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What is the appropriate wine to finish off 2020? - 12/27/2020 5:09:37 PM   
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Your mileage may vary.....



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RE: What is the appropriate wine to finish off 2020? - 12/27/2020 6:00:48 PM   
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RE: What is the appropriate wine to finish off 2020? - 12/27/2020 6:10:45 PM   
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How could you not?

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RE: What is the appropriate wine to finish off 2020? - 12/27/2020 6:21:10 PM   
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But since my palate and smell is still in recovery and I cannot distinguish between a boxed wine and a Harlan ( not that I had it before ! ) I think I will drink some of my favourite beers ( I am a lager guy so...no weird things for me) with my son. I had today quite a few beers since 10 am ( Quilmes, Baltika #5, Kross, Tiger, Tecate, and a couple more).

I am not opening a $100 bottle of wine if I cannot enjoy the nuances of it. For some weird reason today I started to detect better than yesterday the different flavors each beer had, so I am in the correct path.

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RE: What is the appropriate wine to finish off 2020? - 12/27/2020 6:28:42 PM   
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Duh.... Mad Dog 20 20.

How could you not?



I think to support Eduardo, we should get some of that refermented Mexican wine

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RE: What is the appropriate wine to finish off 2020? - 12/27/2020 6:32:14 PM   
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Duh.... Mad Dog 20 20.

How could you not?



I think to support Eduardo, we should get some of that refermented Mexican wine


It´s fantastic, it is now being used to kill covid around here

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RE: What is the appropriate wine to finish off 2020? - 12/27/2020 7:00:55 PM   
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RE: What is the appropriate wine to finish off 2020? - 12/27/2020 8:53:08 PM   
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"Fermented Mexican wine"? Do you mean tequila?


Believe me when I tell you there are people that believe that think that tequila kills the virus....and I am not joking. Now, when I have a cold and I have a shot of tequila it definitely brings warmth to by body

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RE: What is the appropriate wine to finish off 2020? - 12/27/2020 8:57:28 PM   
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"Fermented Mexican wine"? Do you mean tequila?


"refermented" - it was a joke, like refried beans. Bob / fingers was referring to it. Man, that post was months ago!

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RE: What is the appropriate wine to finish off 2020? - 12/27/2020 11:46:04 PM   
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RE: What is the appropriate wine to finish off 2020? - 12/28/2020 3:14:48 PM   
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It was a crappy year. I might open something really nasty.


It was a crappy year. I might open something really LARGE!!

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RE: What is the appropriate wine to finish off 2020? - 12/28/2020 8:48:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well, the year was a TWO BUCK CHUCK. The fact that it is ending seems to deserve better.

Eduardo, as you remember we had COVID in October and my wife still does not have anything close to her sense of taste and smell back. I do and I was the very sick one. It is a confounding virus.

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RE: What is the appropriate wine to finish off 2020? - 12/28/2020 9:16:02 PM   
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Well, the year was a TWO BUCK CHUCK. The fact that it is ending seems to deserve better.

Eduardo, as you remember we had COVID in October and my wife still does not have anything close to her sense of taste and smell back. I do and I was the very sick one. It is a confounding virus.


It is indeed a VERY confounding virus. Quite a few friends and people I know had already covid and it seems that everyone got hit in a very different way. All of them got well but quite a few had moderate symtoms and are still in recovery mode. All of my friends are inn their late 40´s or very early 50´s with no comorbidities that I am aware of other than mentally challanged. The worse covid was my doctor friend (M.D) and the best one (yet) was mine. 100 % got fever, thats the only symtom is unavoidable , but lack of smell and taste is 3 hit and one miss so far, but the one that got fever for 8 straight days and that is under surveilance and doing lung exercises did not lost smell or taste. My neighbor is an 85 year old woman that rents to me a house , she got covid in late august but she fared the virus very well. I had her on the protocol that I believe ( without solid science based proof...making it clear to not shake the nest here) and she is doing very well. Of course genes, viral load, and many other variables play here and with everyone of us. Tell your wife smell and taste will return, it can take a few more weeks though but she will get to drink her fav wines very soon

Edit: I started my neighbor on the protocol in early or mid February, so whatever she was missing from minerals or vitamins she had plenty of time to be prepared .

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RE: What is the appropriate wine to finish off 2020? - 12/29/2020 2:09:27 PM   
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For the first Offline I ever attended, I brought a 1967 Renato Ratti Barolo Marcenasco. It was way past it prime - so opaque that no light passed through it and it looked like mud. One of the attendees stated that it tasted like when you put a 9 volt battery on your tongue. Yep....That's the way to kick 2020 to the curb.


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RE: What is the appropriate wine to finish off 2020? - 12/29/2020 2:55:51 PM   
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RE: What is the appropriate wine to finish off 2020? - 12/29/2020 8:31:25 PM   
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Oh for sure something really awful.

For the first Offline I ever attended, I brought a 1967 Renato Ratti Barolo Marcenasco. It was way past it prime - so opaque that no light passed through it and it looked like mud. One of the attendees stated that it tasted like when you put a 9 volt battery on your tongue. Yep....That's the way to kick 2020 to the curb.



That reminds me of a 99% PI podcast I listened to about boredom where they put you in a room for 15 minutes and the only thing you had available to you was a button to press which gave you an electric shock that felt like a cat biting your leg. Most people tried it once or twice .... except for one guy who did it 200 times. Probably would have been a big hit in 2020.

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RE: What is the appropriate wine to finish off 2020? - 12/29/2020 11:16:47 PM   
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I'll drink a modest wine that I like with my wife and kid near, thankful for the vaccine and glad it wasn't WWIII.

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RE: What is the appropriate wine to finish off 2020? - 12/30/2020 4:58:40 PM   
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I might be alone on this, but it seems to me that, given how bad some years have been even in modern history, 2020 was a blip on the bad year radar. It seemed incredibly bad because so many years before it were incredibly good. But for sure things coukd be way worse.



Sure, things could be a lot worse. In general, we have things pretty easy compared with how things have been in the past, at least if you live in a developed country and have an okay job. War and famine are no longer constant threats, for one thing. For a 13th century peasant, modern life might look surprisingly close to their idea of the land of Cockaigne, a medieval fantasy world in which food was readily available without back-breaking hard labour. An article I read once argued that 536 AD was the worst year to be alive, so maybe avoid going there if you ever get hold of a time machine.

Having said that, it is all somewhat relative. Most of us do tend to take ready availability of food for granted, and not without reason — that is (hopefully!) unlikely to change in the near future. It's been a pretty miserable year compared with how life has been over the past 50 years or so. It is important to realise it's been a difficult year for pretty much everyone, and take that into account. Maybe things could be worse, but they weren't great either.

At the moment, I'm not holding out that much hope for 2021, if just because of the length of time required for vaccinations. I hope things will have improved by the end of 2021, and all the plans I had for 2020 (which were already quite delayed!) can finally happen then....

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RE: What is the appropriate wine to finish off 2020? - 12/31/2020 2:49:07 AM   
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RE: What is the appropriate wine to finish off 2020? - 12/31/2020 4:32:31 AM   
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fingers crossed 2021 will be better...


Why would Bob be mad if 2021 is a better year? Man, you guys seem to think he's angry all the time about everything!

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RE: What is the appropriate wine to finish off 2020? - 12/31/2020 7:42:39 AM   
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As for a wine lineup, how about:

Bevan Cellars The Curmudgeon
Kerloo Cellars Apocolypse
Optimism Pinot Noir Boundless Brand New Day

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RE: What is the appropriate wine to finish off 2020? - 12/31/2020 11:11:47 AM   
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RE: What is the appropriate wine to finish off 2020? - 12/31/2020 11:39:44 AM   
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RE: What is the appropriate wine to finish off 2020? - 12/31/2020 12:15:24 PM   
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I just roasted some red peppers on the grill to go with a nice charcutier board we'll put together for dinner tonight. So, I guess we'll have a Brunello.

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RE: What is the appropriate wine to finish off 2020? - 12/31/2020 1:11:09 PM   
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Piper Sonoma brut NV
Roederer estate brut NV,
Biltmore estate 125th anniversary bottling brut (California fruit.. bottled in Healdsburg)
Pas De Deux a traditional method Moscato sparkle from Biltmore as well. this appears to be all done at the estate.. not sure about the fruit..

haven't decided on the red for myself yet.. but...we will see.

wings, veggie tray and cheese tray for food.

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RE: What is the appropriate wine to finish off 2020? - 12/31/2020 2:51:17 PM   
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RE: What is the appropriate wine to finish off 2020? - 12/31/2020 4:20:52 PM   
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RE: What is the appropriate wine to finish off 2020? - 12/31/2020 7:45:41 PM   
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fingers crossed 2021 will be better...


Why would Bob be mad if 2021 is a better year? Man, you guys seem to think he's angry all the time about everything!


I should have thought before I inadvertently used finger's name in vain . Ooops, sorry! I need to think of a different cliché that doesn't take someone else's name in vain....

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RE: What is the appropriate wine to finish off 2020? - 1/1/2021 10:20:05 AM   
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Opening my first bottle of '09 Dom.


How was the 09 Dom? I really liked it when I tried it. Certainly my cretin side is showing, but excellent champagnes from warm vintages are generally my favorite bubbles ...

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RE: What is the appropriate wine to finish off 2020? - 1/1/2021 9:13:09 PM   
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Opening my first bottle of '09 Dom.


How was the 09 Dom? I really liked it when I tried it. Certainly my cretin side is showing, but excellent champagnes from warm vintages are generally my favorite bubbles ...


I haven't tried enough vintage champagnes yet, but I'd expect I'd agree with you, if just because I tend to prefer champagnes with a bit of richness and vinosity.

It does remind me of some advice I was given a while ago, that generally you should look for warm vintages in cool climate regions and cool vintages in warm climate regions. Champagne's kind of a cool climate region, so that would be in accord with that advice. No doubt it's rather simplistic advice — wine is too complex for such simple truisms — but nonetheless it may have something to it.

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