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[Sensual Sophia]

Originally Posted by runswithscissors

Cupcake is coming out with their Moscato D Asti very soon; anyone try the line of Cupcake wines?

Oooooooh! I luuuuuv the cupcake rosé! But Moscato D Asti? You'd have to tie me down and pour it into me with a funnel.

[Yssup Rider]

How about the Chateau de Catte Pisse?

Actually, wine gives me a horrible headache, even when it's sacramental wine! Especially when it's sacramental wine! (Rabbi Tuckmann?)

I've enjoyed fabulous vintages in Europe and domestically (though I gotta tell you, the table wine in Italy beats the shit out of most everything here!) and I'll throw back a few Ketel One martinis or good German beers before dropping the big bucks on something that'll fuck me up for days!

I'll put the money in my pocket and give it to a provider instead!!!

[Hottassamelia]

its like Ive died and gone to thread heaven....

[saj1000]

Cabernet Sauvignon...any decent bottle in the $10-$12 range is good. Paying anymore than that is a luxury. A $20 bottle of wine will be 5% better than a $10 bottle and a $40 dollar bottle will be 7% better than a $10 bottle.

Serve a good bottle first and after that, it doesn't matter what you're drinking.

I also like some Pinot Grigios or Sauvignon Blancs. Dry.

It's the same thing for vodka...people pay for the label on the bottle. Vodka is vodka.

Texas wines? Most of it tastes like sweat or piss. It'll be good in 25-30 years when the vines mature. I should add, any decent wines you buy in Texas are blended with juices from California. Went to a vineyard in the Hill Country and they had a couple decent wines, I asked the guy why? He told me they brought in juice from California to blend.

[Smokin Joe]

KaraLynn, I like that wine we had on that rainy night.

[Guest041811-2]

Originally Posted by ThrillBill88

Wine? Wine rhymes with whine, and both are for wusses. Real men drink vodka.

So, Billy-Boy... What do you like?

If you say Grey Goose, I cannot be your friend. If you say Ketel One, well, I cannot say on an open board what I'll do for you!

Originally Posted by Sensual Sophia

.... tie me down and pour it into me with a funnel.

OK! And BTW, I don't think you are a post-ho. Your posts are consistently relevant and articulate. xo

[Guest041811-2]

Originally Posted by Smokin Joe

KaraLynn, I like that wine we had on that rainy night.

Messina Hof.

[runswithscissors]

Originally Posted by Sensual Sophia

Oooooooh! I luuuuuv the cupcake rosé! But Moscato D Asti? You'd have to tie me down and pour it into me with a funnel.

<<<<checking in my kitchen cabinets....funnel...check...
rope...check...bottle of asti...pick up on the way to Sophias...>>>

Will that be dressed or undressed, please?

[Spacemtn]

Love some Ketel One!!

Wine, focus, Space......

Champagne:
Veuve Clicquot

and of course Dom!!
Reds:
I like BIG Cabs, like:
Silver Oak
Far Niente 2000 or 2005
Kuleto Estate Wineries
Frank Family 2005
and Katheryn Hall
Cakebread Rubiatt
Cakebread Merlot
Malbec's from Argentina
and and occasional Pinot

Whites:
Far Niente Chardonnay
Cakebread chardonnay
Simi Chardonnay
Fransciscan Chardonnay
Kathryn Hall Sauvignon Blanc

Fun
Penfolds Moscato served chilled in glasses whose rims are drizzled with caramel
A nice port lile Rutherford Hill served with chocolate covered blueberries

And then there is one that a very special lady introduced me to that will ALWAYS be on my list New Age!!!

Spacemtn
AustinModStaff

[governmentguru]

Anything from Duckhorn, Dalla Valle or Groth
Moet
For Pinot Noir anything from Robert Sinskey
Zins anything from Ridge

There are dozens of whites from all varietals.

[ThrillBill88]

Originally Posted by KaraLynnKelley

So, Billy-Boy... What do you like?

If you say Grey Goose, I cannot be your friend. If you say Ketel One, well, I cannot say on an open board what I'll do for you!

I'll remeber that when you visit next March.

[Guest041811-2]

Originally Posted by Spacemtn

Cakebread Rubiatt


Fun
Penfolds Moscato served chilled in glasses whose rims are drizzled with caramel


Spacemtn
AustinModStaff

Wow, you have given me some great suggestions! I've never heard of that Rubiatt and the Moscato idea... brilliant!

Have you tried Gascon, an Argentinian (BTW, when is it proper to use Argentine vs Argentinian?) Malbec? I love this one.

[Spacemtn]

The Cakebread Rubiatt (spelling) is hard to find unless you get it direct from the winery. It is served slightly below room temp (just a hint of chill) and is called the "BarBQ" wine. BTW, I have one bottle left in the cellar and I could be convinced to share!!!!!!

I had the Moscato at a place in Key West Florida that only serves desserts. The name is "Better than Sex". The desserts are incredible and the Moscato was wonderful with the other desserts we had.

Can't wait to try the Argentine.....Argentinian....a w Hell..just gimme some Ripple!!!

Spacemtn
AustinModStaff

[Whispers]

Originally Posted by Spacemtn

...aw Hell..just gimme some Ripple!!!

Now your talking....

I used to drink me some ripple....

And of course the proper breakfast wine was Mogen David Concord Grape

Tricky how you lured me to a thread bout Whiners only to find a buch of winos reminiscing

[Guest041811-2]

Rubiayat:



From the Cakebread website:

2000 Rubaiyat

Every wine lover knows these lines:

Here with a loaf of bread beneath the bough, A flask of wine, a book of verse --
and thou Beside me singing in the wilderness-
And wilderness is paradise ….
The Eleventh Quatrain of the Rubáiyat by Omar Khayyám*

Since 1992, Cakebread Cellars has been making what has become a very popular light-bodied red wine blend named after the famous poem, Rubáiyát by Omar Khayyám.* For each vintage of Rubaiyat, winemaker Bruce Cakebread makes the kind of red wine blend ideally suited to accompany light picnic or barbecue fare.

But the modern day romantic in each of us does not have to sing in the wilderness, especially a paradisiacal one, to be able to properly enjoy Cakebread Cellars' 2000 Rubaiyat. It goes extremely well with grilled or spicy foods, or any dish that might otherwise overwhelm a lighter white or rosé wine.

Accordingly, the constant in Rubaiyat's blend over the years has been the food-friendly Pinot noir wine, with 90% or more of this variety going into the blend in recent vintages. Additionally, a small amount of Syrah gets blended to better bring forward the Pinot noir's vibrant raspberry and bright cherry-like flavors.

Aged over one year in new and year-old French oak barrels before being bottled, the 2000 Rubaiyat is produced in such limited quantities as to be only available at the winery. It is also enjoyable to serve Rubaiyat slightly chilled.

* The 19th century English Romantic poet Edward Fitzgerald gave the title The Rubaiyat (RU-bee-aht) of Omar Khayyam to his "translations" of the verses of the 11th-century Abu-'l-fat'h 'Omar, son of Ibrahim the tentmaker of Naishápúr, known more commonly as Omar Khayyam, a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet. Khayyam's almost 100 quatrains (four-line poems) celebrate and meditate upon the whole range of human life. We naturally like best the one about the pleasures of wine.


*Thanks for the info on this wine. You've led me to do some research and shopping!*