) is paired with Chateau Pichon Longueville 2000 (delicious with its black currant and tobacco flavors), Les Tourelles de Longueville (their second wine), 1990 Chateau Pibron – another AXA acquisition. The Cellar. VerticalTasting Chateau Longueville 2000 - 2009.

They rarely allow any one in the cellars and they won't talk technique. few weeks back I had a 2000 Trebbiano which had the lees stirred into a souffle--Meursault-like, and I was like, hey guys, what gives? This was a mini-media tour of the wines, a rare chance to taste a vertical. But, who knows. Limpid. Nutty. More ginger!

So Adam dug around in his cellar and produced a fantastic bottle of wine, the 1997 Auguste Clape Cornas. This is totally unlike the 2000 I had not too long ago, which was delicious and compelling, but much more rustic. You know that I'm joking. But the other night I had dinner with a good friend who is somewhat of a short rib master.

Winemakers notes: In the hills near Rome are areas of volcanic soil over 2000 years old. Getting time to clean out the old wine fridge. Shirley keeps doing her part by challenging me to come up with a pairing for some of her weird dinner experiments. 10 *Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR folks representing the brand.

They rarely allow any one in the cellars and they won't talk technique. few weeks back I had a 2000 Trebbiano which had the lees stirred into a souffle--Meursault-like, and I was like, hey guys, what gives? This was a mini-media tour of the wines, a rare chance to taste a vertical. But, who knows. Limpid. Nutty. More ginger!

cannot imagine cellaring it, as it tastes so good now, and doesn't seem to be holding anything in reserve. 2000 López de Heredia Rioja Rosado Viña Tondonia Gran Riserva , $24, Imported by Polaner Selections. Some of my favorite wines have just been released in new vintages. Buy the wines and drink them. Don't miss it. Pure joy.

Sorry if I sound like a flippant jerk, but here's the thing: it's easy for me to think that every wine store is like Chambers Street or Uva or Slope Cellars. Actually, the wax on this bottle is cracked and I want to cellar these for a while, so if you don't mind, I'd like three bottles from downstairs. know I am. Why say these things?

I've had utterly brilliant wines from each of these producers - I have no one favorite (although the 2000 Brégeon Gorgeois was pretty awesome). All of these producers make reasonably priced and cellar-worthy wines that are pretty easy to find. Well, all except for Guy Bossard ( click here for the Wine Doctor's profile).

Grass fed sirloin steak cooked this way , salsa verde, and raw kale salad in olive oil and a dab of fish sauce. -- Oma , a raw cow's milk washed rind cheese made by descendants of the original Von Trapp family, and aged in the Jasper Hills cellars. My first time with the '99, and it seriously outclasses the delicious 2000, in my opinion.

He disappeared into the cellar and returned bearing this treasure. decided to open a bottle that I recently acquired, the 2000 Noël Verset Cornas , $60, Imported by Connoisseur Wines (usually imported by Kermit Lynch, but I bought this at Crush , who obtained it from a private collection). Why this wine? alcohol.

alcohol Full disclosure: This bottle was a complimentary sample for Vigna Uva Vino from Firesteed Cellars. Tags: pinot noir Howard Rossbach Oregon French oak Firesteed Cellars Howard Rossbach (who grew up in the Bronx) of Firesteed started out by successfully crafting a good, affordable Oregon Pinot Noir at $10. The results? 50, 13.6%

Billsboro Winery was opened as Geneva's first winery in the spring of 2000 by Bob Pool and Jennifer Morris and is home to 26 acres of rolling hills, vineyards and forest. I think it gets a little scary when you choose a not so good wine for three consecutive nights. That happened this week. But, halllelujah, tonight was a bit more successful.

John Gilman, author of the newsletter The View from the Cellar , joins us again for a Q&A. But being younger than the gentleman I just mentioned, I do not have the same reserves of old vintages of white Burgundy or white Bordeaux in my cellar, and so premox has really hit my collection hard. Are these wines forcibly better?

In the famous profile of Parker published in The Atlantic (that Parker displays on his web site back in December 2000, the author wrote that Parker “stores the sensation of each [wine] into a permanent gustatory memory. On Wednesday evening I attended a tasting of fifteen wines from Bordeaux 2005. Finally, we dove into the first flight.

Koch maintains that Kurniawan was the source of two Acker auctions in 2006 hailed only as from “THE cellar.&# The article also says that he got into wine only in the year 2000 but had already amassed a cellar of 50,000 bottles and that, “Since he started buying, prices for rare wine have skyrocketed.&#. William I.

He took the estate in a new direction, eventually going entirely organic as of 2000. Matrot is not inflexible, though, when it comes to work in the cellar. It has a Stelvin closure - a screwcap, which I think is great for a wine that is not meant for the cellar. This is a wine worth buying many bottles of, if you have the space.

This wine seems as if it could do another 15 years in the cellar without blinking. Brilliant purity on the palate, great acidity, very youthful, this wine will clearly reward long term cellaring, and somewhere down the line I think will make a great cheese partner. Perhaps even the seafood stereotype entirely. Someone said pineapple.

2000 Domaine A Cabernet Sauvignon, Tasmania. 2005 Penfolds Cellar Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, Barossa Valley. 2000 Hardys Sir James Tumbarumba Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier, Tumbarumba. I’m back from the fantastic Landmark Australia Tutorial. Yes, it’s 249 bottles of wine on the wall! Day One. Day Two.

So no special wine lately, nothing from the cellar, only wine that is still on retail shelves so I can return it if (when) it is corked. And what are the rules, anyway, for wine that I've cellared if it's corked? We had quite a streak, and I guess I shouldn't complain. So yes, we had been beating the odds for a while now.

The fourth vintage of Polish Hill, it was bottled under cork (they switched to screwcap around 2000) and had mid-shoulder fill (if the bottle had shoulders, that is) and came directly from the cellar of Jeffrey Grosset (pictured right), one of only a few bottles remaining. The finish was spectacular and went on and on. Quite delicious.

Jean-Michel Cazes of Chateau Lynch Bages ran the operations, which included upgrading the winemaking as well as overseeing a renovation the cellars and the chateau. On the Pichon-Baron side, things are really cranking under Christian Seely who took over in 2000, which produced an excellent wine. Sign up for one if you can.

But the piece de resistance was the 2000 “vin de voile&# (aka vin jaune ) from the micro-appellation of Chateau-Chalon. The oxidative process girds the wine for decades or centuries in the cellar. Oxidative wines are an essential wine tasting reference point. should receive a little love here too. Really.

Also, much better at cellar temp than at room temperature. 2000 Marziano Abbona Barolo Pressenda , about $45. My friend David McDuff is hosting the 54th edition of Wine Blogging Wednesday, the monthly online tasting event created by my pal and New York Wine blogger extraordinaire, Lenn Thompson. Recently I've kind of dropped the ball.

The property operated under the Girard name until 2000, when Mr. Rudd changed the direction and name of the winery to Rudd Estate. In any event, after that exchange, I tried to specify for myself what I really thought about Girard, so I pulled some more of their recent wines from the cellar. That was the end of the beginning of Girard.

numbered them and we did a blind tasting, pitting Girard's 2002 Cabernet Franc against a 2000 Ch. Charmail **, a 2005 Mondavi Napa Valley Merlot, 2000 Ch. The 2000 Chateau Haut Gravet * a little known St. Chateau Charmail 2000 ** received 92 points from Robert Parker. The wine left open had spoiled (duh).

He started his career in wine retail, later worked as a sommelier with a soft spot for Burgundy, and now has embarked on the foolhardy notion of writing a bi-monthly wine newsletter, A View from the Cellar. John Gilman is one of the people who I have enjoyed getting to know in 2008. broke it up in to two postings. Onward! And five years?

So on the last trip to the cellar I brought back a couple bottles of Chateau Cantemerle -- one bottle of the 2000, one 2003 -- which we opened last night with hamburgers (90% lean, over toasted whole wheat bread, smothered with Gruyère, grilled onions, and dijon mustard) and Mary Ellen's Double Dutch German Chocolate Cake.

Raspberries and tart strawberry emerged after decanting, but this hasn't fully developed yet, and may need another two years in the cellar. Deep blue-purple in color, with fresh blueberry and bay leaf on the nose, this Chateau Giscours ** showed tight acidity on the attack with mild, dry tannins on the finish.

Although I am not a fan of the 2005, my commitment to cellaring my '02s and '04s is renewed. I'm in a really great wine group now, and great ones are hard to find, trust me. This is a great one because the people are intelligent, easy going, and excellent company. And because our wine tastes are quite diverse. Pear and honey cake for dessert.

You're going to tell me that it needs 20 years in the cellar, that I drank it too young. 2000 Voirin-Jumel Champagne Millésimé , $37. 2000 Dessilani Ghemme Riserva , price unknown. Another summer comes to an end. love summer in New York City. On the weekends it can get eerily quiet though, as people flee for the country.

This is the one that I must buy for my own cellar. 2000 François Raveneau Chablis 1er Cru Montée de Tonnerre. should pull the few bottles I have out of the cellar and drink them over the next year or two. The more I learn about wine, the more I realize that I don't know. Same is true with wine, I would say. Who knew. Raveneau.I

2000 A tremendous wine. The flood plains recede in Iowa, Al Gore endorses Obama, and I finally have a chance to note some of the wines we've been swirling around here. It's been a crazy week, sort of. Now it's time to focus back on something closer to home: summer whites (but not all). Listed in no particular order. and peaches. Where?

Lassaigne makes at least five wines, but I've seen only two of them here in New York: this Blanc de Blancs and also the 2000 vintage wine, a non-dosage wine, one bottle of which is presently napping in my little cellar. NV Jacques Lassaigne Brut Cuv é e Les Vignes de Montgueux , $38, Jenny & Francois Selections.

She proceeded to open a 2000 Syrah that they recently re-released and it was great. So off to Chase Wine Cellars to visit my (new) friend Jeff Blaum. From Chase Cellars I called the people of The Terraces Winery. My day began in LA with an early flight from LAX to SFO. rented a car at SFO and made my way to wine country.

tasted some nice Chardonnays by Foxglove/ Varner Wines , L'Angevin , DuMol and Neiman cellars. Drew Neiman of Neiman Cellars is someone I had not met before, but whom I engaged in conversation as I noticed a wine I was familiar with on his table. But now, my long overdue summary of the wines I was able to try at the Polaner tasting.

went with the 2002 Domaine des Baumaurd Coteaux du Layon Clos du Sainte Catherine , $28 on release, imported by Ex Cellars Wine Agency. GW Bush - 2000 Yellow Tail Merlot. The other night Alice Feiring stopped by for a glass of wine. That's right, Alice Feiring! What do you pour for Alice Feiring? think so. Enough said. Enough said.

I only began cellaring wine a few years ago, so if I drink a mature wine at home it means that I bought a wine that some one else cellared for me. Because in most micro climates the weather never really got hot enough for long enough, the wines do not typically have the stuffing that requires long term cellaring in order to tame.

And I loved the wine enough to buy both a second bottle AND a bottle of the 2000 vintage wine for the cellar. Bloggers and blog readers recommend wines constantly and it's impossible to try all of them. But this is how I learn about new wines I want to try - your recommendations. Flowers, roast nuts, lots of minerals on the nose.

read somewhere that the wines of Calon-S é gur require about 86 years of cellaring before they drink well, so I decanted almost four hours in advance and kept my fingers crossed. We drank a 2004, a vintage that might not need as much time to unwind as say, 2000, 2003, or 2005. I'm not trying to stoke the fires of the debate. Anyway.We

No two vintages of Monte Bello taste the same, and each vintage evolves in the cellar. have tasted Monte Bello cabernets from 1976, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1993, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2004, and I am constantly amazed by the wine's ability to age gracefully. Monte Bello is my favorite winery/vineyard. These wines require patience.

This took place in Deetrane's cellar, where there are at least 2,000 wines from all over the world, the bounty of three different wine drinkers, myself included. guessed the 2000 Smith Haut-Lafitte Blanc. Some people can taste a wine blind, knowing nothing about it at all, and are able to identify it. Do these people train for this?

have 225 bottles in my "cellar," which is comprised of my wine fridge and some space in Deetrane's basement cellar, and 30 of them cost at least $50. That's about 13% of my cellar that I would classify as a splurge. 2000 Paul Pernot Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Pucelles , $64. Why $50? Good buy. Oiy vey. Thank goodness.

The bottle must be topped off before corking and cellaring. The cork goes in and the bottle rests in the cellar for at least 15 months (3 years for vintage Champagne) and depending on the producer and the type of wine, for much longer. 2000 Chateau Tour Grise Saumur Brut Non Dose , $16 at Slope Cellars. No sugar?

But I went to Portland recently, I will have to go several times again this year, I have a load of Oregon wines in my cellar, and I need to refresh my Oregon wine palate. The Sheas began bottling their own wine under the label Shea Wine Cellars in 1996 and shared the Adelsheim facility for wine making. Okay, so far so good.

So this is an investment, not just in the Burgundy type of cash, but also in cellar space. Had I used this kind of thinking a few years ago I would have purchased and cellared some of the 2002 Le Bourg. BrooklynLady and I went to France together for the first time in October of 2005. The white is called Breze and is 100% Chenin Blanc.

Sometimes that is the result of poor practice in the field, sometimes its just an effort to grow the wrong grapes in the wrong place, or a lousy growing season, or stupid mistakes in the cellar. vaguely recall we popped 1996 Pol Roger, 2000 Raveneau Montee de Tonnerre, 1996 Roulot Tessons and 1993 Mugnier C-M Les Fuees. where was I.

want this wine in my cellar! 2000 Schramsberg Vineyards Reserve (8) 70% Pinot Noir here. Seemed like it could continue to improve with cellaring. I had the distinct pleasure of going to the Martin Scott Portfolio Tasting last week at the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center. cannot enjoy myself that way. Also very good.

was babysitting for my pal Deetrane and we have this rule that when we babysit for each other, we get to open wine from the other guy's cellar. He has a 2000 1er Cru Puligny Montrachet - too fancy for solo drinking I figure. recently discovered a Napa Valley Chardonnay that I really like. know, sounds odd, right? Why, yes it is.

3" is a wine that I would not necessarily seek out to buy for my cellar, but I would gladly drink anytime. will admit that I loved the 2000 vintage of this wine, so I might be a bit biased. I'm already a believer in Long Island wine. already like them. They typically clock in between 12-13.5% alcohol. They are not "fruit bombs." Yummy.

2000 Hafner Reserve Chardonay, Alexander Valley - Not in the same league as the '01 right now. Next visit I plan on helping the Father in-law translate his writing pad full of scratches and notes to Cellar Tracker I'm lucky because my father in-law likes wine and keeps some good bottles in the house. 500 bottles of wine in the bins!

2000 and '01 saw some excellent bottles but wines were irregular, '02 was a washout, and '03 was the heatwave year, with late ripening grapes (and I suspect Sangiovese is not late ripening, but I am not sure - anyone?) This was just outstanding, and I have a few bottles sleeping in the cellar. First: give credit where credit is due.

He brought a wine from the 2000 vintage,a bit more mature than the others, and a top cuvee at that, unlike the "entry level" wines from the other producers in our tasting. Deetrane's impostor was the 2000 Domaine des Roches Neuves Saumur-Champigny La Marginale , $36 (but he paid $12 on the secondary market, as he is known to do).

told him I'd take 3 bottles of the 2000 Marziano Abbona Barolo Pressenda , for $65. The wine was in impeccable condition, still cool from being in a cellar. This is the first guestpost by the honorable Deetrane, wine lover and pal extraordinaire : I am honored to be a guest blogger here on the Brooklynguy blog. No way," he replied.

Turns out, he got a case of 2000 Domaine des Roches Neuves La Marginale , their top cuvee, for a little under $12 per bottle. Even though 2000 was a tough year in which many Loire reds were kind of fruitless and diluted, good producers should still make good wine, right? This wine sells for about $30 per bottle. decent wine?

As is common in New York, a combination of artists and other intrepid souls in about 2000 began moving to Red Hook for the low rents. We have since then taken every opportunity to try other Breton wines - there are many cuvees, some meant to drink young, others aged in wood and meant to be cellared for at least a bit. love this wine!

The 2000 Estate Selection Merlot is an excellent Bordeaux-styled wine, with plummy and earthy aromas, a light texture, and lots of dark fruit on the palate. don't know if this is a good value because I don't have a riesling context yet, but I sure loved the wine, and I grabbed 2 bottles of it for the cellar. 2005 Hermann J. violets?