The new wine thread
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@bovidae said in The new wine thread:
A family celebration at an Italian restaurant a few weeks back. We started with a Prosecco, and added a few dollars to the Kirwan family bank account.
Drank some recently. Nice, for what it was -a dry, easy drinking prosecco. Thankfully not too sweet (unlike the prosecco friends brought last night and we tipped)
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@r-l said in The new wine thread:
@catogrande said in The new wine thread:
add some lemon juice in yours
Are you joking or is that a "thing"
He said he likes it sharp, lemon juice should do it.
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@snowy said in The new wine thread:
@canefan said in The new wine thread:
@snowy said in The new wine thread:
@catogrande said in The new wine thread:
I got given a bottle of Valli PN though and what a difference. Lovely drop.
Got absolutely smashed on that a few years ago at Bardeaux in Queenstown. Great bar introduced to me by @Canerbry about 15 years ago, and a lovely wine, albeit a bit too moorish.
Moreish? (*pedant alert)
Yes. Typo. Moorish is a completely different thing.
Depends. What if more moors find it hard to stop drinking it? It might make sense then.
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@catogrande said in The new wine thread:
@snowy said in The new wine thread:
@canefan said in The new wine thread:
@snowy said in The new wine thread:
@catogrande said in The new wine thread:
I got given a bottle of Valli PN though and what a difference. Lovely drop.
Got absolutely smashed on that a few years ago at Bardeaux in Queenstown. Great bar introduced to me by @Canerbry about 15 years ago, and a lovely wine, albeit a bit too moorish.
Moreish? (*pedant alert)
Yes. Typo. Moorish is a completely different thing.
Depends. What if more moors find it hard to stop drinking it? It might make sense then.
Or it tastes like Moors? Snowy should know
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@canefan said in The new wine thread:
@catogrande said in The new wine thread:
@snowy said in The new wine thread:
@canefan said in The new wine thread:
@snowy said in The new wine thread:
@catogrande said in The new wine thread:
I got given a bottle of Valli PN though and what a difference. Lovely drop.
Got absolutely smashed on that a few years ago at Bardeaux in Queenstown. Great bar introduced to me by @Canerbry about 15 years ago, and a lovely wine, albeit a bit too moorish.
Moreish? (*pedant alert)
Yes. Typo. Moorish is a completely different thing.
Depends. What if more moors find it hard to stop drinking it? It might make sense then.
Or it tastes like Moors? Snowy should know
Good point, it would be cool if he couldn’t stop eating moors wouldn’t it?
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@catogrande said in The new wine thread:
@canefan said in The new wine thread:
@catogrande said in The new wine thread:
@snowy said in The new wine thread:
@canefan said in The new wine thread:
@snowy said in The new wine thread:
@catogrande said in The new wine thread:
I got given a bottle of Valli PN though and what a difference. Lovely drop.
Got absolutely smashed on that a few years ago at Bardeaux in Queenstown. Great bar introduced to me by @Canerbry about 15 years ago, and a lovely wine, albeit a bit too moorish.
Moreish? (*pedant alert)
Yes. Typo. Moorish is a completely different thing.
Depends. What if more moors find it hard to stop drinking it? It might make sense then.
Or it tastes like Moors? Snowy should know
Good point, it would be cool if he couldn’t stop eating moors wouldn’t it?
How? I can't get anywhere near them now. Nice with Chianti though.
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Bought these in a fine wine auction in Wellington last week. A mixture of various vintages of Peregrine pinot noir (mainly 2007 but one 1999 in there), and their 2008 pinot gris. https://ibb.co/xhvPbsQ
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@nzzp said in The new wine thread:
@bovidae said in The new wine thread:
A family celebration at an Italian restaurant a few weeks back. We started with a Prosecco, and added a few dollars to the Kirwan family bank account.
Drank some recently. Nice, for what it was -a dry, easy drinking prosecco. Thankfully not too sweet (unlike the prosecco friends brought last night and we tipped)
I enjoyed it, and compared favourably with the proseccos I have drank in Italy.
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@snowy said in The new wine thread:
Yes. Typo. Moorish is a completely different thing.
Correct. "Moorish" means looking a bit like Roger Moore.
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@dogmeat said in The new wine thread:
Equally true of the top HB and Waiheke Cabernets
I have a few bottles of decent 2018 HB Cab/Merlot. Just drinkable now but needs a good 3-5 years to open up I reckon.
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@nzzp said in The new wine thread:
@bovidae said in The new wine thread:
A family celebration at an Italian restaurant a few weeks back. We started with a Prosecco, and added a few dollars to the Kirwan family bank account.
Drank some recently. Nice, for what it was -a dry, easy drinking prosecco. Thankfully not too sweet (unlike the prosecco friends brought last night and we tipped)
Find Prosecco a bit bland much of the time. I prefer Cava as it seems to have a bit more complexity, but still easy-drinking.
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@smudge said in The new wine thread:
Bought these in a fine wine auction in Wellington last week. A mixture of various vintages of Peregrine pinot noir (mainly 2007 but one 1999 in there), and their 2008 pinot gris. https://ibb.co/xhvPbsQ
Peregrine is nice gear. I've enjoyed bottles of their PN in the past and recently bought some of their next label Pinot Gris for Mrs CF
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@victor-meldrew said in The new wine thread:
@snowy said in The new wine thread:
Yes. Typo. Moorish is a completely different thing.
Correct. "Moorish" means looking a bit like Roger Moore.
That raised a few eyebrows
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@victor-meldrew said in The new wine thread:
@snowy said in The new wine thread:
Yes. Typo. Moorish is a completely different thing.
Correct. "Moorish" means looking a bit like Roger Moore.
Also reminded me of the viagra advert. It can’t make you James Bond but it can make you roger more.
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@canefan said in The new wine thread:
@smudge said in The new wine thread:
Bought these in a fine wine auction in Wellington last week. A mixture of various vintages of Peregrine pinot noir (mainly 2007 but one 1999 in there), and their 2008 pinot gris. https://ibb.co/xhvPbsQ
Peregrine is nice gear. I've enjoyed bottles of their PN in the past and recently bought some of their next label Pinot Gris for Mrs CF
Main reason I bought it is because we had some (well, a lot) of the 2007 vintage at a mate's wedding in 2010 and it was magnificent. Reviews suggest it's aged OK. Here's hoping.
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@jc said in The new wine thread:
@smudge I honestly prefer Pinot Gris to SB now. I used to find them sweet but there’s a lot nowadays that are drier while still having the PG fruit. It’s now my go-to on a nice summers day.
This. Plenty of dry ones around now. Can even find a decent Riesling that isn't a bottle full of sickliness these days. Not a pleasant experience if you get it wrong though.
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@snowy said in The new wine thread:
@jc said in The new wine thread:
@smudge I honestly prefer Pinot Gris to SB now. I used to find them sweet but there’s a lot nowadays that are drier while still having the PG fruit. It’s now my go-to on a nice summers day.
This. Plenty of dry ones around now. Can even find a decent Riesling that isn't a bottle full of sickliness these days. Not a pleasant experience if you get it wrong though.
Dry riesling is so underrated and underpriced for what you get. I've always loved Felton Rd dry riesling with it's bouquet of dried apricots, and Kusuda riesling from Martinborough was and maybe still is a cult classic
