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RE: Tasting Notes To Note - 10/10/2008 1:05:06 AM   
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어쩜 이렇게 향이 고급스러울 수가있니? 부드러운 벨벳같은 질감. 고급 가죽소파 느낌. SH같은 이미지랄까... 바디와 피니쉬만 좀 더 보강된다면 Extraordinary이다. 재구매 의향 굳굳 재구매 의향 굳굳


From the automatic translation in Google:

The scent can be so advanced that?
Soft, velvety texture. Leather couch, I feel.
SH Banging the same image ...
If the reinforcement is more piniswiman body and Extraordinary.
Willing to buy more gutgut

Now, that is what I call a special TN...

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RE: Tasting Notes To Note - 10/10/2008 1:10:44 AM   
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Willing to buy more gutgut

Now - that is a sentence the like of which you don't see every day.

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RE: Tasting Notes To Note - 10/12/2008 6:53:51 AM   
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2002 d'Arenberg Shiraz The Dead Arm (Australia, South Australia, Fleurieu, McLaren Vale)  


Tasted on 11/10/2008: one of eight drank with Big Dave and TJ - no helpful memories (136 views)

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RE: Tasting Notes To Note - 10/12/2008 6:58:45 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Wrighty

Sounds like a good night and an honest assessment





2002 d'Arenberg Shiraz The Dead Arm (Australia, South Australia, Fleurieu, McLaren Vale)  


Tasted on 11/10/2008: one of eight drank with Big Dave and TJ - no helpful memories (136 views)


Note to self....."do not invite Big Dave and TJ to next wine tasting".

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RE: Tasting Notes To Note - 10/12/2008 2:20:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		2004 Le Vieux Donjon Châteauneuf-du-Pape (France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Châteauneuf-du-Pape) 10/10/2008 90pts

Popped and let my first glass sit for about 30 mins. Nose was pretty darn stingy at first, giving up just a hint of herbs, kirsch, and raspberries. Fairly structured on the palate--fruit, acid, and a little bit of a stranglehold on your tongue from the tannins. I fully expected this wine to open up but it never really did. Maybe I just didn't give it enough time or maybe it's not ready. Even at more than two hours in, the nose was still fighting to give anything up (kind of like my high school girlfriend). Some strawberries, sweetness, and bitter chocolate (maybe was just the tannin) made an appearance and gave me a glimpse of what could be, but without a ton of CdP experience I may have just drank it too early. It's a well made Old World wine--it just lacked a knockout punch (which my high school girlfriend definitely had:). 90pts. (277 views)

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RE: Tasting Notes To Note - 11/9/2008 9:54:15 AM   
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Status: offline 		"Dark red. Intriguing nose of tobacco, mint, caramel, sour milk and some saltiness from the wood."

Yes you've guessed it - Chateau Latour 2001 94pts.

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RE: Tasting Notes To Note - 11/11/2008 5:44:56 AM   
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Tasted by dave747400 on 11/10/2008 & rated 91 points: Farr's Christmas tasting.
A wine I've been wanting to taste for quite a while. Good nose, young. Lovely round palate fans out in the mouth with delicious tannins all the way to the finish. Enjoyed this. Drinking but sure this has a long life ahead & can only improve. Sal 91pts too. (21 views)

I wasn't there this year :(
L.

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RE: Tasting Notes To Note - 11/11/2008 7:39:25 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Colonel Lawrence

"Dark red. Intriguing nose of tobacco, mint, caramel, sour milk and some saltiness from the wood."

Yes you've guessed it - Chateau Latour 2001 94pts.


Sour milk and salty wood. Sounds yummy.

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RE: Tasting Notes To Note - 11/11/2008 10:53:55 AM   
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L.

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RE: Tasting Notes To Note - 11/11/2008 10:57:23 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Maestro

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어쩜 이렇게 향이 고급스러울 수가있니? 부드러운 벨벳같은 질감. 고급 가죽소파 느낌. SH같은 이미지랄까... 바디와 피니쉬만 좀 더 보강된다면 Extraordinary이다. 재구매 의향 굳굳 재구매 의향 굳굳


From the automatic translation in Google:

The scent can be so advanced that?
Soft, velvety texture. Leather couch, I feel.
SH Banging the same image ...
If the reinforcement is more piniswiman body and Extraordinary.
Willing to buy more gutgut

Now, that is what I call a special TN...


Classic! Thanks, Maestro ... I'm now trying to eject all the coffee that got stuck on my nose hairs when I read your post with a swill in my craw.

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RE: Tasting Notes To Note - 11/11/2008 11:02:55 AM   
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This wine is yummy.
Smell and taste is very good.
Yes I will buy more.

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RE: Tasting Notes To Note - 11/11/2008 1:32:53 PM   
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These are all from the same author on N.V. Arcus http://www.cellartracker.com/wine.asp?iWine=503612
Start at the bottom and read up so they are in chronological order.
 
Tasted by XXX on 05/04/2008 & rated 50 points: Damnit! No fruit at all. I think they are closing up now... I've read about this, apparently this happens to high quality burgundy wines like these ones. Just have to be patient now... (223 views) - report issue | favorite author

Tasted by XXX on 04/04/2008 & rated 100 points: Arcus Rødvin
Structured, complex and intense. Huge aging potential. Fantastic wine. (313 views)
 
Tasted by XXX on 04/04/2008 & rated 100 points: Wow. This bottle was even better than the one I drank five minutes ago. (315 views)
 
Tasted by XXX on 04/04/2008 & rated 100 points: Man, I don't believe it, this is even better than the last one, and the one before combined! (312 views)
 
Tasted by XXX on 04/04/2008: Ah, better stop drinking these now. They will probably drink best in about 50 years. Can't wait! (235 views)

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RE: Tasting Notes To Note - 11/11/2008 1:46:33 PM   
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RE: Tasting Notes To Note - 11/11/2008 1:50:25 PM   
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ORIGINAL: RoundersRob

nonsense like that should be deleted.


Are you kidding?!  I bought 5 cases and I'm going to sell them off in 2058 for amazing profits!! Want to buy some futures?  

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RE: Tasting Notes To Note - 11/11/2008 1:52:21 PM   
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RE: Tasting Notes To Note - 11/11/2008 1:55:56 PM   
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I'll give you three marbles and a used paperclip.


Generous offer, if that was me it was something else used
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RE: Tasting Notes To Note - 11/11/2008 2:03:58 PM   
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I'll give you three marbles and a used paperclip.


Those notes consist 5 of the 7 total he has written.  What a contribution! 

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RE: Tasting Notes To Note - 11/11/2008 2:27:17 PM   
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ORIGINAL: RoundersRob

I'll give you three marbles and a used paperclip.


Those notes consist 5 of the 7 total he has written.  What a contribution! 


According to his cellar wine list he's got 42 cases of N.V. Arcus and 70 misc. other bottles.  It's got to be a joke, right?

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RE: Tasting Notes To Note - 11/11/2008 3:01:20 PM   
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Status: offline 		In case you don't know, "Arcus" NV (better known as "Arcus Rødvin") is the house blend of the Wine Monopoly (the state-owned wine shops) in Norway. The wine monopoly over there buys bulk wine in France, blend it in Norway, and puts it out in the Norwegian market as "Arcus Rødvin".

It was for years meant to be the cheapest wine you could buy in Norway (although now I think some Bulgarian stuff is a bit cheaper over there).

It is not a 100-point wine...

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RE: Tasting Notes To Note - 11/13/2008 8:31:35 AM   
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Status: online 		The first pour showed a lot of barnyard, leathery animalistic tones that slowly evolved to reveal a sexy nose of flowers, dark chocolates, tobacco with underlying brambly cherries. After a while, I got some indian smells ...betel nut? The nose is just very very intriguing and being very volatile and always in motion.Once more, very very intriguing nose. Very delicious drinking with fleshy blackberry pie jamminess with slight inkishness at the finish. I would say the approach shows elegance but at the same time, the brambly spiciness of the shiraz still shows....however its unlike a typical aussie shiraz because its more feminine than masculine as it evolves with the temperament of a lady...yet it still evokes images of vigour and strength. The best way to describe this wine....a transvestite! But it is really intriguing

2005 Rolf Binder/Veritas Heinrich
 

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RE: Tasting Notes To Note - 11/13/2008 9:18:41 AM   
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The first pour showed a lot of barnyard, leathery animalistic tones that slowly evolved to reveal a sexy nose of flowers, dark chocolates, tobacco with underlying brambly cherries. After a while, I got some indian smells ...betel nut? The nose is just very very intriguing and being very volatile and always in motion.Once more, very very intriguing nose. Very delicious drinking with fleshy blackberry pie jamminess with slight inkishness at the finish. I would say the approach shows elegance but at the same time, the brambly spiciness of the shiraz still shows....however its unlike a typical aussie shiraz because its more feminine than masculine as it evolves with the temperament of a lady...yet it still evokes images of vigour and strength. The best way to describe this wine....a transvestite! But it is really intriguing

2005 Rolf Binder/Veritas Heinrich
 


He really worked for that "!" at the end, and then kind of cuddled afterward with "But it is really intriguing"



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RE: Tasting Notes To Note - 11/13/2008 9:37:23 AM   
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Status: online 		He's pretty hardass when it comes to scoring and is one of my favorites auth's but this description was, well....  intriguing 

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RE: Tasting Notes To Note - 11/13/2008 9:45:42 AM   
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He's pretty hardass when it comes to scoring and is one of my favorites auth's but this description was, well....  intriguing 


Boy, I'll say.  I don't view an 84 for as a bad score, but an 84 for the 04 Beaucastel?  He's a tough crowd.


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RE: Tasting Notes To Note - 11/13/2008 7:45:07 PM   
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ORIGINAL: fingers

He's pretty hardass when it comes to scoring and is one of my favorites auth's but this description was, well....  intriguing 


Boy, I'll say.  I don't view an 84 for as a bad score, but an 84 for the 04 Beaucastel?  He's a tough crowd.



It was my bottle too! I blinded it, brought it to dinner as part of VCTE II. He pronounced it a wine of some class and breeding... and gave it an 84. To be fair, that is very decent on his scale.. but my poor bottle of Beaucastel surely deserved more...

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RE: Tasting Notes To Note - 11/14/2008 10:39:10 AM   
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Tasted by JonathanNYC on 8/15/2008 & rated 70 points: Why, oh why, did I decide to have faith in humanity, and trust that damned, mottled pale skin, red-nosed drunkard/sea captain-looking wine merchant at Yorkville, against all odds. He’s always seemed to have some disdain with my spending over $15 on a wine in his shop (obviously he's not the owner).
Told him I wanted to try something new: a nice California pinot noir with few flaws and complexity, for somewhere around $30/40 (I like trying new varietals and watching them come over my palate for the first time with a bang).
His first reply: “Well, you don’t need to spend that much!” OK, kindness, perhaps.
“Oh, great!” I replied. He then led me to this crapper, which, aha! was also on clearance sale, and said he thought it was “nice”. I asked about the taste: he was at a loss for words. “Uhhhh… it kinda…has a…cherry taste. I liked it. People like it.”
“Really? Does it have any major flaws?” I ask.
“Well, nothing’s perfect: everything has flaws”, this jackass replies, in a roundabout, philosophical manner. Wow. You should work in a wine shop! Can’t tell me what the flaws are.
Conclusion after tasting?
Forgive me while I vent, and direct my wrath towards the sea captain:
Well, dipshit, if you want to keep drinking the rusty, acidic slime from the bottom of the Star Wars trash compactor and call it “nice”, go ahead! But don’t recommend it to your customers, you slovenly drunkard! Admit you don’t know **** from Shinola! Go back out on the sea and salvage for scrap metal once again! Reassume your identity as a lost sea captain eager for any form of alcoholic intoxication available.
This wine is quite simply a sore throat in a bottle. I waited, I decanted, I tried the next day: no dice. This is a peppery, rusty, acid disappointment. The plague. Unable to finish the bottle. Who could drink this crap?! (105 views) - report issue | favorite author


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RE: Tasting Notes To Note - 11/14/2008 3:24:33 PM   
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ORIGINAL: jhannah27

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ORIGINAL: fingers

He's pretty hardass when it comes to scoring and is one of my favorites auth's but this description was, well....  intriguing 


Boy, I'll say.  I don't view an 84 for as a bad score, but an 84 for the 04 Beaucastel?  He's a tough crowd.



It was my bottle too! I blinded it, brought it to dinner as part of VCTE II. He pronounced it a wine of some class and breeding... and gave it an 84. To be fair, that is very decent on his scale.. but my poor bottle of Beaucastel surely deserved more...


pretty hardass!?!  Dude has 557 TN's with an average score of 82.78!  I'm sure he's tasted enough wine in his lifetime to be able to pick-out wines that he's likely to enjoy (i know that's why my average over 365 TN's is 87.95 ... and I think I'm a tough customer) so I'm very surprised his average score for a wine is about 83.  I guess getting a 90 from him is like getting a 345 from Jay Miller!

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RE: Tasting Notes To Note - 11/14/2008 3:28:15 PM   
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Status: offline 		interesting that he gave the '05 Lascombes, of which I just bought half a case, "90"

His palate is just so far from mine I'm not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing?

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RE: Tasting Notes To Note - 11/20/2008 11:33:09 AM   
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http://www.cellartracker.com/wine.asp?iWine=163186


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RE: Tasting Notes To Note - 11/20/2008 11:45:46 AM   
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RE: Tasting Notes To Note - 11/22/2008 8:51:47 AM   
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Tasted by DenisLee on 10/13/2008: I'm really straining to find anything good to say about this. But, if I'm honest, this seems hot and oaky and disjointed. I see that I rated this 93 points in Aug. '07. Hmmm, I must have been smoking crack that night. Hope I got lucky. No matter how I twist my taste buds or tilt my melon, I can't see value here. I was robbed. Just say, 'No' to crack, and don't buy this wine. (33 views) - report issue | favorite author


Tasted by sadiebear on 6/24/2008 & rated 89 points: Cat Pee...mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Maybe not for my palate? (79 views) - report issue | favorite author

http://www.cellartracker.com/wine.asp?iWine=157902

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