And yes, there are serious collectors in the NYC area who have old bottles stored in their cellars. 2002 Bründlmayer Riesling Zobinger Heiligenstein Alte Reben. 2002 Moric Blaufrankisch Lutzmannsburg Alte Reben. That's right - Austrian wine, La Paulée style. Importer Carlo Huber and Seasonal Executive Chef Wolfgang Ban.

This Pradeaux rose is only a year old, but already offers a glimpse of what time in the cellar will do. drank the 2002 in Portland on the day that I met my good friend Peter Liem , back in August of 2008. Been so busy lately with work that I just haven't had time to write here. Whoa, this is just amazing wine. More, please. Briny.

It is a quaint vineyard and after a tour of the ferementation vessels we have our tasting in the cellar, surrounded by oak barrels. named after a spaceship that sank in 2002 in Uruguay). "Welcome!" says attractive dark haired Federico Domingo, Export Manager for Bodegas Castillo Viejo as we squeeze into his tiny car. Viognier 2011.

All the wines bear the signature of firm tannins that cry out for cellaring. The Crichet Paje on the table from 2002, a poor vintage but a great wine. It’s the time of year when distributors and/or importers have annual (or semi-annual) portfolio tastings. Below are a few impressions and photos. Really, a WOW! Quite fun. alcohol.

and reach and alley, again very eerie and quiet, to one of the cellars where we learn that the Maison employs a barrel-maker to repair 15 year old barrels instead of buying new ones. Cristian Dennis, a very affable gentlemen who knows all the secrets (yes, and secret passageways as well!). Outside Bollinger, we were met by M. dennis m.

was also very excited to see this winery because It was my first introduction to South African wine, due to the kindness of winemaker Abrie Beeslaar, a Stellenbosch BSc graduate in vini- and viticulture, who joined Kanonkop in 2002. Johann Krige and Abrie Beeslaar in the Tasting Room. for my application paper. News S.

The Cellar. Corrine Michot gave us an excellent tour of the cellar, both the “old cellar” and the new cellar which is gorgeous and so high tech it even has “skylights” that allow a visitor to look up at the sky through a thin film of water, as the cellar is located below the water table. Secrets of the Cellar.

For example, you can still find Gravner 2001 and 2002 bottlings around without much trouble in NYC market. usually serve orange wines at cellar temp (55 degrees F) and let the bottle warm up on the table from there. Orange wines are sweeping the nation! Well, something like that. Do they tell diners to call in advance? Try it out!

Those of us lucky enough to be present in 2007 (myself included) tasted the 2002 vintage of various cru wines from Domaine LaRoche in both cork and screwcap. The remaining bottles (both cork and screwcap) were stored in the cellar of President Emeritus Jonathan Levine for the past four years. Michel Laroche of Domaine LaRoche.

If I really wanted to drink a Lafon Meursault nowadays, I'd have to buy a bottle at auction because I've been told that, like many of Burgundy's great wines, these require many years of cellaring before they reveal all that they have to offer. I drank a white wine by Domaine des Comtes Lafon the other night the first time I have ever done so.

If you want to try it, Astor Wines has it on the shelves right now, and I hear that a few other shops are considering carrying it - in a few weeks try Uva or Slope Cellars in Brooklyn. My favorite on this night was the 2002 Brut Nature with its beautiful red fruit that really lasts in the nostrils, its vibrancy and clarity.

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. On the red side, the 2002 reserva from the Bosconia vineyard has brick red at the rim, notes of maturity, and elegance. Lopez de Heredia. But it was deliciously fun snapshot.

The 2008 was vibrant and pungently mineral with great freshness and a core of energy that bodes well for the cellar. The sous-voile wines were excellent too, including a show-stopping 2002 Vin Jaune. I was lucky to attend a dinner recently at which Levi Dalton poured a large selection of Jean-François Ganevat's wines.

One factor is that the wines are quite expensive, almost calling out for cellaring; bright, fresh acidity can be found much less money with Bourgogne blanc (or Chablis), for example. Francois et Antoine Jobard, Meursault, “En la Barre,” 2002 : only slightly oxidized, but still too tired at this young an age. follows after the jump.

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. Tawse Winery Beamsville Bench Reserve 2002.

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 2002 Grezeaux still had plenty of freshness and a bit of that herbal–but good herbal–character of cab franc.

For a Champagne house of such stature, it was a bit startling to see how little wine there is in the cellar. All of the Salon wine from the 1999, 2002, and 2004 vintages - all that there is for the whole world, is in this cellar (that looked kind of like a garage). And they don't make it very often. Calm, cool, collected.

Most of us would say yes, and that's probably because his practices in the vineyard and in the cellar reflect the values that are encapsulated within the grower Champagne ethos. Jean-Baptiste Lecaillon pouring 2002 Cristal. 2002 and 2004 Cristal, and pretty tasty too. Entry hall at Champagne Louis Roederer.

We went inside and warmed up by the fireplace before heading next door to her cellars and winery. The same sensibility extends to the cellar, where she makes the wines without filtration, without cold-stabilization and without any sulfur at disgorgement. Ledru disgorges every bottle she makes by hand. neighbor helps her, she said.

Everyone reaches into the cellar for the good bottles to help celebrate the passing of another year. 2002 Domaine Huet Vouvray Demi-Sec Clos du Bourg , $33, Imported by Robert Chadderdon Selections. want to buy good bottles, but there have been oxidation problems so it's a dicey proposition to cellar them. Very impressive.

believe that Krug Collection wines are simply held back after disgorgement, kept in the cellar for further post-disgorgement aging. week or so later BrooklynLady and I opened a bottle she gave to me for my birthday, the 2002 André Clouet Brut Millésimé , $50, Imported by Village Wine Imports. 2002 André Clouet is one of them.

From 2002 the Domaine has practiced 100% organic and now biodynamic farming. Sylvain points out a cage for birds (they must have been chosen for color and beauty) and a potato cellar, as well as some alters carved into the rock that one can enter for a few feet. The Cellar. George. Surprise in the Vineyard. In the Winery.

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.

The Cellar. Corrine Michot gave us an excellent tour of the cellar, both the “old cellar&# and the new cellar which is gorgeous and so high tech it even has “skylights&# that allow a visitor to look up at the sky through a thin film of water, as the cellar is located below the water table. The Tasting.

He was hanging out with a guy named Kirk, another NYC wine guy with a legendary cellar and a generous soul. So my night began with a glass of Kirk's 2002 Nicolas Joly Savennières Clos de la Coulée de Serrant. Well, the chef at Alto did, anyway. Levi just organized the whole thing. And lucky for me, he invited me.

If I were showing Baudry's Rosé to other people who had never had it, or if I were cellaring some for the future, I'd take the 2008. 2002 Chartogne-Taillet Champagne Cuvee Fiacre , $70, Terry Theise Selections/Michael Skurnik Imports. I try not to do laundry list posts that sound like "here's what I drank recently." Sigh of relief.

The 2005 Vincent Dauvissat Chablis , about $25, imported by Wine Cellars (acquired from a private collection) was a ripe and fleshy wine that showed lots of flesh and interest for a regional wine. We had a bunch of people over for dinner this weekend for Chablis night. Okay, that's not exactly what we did. But close. Lovely wine.

Imported by European Cellars. 2005 Damien Laureau Savennières Le Bel Ouvrage , $32, Jon-David Headrick Selections, Imported by European Cellars. I'm starting to believe in the influence of lunar cycles on wine. I'm talking about what I'm finding regarding the days when wine shows well and when it doesn't. And yes, it was a fruit day.

Unless you often buy at auction, or have been buying and cellaring wine for a very long time, you're probably like me - you drink scores of younger wines for every truly mature bottle you drink. remember asking my friend Peter about this as we drove from one cellar tasting to another in Burgundy a little over a year ago. Fully mature?

On the palate, surprisingly light, with some fresh dark fruits left, and certainly quite pure in style, but not concentrated like the 1991 or 2002, and not esoteric like the 1996. Tags: Cellar Selection 3 stars 2005 2003 Ridge Vineyards Monte Bello Napa Valley deep plum color, with a certain vibrancy, like polished wax.

Jasper Hill Farm Bayley Hazen Blue Cheese, paired with 2002 Domaine du Closel Savennières Mo ëlleux Les Coteaux , $28, Louis/Dressner Selections. Mateo and Andy Kehler raise their own cows and make their own cheeses, but they also cellar small-batch cheeses made by other dairy farmers, including the famous Cabot's Cloth Bound Cheddar.

decided to open a bottle of 2002 Diebolt-Vallois Champagne Brut Blanc de Blancs , $65, imported by Petit Pois Corp. 2002 was a great year in most of Champagne and the idea is to actually hold onto the wines to allow them to reach their true potential, not to drink them frivolously after many other bottles at the end of the evening.

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?

have never purchased a bottle of wine, cellared it for long enough so that one would consider it "ready" to drink, and then drunk the wine. In the first half of 2009, I drank a bunch of Muscadet and decided to age Marc Ollivier's 2007 Clos des Briords and Jo Landron's 2007 Fief du Breil , and the 2002 Luneau Papin Clos des Noelles Excelsior.

And how about this - Brian went downstairs to his cellar (normal people can afford to live in houses in Seattle, apparently) and returned with not one, but two bottles by Vouette et Sorbée. I used to write about sparkling wine every Friday in a sets of posts that I called Friday Night Bubbles. These things come in waves, I guess.

Several years ago I drank the 2002 and didn't get it at all. Beautiful now, and seems like a good candidate for the cellar. I've recently emerged from a bit of a "red wine stand-still." I've wanted to branch out some more. Not merely for the sake of branching out - I wish there was more red wine that I really like. Is that so wrong?

It requires skill in the cheese cellar and it is time consuming and expensive -- "For the cheese producer, the great advantage to vacuum-sealing in plastic is that it eliminates all the turning, rubbing, and brushing of traditional aging." I've been wanting to try this cheese since reading the article. Hard to be more definitive than that.

chose the 2002 Domaine Henri Gouges Nuits St. Gouges wines, in general, require a lot of time in the cellar before revealing their charms. Adam and I both thought that the wine was excellent, although we both thought it would continue to improve with a few more years of cellaring. knew that it might not be ready to drink.

Savennières wines are world-class whites from Chenin Blanc, wines with enormous cellaring potential, but they are wines that can be austere in their youth, like a barren moonscape - nothing but rocks and sand. Both the 2002 and the 2004 Bel Ouvrage seem like they will develop beautifully with cellar time. There are two cuvées.

This wine seems as if it could do another 15 years in the cellar without blinking. 2002 Luneau-Papin Muscadet de Sèvre et Maine Clos des Noelles Excelsior , $22, Louis/Dressner Selections. I tend to think of Muscadet as a winter white wine, a wine to drink on a cold January night with a plate of raw oysters. Someone said pineapple.

At the top of my list is Dashe Cellars. Then there's Quivira Vineyards , a family run Demeter certified estate whose 2002 Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel ** was chunky and polished at the same time, not overripe, and not too dense, with good texture and Zzzzing! Tags: 2 stars USA 2006 3 stars 2005 2003 Sonoma 2002 on the finish.

2002 Pewsey Vale The Contours Riesling, Eden Valley. 2002 Grosset Polish Hill Riesling, Clare Valley. 2002 Peter Lehmann Reserve Riesling, Eden Valley. 2002 Seppelt St Peters Great Western Shiraz, Great Western, Grampians. 2002 d’Arenberg The Ironstone Pressings Grenache/Shiraz/Mourvèdre, McLaren Vale.

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. At the outset, it was a single vineyard wine of tiny production.

There is no code etched onto the bottle (recent bottles have an etched on the glass that reveals base year and disgorgement date) so I cannot be certain about the base year, but I'm guessing 2002 grapes primarily, and bottled in 2003. What happens to high quality non-vintage Champagne when you cellar it? More than I do, anyway.

I'd take a half case for the cellar and re-visit in 5 years. 2002 Domaine Leflaive Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Clavoillon - Bruce opened this wine alongside the Leroy, and it was more open and ready to drink. Last week I had the opportunity to drink some pretty fancy wine. High expectations can color things. But you get my point.

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. Rivalries and conflicts simmer throughout the world. At least one was resolved peacefully last week in a historic vertical tasting of the wines of the two Pichons.

I'm talking about weather problems like hail or heavy rain or some other climatic stress, when a producer makes adjustments in the vineyards and sometimes in the cellar, and makes the best wines they can. This wine suffered from a case of under-ripe tannins, and no amount of cellaring can fix that. But that's because it's true.

ChampagneGuide.net offers a complete description of Boulard's history, vineyard and cellar work, and you should subscribe if you haven't already done so, and check it out. But as usual, only 25% of the current vintage's grapes are blended in Petraea, the balance being a blend of wines from 1997 through, in this case, 2002.

want to give her great wines, wines that will improve with 19 years of cellaring. In contrast to the 2005 or 2002, it is not an exuberant wine, even after 3 days open. 2007 Domaine Hu e t Vouvray Sec Clos du Bourg , $28, Robert Chadderdon Selections. Luckily there are affordable wines that also are the finest examples of their type.

In recent years, Bordeaux futures ran up to tremendous highs (see above chart above for three top chateaus ex-cellars; compiled from data from The Times of London ). Now, they may be poised to fall back to 2002 prices, which is what British buyers told the Times they were willing to pay. SPIT: Bordeaux futures. SIPPED: Bordeaux past.

The 2002 vintage of this wine was featured just a few weeks ago in another Friday Night Bubbles post, by the way. And while we very much enjoyed the 2002, the 1996 is an entirely different animal. Maybe an animal that might hunt and eat the 2002, should it be hungry. need to put more Champagne in the cellar.

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. As previously reported, the 2002 Girard Caberent Franc Napa Valley displays bright and luscious strawberry notes on opening. That was the end of the beginning of Girard.

was about to open my last 2002 Domaine du Closel Savennières because I love that wine and I think it goes with basically any food. The palate still has some grip - this wine will most definitely improve with 3-5 in the cellar, but it is smooth and approachable now, and entirely delicious with ripe fruit and snappy acidity.

numbered them and we did a blind tasting, pitting Girard's 2002 Cabernet Franc against a 2000 Ch. The backbone in Girard's 2002 Cabernet Franc had emerged finally and it showed complex notes of spice, fresh red bell pepper, celery and a strong coconut note on the finish. Charmail **, a 2005 Mondavi Napa Valley Merlot, 2000 Ch.

It will probably continue to improve with a few more years in a cold cellar. You might not be able to find the '99 on shelves now, but the 2002 is the new release and it may well surpass the '99 once it is ready to drink, in about 5-8 years. Most of this post already appeared on Jeremy Parzon's Do Bianchi. I'm like a walking dead man.

The word that comes to mind as you sip Antonin Guyon's 2002 Gevrey-Chambertin ** is searing. The 2002 Gevrey-Chambertin ** has evolved into a puckering villages level Burgundy, with piquant cherry notes and a texture like sharp stones. This wine did not always require food to balance out; it was gorgeous by itself after release.

It's also an egalitarian system - the host who feels flush can select 2002 Vosne-Roman é e 1er Cru wines as the theme. The exceptions for me were the Pinon wines - the Brut was fine but the 2002 Vouvray Tradition was just no good. Although I am not a fan of the 2005, my commitment to cellaring my '02s and '04s is renewed.

and no water in excess of the minimum amount necessary to facilitate normal fermentation may be used in the production or cellar treatment of any grape wine…” You can only add water to prevent a stuck fermentations which in your case (as in most) would not have happened since many yeasts will go dry >16%. Health Services, Food & Drug

Those were a Seavey cabernet and a Hansell chardonnay I purchased at Scotto's Wine Cellar nearby before we left. 2002 Seavey Vineyards Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon ** A big Napa cabernet of dried cherries with smokey and chewey tannins. Mexico is a difficult place to find a good bottle of wine. drink beer.  Pirque, Chile. 2006 M.

and no water in excess of the minimum amount necessary to facilitate normal fermentation may be used in the production or cellar treatment of any grape wine…” You can only add water to prevent a stuck fermentations which in your case (as in most) would not have happened since many yeasts will go dry >16%. That is a huge loop hole.

In honor of their 20th anniversary, the Dressner folk dug into the cellar and set out a load of wines from their inaugural vintage. Pacalet has a cellar in Beaune proper and buys grapes from various growers, often tending the plots himself. There was simply no way to taste everything, even if this were the only tasting of the day.

Cellar for 2 years and enjoy for the next decade. Heitz Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley "Trailside Vineyard" 2002 ** about as good as the Harlan, for 1/5 of the price. Lewis Cellars "Cuvee L" 2005 * This is a slightly thicker wine than the Reserve, but there is a touch of cardamom and mellow clove. love their events. Very fine.

Cellar selection. Innocent "Temperance Hill Vineyard" Willamette Valley 2002 Deep garnet color. Cellar selection. I don't know what it is that makes October pinot noir season, but it's always around now that I start to break out the reds in earnest again and the pinot noir is always the first off the shelf. In any event.

I've not had the chance to drink either of these wines at home, but I do have a bottle of the 2002 Vieille Vignes sleeping in the cellar. NV Larmandier-Bernier Champagne Brut Premier Cru Blanc de Blancs , $37, Louis/Dressner Imports. There is a fragrant chalky finish that really lingers, the acidity tingling the cheeks.

Amazingly fresh. Tasted blind, I fingered this for a Central California pinot noir - Sea Smoke or Ojai - something from the Santa Rita Hills. I've never had a Willamette Valley wine that was so fresh or lively, and this at six years of age. sat there holding the cork in my hands wondering how this had stayed so young.

It was an especially pure test for me because I have no idea what this guy keeps in his cellar, no clue about what he likes to drink. It turned out to be a 2002 Domaine Virely-Rougeot Pommard 1er Cru, Les Chanlins (I think). Here are five red wines. They could be anything from anywhere in the world. Never met him before. I'm the idiot.

As we went into her cellar to collect some 13-year -old Beaujolais, she explained her enthusiasm, “Maybe it’s that I always had a spot for the under dog, but that’s not the whole story. It had a cherry chewiness, a firm meaty wine that outshone the Burgundy, a 2002 Pommard we had alongside of it. She asked. Shall we have some?” Sturdy.

Now out of the cellar and away from the barrels I get to taste the Lenz Old Vines Cabernet Sauvignon 2002 from the bottle. Back at the Lenz Winery tasting room Eric Fry proudly speaks of the specialness of our climate and how the grapes are always visible with nice straight open canopies. not heavy, rich and sweet.

We began with the 2002 Champagne Raymond Boulard Extra Brut Les Rachais. The nose is so very delicate with lovely floral and mineral aromas, and beyond that a tightly coiled core of energy that demands many a quiet year in the cellar before it will reveal its true nature. The aromas and flavors really spread out and fill the nostrils.

Coeur D' Alene Cellars founded in 2002 is located in Coeur D'Alene Idaho just east of the Northeastern border of Washington State. Coeur D'Alene Cellars focuses mostly on the Rhone varietals Syrah and Viognier along with Cabernet Franc and the of course the usual suspects Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay. Idaho? Yes, Idaho.

This is the one that I must buy for my own cellar. 2002 Domaine du Closel Savenniè res Clos de Papillon. 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

It isn't a wine to be cellared, but its forest berries and nice structure made it a very nice quaffer, especially at $9 a bottle. The "Senorio del Aguila Reserva" 2002 (Carinena) was showing its age with its brick orange color. OK, maybe it is just geographically challenged Wine Tasting Guy who doesn't know where Aragon is. The "8.0.1

have a lot of the young stuff in the cellar - shouldn't I know more about what happens to this wine in 20 years? We thoroughly enjoyed this wine, but I might have guessed it to be a 2002 if tasted blind. And I have a couple of the 2002's in the cellar, but it would seem prudent to grab a few more of those too, you know, for research.

These are natural wines - vineyards are organically farmed, fermentation is accomplished using yeasts on the grapes and in the cellar, and there are no further manipulations to the juice. 2002 Puzelat Touraine Pinot Noir La Tesni è res $18 I stumbled on this bottle, the last in the store, at Astor the other day. Everything is good.

But in the end I decided that this meal would be a great excuse to check in on a wine that I've been meaning to revisit - the 2002 St Innocent Pinot Noir Seven Springs , $32 on release. 2002 was supposed to be the vintage of the millennium in the Willamette Valley, but I haven't been loving the wines. of this hiding in the cellar.

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. And the 2002, a great year in this part of the Loire Valley, should still have plenty of ripe fruit to go along with complexity and some sweetness. That's right, Alice Feiring! think so.

Damijan Ribolla Gialla 2002 made me change the way I look at white wine, and the first time I had Quintarelli Amarone I knew I'd never tasted anything even close to that before. Following is an interview with Augusto Cardona , Sales Manager, Italian Wine Merchants : What was the first wine that made you realize you loved wine? impact on me.

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.

This is from a parcel of younger vines, and the wine is not meant for extended cellaring. 2002 Bethel Heights Flat Block Reserve , price unknown. Just for kicks, a more mature wine from Deetrane's cellar. And one of them was excellent by any standard. They're calling 2005 a "classic" vintage in Oregon. At only 12.5%

is as follows: "One question I still have about red wines is how long to cellar them before drinking. And as you get to the really expensive wines, you are probably talking about wines that have proven over decades that they ARE cellar-worthy and will age gracefully. great example of this last factor happened in Israel in 2002.

My past includes exactly one Jura red ( 2002 Pierre Overnoy Arbois Pupillin - my notes say that I didn't like it) and a couple of Crémants - love 'em. 2002 Puffeney Arbois Savagnin , $29 - deeply nutty. 2002 Tissot Arbois Savagnin , $32 - this one moved me - old and oxidized and fresh and young and just delicious.

Will they cellar forever? In 2005 I tasted each of these wines at release from the 2002 vintage - another outstanding and outstandingly-hyped year for Burgundy - and I put a couple bottles from that vintage in the cellar. 2005 Burgundy! To the prices? Will they drink on release? How much should I buy? How much should I drink?

2002 Domaine Bonnefond $45 Cote Rotie , Rhone (I put this in as a wild card. hadnt tasted it since a cellar visit in 2004 when I hated them and regretted owning any. home : wine recommendations : wine girl for hire : bio : articles : contact « Humbling Moments in the Book World | Main | The Butler Drank It! Many thanks! Epine?

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 2002 Louis Boillot Pommard 1er Cru Les Fremiers. went with the 2004 Mouton, after almost going with the 2002 Lafite. 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. 2002 Clos Rougeard Saumur-Champigny Les Poyeux , $51, 2 bottles. Why $50? Good buy. Oiy vey. Maybe so.

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. This retails for approximately $35. Bordeaux?

saw several bottles of 2002 Cazin Cour-Cheverny Cuvée Renaissance , at $27 each. 2002 was a wonderful year in the Loire Valley and I LOVED this wine when I tasted it several times a few years ago. But listen - I don't want to be responsible for any injuries to anyone or anything. mean, no stampeding on my account, okay folks?

In this post you can see photos of the cellar, the producer petting his cat, the producer looking like Vincent Price, and most importantly, an amazing photo where you can literally see the difference between organically and non-organically farmed vineyards. There are lots of things that I like about this edition of Wine Blogging Wednesday.

want this wine in my cellar! 2002 Hermann J Wiemer Blanc de Blancs (8) I love this NY State winery's Rieslings, and it was fun to taste the sparkling wines. Seemed like it could continue to improve with cellaring. That's right, Lincoln Center - what a wonderful and grandiose location for such a great tasting. Also very good.

Oregon 2002 St Innocent Pinot Noir Seven Springs Vineyard , $25 (secondary market). Time will tell, as I have enough of this in the cellar to water your lawn. New York 2002 Castello di Borghese Cabernet Franc Reserve , $32 (winery). loved this wine back in March at the real Wine Attack Tasting. Good acidity.

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 lovely looking 2002 1er Cru Meursault Les Charmes, but again, I don't feel quite right cracking open Deetrane's fancy wine. 2002 Stony Hill Napa Valley Chardonnay , about $30 retail.

3" is a wine that I would not necessarily seek out to buy for my cellar, but I would gladly drink anytime. 2002 Scarola Merlot , $?? Did I make a mistake on the vintage here - shouldn't this be 2001 or 2002? I'm already a believer in Long Island wine. already like them. They typically clock in between 12-13.5% alcohol. Yummy.

2002 Michel Colin-Deleger Chassagne Montrachet 1er Cru Les Chenevottes - Such a pronouncedly different style from the Hafner. 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.

2002 Sylvan Cathiard Vosne Romanee , $25 (secondary market). to lay down in the cellar for a while. Its been a really good wine drinking month. 2001 Domaine Rollin Pernand-Vergelesses , $30 (375ml). Drank at a restaurant, so retail would be about $12-15, I imagine. This wine was thin, shrill, and green. Buy carefully in 2001.

2002 Olga Raffault Chinon Les Picasses , $17. 2002 Catherine et Pierre Breton Bourgueil Les Perrieres , $26. They make many wines, some for drinking young, some for cellaring, like this one from the great Perrieres vineyard in Bourgueil. You will see that the structure will allow for cellaring though. And $17 - c'mon.

The 2002 was just excellent, and the last time I tasted the 2003 I was really impressed. This wine can improve for many years in the cellar. The folks over at the Wine Cask Blog are hosting this month's edition of Wine Blogging Wednesday, the online tasting event created by Lenn at Lenndevours. What happened here? Is it 75% better?

My first taste of Montevertine wine was the 2002 Pian del Ciampolo and I really liked it, light and graceful but intense, like a good Pinot. This was just outstanding, and I have a few bottles sleeping in the cellar. The 2003 Pian del Ciampolo was also quite nice, but it didn't hook me like the 2002. Baking spices? What a nose!

According to my records in Cellar Tracker, Burgundy accounts for upwards of 25% of my wine consumption in 2007 (I'm not getting into actual numbers, because I don't want you to think that I'm some sort of booze-soaked sot, or something). Like the wonderful $14 2002 Willamette Valley Vineyards Pinot Noir. Why not? So that's it?" what).

It gets mostly excellent reviews from the community on Cellar Tracker, and one of the reviews said that it needs time to open up. But almost 3 hours later (thank you Cellar Tracker reviewers), by the time we sat down to our dinner, the nasty smells had completely blown off. How about something elegant and festive in a white wine?